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George Orwell’s 1984 is currently the top selling book on Amazon

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This is amazing. The womens marches over the weekend and these seem to be an indicator of a very sudden awakening.

50 years ago: "We, women, are not sexual devices!" 2017: Putting on pink clit caps. I bet 1984 customers is way another set of people.

What's wrong with a hat you can knit at home? It's an effective symbol.

Re: George Orwell’s 1984 is currently the top selling book on Amazon

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

50 years ago: "We, women, are not sexual devices!" 2017: Putting on pink clit caps. I bet 1984 customers is way another set of people.

How is referencing the natural female anatomy inherently sexual?

I don't think his point is that it IS inherently sexual. It's just somewhat ironic. And maybe that's the point?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

50 years ago: "We, women, are not sexual devices!" 2017: Putting on pink clit caps. I bet 1984 customers is way another set of people.

What's wrong with a hat you can knit at home? It's an effective symbol.

http://blog.dilbert.com/post/156315793671/battle-of-the-hats

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post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

50 years ago: "We, women, are not sexual devices!" 2017: Putting on pink clit caps. I bet 1984 customers is way another set of people.

What's wrong with a hat you can knit at home? It's an effective symbol.

It's a terribly ineffective symbol: http://blog.dilbert.com/post/156315793671/battle-of-the-hats

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I must admit, I'm really confused by how impeachment works in the U.S.. Clinton was impeached for perjury and abuse of power because he took advantage of his position (and a political intern) and then lied about it.

Now we have a president who is not giving up his business interests while in office and who has already told some absolute whoppers, including the release of official press releases that were nothing but "alternative facts". Why tell such obvious falsehoods? We're all laughing (nervously) now because the lies seem to be harmless, self-serving vain ones. However, is Trump just a little insane, or is he actually finding out who is willing to say "We've always been at war with Eurasia" and who isn't?

This is probably a good time for people to be reading 1984.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

50 years ago: "We, women, are not sexual devices!" 2017: Putting on pink clit caps. I bet 1984 customers is way another set of people.

What's wrong with a hat you can knit at home? It's an effective symbol.

Flip the gender. Would you respect a bunch of dickheads marching around D.C.?

Re: George Orwell’s 1984 is currently the top selling book on Amazon

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I must admit, I'm really confused by how impeachment works in the U.S.. Clinton was impeached for perjury and abuse of power because he took advantage of his position (and a political intern) and then lied about it. Now we have a president who is not giving up his business interests while in office and who has already told some absolute whoppers, including the release of official press releases that were nothing but…

He's 70 years old and his dad had Alzheimer's.
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