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[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 29 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Don't forget how this cartoon originated:

  • 2021-01-06: Failed coup by pro-Trump degenerates storming the Capitol (Trump denies involvement but his tweets from the day have definitely played a role, as decided during the impeachment proceedings in the following week).
  • 2021-01-08 Trump is banned from Twitter in wake of the scandal.
  • 2021-01-08 Donald Trump Jr. tweets: "We are living Orwell's 1984. [...]"
  • 2021-01-09 Conservative artist Gary Varvel publishes this cartoon.
[–] Derpenheim@lemmy.zip 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Seriously? Man, I thought it was a satire piece the whole time. This was meant to be taken literally?

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Yes, it's by a guy who thinks inciting a violent attempt to overthrow a major democratic institution should be protected as free speech. And did not even come up with the 1984 reference himself, just parroting Don Jr. See this video by Jacob Geller about why such a wide spectrum of people points to Nineteen Eighty-Four, that's where I got the information from.

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 7 points 22 hours ago

Well to be fair, the US declaration of independence is quite explicit about the right to revolution being one of the inalienable rights. They spent I think around 20 written lines talking about it.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.

Of course, it doesn't mean their causes were just or their intentions were good or even that they were much more than an angry mob, but America was literally founded on the idea that a corrupt government should be overthrown by force.

[–] ViscloReader@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

No fucking way. What a moron.