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People said we were being alarmist when we said extremist Christian nationalists would use the abortion laws to target women trying to escape Texas to receive an abortion.
@georgetakei
People thought Orwell was being alarmist when he wrote "1984"
@abqralph @georgetakei nobody thought that. And he was commenting on things that was already happening in his time - he just used means of allegory to illustrate his point.
Orwell was no prophet and most of you don't even understand what the book is really about. State surveillance is the least (but most visible) theme of 1984.
@fionor "most of you"
@abqralph @georgetakei Weird choice of fictional dystopia, given all the other, far more pertinent ones available, but OK.
@kittylyst @abqralph @georgetakei
"The Handmaid's Tale" is a bit more prescient.
@ExceedinglyTransGoat @abqralph @georgetakei Indeed. Regretably, among others.