this silly little post managed to make the redditors over at the disco elysium sub drop bangers like
‘‘Orwell is cursed to be misunderstood by both left and right 
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‘‘How dare the Union do [CRIME] to fund their militant activities?? Don’t they know [CRIME] is BAD!??’’
This ain’t even a media literacy issue, this is a literacy skill issue.
Look at my communists dawg! We’re never getting anywhere! 
I kind of thought The Claires’ whole thing was that they were willing to do some cutthroat things and actively leaned into the sleazy characterization others gave them, but ultimately they were ideologically committed players with an eye for strategy? Seemed intended to be contentious in the same way a lot of real life socialist visionaries - hell, visionaries of any sort - often are.