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The Scott Weiner stuff is pretty horrific. The Jaqen Hagar stuff is just confusing: how did this guy find another human being to be in a relationship with him for 17 years. His whole story is just a series of questions being begged. What did your girlfriend do when you called the police on yourself during your mental breakdown? What did she think when she found out you wished you had been aborted? If you wished you had never been born in the first place why are you mad your girlfriend is risking your life by not wearing a mask? Won’t spitting on women spread Covid? Are you curious at all why millions of people aren’t dropping dead from their failure to mask up? Do you feel at all like an Aztec priest watching the sun rise anyway even though Cortes made you stop the human sacrifices? Are you embarrassed to be still referencing Game of Thrones after season 8? Did you like season 8? You probably did. Lots to unpack.

Someone please find his ex and interview her.

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The state is working to break families, full stop.

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“How does one man assert his power over another, Winston?“

Winston thought. “By making him suffer”, he said.

“Exactly. By making him suffer. Obedience is not enough. Unless he is suffering, how can you be sure that he is obeying your will and not his own? Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation. Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.

Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers imagined. A world of fear and treachery is torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but MORE merciless as it refines itself. Progress in our world will be progress towards more pain.

The old civilizations claimed that they were founded on love or justice. Ours is founded upon hatred. In our world there will be no emotions except fear, rage, triumph, and self-abasement. Everything else we shall destroy – everything.

Already we are breaking down the habits of thought which have survived from before the Revolution. We have cut the links between child and parent, and between man and man, and between man and woman. No one dares trust a wife or a child or a friend any longer.

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But in the future there will be no wives and no friends. Children will be taken from their mothers at birth, as one takes eggs from a hen. The sex instinct will be eradicated. Procreation will be an annual formality like the renewal of a ration card. We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now.

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There will be no loyalty, except loyalty towards the Party. There will be no love, except the love of Big Brother. There will be no laughter, except the laugh of triumph over a defeated enemy. There will be no art, no literature, no science. When we are omnipotent we shall have no more need of science. There will be no distinction between beauty and ugliness. There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed.”

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