Sad that Chick-Fil-A went got woke.
That's why you use Dissenter. Now EVERY website has an unmoderated comments section where free speech reigns.
The central point of 1984 is not necessarily about authoritarianism or government surveillance, although they certainly play a big part. The central point is about doublethink, the idea of changing the meaning of words, the context of definitions, and historical records to the point that the people are brainwashed to believe whatever they are told to believe. This is quite literally what is going on today, with the leftist movements, SJWs, the LGBT community at large, etc.
The media has their regular "Two Minutes of Hate" for Donald Trump (lol more like 24 hours of hate), we are told our forefathers were terrible and that the US was established due to terrible practices, and so on. The idea that "you can't say that" is applied to words and contexts at a rapid pace. Pepe and Kek became racist overnight because the media said so. Cuck, soyboy, and now simp all become anti-LGBT or hateful, or whatever. You get the idea.
Orwell didn't need to establish an authoritarian regime in his book to get this point across, but as it was written in response to this type of thing occurring in the USSR (and to a lesser extent, fascist Germany, which was fresh on peoples' minds at the time), where the authoritarian regime was prevalent.
Although it's argued that Brave New World is a more accurate representation of the modern day, I think it's really a combination of both. The doublethink of Orwell, and the media control of Huxley are prevalent today. And there are plenty of other classic dystopic works, such as Fahrenheit 451 that also warn about issues that we see currently.
These books weren't written necessarily as just warning, but as observation of specific ideas that the authors saw take form in their own time. But reality is much more complex and nuanced than any book, so it takes the exploration of many of these themes to arrive at a more clear picture of what is actually happening today.
I am a Cali resident. I am pissed.
The irony is that these are the least interesting subs anyway. They're popular because they're for a general audience, so they'll see a lot of ordinary people going there for a laugh, or to rant, or whatever. But the more interesting subs, the ones that contain valuable information and value, tend to be smaller because they have more focused topics, like r/dota2, r/piano, r/watches, r/flashlight, r/buyitforlife, etc.
I think that the plastic bag ban is stupid as heck. But that being said, I've been using a couple cloth bags for years now, because I just prefer them. All these reports of them being unsanitary makes me wonder what kind of filthy people they're studying. Do they not bother to wash their bags regularly or what?
"Fentanyl Floyd"?