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Over 100 years ago, George Orwell predicted that “Goldstein” (Trump) would be banned by a totalitarian dictatorship. Has there ever been a better conservative writer than Orwell?

>> No.17267593

>>17267416
Orwell was a socialist. A disenfranchised socialist, but a socialist nonetheless
That being said the tactics currently being used by leftist absolutely resemble the totalitarian measures you see in the novel, newspeak daily hate and double-think are absolutely practices they engage with, and even if they like to pretend they are not the system they are currently having a hard time reconciling the fact that they are benefiting from it with their revolutionary ideas

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>>17267593
>fell for the obvious bait
NGMI

>> No.17267997

>>17267890
I know it's bait but it was worth responding because OP clearly believes that just because Orwell was a socialist the novel does not apply to current leftists, when it absolutely does
The fact that conservatards or whatever you guys like to call them caught on doesn't make it any less poignant and topical

>> No.17268018

>Over 100 years ago

>> No.17268027

>>17268018

Fine then, 'Four score and seven years ago'. Happy now?

>> No.17268045

>>17267416
>libtards latch on to Harry Potter
>conservatards latch on to 1984
Why is it always YA? Try actually reading philosophy or political science you fucking brainlets.

>> No.17268530

>>17268045
>philosophy or political science you fucking brainlets

Examples?

>> No.17268544

I know this is bait but it’s still less stupid than people who say that because George Orwell was a socialist he would support the reenactment of 1984 as long as big brother said he was anti-racist

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>>17268530

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Why do americans find this book so difficult to understand?

>> No.17268648

>>17268599
>Thucydides
Fantasy
>Cicero
Self help
>St. Augustine
Boredom
>St.Aquinus
Autism
>Machiavelli
Satire
>Locke
cant fly over bridges
>Paine
edgy
>De Tecqueville
Doomer
>Hegel
Satanism

>> No.17268664

>>17267593
Socialists are conservatives, the homoglobo left have always been totalitarian liberals in the service of the elite.

>> No.17268683

>>17267416
If you bring up 1984 in a conversation about Orwell, you're outing yourself as a pseud.

>> No.17269328

>>17268648
>this post
Buzzword