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  • No need to, it’s a bit weird. For Firefox there seem to be two ways, one is via custom search engine and the other would be via add-on.

    I am not entirely sure how to do it via custom search engine, as FF seems to want it with a wildcard %s for the search term and lite ddg doesn’t seem to put it into the URL, but probably somewhere else.

    Edit: I found out how to configure it. To get to this screen

    • you go into your settings,
    • got to Search,
    • scroll to Search Shortcuts,
    • click on Add
    • click on Advanced
    • write the things I wrote in the screenshot.












  • I’d need to look more into that, did saw a comment of his against some of the Burmese people who were supposedly insulting him which was off-color. Though he did seem to try to integrate into at least a Burmese subculture, the Karen/Kayin, supposedly learning their language and speaking relatively fluid.

    Tbh, I saw the “anti-white” comment but without knowing anything about who it was directed to (I didn’t dig deeper) it doesn’t hold much merit to me. I will look into the person, though.

    The list might’ve inadvertently be used to persecute, but probably due to general McCarthyism. Any “risk” of being a communist was enough for the US.

    And absolutely, I find it weird. They can’t discredit the writing so they go for the character of the author. I personally don’t feel they necessarily need to be intertwined. Animal Farm also felt like a poignant parallelism to history with Snowball and Napoleon mirroring Trotsky and Stalin.


  • The rape allegations were definitely new to me, I need to see if I can find more sources besides this daily mail debate. Especially as there is little sourcing.

    Next, the list is supposedly about Stalinists, which he was, understandably, opposes to. Per Definition they are compatriots, people from the same country, but to me compatriots also implied same political affiliations.

    Moving on, him being a Burmese Police Officer was something I probably heard at some point but probably forgot. I’ll do some deeper digging into this as well, as there was little mention besides it affecting his opinion of the Empire negatively.

    Now, speaking of Animal Farm. All of the mentioned points are not applied to Orwell, but the CIA. And funnily enough, I have never seen the animated version, I only read the book. Additionally, both of these adaptations were done after his death on the 21.01.1950.