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Dystopian…. Imagine having your school lunch tied to your identity… (hexbear.net)

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[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 113 points 5 months ago

I love how they can just lie like this (the dumb social credit propaganda) and anyone who calls them out on it is just called a bot

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 56 points 5 months ago

Ok Mr Chang. Go back to eating Commissar Michelle Obama’s fruit 🤣🤣

[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 38 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

functionally it feels a lot like the Two-Minutes Hate from JorJor Wells' 9084, ritual affirmation of in-group loyalty by demonizing the enemy

EDIT: also can't help but be reminded of False Witnesses

[-] Des@hexbear.net 9 points 5 months ago

despite being a cop and a snitch (or maybe because of it) orwell did have a good understanding of how to structure a modern fascist society into a sort of self-perpetuating stasis

most likely though his book is just so widely read by liberals it just became a textbook on how to manipulate social classes and it just so happens some of the techniques do work