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Comment by tw04

21 hours ago

I just want to point out how 1984 fascist dictatorship it still feels to call it “the department of war”. That’s not normal. None of this is normal.

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titanomachy  17 hours ago

In 1984, they called it the “ministry of peace”. If anything “defense” is more euphemistic than “war”.

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