Gonna go with a different response and it’s the people who like a movie for a dumb reason (protagonist is cool, big explosions, reaffirms preconceptions and doesn’t challenge beliefs, makes references to pop culture and cultural touchstones) but cannot admit that to themselves and so they feel compelled to claim that the show is great because of the deep political satire of it or because of the philosophical implications of the narrative or because of the worldbuilding or some shit.

Please. You don’t have to turn something that appeals to you into a post-hoc haute couture masterpiece. You can just like stuff because it’s silly or fun or relevant to you, it doesn’t need to be super deep to be enjoyable so stop trying to justify your taste to strangers on the internet.

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Just focused single-mindedly on the “optimism of the will” part of “pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will” equation.

How are you OP?

Wait, Orwell like the guy who wrote about the horrible dystopian nature of the Soviet Union and how totalitarianism is propped up by state propaganda while he spent his time working for the irl British version of the Ministry of Truth and who snitched on socialists who were “anti-white” and “possible homosexuals” to the British government?

The same guy who explained that Europe was a powderkeg around the time of the Spanish Civil War and that the Catalonian armed forces had abysmal training and discipline but that Stalin was “inscrutable” for not wanting to continue throwing materiel at a situation that was openly hostile to the USSR version of socialism and for not wanting to escalate the Spanish Civil War into a regional European war or even a world war because the USSR was still rebuilding from a disastrous world war and an equally disastrous “civil” war/proxy war?

That George Orwell??

Also to cash in on the high prices.

I’m no investment banker but it doesn’t take a genius to understand “buy low, sell high.”

It is sometimes asked whether it is not possible to slodow he tempo somewhat, to put a check on the movement. No, comrades, it is not possible! The tempo must not be reduced! On the contrary, we must increase it as much as is within our powers and possibilities. This is dictated to us by our obligations to the workers and peasants of the USSR. This is dictated to us by our obligations to the working class of the whole world.

To slacken the tempo would mean falling behind. And those who fall behind get beaten. But we do not want to be beaten. No, we refuse to be beaten! One feature of the history of old Russia was the continual beatings she suffered because of her backwardness. She was beaten by the Mongol khans. She was beaten by the Turkish beys. She was beaten by the Swedish feudal lords. She was beaten by the Polish and Lithuanian gentry. She was beaten by the British and French capitalists. She was beaten by the Japanese barons. All beat her because of her backwardness, military backwardness, cultural backwardness, political backwardness, industrial backwardness, agricultural backwardness. They beat her because to do so was profitable and could be done with impunity. Do you remember the words of the prerevolutionary poet: “You are poor and abundant, mighty and impotent, Mother Russia.” Those gentlemen were quite familiar with the verses of the old poet. They beat her, saying: "You are abundant; so one can enrich oneself at your expense. They beat her, saying: “You are poor and impotent '” so you can be beaten and plundered with impunity. Such is the law of the exploiters-to beat the backward and the weak. It is the jungle law of capitalism. You are backward, you are weak-therefore you are wrong; hence, you can be beaten and enslaved. You are mighty-therefore you are right; hence, we must be wary of you. That is why we must no longer lag behind.

In the past we had no fatherland, nor could we have one. But now that we have overthrown capitalism and power is in our hands, in the hands of the people, we have a fatherland, and we will defend its independence. Do you want our socialist fatherland to be beaten and to lose its independence? If you do not want this you must put an end to its backwardness in the shortest possible time and develop genuine Bolshevik tempo in building up its socialist system of economy. There is no other way. That is why Lenin said on the eve of the October Revolution: "Either perish, or overtake and outstrip the advanced capitalist countries.

We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or we shall be crushed.

— Stalin, Speech to Industrial Managers, February 1931

What’s great about your reply is the irony of it and how it illustrates exactly what I’m talking about.

Yes, people go hungry in Europe too. It’s not just a brown people thing

Europe be like “No wait, you are supposed to starve, not us! We’ve just realized that the consequences of economic sanctions are terrible all of a sudden!!”

These people are “job creators” in the same way that vultures are “food creators”

I’ve noticed that over the past year or so he’s softened in his stance towards China. There’s still a long way to go but for an A*stralian he’s making some decent strides.

I’d encourage people to make posts on Lemmygrad communities and then to post links out on relevant subreddits, that way Lemmygrad has a constant presence on Reddit and it will draw in new users.

A call to action is good and all but nothing beats luring people to try Lemmy by following a link.

Better fewer but better, comrade