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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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Joined August 2009

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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @fennecfoxguy and

      One year before the blacklisting of the Hollywood Ten by HUAC and the election of Joe McCarthy to the Senate in 1947, six years before the execution of the Rosenbergs

      3 replies 1 retweet 23 likes
    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @fennecfoxguy and

      All this stuff that still lay in the future -- Korea, Vietnam, COINTELPRO, the Birchers, the Minutemen, Kent State, Watergate The right wing wasn't even close to dead, the conservatives hadn't even gotten started fighting yet

      1 reply 2 retweets 18 likes
    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @fennecfoxguy and

      That's a very American perspective, of course, and I'm sure it looked different to Orwell as a British socialist in Atlee's England whose friends were all British socialists and who basically never interacted with Tories except via letters to the editor etc

      2 replies 1 retweet 19 likes
    4. Baal Ska Tov‏ @mssilverstein 3 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @fennecfoxguy and

      Plus Stalin winning and expanding influence into Germany. I get it, it's just wrong.

      1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Aug 2020
      Replying to @mssilverstein @fennecfoxguy and

      It was World War II that really messed him up (and, well, that's understandable, it messed up a lot of people) His dislike with fellow leftists really curdled into disgust and hatred after what he saw as the massive backstab of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact

      3 replies 1 retweet 8 likes
    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and

      The patriotic middle class Englishman inside of him he'd never been able to fully shake off got awakened again, with him getting all gung-ho volunteering for the Home Guard (while his wife literally worked in the Ministry of Truth, in the Censorship Office of the MOI)

      1 reply 1 retweet 8 likes
    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and

      Knowing that Churchill was a Tory imperialist piece of shit but feeling his heart go all aflutter at his speeches anyway Giving himself permission to love England again because for once they had an unambiguous devil as their enemy in the form of Hitler All predictable stuff

      1 reply 1 retweet 14 likes
    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and

      It feels a LOT like his disciple Hitchens starting to totally lose his mind after 9/11 Getting all red in the face screaming at his fellow leftists "HOW CAN YOU BOTH-SIDES THE NAZIS/AL-QAEDA?"

      1 reply 1 retweet 15 likes
    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and

      "CHURCHILL/BUSH IS THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN STOP HITLER/BIN LADEN! YOU HAVE TO PICK A SIDE HERE! WE ARE AT WAR FOR OUR SURVIVAL! AND YOU'RE ON THE SIDE OF (ISLAMO)FASCISM!"

      2 replies 1 retweet 16 likes
    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and

      I hasten to add that I think, obviously, the existential threat of Nazism was way more real than the threat of "global Islamic extremism" Hitchens wasn't fit to tie Orwell's boots and the fact that his right turn almost feels like a *conscious imitation* of Orwell is deep cringe

      2 replies 2 retweets 17 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and

      But anyway It's fascinating to think that another one of my childhood icons, Tolkien, was an enormous contrast on this Tolkien actually being a conservative and yet someone who did in fact hate war on a visceral level way more than Orwell

      4:36 PM - 3 Aug 2020
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      • Kaworu from LA Brian McNatt Elvin Lachlan the Deuterocanonical Let’s take a hike V phyphor Baal Ska Tov Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.
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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Aug 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and

          And who, therefore, although he hated Hitler deeply (as one must, to avoid going to hell) also hated the Allies and Churchill and avoided ever saying anything nice about them and got really fucking mad when people said Churchill was Gandalf or whatever

          2 replies 1 retweet 17 likes
        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Aug 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and

          He especially hated those Home Guards assholes like Orwell Bunch of cringey dudes too old to fight in the war for real so they had to go around cosplaying as soldiers and bullying their neighbors to feel like they were "doing their part"

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        2. V‏ @LususNaturae0 3 Aug 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and

          Actually been in the trenches and losing childhood friends to it is a very understandable reason to be anti-war!

          1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Aug 2020
          Replying to @LususNaturae0 @mssilverstein and

          Orwell fought too, but he went to volunteer in someone else's war (the Spanish Civil War) rather than being drafted, and that's a very different mindset

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        2. penitent admirer‏ @loudpenitent 3 Aug 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and

          It would be cheap to say this is because Tolkien had fought in WWI, but I think there's a fundamental truth to it. Orwell was an idealist to his bones, he really did need some grand cause to fight for. Tolkien was burnt out on crusades, imo.

          2 replies 1 retweet 3 likes
        3. penitent admirer‏ @loudpenitent 3 Aug 2020
          Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and

          And there's some things where each of them had extremely valuable points and fears! But I feel like Orwell always was unable to free himself from the belief that the glorious war for justice was coming, and that victory was assured so it was about what kind of victory.

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