• Throwaway
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      -211 months ago

      Plenty of fascists got their start reading 1984 and distrusting the news.

      • @Piers
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        911 months ago

        I mean… That seems like an argument for equipping people with better literacy skills given that any competent reading of 1984 would turn you away from fascism.

        • Throwaway
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          -911 months ago

          I don’t know man, with how misused the term is these days, not trusting the government is fascism. And a proper reading of it certainly gives you a distrust of the machine.

          • @Piers
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            1011 months ago

            not trusting the government is fascism.

            That absolutely is not fascism. Stop listening to bullshit that’s designed to piss you off and drive a wedge between you and others.

          • @grue
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            211 months ago

            how misused the term is these days

            The term isn’t becoming more misued; more people are accurately fitting the definition.

      • no banana
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        311 months ago

        I said libraries, not books!