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Killing small animals? So like Barron Trump is alleged to have done:
how old is he now? Is it finally ok to set upon little Baron?
Was born March 20th, 2006. He'll be 19 in a couple months.
This, I find it weird that I keep getting people saying "YOU CAN'T MOCK BARRON HE'S JUST A CHILD!"
He was a child 8 years ago, people age.
(I will admit, even I forget this from time to time... Like when I saw Ant MAn 3 and was like "Wait, why's the cute little girl who basically sold these movies by being best character now a generic angsty teen.... oh... right... live action, the actress aged... and there's been a time skip.. and a tonal shift... right"
Holy shit, how was this not bigger news? I like to think I keep up with things but this is the first time I have read any of this.
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Just buy a tesla and a smartphone. Those are the spy machines described in the book. The difference is that the 1984 government had to hide that stuff in your house and now, people even pay for them.
The 1984 government did not hide that stuff in your hozse. The telescreens are the centerpiece of any appartements. The difference is that in the book, everybody knows they are supervised and fear the supervisors, while today, nobody cares.
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Honestly don't do anything you wouldn't want a fascism regime knowing about on any PC running Windows or MacOS or any smart phone.
On that note, what Linux distro are best for privacy?
At this point, any of them.
Strictly speaking, fully loaded Kali Linux (or an equivalent build) so you can learn to do subversive things against adversarial networks.
But really, if you just want an operating system under your control, every version of Linux will do that for you.
But Hannah Montana Linux will do it for you with the most style.
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Is 1984 banned? That was mandatory reading...
It and Fahrenheit 451 are, ironically, among some of the most banned books in the US.
It was banned in both the Soviet Union and the US.
In the Soviet Union it was banned for being anti-communist.
In the US it was banned for being communist.
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Yes, and I'm glad that it is.
record skip, everyone stares at HawlSera awkwardly, guns are cocked and pointed at her
Because when you tell a people that a piece of media is too evil and vile to ever be looked at, that only makes them wanna read it more. I guruan-fucking-tee more people have read 1984 now that they're not allowed to!
Points for self awareness, and for Streisand effect.
As others have told you, yes. And the worst part is the justification is usually because Winston and Julia have sex. And it's not titillating. Orwell was not exactly writing erotica.
yes they are literally banned at most schools in my state. Along with books that have LGBT charicters in them
Literally 1984
Any librarian worth their salt would find a secret way to get that kid his book
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This is literally what YouTube is like though. The less educational content is, the more likely they are to remove or age restrict it. NileGreen made a video about this recently, it's kinda long but you can watch it if this sounds interesting.
1984 is more appropriate for adolescents than for kids under tweens. If anyone has read the ending, the imagery in Room 101 is pretty graphic. There are also sexually suggestive imagery in the middle of the book.
The best dystopian book for kids that warns of authoritarianism would be Fahrenheit 451 and Animal Farm imo. The latter was my introduction to George Orwell by my teacher just before I entered adolescence.
This kinda hits different when you replace cats with cows.
If you're killing the cow in the same way the people in those videos kill cats, then it doesn't hit much different at all.
There's definitely a line here, but I suspect that we disagree on where that line is.
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I don't follow american book ban list. Is it actually ban?
I don't think it's currently on any ban lists in the US; if it is, it's just in a few odd corners. It has been on ban lists around the world in the past for various reasons.
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