And honestly I think that's because he couldn't show the transition because he wasn't sure what the story would be There's a lot of shit you'd have to figure out for how this exaggerated nightmare scenario might occur
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Replying to @arthur_affect @trans_victory and
It's easier not to explain it, let the Party appear all-powerful and eternal, make the story be about the fact that no one can actually know anything about the reality of the world I get that, but it remains a cop out
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Replying to @arthur_affect @trans_victory and
It means dickhead conservatives get to fill in their own version of the history, which they have done, to the point where "creeping Orwellianism" fanfiction giving an origin story to the Party is basically better known than the actual plot of the actual book
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Replying to @arthur_affect @trans_victory and
And even though Orwell actually believed the Party was an end result of the inevitable collapse of capitalism under its own contradictions, they get to say stupid shit about how America was working fine and was the prosperous land of the free etc
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Replying to @arthur_affect @trans_victory and
And then, one day, the pronouns attacked
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Replying to @arthur_affect @trans_victory and
I'm sure the party would want to abolish gendered pronouns altogether in the name of uniformity in a newer Dictionary
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Replying to @LizardOrman @arthur_affect and
(spoiler alert?) Junior Anti-Sex League reminded me more of purity culture and abstinence-only education and the like. Perhaps it was instead a dig at anti-sex-essentialists such as myself.
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Replying to @trans_victory @peced and
... Are you defending the Anti-Sex League?
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You are way closer to the JASL than any of the people you seem to think are "the Party in real life"
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