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Orwell knew it.... (Original Post)
634-5789
Feb 2022
OP
Noteworthy quote. July 24, 2018, to a Veteran's VFW convention in Kansas City
Bernardo de La Paz
Feb 2022
#3
"It is not enough that you obey Big Brother. You must love Big Brother"...nt
Wounded Bear
Feb 2022
#4
Kid Berwyn
(14,654 posts)1. "His heart sank as he thought of the enormous power arrayed against him..."
the ease with which any Party intellectual would overthrow him in debate, the subtle arguments which he would not be able to understand, much less answer. And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right.
Gaugamela
(2,486 posts)2. Trump: "Just remember, what you are seeing and what you are reading
is not what's happening."
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,790 posts)3. Noteworthy quote. July 24, 2018, to a Veteran's VFW convention in Kansas City
In a context of slapping tariffs on US trading partners, but free-floating.
https://time.com/5347737/trump-quote-george-orwell-vfw-speech/
Wounded Bear
(58,443 posts)4. "It is not enough that you obey Big Brother. You must love Big Brother"...nt