• Battle Masker
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    585 days ago

    anyone that whines about Rage Against The Machine’s music being “tOo pOLiTiCaL”

    • @[email protected]OP
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      125 days ago

      They had the very first interracial marriage in fiction back in the 1960’s, I think they have the license to be at least a little woke.

    • @Buddahriffic
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      It’s interesting that they are able to come up with creative and intelligent experiments that would serve as evidence or proof one way or another but then often won’t even trust their own results.

      The ones just trolling I can understand. Maybe it’s all of the ones doing experiments.

  • @LouNeko
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    165 days ago

    Cops saying “Just a few bad apples”.

    Remind me again? How does the full saying go?

  • @FourPacketsOfPeanuts
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    • People who thought Tyler Durden was cool

    • Almost everything about Starship Troopers

    • people who think Bickle (Taxi Driver) is a hero

  • @borokov
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    165 days ago

    1984 is not about mass surveillance. It’s about lowering the langage and culture so that you don’t even have word to criticize the system.

    • Tar_Alcaran
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      135 days ago

      It’s about total control from the perfect totalitarian state. Mass surveillance is a small part, and control of language is also a part. But it’s also about control of truth and history, and eventually even control of the inner mind.

      The cameras are only a tiny part.

      • @Zorque
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        65 days ago

        Surveillance isn’t done by cameras in the book, it’s done by the citizens. One of the side characters joins the main character in jail in the final act cause his kids told on him… and he was proud of them for it.

        • Tar_Alcaran
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          True, there are microphones, because I specifically remember the main character taking a walk through a new forest, because the thin trees couldn’t possibly hide a microphone.

          • @Zorque
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            35 days ago

            Which is part of the propaganda, that you should be wary of everyone watching you at all times.

            The only one they specifically are targeting that we know of is the main character, and it’s because of something he had done years and years before. It was targeted surveillance, not mass surveillance.