Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. …

George Orwell
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Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me'. ✨ George Orwell (1998). The complete works of George Orwell
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