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  • #16
    Now that I know you get your politics form Saturday morning cartioons, a lot about you has been explained
    "The DPRK is still in a state of war with the U.S. It's called a black out." - Che explaining why orbital nightime pictures of NK show few lights. Seriously.

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    • #17
      Originally posted by Oerdin
      It looks like it was done in the 50's or 60's but it really could have been done today. It's almost uncanny.
      1971 according to the MCMLXXI in the opening scene.
      One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.

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      • #18
        Originally posted by Patroklos
        Now that I know you get your politics form Saturday morning cartioons, a lot about you has been explained
        Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...

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        • #19
          Thanks Dauphin. Life imitates art.
          Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.

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          • #20
            Originally posted by chegitz guevara


            1984 was about the increasing police state Orwell saw growing in Great Britain falling WWII.
            I didn't knew that. So it would a thought experiment where he describes what would happen if the police State took over?

            But I'm not convinced it was only about that. After all, I heard a couple of commentators say that it was a satire of totalitarian regimes like the Soviet Union. They could be wrong, but what they say seems plausible to me, given that the society Orwell describes was largely based on the Soviet Union.
            Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy – Lessing

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            • #21
              George Orwell had been a communist until the Spanish Civil War, which ended when Russia sold out the Spanish communists. 1984 and Animal Farm reflect his hatred and distrust of his former ideology.

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              • #22
                Originally posted by Patroklos
                Now that I know you get your politics form Saturday morning cartioons, a lot about you has been explained
                So whats your excuse ? There has to be one right ?
                "Ceterum censeo Ben esse expellendum."

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                • #23
                  Was that a stall until you come up with something clever?
                  "The DPRK is still in a state of war with the U.S. It's called a black out." - Che explaining why orbital nightime pictures of NK show few lights. Seriously.

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                  • #24
                    Re: Orson Welles was right all those years ago.

                    Originally posted by Oerdin
                    Dated but utterly contemperary at the same time. It basically sums up what modern Republicanism has done to America. BTW Dr. Seuss animated this short film so it is kind of cool to see his art work.
                    i posted this video here 10 days ago
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                    • #25
                      Originally posted by Patroklos
                      Was that a stall until you come up with something clever?
                      *being clever*
                      "Ceterum censeo Ben esse expellendum."

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                      • #26
                        Originally posted by Zkribbler
                        George Orwell had been a communist until the Spanish Civil War, which ended when Russia sold out the Spanish communists. 1984 and Animal Farm reflect his hatred and distrust of his former ideology.
                        Wrong. He hated Satlinism. He was a life long communist.
                        I drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
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