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Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world

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2w ago

Were you aware?

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I called a cop "Napoleon" once. He assumed I referred to the 18^th century emperor. Not big readers, cops.
- Napoleon the emperor who tried to conquer Europe and nearly succeeded is more famous than the fictional character so that makes sense
- Anecdotal evidence is so strong!
  There's definitely no way you could be making a generalised statement from a single incident... /s
  
  ... because generalizations are always wrong, each and every time

I didn’t get communist vibes from that book at all. The little guy was just trying to get the ring back to Mordor.
- Four legs good. Two legs precious.

Jorjor Well originally made Peppa Pig but the Left wokified it

Ahh yes, the "secret" ingredient...

Bullshit.
- Shitpost. Indeed... From Wikipedia:
  In a letter to Yvonne Davet, Orwell described Animal Farm as a satirical tale against Stalin ("un conte satirique contre Staline"),[7] and in his essay, "Why I Write" (1946), wrote: "Animal Farm was the first book in which I tried, with full consciousness of what I was doing, to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into one whole".

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