Just something MAGA-people seem to have a hard time with sometimes. Probably not as much when Americans are speaking to themselves, but as a non-American, sometimes it’s challenging to get “those people” to admit that there is indeed anything wrong with the US. As in they won’t accept a single criticism, and will loudly proclaim “America is the greatest country in the world”, while wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat, which for me pretty explicitly means America isn’t great, if it has to be made to be such again.

  • androogee (they/she)
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    432 months ago

    Doublethink is a core feature of fascism.

    Not only is cognitive dissonance not a problem, they take pride in believing two mutually exclusive things at the same time. It’s proof to how willing they are to align themselves with the party.

      • androogee (they/she)
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        42 months ago

        Orwell went to Spain to fight in the Spanish civil war against fascism.

        The book is literally written about fascism.

        So… Yep.

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          1984 world is about a totalitarian socialist country inspired by nazi practice of propaganda. So I would not say just fascism. But fascism is clearly part of the book, the novel also show that this could occurs also in a socialist state.

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four