I do agree with your points. I think it’s certainly an insightful book (just not in the way Orwell intended) but not a good book.

It’s short, it’s incredibly concise, it doesn’t use needless academicisms, and it’s surprisingly very funny. It’s probably the best value-to-volume ratio of any political text imo.

Panem et circenses except you’re gouged for your panem and the circus is congress itself

It’s short, but not punchy. It’s a
hundred pages of diatribes, some misogyny, a story beat, another fifty pages raving about bureaucracy, a story beat, and 100 pages about brainwashing and how socialism fucking sucks. Then the most half-baked “how do I tie this bad essay together?” ending.

It’s Atlas Shrugged for people who do take showers.

That’s not true, they’ve also read 1984 and thought all “adult” books are gonna be this fucking dreadful and boring so they don’t read anymore, they just pretend idiocracy was a documentary 1984 is like, so true, man

It’s been like this for a while. Westerners weaponize international bodies, they did the same while manufacturing consent for the Iraq war.

Lol imagine being so brainwashed that you don’t uncritically believe when USAID funded outlets tell you North Koreans are so genetically intellectually inferior that they honestly believe Kim Il Sung is god, was the best sportsman ever at everything, and he’s immortal now? Dude they literally make them pull trains by hand because they’re so poor, I heard somebody say it!

All the hours and weeks and months and years of footage is all faked tho

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Not even gringos think they have a democracy lmao. And if you do, your opinion of what a democracy is should only be used to consider the opposite.

Such as?

Preempting the comments: Yes, your cousin who serves to get free college is a fascist too.

Lmao, the fucking irony.

https://thegrayzone.com/2025/03/18/independent-russia-outlet-us-funding-slashed/

Meduza is a gringo propaganda rag.

See, this is what I’m talking about. Your life isn’t worth more than that of many, many foreigners. It’s one thing to be like “I didn’t know any better and I regret it” and quite another to put on the whole Chris Kyle self martyrdom piece.

Unless I’m mistaken, there’s still other ways to feed and house yourself that don’t involve signing up for the wall street Wehrmacht. Like, I imagine living inside the empire it’s normalized as hell but I don’t think there’s any excuse not to know nowadays.

Statesians having a choice of aiding the big murder machine or having an uphill battle to live in dignity is pretty shitty, but I think that animosity should be directed to the government and not people who think it’s still pretty ghoulish to act like there wasn’t even a choice. People used to go to jail for dodging the draft and some of y’all act like soldiers are all enlisted at gunpoin bc they offer you college and insurance.

Idk chief I think if I needed those things I’d organize my community to demand them first and not go into the “will I kill a bunch of innocent foreigners” lottery.

Sometimes I say “libs think imperialism is when any country does anything outside of their border except for western ones” and think I’m being ridiculously hyperbolic but god damn if there ain’t a lot of y’all who do think like that

Yeah, the republicans make a mess like the Israeli air force, the democrats"clean up" like the IGF

You’re literally defending Harris in the next thread. Don’t play coy.

Germany learned plenty. They learned, for example, that by doing your atrocities in service of the hegemon you’ll be rewarded. What wasn’t okay was doing them while attempting to become the hegemon.

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