It’s time to get fit
“The issue involved here is quite a simple one: Is every opinion, however unpopular - however foolish, even – entitled to a hearing? Put it in that form and nearly any English intellectual will feel that he ought to say “Yes”. But give it a concrete shape, and ask, “How about an attack on Stalin? Is that entitled to a hearing?“, and the answer more often than not will be “No”. In that case the current orthodoxy happens to be challenged, and so the principle of free speech lapses.”— George Orwell in his unpublished introduction to Animal Farm
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It’s so funny how American journos look at journalists in other countries who are exposing corruption and being killed/imprisoned for it and think “yes, we are just like these people” when in reality they’re lower than common pond scum lmao
Journalist in backwards country: “I’m being put to death for exposing decades of government corruption and human rights abuses”
Tool of the American government: “wow… we’re so alike in so many ways…”
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the real horror of Black Mirror is a future world populated exclusively with British people
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