What are you talking about? It’s not that common in the US outside of college dormitories or extremely poor communities. And it’s pretty common in other countries for those same situations.

It’s even worse. It’s 50% of voters. 30% of the population

You gonna watch the new show?

The war is scheduled to end during infrastructure week, actually

Won’t that still allow Obama to run? A 2028 term wouldn’t be consecutive with his first two terms

Germany turned around after Hitler. Never say it cannot be fixed, or they actually win.

“how much more is a billion than a million? About a billion”

You just earned my vote!

The Party said that Oceania had never been in alliance with Eurasia. He, Winston Smith, knew that Oceania had been in alliance with Eurasia as short a time as four years ago. But where did that knowledge exist? Only in his own consciousness, which in any case must soon be annihilated. And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed -if all records told the same tale – then the lie passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past,’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’ And yet the past, though of its nature alterable, never had been altered. Whatever was true now was true from everlasting to everlasting. It was quite simple. All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory. ‘Reality control’, they called it: in Newspeak, ‘doublethink’

Also Arrested Development

This person wrote hashtags on paper…why?

It is not an urban legend if it actually happened lol

I stand corrected, thanks! I always assume they’re finding a way to directly enrich themselves further, because they often are.

But isn’t it true that whatever they don’t pay in taxes via writeoffs, they get to keep and use however they want? They might choose not to give themselves a bigger bonus with those savings on taxes, but…I do doubt it for some reason

Well they will make the donation, but they’ll do it with your money, and then they’ll take the tax deduction for it, and reward themselves with a nice fat end of year bonus from the tax savings. Isn’t capitalism fun?

Please explain English to me in a way that “no one was starving” and “there was one famine” aren’t contradictory

You literally said “no one was starving” though

hostis hominum

Well that answers my question of how this got past an editor, even in the 70s

Well that’s fair then. I do clean my floors once a week. Maybe they’re dirtier than others’ on average, but I think I’d clean them once a week no matter how much dirt there is. So I guess to me it doesn’t make a noticeable difference, but I would agree that wearing shoes indoors objectively brings more dirt into the house.