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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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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 5 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Laurent_Weppe

      So fucking depressing And people just straight up say "Oh well this is a book about communism and Stalin MAYBE it's also about Nazi Germany" Pluck the damn log out of your own eye How is the most relevant thing it's about, to you and your students, not McCarthyism

      2 replies 1 retweet 19 likes
    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 5 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Laurent_Weppe

      But it's the McCarthyists who wanted this book taught! Who used it as a justification for suppressing leftist ideas! We had to censor and surveil people so we didn't wake up in a society of censorship and surveillance! Ffffffffff

      3 replies 2 retweets 21 likes
    3. A large boulder the size of a small boulder‏ @quantum_boulder 5 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Laurent_Weppe

      I've always found it remarkable how the right is *constantly* arguing that concepts actually mean the direct inversion of their intuitive meanings, e.g. "freedom of speech should mean that wealthy people cannot be criticised" (1/?)

      1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
    4. A large boulder the size of a small boulder‏ @quantum_boulder 5 Aug 2020
      Replying to @quantum_boulder @arthur_affect @Laurent_Weppe

      or "economic freedom is maximised when people's choices are to unconditionally obey the wealthy or die" or "being an open-minded rebel means uncritically agreeing with popular consensus"

      1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
    5. A large boulder the size of a small boulder‏ @quantum_boulder 5 Aug 2020
      Replying to @quantum_boulder @arthur_affect @Laurent_Weppe

      or "the people who threaten us with overwhelming power are the faction that has had zero representation in government for around half a century and who virtually everyone else openly hates". And this ridiculous doublespeak, analogous to "war is peace, freedom is slavery"...

      1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
    6. A large boulder the size of a small boulder‏ @quantum_boulder 5 Aug 2020
      Replying to @quantum_boulder @arthur_affect @Laurent_Weppe

      *never* gets pulled up as Orwellian despite the obvious and direct analogy.

      1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 5 Aug 2020
      Replying to @quantum_boulder @Laurent_Weppe

      In the context of actual American politics Goldstein and the Brotherhood were Karl Marx and communism for the whole 20th century This is overwhelmingly obvious It is the most obvious comparison one could possibly make The Two Minutes' Hate against commies was constant

      2 replies 1 retweet 8 likes
    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 5 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @quantum_boulder @Laurent_Weppe

      Orwell himself did not see it this way What he meant by it was that Goldstein was Trotsky and the Brotherhood were Mensheviks If you said "Okay but in most of the Western world, Stalin himself is obviously an exaggerated bogeyman", he would've gotten very very angry with you

      1 reply 1 retweet 7 likes
    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 5 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @quantum_boulder @Laurent_Weppe

      Because he was, to be blunt, Extremely Online (The "online" of the day being internecine conflict with other British left-wing intellectuals in academia and upper-class media) Like seriously earnestly worrying the West would fall to Stalin, or to Marxist-Leninist ideology

      1 reply 1 retweet 7 likes
    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 5 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @quantum_boulder @Laurent_Weppe

      Come the fuck on Eric Maybe we can give you personally a pass because you died in 1950 and you had issues But in hindsight, being really really scared the Reds might quietly win the Cold War by persuasion is the STUPIDEST FUCKING THING AND THEY'RE STILL SAYING IT

      1 reply 1 retweet 12 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 5 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @quantum_boulder @Laurent_Weppe

      Decades after the fall of the Soviet Union the neo-John Birchers are still around and they've still got a dust-covered copy of 1984 and Animal Farm on their shelf as their Bible "It's happening, you know, it's creeping up on us"

      6:36 AM - 5 Aug 2020
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