Comments by "Evan" (@MrEvanfriend) on "George Orwell: The Uncompromising Visionary" video.

  1. "So much of left wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who do not realize that fire is hot" -George Orwell. It's ironic that Orwell, a socialist himself, wrote the best condemnations of socialism that one could imagine.
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  2.  @vanhovemare  The irony is that they remained socialists. Based on Orwell's writing, you would think he'd have realized that tyranny and terror and starvation are features of socialism, not bugs.
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  3.  @vanhovemare  Nonsense. There's a reason that they're present wherever you have socialism.
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  4.  @vanhovemare  Europe is tyrannical by American standards, and the quality of life is much lower than in the US. But back when all of Eastern and large portions of Central Europe were socialist, you had inarguable tyranny and terror. Just like in Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea, Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, China, the USSR, and literally every other place that has ever tried socialism. There is zero excuse in the 21st century to defend socialism. You have to be either (1) stupid, (2) evil, or (3) both to do so.
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