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Never ask a man his salary
Never ask a woman her age
Never ask what George Orwell was doing in Myanmar in the 1920s
Orwell wrote openly about the things he did throughout his life, both in casual letters and widely read short stories
He certainly wrote a version of it.
Tautologous
He literally wrote a novel that was heavily inspired about his time in Myanmar.
You can kinda ask him yourself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burmese_Days
Set in British Burma during the waning days of empire, when Burma was ruled from Delhi as part of British India, the novel serves as “a portrait of the dark side of the British Raj.” At the centre of the novel is John Flory, “the lone and lacking individual trapped within a bigger system that is undermining the better side of human nature.”[1] The novel describes “both indigenous corruption and imperial bigotry” in a society where, “after all, natives were natives—interesting, no doubt, but finally…an inferior people”.[2]
To be clear, that last bit of that last sentence is meant to be read as hideously haughty and privileged… it is dripping with irony, a self-cariacature, as the novel showcases the craven nature of characters in all kinds of social positions, from all kinds of ethnic backgrounds.
The whole thing is meant as an unflinching critique of how colonialism ruins everyone involved.
I guess we could also maybe ask Orwell what he was doing in Spain in the 1930s, but at the time, he would again have difficulty telling you.
Turns out that when you join an internationalist anti fascist militia to go personally shoot fascists yourself, well, sometimes they shoot back, and sometimes they hit you in the neck.
… thankfully, writing exists.
I find it absolutely incredible that George Orwell, a man who has likely personally shot more fascists than probably anyone you’ll find on the internet… somehow doesn’t clear the ideological purity test these days.
And that is because Orwell, while literally shooting at fascists in Spain, also found himself as the target of a pro-Soviet, pro-Stalin smear campaign, which tried to paint him and his outfit as Trotskyists and also as fascists.
Apparently, this smear campaign remains quite influential, to this day.
The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.Douglas Adams
While the discordant text color makes that a little like reading while driving down a road with potholes, Adams is correct.
Hahaha, I was not able to read it 🤪
So fucking hard to read that first one
I got the book 1984 for $1 on Kobo a couple months ago
Still haven’t read it. (Surely next year)
It’s a short, easy read…
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I’m sorry, but who else is there to vote for?
You don’t vote for the lesser of the two evils. You remove them
Ok go ahead
Do you think we suffer together? I took my resources out that country some while ago. You are on that sinking ship alone. If you don’t do it you will not survive. So I give you a choice human, rebel or be enthralled
I mean props for escaping but you’re still giving advice you would clearly not follow
Every day I do what I can to fuck over the US gov from afar.
Such as?
And replace them with what? What’s the enemy here exactly?
How do you do that, specifically in the US?
Revolution. Rebellion in organized fashion
Rebellion in organized fashion
The fashion:
Bulletproof armor would be better than a frog suit
You can wear both.
On the one hand yeah sure, but on the other hand in the USA youre an accomplice if you didnt vote or if you wasted your vote on a 3rd party.
Vote for baddy, your fault. Vote for less baddy, youre propping up the system. Vote for good guy, you wasted your chance to vote against baddy. Dont vote, you wasted your chance yo vote against baddy.
Everyone gets the boot on the neck, everyone gets the blame, there are no winners
The US has needed rank choice voting since Nixon at least.
I bet that’s also roughly the time that some higher ups in that party realized it must never be allowed to happen.
Can you stop with the whole, “if democrats would a won everything would be fine” bullshit?
That’s the point, wanting to be elected is disqualifying for getting elected.
Is this a shitpost?
Politicians shouldn’t be elected. If they want to rule, they should take control by force like in the old times.
That’s how you cull the useless leaders. They perish
Good thing no disastrously bad rulers came to power in those days…
So like… a 1 on 1 fist fight to the death then, yeah?
No. Total War against the previous government.
My vote is sock em boppers
I’d throw in the people who stand by and let Nazis take power. They enabled the steamrolling of human rights.
But oh right, OP is a skink.
There are no good Americans.
Are you American?
Nope.
Well OK, you’re good then.
If everyone votes egotistical, you will get an egoist in power and everyone loses except the egoist in power.
Ooh that’s a good one
This includes people who give everyone shit for not voting for the “lesser” corruption. Accomplices all.
All according to plan so farmland can be bought up by large corporations and billionaires. They want to control and commodify every aspect of survival.
