So uh Trump

So uh Trump

When I first read 1984, it was fiction. Now that Trump is president, it's becomed non-fiction...

so true :)
it's as orwell says, we are truly living in the year of 1984

Not gonna lie, former Trump supporter here. This is fucking hilarious watching Trump crash and burn.. But in all seriousness we can't let this man get the nuclear codes!

1984 wasn't supposed to be a manual!

Actually this presidency is distinctly un-Orwellian, in that all of Trump's faults and statements are openly criticized. The media will bring to light any false statements he makes. It's far more unsettling when the media is fully supportive of the president like in the Obama years.

man....Don't they know....1984 was a warning.....Not an INSTRUCTION MANUEL PEOPLE!!!

It's annoying how the phrase "alternative facts" was used to explain why this presidency resembles 1984. A phrase like "alternative information", which means basically the same thing, sounds far more innocuous. It was a shitty choice of words but it's not like they were trying to imply that a falsehood equals a fact.

>former Trump supporter here
bait

Ikr? This is just like that one time in Harry Potter. HE WILL NOT DIVIDE US

Woah, thanks for the warning, user! I almost replied to that post, but fortunately I saw your post calling it bait right as my finger hovered over the post button. You really saved my bacon, there, user!

I fucking hate how modern day socialists act like Orwell is their man. Yes he was a socialist, but he hated most of the socialists in his time and would probably hate most of them today.

;-]

What are you implying exactly? That one can no longer support Trump?

Nazis fuck off!!!

That's because Orwell was racist as fuck and would have been a hardline Brexiteer

I was at a dance show last night. It was pretty good but despite the fact that it had nothing to do with politics at all (the theme of the show was tearing down sacred beliefs) there was a section in the middle where a dancer was wearing a blonde wig and red suspenders and a t-shit with "#Dump" printed on it. Later when the show organizer was talking about it everyone laughed and cheered when he mentioned that it was supposed to represent trump. How fucking basic can you get?

Shill detected.

A particularly retarded shill who does not understand the meaning of bait, detected.

Wow I really hate /pol/ crossboarders can you please fuck off to your containment board?

>Trump's a completely shit president, but his administration doesn't remind me much of 1984. Too incompetent, too many public embarrassments, too little ability to carry out the more fascist elements of their agenda.

conflicted feelings about this post

I've read most of his books and essays, and I don't remember a single racist sentiment. Can you give an example?

So uuh retarded thread

>a dude and his press secretary says some unpalatable things

1984! TOTALITARIANISM IS NEAR!

>6 mega media corporations, with penetration in tens of millions of households, coordinate with politicians to label any opposition networks as "fake news" and corner the information market

lol that's journalism

Muh sekrit club

I don't understand the comparisons to Trump and 1984. Not even saying it in an attempt to defend Trump, I'm pretty indifferent towards him. I just don't understand how his administration is even slightly Orwellian. He's more authoritarian than I'd personally like but no more so than Obama or any other previous president.

Plus I was under the assumption 1984 was about communism. That's what I took from the novel at least, and say what you will about Trump but he's certainly not communist.

He was an anti-catholic as any other typical modern briton and hated Europe. The Anglo has only one objective, the absolute destruction of the West.

>president has 36% approval
>intelligence community actively seeking to overthrow him
>department bureaucracies are openly hostile
>his own party wont work with him on legislation they all agree with
>openly reviled by media outlets that have traditionally been almost state organs
>utterly incompetent thus far in matters of government and staffing and legislation
>Judiciary is overturning executive orders weekly
>fucking cities are throwing him the bird (san fran openly mocking his movements towards ending sanctuary cities)

The 1984 analogy is so fucking plebeian I cant even deal with it. If anything he is Berlusconi 2.0

trump got leftists to read 1984 is there anything this madman can't do

>lefties read 1984
>think it's about the alt right
>don't realize it's about them

DRUMPF is so LITERALLY 1984 that I literally can't even.

I think the closest thing is the control of information. He doesn't control things like in 1984 at all, but the way he attacks any information that doesn't support him and promotes information without checking its validity has parallels to 1984 where the validity of information isn't important.

is this the CTR shit that /pol/ talks about? When the liberal media reports facts but attaches editorial bias, they become alternative facts from either the right or left perspective.

For instance:

2012 FBI Crime Report

Any time these stats are mentioned (they barely are) excuses like poverty and oppression are mentioned, which somewhat suggest a vast conspiracy by "the man". Whereas just looking at the facts and knowing black population % makes the statement "fucking savages" a realistic one. Thus "fucking savages" vs "poor victims of oppression" become the alternate facts.

without controlling the dissemination of information, he just looks like a fool. Goebbels he is not.

He certainly would not like the EU in its current form, but of course that is neglected

He was a commie lindybeige

He was the literal worst communist ever, his final act of revenge against socialism involved writing a list of every famous, prominent and secret socialist in the country and hand-delivering it to the imperial Monarch.

>thinking Brexit was about racism
>lefties are this uninformed

But what if the media deserves to be attacked?

only post in the thread worth the bits it occupies

Brexit and Trump are about resistance to demographic change. If you don't see that you are blind.