From earlier this Year. Don't ask me what happened. Nothing special. Just the Landlord flexing as usual. Asshole won't even let me buy a simple vlogging cam with APS-C sensor. Someone's pissing (or shitting) his pants. How dare you! Only my condoms can own cameras, to wield their mighty craft and flood the world with my, i mean their classy and sound product..
The war is not meant to be won. It is meant to be continuous. The essential act of modern warfare is the destruction of the produce of human labor. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia, but to keep the very structure of society intact.
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Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
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Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf
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All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda-tours.
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The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.
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The result of this is that so-called peace propaganda is just as dishonest and intellectually disgusting as war propaganda. Like war propaganda, it concentrates on putting forward a 'case', obscuring the opponent's point of view and avoiding awkward questions.
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The object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war.
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The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
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In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel. Up to 1914 you did not need a passport for any country except Russia. The European emigrant, if he could scrape together a few pounds for the passage, simply set sail for America or Australia, and when he got there no questions were asked. In the eighteenth century it had been quite normal and safe to travel in a country with which your own country was at war.
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The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule, between good and evil but between two evils. You can let the Nazis rule the world: that is evil; or you can overthrow them by war, which is also evil. There is no other choice before you, and whichever you choose you will not come out with clean hands.
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People talk about the horrors of war, but what weapon has man invented that even approaches in cruelty to some of the commoner diseases? "Natural" death, almost by definition, means something slow, smelly and painful.
