what's the stupidest, most trivial thing you would do, if you had the ability to time travel without affecting history? personally, I would make T. S. Eliot watch Cats
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Replying to @musiconceptime @underthenettle
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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Goldstein probably doesn’t even exist in the fictional world of 1984 and never speaks - whereas OJ is wildly popular on Twitter (a million followers) and writes copious articles and books and appears on telly. There is not a conspiracy to keep him in the media so we can hate him.
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Replying to @DemelzaPussycat
The fuck do you mean Goldstein never speaks The Two Minutes' Hate is literally a video of one of Goldstein's speeches
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And no, obviously I do not mean that the UK is literally a totalitarian government intentionally using Owen Jones as a tool of social control It was, as you say, a metaphor
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https://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1301452903882735617?s=20 … How does this work as a metaphor?
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