If you're missing a truly idiotic take on Orwell, and would like it topped off with a quote from an awful Douglas Adams book (and I say that as a huge Hitchhiker's fan), that the tweeter can't even be bothered to get close to right then, man, is this the thread for you.https://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1290034984871321600 …
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He is aware that it is a very petty thing to get upset about because it's an item he paid for from pocket change but he IS upset and he DOES feel like he's won some kind of moral victory by neither backing down nor getting provoked into yelling at the guy
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Hence the reversal - he's the asshole and the other guy is the one showing backbone/courage/restraint/maturity etc by not blowing up at him
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It’s drawing in a whole history of small man comedy from Pooter to Thinks-I-to-myself which ... Has nothing to do with alpha maleness at all and everything to do with constriction by society. It’s not about masculinity. It’s about doilies
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No, the joke is absolutely about masculinity, that's why he's telling it in the context he is (he's ironically pretending this is a "war story" he's telling to a girl to impress her and she's playing along)
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