Thread by @ElonBachman

1\ Watching the world hallucinate a COVID emergency made me understand that 1984 was a documentary, and I wanted to know what experiences led Orwell to write it.

So I read Homage to Catalonia...and was still puzzled...

https://twitter.com/ElonBachman/status/1410330870377062403

2\ Ukraine makes me get it. The masses suddenly have a sworn enemy whose name they hardly knew yesterday. The media concocts myths of heroism among the defenders while overlooking literal Nazis among their ranks.

Orwell saw all this, because it's what always happens in war

3\ Compare Orwell's "battles that never happened" to the Ghost of Kiev, and to the supposed triumph of Ukrainian liberalism ("Zalensky is just like us!") while each day brings Russian encirclement of another city

https://twitter.com/ElonBachman/status/1443202630046605318?s=20&t=OR_LBJU84r-6HQc__EfOjA

4\ And of course: facts so stripped of context they become lies. How many healthy kids died of COVID, but were really 300lbs and asthmatic?

Now we have Azov battalions using empty hospitals as cover, only to have Western journos spaz out when they get shelled