Explanation: For those of you who understand US politics (you have my sympathies) but would still like a little elaboration on the joke, in the USA, the Republican Party is the conservative/fascist party which is opposed to the other major party, the Democratic Party, whom they deride as ‘liberals’. Anything left of Hitler is condemned as ‘socialism’, and incredibly stupid arguments are pushed forward using meaningless wordplay that appeals to idiots ("We’re a republic, not a democracy!”, “We’re the party of Lincoln!") in the public sphere. They regularly get around 50% of the vote, including in the last presidential election, which they won.

It’s a pretty shit situation.

George Orwell is a famous author, who wrote the novel 1984 as a condemnation and warning about totalitarianism. 1984 is a constant refrain of Republicans who see the novel as a critique of goberment and socialism, specifically.

George Orwell was a lifelong socialist. And not a quiet one. For that matter, he was a socialist who fought for Republican Spain during the Spanish Civil War, against Nationalist Spain. Republican Spain was dominated by left-wing parties (including the literal Communist Party associated with the Soviet Union), Orwell literally entered into combat alongside anarcho-communists, and wrote very firmly in their defense.

REPUBLICAN Spain! Don’t you get it, LIBERAL? Socialists OWNED and SOLD as HUMAN CHATTEL 😎😎😎😎😎😎😎

@PugJesus holy shit Lois

Yeah, regardless of the intent, if you have to explain it the joke failed.