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RE: 1984
January 16, 2022 at 5:14 pm
(January 16, 2022 at 5:12 pm)Spongebob Wrote: The really sad thing is that Orwell did a very good job of showing what totalitarianism can look like and millions of people have read his novel. Yet I had a conversation with someone not long ago about Nazi Germany and that person said they couldn't imagine that ever happening again, meaning someone like Hitler rising to power with the support of people and creating such devastation. I said you should look again, Trump is that person and it is happening right now.
Nah dude, not even close. Your disdain for Trump is abnormal.
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RE: 1984
January 16, 2022 at 5:16 pm
(January 16, 2022 at 5:14 pm)Ahriman Wrote: (January 16, 2022 at 5:12 pm)Spongebob Wrote: The really sad thing is that Orwell did a very good job of showing what totalitarianism can look like and millions of people have read his novel. Yet I had a conversation with someone not long ago about Nazi Germany and that person said they couldn't imagine that ever happening again, meaning someone like Hitler rising to power with the support of people and creating such devastation. I said you should look again, Trump is that person and it is happening right now.
Nah dude, not even close. Your disdain for Trump is abnormal.
Well, its not abnormal because there at at least 84 million people who agree with me.
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RE: 1984
January 16, 2022 at 5:18 pm
(January 16, 2022 at 5:16 pm)Spongebob Wrote: (January 16, 2022 at 5:14 pm)Ahriman Wrote: Nah dude, not even close. Your disdain for Trump is abnormal.
Well, its not abnormal because there at at least 84 million people who agree with me.
How many of those 84 million would call Trump "the next Hitler"?
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RE: 1984
January 16, 2022 at 5:25 pm
(January 16, 2022 at 5:18 pm)Ahriman Wrote: (January 16, 2022 at 5:16 pm)Spongebob Wrote: Well, its not abnormal because there at at least 84 million people who agree with me.
How many of those 84 million would call Trump "the next Hitler"?
I don't know exactly, but I'd say a lot would agree with me. I'd take a poll if it was possible. I can say for certain that I have discussed this exact topic and found a high rate of agreement. Why else do you think so many people showed up to vote him out? He was the first sitting president who lost the presidency and majorities in both houses since 1932.
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RE: 1984
January 17, 2022 at 8:20 am
(January 13, 2022 at 8:06 am)Spongebob Wrote: Orwell was a supporter of Democratic Socialism, but was concerned about totalitarianism and that came through with this novel and others. I wonder if he would equate corporate surveillance of the population to the governmental surveillance of the book. I find it interesting that both conservatives and liberals find cautionary value in this novel and both appear to feel that the other side is directing us toward that eventual end.
I think that may have been more the case when the differences between the conservatives and liberals was tax policy. Today, I'm more concerned that the conservatives will lead us into some neo-confederate mad max bullshit...
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