I have posted correct information like that on Reddit and have been downvoted for providing sourced information. That really discourages my participation. Why try?
I have to brag on Lemmy.world.
This place is friendlier, and a much better place to interact with others. Oh, there’s still a down-vote brigade, but it’s much smaller.
Reddit may still have a huge user base, but it’s becoming facebook-esque; that is, people go to it because they know it, and nothing else. This place is so much better.
If there was hope, it must lie in the proles, because only there, in those swarming disregarded masses, eighty-five percent of the population of Oceania, could the force to destroy the Party ever be generated. The Party could not be overthrown from within. Its enemies, if it had any enemies, had no way of coming together or even of identifying one another. Even if the legendary Brotherhood existed, as just possibly it might, it was inconceivable that its members could ever assemble in larger numbers than twos and threes. Rebellion meant a look in the eyes, an inflection of the voice; at the most, an occasional whispered word. But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength, would have no need to conspire. They need only to rise up and shake themselves like a horse shaking off flies. If they chose they could blow the Party to pieces tomorrow morning. Surely sooner or later it must occur to them to do it.
The big one is okay most of the time. The little one is basically made of zooms, so when he wakes up, it goes- jump off the bed, zoom through the house, then jump back on the bed again and repeat that until I get fed up and get up.
Remember when there was a boat full of migrants that sank around the same time and nobody in power gave half a shit about it even though it would’ve been way easier to locate and rescue those people?
I’m always somewhat surprised that they built the bridge with visible supports that so obviously clash with the style of the building. It’s like they ran out of money and said “ah, fuck it.”
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