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who else is excited for this???

The cast of the film includes Seth Rogen (“The Studio”), so-true
Gaten Matarazzo (“Stranger Things”), matt
Steve Buscemi (“Boardwalk Empire”), minion-steve
Glenn Close (“Fatal Attraction”), soypoint-1
Laverne Cox (“Orange is the New Black”), soypoint-2
Kieran Culkin (“Succession”), agony
Woody Harrelson (“True Detective”), agony-shrooms
Jim Parsons (“The Big Bang Theory”), bazinga
Andy Serkis (“The Lord of the Rings” trilogy, “Planet of the Apes” trilogy), agony-deep
Kathleen Turner (“Peggy Sue Got Married”), and agony-consuming
Iman Vellani (“Ms. Marvel”). very-normal

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Orwell wrote the book between November 1943 and February 1944, when the United Kingdom was in its wartime alliance with the Soviet Union against Nazi Germany and the British intelligentsia held Stalin in high esteem, which Orwell hated.

So George, any other particular grievances you may have with any other groups during 1943-1944? Is there any other country getting on your nerves, causing you to hate it? Just any global power that may be doing things that would cause you, an author, to spend a year writing about it?

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 days ago

"I should like to put it on record that I have never been able to dislike Hitler. Ever since he came to power—till then, like nearly everyone, I had been deceived into thinking that he did not matter—I have reflected that I would certainly kill him if I could get within reach of him, but that I could feel no personal animosity." - Orwell 1940 https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600051h.html

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 days ago (1 children)

why would he write about his besties the germans whom Churchill also held in high regard?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago

Orwell had dogshit politics but he wasn't a Nazi. For all his faults he did literally go to Spain to shoot them.