# Reactionaries of the world unite!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reactionaries-of-the-world-unite/147484>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [January 9, 2003, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reactionaries-of-the-world-unite/147484 "2003-01-09T08:42:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Neurotik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2003, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reactionaries-of-the-world-unite/147484/61 "2003-01-10T21:27:12Z")

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Aaaah…it’s been so long since I’ve read 1984.

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**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2003, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reactionaries-of-the-world-unite/147484/62 "2003-01-10T21:51:11Z")

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That reminds me, I’d better stock up on razor blades\*.

Once **Chumpsky** ’s crowd gets into power, I’ll either have to use the same Mach 3 for 6 months at a time, or grow out my beard into one of those Alex Solzhenitsyn models (very inconvenient if you want to eat an ice cream cone).

\*yet another obscure 1984 reference

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**Author:** ![december](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/838e76/32.png) [@december](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/december)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2003, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reactionaries-of-the-world-unite/147484/63 "2003-01-10T22:08:53Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Jackmannii \*  
> Once **Chumpsky** ’s crowd gets into power…

After the revolution, right-thinking Staright Dopers are invited to join me at my palatial estate, **decemberschloss**. I have stocked a huge supply of wage slaves, who will allow us to live in luxury indefinitely on the backs of their labor.

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**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2003, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reactionaries-of-the-world-unite/147484/64 "2003-01-10T22:39:56Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Chumpsky \*  
> \*\*In short, the idea of equality and egalitarianism does in no way imply that everyone is equal, or should be. Socialism aims to create a society where everybody is _treated as an equal_. \*\*

That’s an interesting way to put it. Who’d you swipe it from?

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