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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Apr 2019

    The optimism of George Orwell is that he thought all people would need is 2 Minutes of hate propaganda a day. Fox News covers AOC and Omar 24/7.

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      1. eli friedmann‏ @eligit 17 Apr 2019
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        They are the ultimate maga hate object. More perfect than any of the presidential candidates. Iconic in this function.

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      1. Mike Mitchell‏ @MikeMitchNH 17 Apr 2019
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        I don’t think he anticipated how isolated the elderly would become from their families.

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      1. Juan Salvo‏ @j_salvo 17 Apr 2019
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        I was into this tweet back when it still had a typo.

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      2. Shabtai‏Verified account @velvetart 17 Apr 2019
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        In Orwell's world the state was the sole provider of information.

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      3.  💉 💉 💉Kumara 📎Republic ↙️ ↙️ ↙️ 🔻‏ @kumararepublic 17 Apr 2019
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        Yep, Big Brother is already here. The only difference is that it's publicly traded on stock exchanges.

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      1. Rick H.‏ @Mainekindxl 17 Apr 2019
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      1. Dan Mitchell‏ @_GreatDelusion 17 Apr 2019
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        Meanwhile, Huxley had "Violent Passion Surrogate." While his predictions were general more accurate than Orwell's were, he missed that "amusing ourselves to death" wouldn't be an escape from ugly politics, but rather a wallowing in them. Tucker Carlson is the feelies for MAGA.

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      1. Martha Bridegam‏ @MBridegam 17 Apr 2019
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        Or pessimism: maybe it takes a steady stream of propaganda to keep people hating because they're resilient enough to bounce back from just 2min a day. He'd have accepted that idea, I think. Remember the crank at Mrs. Brooker's who "spent too much time reading newspapers"?

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      1. Drilling4mana‏ @Drilling4Mana 17 Apr 2019
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        I think his optimism is evident in his assumption that the powers that be would have to hide who they were and what they did to avoid the wrath of the people. This is clearly false.

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      1. ms.wufkitn has had it with inaction, just sayin.‏ @wolfkitten 17 Apr 2019
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        Those were simpler times.

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