If you ignore the whole dictatorship thing, that actually looks bad ass. Trump’s style is so damn ugly and boring. If I’m living in a dystopian fascist dictatorship the least they can do is look cool!
I find it ironic that there’s a reply about people who don’t read it not getting 1984 as a reply to this. The surveillance is a minor part of 1984. It’s largely about them controlling thought. They control language and the media to make it almost impossible to speak against them. “Big Brother” is the meme that gets repeated (I think because it was the only part that fit conservative thought, so they made that what 1984 is instead of it being against them), but it isn’t the important lesson to be taken from it.
Fair point - these were 2 separate thoughts. First, Big Brother is the face scowling down at us all, right out of the book. Second, that the US is right now a surveillance state and this is one of the more visible aspects of the virtue signaling and telling people to love the Great Leader.
Which means they have a bullet with my name on it.
Better than living with so much cringe the rest of my life.
And autism is supposed to be socially awkward.
Imagine having such a fragile ego you need to remind people you have the power not them. The power to what? Shoot us? That doesn’t give you power, that just makes you evil.
People who don’t mainline political news genuinely don’t get this.
It’s literally Big Brother. This is a surveillance state telling you how to do everything.
Those people have also not read 1984 and either won’t get the reference or think it’s a reality show reference
ny first thought was Mussolini
Mussolini, Mussolini on the wall, who’s trains run the most on time of all?
Easy, Switzerland!
What do I win? Not being shot? Yay!
If you ignore the whole dictatorship thing, that actually looks bad ass. Trump’s style is so damn ugly and boring. If I’m living in a dystopian fascist dictatorship the least they can do is look cool!
I find it ironic that there’s a reply about people who don’t read it not getting 1984 as a reply to this. The surveillance is a minor part of 1984. It’s largely about them controlling thought. They control language and the media to make it almost impossible to speak against them. “Big Brother” is the meme that gets repeated (I think because it was the only part that fit conservative thought, so they made that what 1984 is instead of it being against them), but it isn’t the important lesson to be taken from it.
Fair point - these were 2 separate thoughts. First, Big Brother is the face scowling down at us all, right out of the book. Second, that the US is right now a surveillance state and this is one of the more visible aspects of the virtue signaling and telling people to love the Great Leader.
Which means they have a bullet with my name on it.
Better than living with so much cringe the rest of my life.
And autism is supposed to be socially awkward.
Imagine having such a fragile ego you need to remind people you have the power not them. The power to what? Shoot us? That doesn’t give you power, that just makes you evil.