• @AreaKode
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    1323 days ago

    After all, we’ve always been at war with Eastasia…

    • @ThunderWhiskers
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      133 days ago

      It’s honestly uncanny. Not the similarities, but that one of the most commonly assigned books in the public school system is so blatantly disregarded.

      • Cethin
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        93 days ago

        Well, most people just remember it as the book where the government watches you, but that’s a very minor part of it. I’m guessing the parts that are remembered/forgotten are on purpose.

        • The Quuuuuill
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          42 days ago

          it also gets entirely framed as being about the dangers of socialism when really it’s about how fascism adopts the imagery of socialism to do what it does

    • @someguy3
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      133 days ago

      Russasia has always been our ally.