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
It all depends on the power of the denouncer.
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And we have established that Owen Jones doesn't have nearly as much power as the people who constantly yell at him seem to imagine he has
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Gerkuman
Absolutely but he has some power as a high-profile media commentator and Suzanne Moore felt it. It’s all a matter of taking responsibility.
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