Seeing Jordan bring Ali's personal dream up just to shit on it made me cry. Actual tears. I can't remember the last time I laughed so hard. It was just so cruel and unnecessary.
GBoker
2024-12-22 04:14:21 +0000 UTC
Fuck I love when Ali goes full tankie. Yes western governments have used a disgustingly hypocritical level of coercive and torturous tools.
So my understanding, is Orwell was a socialist middle class Brit who was motivated by Franco and the Spanish civil war to engage with his ideology. This led to a jading experience with the (was gonna fact check myself but I'm off an edible) purges that were occuring at this time. Not just the red army and the purging the remaining acolytes of Leninist but also the Comintern (international communism) was rife with popular or merely independent foreign communists being basically summoned to lubyanka.
Whether the specific fears and torture used on Wilson was relatable to a specific Orwell is still a very notable fellow traveller who distanced himself from sovietism as a flavour of communism.
Also it fucks me off when people equate modern Russia with the mildly positive intellectual residue of attempted socialism. Yes there are remarkably small numbers of decision makers, but for a lot of their history their leaders truly came from shit. Monsters that they were
alastair lacey
2024-12-22 01:02:39 +0000 UTC
The irony of Mislav confidently defining autistics as "deficient and broken" while sitting next to his autistic boss and employer
Emi
2024-12-20 09:25:16 +0000 UTC
Don't worry mislav, you'll only get tracked online if you do something weird like visit a bunch of mosques, act weird and get reported.