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yes it is about Marxism George Orwell fought in the Spanish Civil War he saw the Communists up close, first hand, and wanted to warn people about going down that path he hated communism with a passion and his dystopian novels clearly reflect that attitude he was referencing Communist methods of totalitarian control in 1984 just because totalitarians all over the spectrum sometimes also use similar methods, doesn't mean Orwell didn't have communism in mind specifically, when writing 1984 and Animal Farm your knee jerk impulse to defend the left leads you astray again Orwell was wise enough to see the threat of the illiberal left was greater than the threat from the illiberal right and he emphasized the former more than later in his writings as a result, despite being on the left himself, he wasn't a partisan hack who had to pretend the radical right was worse and tunnel vision on them, he had too much experience with both to be under that delusion

The dumderheads are sore afraid. Their attention has been captured. I heard ON broke a record yesterday, most drug overdoses in one day ever in recorded history. How’s that for social progress. No we are either utterly utterly stupid, or subjects being controlled towards a destiny in which we no longer have a say. Which is it? I know we are stupid, but no, cant be the reason. Smart people are trying to speak out. They are being shouted down by people who type in all bolded caps, for example...

If it comes to that we're not exactly focused on politics. Most of the topics are unrelated to politics. Though admittedly, the political topics are the ones with by far the most postings.

Your posts are nothing more than LPOC propaganda. If Trudeau swallowed a memo you'd be able to read it ten minutes later.

I fully expect this will take off. Some small businesses and diners here are wanting paperwork proof. I own in a luxury 55+ building where I’m by far the youngest. Seniors are terrified and don’t want unvaccinated people around them or out in public at all. How long before a major retail or fast food chain makes the move and when it happens, how many others will flock behind them doing the same overnight? I see this as THE issue of autumn.

I think you mean "racists". Only 30% of blacks in the US, or at least in NY, are vaccinated. This is just the latest scheme to keep black folks down. I honestly can't wait to see the video of a bunch of black people getting told that they can't go somewhere without vaxx ID. My popcorn is already in the microwave.

The 18-30 yr olds who die of opioids don't matter. In the US about 900,000 of them have died and it's officially no big deal again now that Trump's gone. In BC's worst covid month ever opioid deaths were almost neck and neck, still no one here gave a shit about opioids.

"your knee jerk impulse to defend the left leads you astray again . . . . " Yzermandius 19 . . . . ^ ^ your prose has once again put a smile on my face! ?

Yet you did.

lots of commies don't vote for the Communist party

Not sure... The word 'web' has fallen out of use. We're not exactly focused on Canadian politics. It's brief and catchy.

Covid will be with us probably indefinitely, the same way the flu, pneumonia and other seasonal viruses are. Covid will become less and less virulent, but as the flu, disproportionately affect older unhealthy people in particular. And just a reminder to people, but we’ve had flu vaccines for 70+ years, and the flu hasn’t gone anywhere. It’s best to learn to live with covid as a seasonal illness.

That is your definition of democracy. Citizens can do what they want and exercise the rights they don't have. There is a red line in any real democracy and the red line is crossed when other people's lives are endangered and that is where actions like drunk driving, public smoking and covid vaccination fall and cross the red line. Examples are Like freedom of speech is important part of democracy but red line is crossed when you invoke people to attack and kill certain groups or minorities. The right to drink is valid as long as you don't drive and endanger other people, The right to smoke also is preserved as long as you don't smoke in public causing harm to others. The right to not vaccine is also preserved as long as you don't leave home and endanger other people,

Delta is an Indian variant but instead of calling it an Indian virus they had to give it a name by some Greek alphabet just not to label the Indians and risk Indian shops to be smashed as was the case with the Chinese businesses a year ago.

No. In Montreal, it took decades to just pay for a still broken stadium from the 1976 games. I have no trust in public authorities to carefully spend, manage and deliver the Olympics.

When people weren't vaccinated, well over 99% of healthy people had non-existent, or very low symptoms. Really? The exact same %age of vaccinated and unvaccinated people in Massachusetts were found to be carrying the D variant. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/07/30/provincetown-covid-outbreak-vaccinated/ The article says that few vaccinated people get sick, but NBC sings quite a different tune: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/breakthrough-covid-cases-least-125-000-fully-vaccinated-americans-have-n1275500 It doesn't seem like the mortality rate among the vaccinated is any lower than the rate for anyone else.