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[–] 58 points 2 years ago (6 children)

anyone that whines about Rage Against The Machine's music being "tOo pOLiTiCaL"

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    I remember chuckling to videos of drumptards dancing to RATM during the Floyd protests and covid. It was obvious that their only takeaway was "fuck you, I won't do what you tell me"

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  • [+] 40 points 2 years ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 34 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Flat Earthers confirming Earth is round with science and saying the science is wrong.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    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.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)
    • People who thought Tyler Durden was cool

    • Almost everything about Starship Troopers

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

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago

    Cops saying "Just a few bad apples".

    Remind me again? How does the full saying go?

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    Loud, rich Christians.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Deep breath ... I will not mention politics ... deep breath ... I will not mention politics ...

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Everyone who "does their own research"

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago

    Let them eat cake. Or doesn't that count?

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