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Gigi | 14 days ago (raw) | export | reply | flag +123
 "War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it." https://m.primal.net/IDUt.png  
 That’s what it’s always about. 
 
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 POLITICS AND THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE  👀

https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/politics-and-the-english-language/ 
 What is above all needed is to let the meaning choose the word, and not the other way about. 
 “In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act." 
 I think war by definition implies someone thinks they are going to be better off for it. 
 Published in 1937
Orwell rejected pacifism toward Nazi Germany 
 “Profit” may also include excuses for counterfeiting money. 
 100% 
 In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act. 
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