• caboose2006@lemmy.world
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    I lived in china for 4 years and Winnie has Def never been outlawed. Chinese censorship is much more sophisticated than “hey, that’s illegal.” There’s not a list of pictures or memes or phrases that if you’re caught with you’ll get a visit from the police. No no no. There are hundreds of thousands of people monitoring social media for the latest “subversive” trends. When a new trend develops that content is blacklisted and just not allowed to be spread. You’ll send your friend a picture and it never shows up on their phone. There’s no indication on your end that it didn’t send or they didn’t get it. You can have this content on your phone, the CCP doesn’t care. They care about it spreading. And you’ll never get in trouble for trying to spread it because the system doesn’t allow it to spread.

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      That happens to me on YouTube; the only way I can talk to some people is on rednote.

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            no, it’s a novel, it’s a work of fiction, not a piece of theory or history that you can quote, the ending and the world is entirely built by the writer, there’s no study it’s literally arguments made up by the writer based on no sources or research, anyone can write a dystopian story, I could write a dystopian story and quote it right now, it’s not argument, it’s stupid.

            You know, in my novel of people who quote novels ending up as nazis, you do resemble it a lot.

            /\ as valid as using a novel like 1984 or animal farm or whatever else as an argument

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              1984 and Brave New World are allegories based on real life social observations and events. So, yes, they are based on history. They are famous for a reason. It is just that you find it too close to comfort.

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              It’s not history, but it’s certainly theory. The study it’s based on is through observations of reality. When comparing something to one of these books, we’re testing their observations by comparing them to reality. Incidentally, it gets brought up a lot when an event, occurrence, or vector in society begins to resemble these books too closely.

              Your hyperbole of people quoting books all being nazis, on the other hand, is very easily disproven.

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                “this is giving boss baby vibes” except actually trying to make a point out of it

                Your hyperbole of people quoting books all being nazis

                Only the dumbest fucking people pull this shit and you are as fucking stupid as can be measured

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                    Explain to me how you think I’m measuring, fuckwit. You have a judgement on a thing, you should be able to articulate what that thing is, right?