Make Orwell read every tweet where someone makes a hamfisted reference to 1984
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The Thought Police (Owen Jones!) and Thoughtcrime. Conspiracy theories (Qanon). People being numbed due to ubiquitous entertainment (sport, Netflix, porn). The Two Minutes Hate, not to mention the Two Minutes love (clap for carers!) Physical Jerks! Etc. Orwell was onto things!
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Replying to @DemelzaPussycat
How many people have been arrested, tortured and killed by Owen Jones? Ballpark estimate
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Replying to @arthur_affect @DemelzaPussycat
This is so fucking absurd Like you're yapping about this and you don't even realize the most absurdly, hilariously, tragicomically Orwellian thing about the UK press is how Owen Jones is your Emmanuel Goldstein
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Replying to @arthur_affect @DemelzaPussycat
I've never seen Owen be purposefully mean to anyone. Occasionally makes mistakes, like everyone else, but not some sort of ogre.
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Replying to @Gerkuman @DemelzaPussycat
I don't agree with him on a lot of things but he has always struck me as a fundamentally decent guy, a HELL of a lot more decent than the people who yell at him all the time
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Gerkuman
I done know much about Owen Jones but he regularly denounces people (usually women) on Twitter (quoting them) and that makes me think of Orwell’s view of Thoughtcrime.That’s all.
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Replying to @DemelzaPussycat @Gerkuman
"Denouncing" things is normal Orwell denounced people all the time Thinking that people are wrong and should be yelled at for being wrong is not at all the same thing as censoring them, which is exactly why the term "wrongthink" for "crimethink" is obnoxious
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Gerkuman
Suzanne Moore claims that he tried to get her sacked. People like him called for Rosie Duffield’s resignation. However, I don’t follow him closely. He has a sanctimonious air that reminds me of the children in the Youth League - Parsons’ children specifically. They don’t kill.
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Replying to @DemelzaPussycat @Gerkuman
And yet she wasn't sacked, and Rosie Duffield didn't resign, whereas Parsons' kids got their own father tortured and executed, so I guess this analogy is exactly as overwrought and histrionic as it sounds
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Also if you follow Owen at all the often-repeated accusation that he "mostly attacks women" is obviously false and is as obviously tendentious and manufactured as the idea that Parsons was prone to murmuring "Down with Big Brother" in his sleep
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Gerkuman
He seems to consider women beneath his consideration, granted. Probably because they are ‘overwrought’, ‘histrionic’ and ‘narcissistically deluded’. You worked out a lot about me because I carelessly wrote ‘wrongthink’ instead of ‘thoughtcrime’.
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Can’t help but think there is some irony in your obsession with the thoughtcrime of writing wrongthink.
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