To be fair he was participating in Free Julian Assange rally. But yeah it still doesn't excuse the fedoras.
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We have to honor this dude who tried to work with the feds only to be inevitably betrayed by worshipping fearless truth teller journalism.
Isn’t he associated with the “billion Americans by 2030” writer and his ilk? Or didn’t he go on a half year “journalism” campaign about Hunter Biden’s dick pics lol. Or am I just associating two unrelated bald guys together for some reason
I mainly know him as the "cops are workers too" guy lol
He's a radlib at best, but that's not really a fair summary of his comments. He said many cops come from the working class (true), and that being a cop is one of the few steady, good-paying jobs readily open to the working class (also true). This was part of a larger discussion on why the working class is not uniformly on board with police abolition.
There are plenty of other points to be made in that discussion, but "this has an economic angle for the working class" is a fair one to mention.
Naw billion Americans guy was Matt Yglesias I think
I think it's a trilby. Fedoras have wider brims.
free thought is in trouble
publishes pointless drivel for large audience with zero consequences
His face is so smug it looks like it's seconds away from collapsing in on itself.
The only people who misunderstand George Orwell’s 1984 are those that go around trying to imagine it has a leftist message. It is mistaken to imagine that children in the English-speaking world get his work drilled into them like a mantra because, somehow, genuine socialists managed to sneak his work past a censor that banishes the likes of Karl Marx and Malcolm X.
The less complicated reading is the correct one: it’s an anti-communist book that the establishment pushes, and the right adores and cites constantly, because it is effective anti-communist propaganda.
Let’s part from a very basic fact: The CIA loves Orwell.
Between 1952 and 1957, from three sites in West Germany, a CIA operation codenamed ‘Aedinosaur’ launched millions of ten-foot balloons carrying copies of George Orwell’s Animal Farm, and dropped them over Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia — whose airforces were ordered to shoot the balloons down. [1]
The movie adaptation of Animal Farm was the UK’s first animated feature film, and it was entirely funded by the CIA. This fact was kept secret for 20 years, and only revealed in 1974, to no cultural impact. [2]
Orwell enthusiasts insist that he would be horrified by this turn of events, that he was trying to preserve a genuine and humane socialism from the clutches of “Stalinism”. They insist Orwell was against all empires, not just the one he lived in. However, his life and his work rather undermine this interpretation.
i had no idea.. i've realized most people here and on hexbear hate him but I didn't know exactly why... now I see
thanks for the links
As a rare Hexbear Orwell enjoyer, I wish these people would engage with his other work.
His essay "Politics and the English Language" in particular is really relevant to how the press is covering Palestine now (or any enemy of the empire).
"Shooting an Elephant" is also a cool look at how the imperialist mind reacts to decolonization and the idea of being irrelevant and powerless.
Of course, I'm sure they wouldn't take the right lessons from them
"Shooting an Elephant" is also a cool look at how the imperialist mind reacts to decolonization and the idea of being irrelevant and powerless.
This is overrated by liberals trying to interpret Orwell as not being a reactionary. https://redsails.org/on-orwell/ See also: https://redsails.org/jones-on-animal-farm/
I think he has interesting things to say about language, but his social commentary is garbage.
... so like, is that hat too small for his head or is that just how you're supposed to wear it?
The hat is too small. I have a fat head, too - getting measured for mortarboards for graduation with my classmates was a revelation - and most off-the-shelf hats look a little weird on me and give me a headache from being too snug.
I assume he has enough money from grifting to be able to afford custom hats. Does he still party like he thinks he's Hunter S? Maybe he hasn't invested in hats that fit his head because he's still constantly losing the cheap ones.
Now I know why the picture is so funny, he has a smug smirk while wearing a hat that is way too small
tfw my brain so big it outgrew my hat, checkmate atheists
it's like the body-builder guys wearing too-small tshirts, except completely unearned
orwell was right. Free thought is in trouble.
Kinda looks like budget Billy Zahn
That's it!
I first saw the photo an hour ago and I just couldn't place it in context.
Is his head shaped like a traffic cone or does he just not know how to wear that specific type of hat?
iirc, yes
"Orwell was right. Here's a list of subversives the FBI should arrest."
Can you not wear hats if you're bald? Honestly looking for advice because I never see a hat look good on a bald person.
hats are cumskin culture, if you dont wear them you are permanently damaging your skin and getting cancer because you arent in the foggy mountainsides of europe
especially true if you dont have hair, that skin is pretty vulnerable
i strongly recommend every bald male to grow a 20 inch beard and wear a giant wizard hat in order to protect as much skin as possible
would make the world a lot more interesting tbh
I'm more concerned with getting melanomas and I sweat too much to constantly slather myself in sun screen. I don't recommend wearing a fedora though.
Bald people are allowed to wear hats.
While he's not wrong, everything about this post is silly. His silly grin, his silly hat, phrasing it as though Orwell has recently appeared on some podcast and talked about this specific moment, using Orwell as your reference part at all really. And also that hat again because fuck that hat.
Why do they all have to wear a trilby to an incredibly boring, dull and mismatched set of clothes with jeans.
Always blue fucking jeans. Not to mention the hat being always black and off the worst and tackiest material ever. Christ they are ruining a perfectly good hat style to feel good about themselves like they are from the 50s and they fuck it up hard.
These dweebs have ruined my perception of the trilby, I get reflexively disgusted when I see someone wear one. Not to mention them calling it a fedora :cringe:
Always blue fucking jeans.
As a Pole you should recognize jeans as a part of the subversive propaganda carried by CIA basically everywhere they went. Jeans mean "i love America". It's weaker message nowadays after US cultural hegemony plowed everything but it is still there.
Good; free thought is commie trash.
Privatize thoughts! Privatize opinions!
Idk how anyone can defend this cringe person
I'm glad I never had a hat phase
"I wear a hat too small for my head, checkmate sjws"
Guranteed no chops
