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4 months ago
Elon Musk's X fails to block California's content moderation law
By: Investing | December 29, 2023
(Reuters) - Elon Musk's X on Thursday failed to block a California state law that requires social media companies to publicly disclose how they moderate certain content on their platforms.
X, formerly known as Twitter, in September sued California to undo the content moderation law, saying the law violated its free speech rights under the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment and California's state constitution.
The law requires social media companies with a sizable gross annual revenue to issue semiannual reports that describe their content moderation practices, and provide data on the number of objectionable posts and how they were addressed.
U.S. District Judge William Shubb in an eight-page decision dismissed the social media company's request.
"While the reporting requirement does appear to place a substantial compliance burden on social medial companies, it does not appear that the requirement is unjustified or unduly burdensome within the context of First Amendment law," Shubb wrote.
X did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Shubb will meet with the lawyers in the case on Feb. 26 for a scheduling conference.
Shubb held "terms of service" requirements of the law to be integral and said their presence could be a major deciding factor for users.
X has been under fire regarding its content moderation rules, with many companies pausing advertising on the platform. Since Musk took over X in October 2022, its monthly U.S. ad revenue declined at least 55% year-over-year each month, according to third-party data provided to Reuters in October.
The social media platform also faces scrutiny in Europe. The European Union earlier this month said it was investigating X over suspected breaches of obligations, partly relating to posts following Hamas' attacks on Israel, its first probe under the Digital Services Act (DSA).
Following Hamas' Oct. 7 attacks on Israel, X and other social media companies were flooded with fake images and misleading information.
X said it remains committed to complying with the DSA and is cooperating with the regulatory process.
The case is X Corp v Bonta, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California, No. 2:23-cv--01939.
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4 months ago
Twitter violated contract by failing to pay millions in bonuses, US judge rules
By: Investing | December 23, 2023
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Twitter violated contracts by failing to pay millions of dollars in bonuses that the social media company, now called X Corp, had promised its employees, a federal judge ruled on Friday.
Mark Schobinger, who was Twitter's senior director of compensation before leaving Elon Musk's company in May, sued Twitter in June, claiming breach of contract.
Schobinger's suit alleged that before and after billionaire Musk bought Twitter last year, it promised employees 50% of their 2022 target bonuses but never made those payments.
In denying Twitter's motion to dismiss the case, U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria ruled that Schobinger plausibly stated a breach of contract claim under California law and he was covered by a bonus plan.
"Once Schobinger did what Twitter asked, Twitter's offer to pay him a bonus in return became a binding contract under California law. And by allegedly refusing to pay Schobinger his promised bonus, Twitter violated that contract," the judge wrote.
X no longer has a media relations office. The company did not immediately respond to a request for comment to its X account outside business hours.
Twitter's lawyers argued that the company made only an oral promise that was not a contract, and that Texas law should govern the case, according to Courthouse News, which first reported the ruling. The judge ruled that California law governed the case and that "Twitter's contrary arguments all fail."
X has been hit with numerous lawsuits by former employees and executives since Musk bought the company and culled more than half of its workforce.
The lawsuits make a range of claims, including that X discriminated against older employees, women and workers with disabilities, and failed to give advance notice of mass layoffs. The company denies wrongdoing.
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6 months ago
“Beginning on August 8 and 9, wildfires ignited on Maui and Hawaii islands and spread quickly due to strong winds.”
White House Down (2013 movie):
“Capitol police officer John Cale (Channing Tatum) has just been denied his dream job of protecting President James Sawyer (Jamie Foxx) as a member of the Secret Service. Not wanting to disappoint his young daughter with the bad news, Cale takes her on a tour of the White House. While he and his daughter are there, a heavily armed paramilitary group attacks and seizes control. As the nation's government dissolves in chaos, only Cale can save his daughter, the president and the country.”
Olympus Has Fallen (2013 movie):
“The unthinkable happens when heavily armed and highly trained terrorists launch a bold daytime attack on the White House. The building is overrun, and President Benjamin Asher (Aaron Eckhart) and his staff are taken hostage. Luckily for Asher, former presidential security officer Mike Banning (Gerard Butler) is on the scene. With time running out, it's up to Banning to locate Asher's son before the extremists do and rescue the president before his captors unleash their ultimate plan.“
WHD 23 8 4
The big WHD…ding.
