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It must be 1984.

Seriously?

Maybe the thread's original title was in Newspeak.

Phanatik wrote:It must be 1984.

You've never read the book, so how would you know?


The new title is more accurate to what's actually happening.

The original title was word for word the headline from a post I saw on my cousin's wife's Facebook from Reagan something or other .com. So that is how it was reported to sympathetic voters. 5 minutes of reading and I dismissed it for what it was: propaganda. That doesn't make the new title better, the thread was doing fine arguing about nothing with the first one.

Usually the mods don't like it when people post inflammatory lies in the post title.

Melissia wrote:

Phanatik wrote:It must be 1984.

You've never read the book, so how would you know?

Your arrogance in declaring something you have no knowledge of is amazing.

And your reply is as valid as anything else you ever have to say.

Phanatik wrote:

Melissia wrote:

Phanatik wrote:It must be 1984.

You've never read the book, so how would you know?

Your arrogance in declaring something you have no knowledge of is amazing.

I think I hear an echo...

Cause that's what I just said about you

But seriously, there's no parallels with 1984 here.

Melissia wrote:

Phanatik wrote:

Melissia wrote:

Phanatik wrote:It must be 1984.

You've never read the book, so how would you know?

Your arrogance in declaring something you have no knowledge of is amazing.

But seriously, there's no parallels with 1984 here.

Then perhaps you've never read the book, or failed to comprehend it.

I find it interesting that a left-leaning mod re-writes the title of a thread, not his own, to suit himself. I think the mods on this website have too much power with too little oversight.

I wrote the original title for a reason.

My teacher in school that had us read the book did so as a warning of what could happen. The left seems to think of it as a how-to book.

Regards,

Wait, what?

The title you put up was blatantly false. It was changed because maybe the mods, who are mostly petty enablers of the bourgeois class, wanted there to be the facade of some sort of reality in this thread.

And now you're talking about a book written by a man who was such a strong advocate of socialism that he fought and was wounded in a civil war? I'm utterly confused.

1984 is about a lot of things, but I don't think it's about "guy writing stupid post on the internet and gets it changed to something slightly less stupid because of Big Brother".

Phanatik wrote:I wrote the original title for a reason.

I'd like to know that reason, tbh.

I am at a loss for words.

There are some things which really just need to stand on their own. Or fail to stand on their own, like the statue of Ozymandias.

TheHammer wrote:Wait, what?

The title you put up was blatantly false. It was changed because maybe the mods, who are mostly petty enablers of the bourgeois class, wanted there to be the facade of some sort of reality in this thread.

And now you're talking about a book written by a man who was such a strong advocate of socialism that he fought and was wounded in a civil war? I'm utterly confused.

1984 is about a lot of things, but I don't think it's about "guy writing stupid post on the internet and gets it changed to something slightly less stupid because of Big Brother".

Never ever trust anyone who says "bourgeois."

I know! It's almost as if we acknowledge that there are economic classes that we may then have to do something about it!

Phanatik wrote:I find it interesting that a left-leaning mod re-writes the title of a thread, not his own, to suit himself. I think the mods on this website have too much power with too little oversight.

Indeed, you should definitely complain to the management and demand a refund, bro.

Phanatik wrote:I wrote the original title for a reason.

Oh, we know. We know.

On this very board no less!

Melissia wrote:
There are some things which really just need to stand on their own. Or fail to stand on their own, like the statue of Ozymandias.

Shelly might be too deep for him.

He has google.


Automatically Appended Next Post:
Well, unless he wants to claim that Obama took google away from him.

Phanatik wrote:

Melissia wrote:

Phanatik wrote:

Melissia wrote:

Phanatik wrote:It must be 1984.

You've never read the book, so how would you know?

Your arrogance in declaring something you have no knowledge of is amazing.

But seriously, there's no parallels with 1984 here.

Then perhaps you've never read the book, or failed to comprehend it.

I find it interesting that a left-leaning mod re-writes the title of a thread, not his own, to suit himself. I think the mods on this website have too much power with too little oversight.

I wrote the original title for a reason.

My teacher in school that had us read the book did so as a warning of what could happen. The left seems to think of it as a how-to book.

Regards,

Did the mods remove words from you vocabulary, or tell you how to think, if not then I'm really not sure how this relates.

Phanatik wrote:
Then perhaps you've never read the book, or failed to comprehend it.

In this thread a person with a long ignore list complains about censorship.

Phanatik wrote:
I think the mods on this website have too much power with too little oversight.

Its a privately owned website. You respect the right of private enterprises to do as they please, within the law, do you not?

Phanatik wrote:
I wrote the original title for a reason.

Sure you did, but having a reason for doing something doesn't make the choice, or the reason, good.

Maybe the Mayans were right. Mellissia, dogma, and myself just all agreed on something.

Quick, someone talk about some random piece of military hardware to avert any further signs of the Apocalypse.

What do you guys think of the AMX 13/105?

It's a silly little tank, very, very french.

Melissia wrote:It's a silly little tank, very, very french.

It is a practical tank of moderate size, and only somewhat French. The levels of Frenchness could be so much more.

At least we can all agree that we hate the French right?

Ahtman wrote:The levels of Frenchness could be so much more.

It needs a mustache.

Ahtman wrote:It is a practical tank of moderate size, and only somewhat French. The levels of Frenchness could be so much more.

If there was ever any idea posted on Dakka Dakka which needs to be expanded upon, in my opinion, this is it.

Shadowseer_Kim wrote:At least we can all agree that we hate the French right?

I love the French, especially when they assume I don't understand their language.

Vous êtes une bite. Only phrase you'll ever need.

vous mange petit chatons morte.

Ouze wrote:

Ahtman wrote:It is a practical tank of moderate size, and only somewhat French. The levels of Frenchness could be so much more.

If there was ever any idea posted on Dakka Dakka which needs to be expanded upon, in my opinion, this is it.

well it could fire baguettes, and it goes on strike when you start it up

Chatons sont difficiles.