• Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml
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            7 months ago

            Basically MAGAcommunism, for people who unironically think the soviet union was a fascist dictatorship and that’s why they’re into it. It’s what you get when you lazily paint a thin coat of red paint over anti-woke bullshit, and it eviscerates the mental health of anyone who buys into it.

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        7 months ago

        Well that was definitely something.

        So he understood the Simpsons, a Clockwork orange, and 1984 except thought that the subject matter was being praised rather than being shown as a bad thing? I am going to assume the other referenced media is the same.

        I don’t think you need to set yourself on fire to convince people shits fucked and getting worse. But. I don’t think it is because of “that”

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              I recently had an interesting discussion where someone interpreted the pessimistic ending as a result of successful in-universe propaganda from the Party, and that all the shit they said was just gaslighting and lies to make themselves seem omnipresent and make resistance seem hopeless.

              I don’t think this was the intended message but the author is dead, we can make up our own head canons and no one can stop us!

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                If you interpret the appendix as an ending then it’s a lot less pessimistic as it implies that all totalitarian regimes eventually fall.