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snot

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2. "war...is meant to be continuous...."

Reply to ProudMNDemocrat (Original post)

Sat Feb 28, 2026, 01:37 PM

Yesterday

Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. ... {T}he war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. {It} is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory...but to keep the very structure of society intact.”

― George Orwell, "1984" (1949)

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