StockLogistics
7 months ago
Chinas military will exploit that which a society does not want to accept, Americans did not want to accept that Americans assisted to create 9/11, Americans do not want to accept that Michelle Obama is a man, Americans don’t want to accept that Biden is Chinas puppet, that he is helping Iran, that Atoms is a deceiver, admitting these things would admit to be fooled, to feel guilt.
StockLogistics
7 months ago
Read Eric Atoms’ words carefully :
The quoted words below are designed to sound Iike a condemnation of Hamas, but in actuality it could and should be interpreted as just a nothing burger, as a strongly stated observation of the obvious:
“"We are not all right when we see young girls pulled from their home and dragged through the streets," Adams said to a crowd of thousands who had gathered to express solidarity with Israel.
"We are not all right when we see grandmothers being pulled away from their homes, and children shot in front of their families. We are not all right when right here in the City of New York you have those who celebrate at the same time when the devastation is taking place in our city," he continued.”
Atoms is simply stating the obvious in a strong tone, which is leftist code for supporting the action but having to publicly “condemn” the action at the same time. That language tactic is how US officials who support eradication of Israel play both sides, internally they love Hamas but externally they make it appear to an assuming public that they condemn Hamas. Atoms, like O’Biden (O’Brien, 1984), knows the public will give him the benefit of the doubt, they can get away with anything because currently the public does not want to accept that it’s leaders are compromised by China, the public simply cannot handle that painful truth. The Democratic Party exists intellectually in that void of acceptance, in that void of realization, the Democratic Party’s location is hidden, within the collective shock the American people, the shock they are experiencing due to their government being inverted and manipulated by China’s control of if and by their major corporations selling out the country socially to China. The shock of defeating the rapist (2016 election) and thinking everything was ok (2018) only to go back into the nIghtmare once more (2020), seemingly with no escape this time (2022- )…
When there are depopulation cultists in charge do you think they care about hostages ? You think the Democrats who won’t even mention Hawaii give a damn if Israel or NYC is blown off the map. They care zero about humanity, only about themselves. When the Democratic Party controlled by Kenyan Obama is in charge the US government is like a plane that is flying directly towards the ground with the pilot, Obama’s staffers, believing that is the best course of action. Of course someone who hates America would think that was the best course of action, that giving Iran billions would result in peace. The O’Biden is a domestic terrorist organization.
StockLogistics
7 months ago
Lying is muscle memory for Biden, it is inherent, to his intellect it is practiced and perfected, he is a pathological liar, he cannot even question himself about his own lies most times, he takes advantage of the good the naive nature of the good, Jac.
10/13 = J AC
Biden’s favorite word to use is “Jack”, pretending like he is Clint Eastwood in a western, like Marty Mcfly did also. Today is Jac = 10 13 the day of global jihad, coincidence?
Americans have become non-confrontational, when being confrontational is required to root out a liar, to root out lies. Biden the deceiver, the Devil, Satan, Biden, to Bid farewell, to Place a bet, to gamble, to Bide, to wait till the end. The FBI stood by and let a pathological liar being the world to the brink of world war 3, their stand down in the face of Biden, a monster, and his leftists loyal to China and their own bank accounts, should not be forgotten by history.
Biden to Iran: Be Careful. Don’t.
Inversion Translation: Please take care with the Donut:
Biden on Hawaii: No comment
Inversion translation: Nuke’m en T(ehran)
Haw 8/1/23 Hawaii Fire
Jew 10/5/23 Israel Attack
Low 12/15/23 ????
StockLogistics
7 months ago
Biden relies on people giving him the benefit of the doubt, for example:
“US President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that he had "made it clear to the Iranians: Be careful".
At first glance a person might quickly assume Joe Biden was threatening the Iranians, but at second glance, he wasn’t. He was telling Iran to be careful the way a loving mother would warn her children before they cross the street, with love and hope that they succeed in doing so. Biden’s statement is the equivalent of “please take care” rather than the incorrect assumption of most people that he means “Don’t you dare, Iran, or else.” If Biden meant Do t you dare he would have said that phrase instead. Every sentence uttered by Biden is a straight faced admission of treason but Americans don't want to believe it. If Americans admitted Biden was compromised they may have to take responsibility for voting for him, hence the benefit of the doubt perpetually. Biden also said “Don’t”, so couple “Donut with be careful” and Biden is admitting that a nuclear weapon is being transferred and he wants the handlers of the nuke to be careful in transportation of the weapon. It’s tough to decipher Biden because every sentence he speaks is an inversion reliant on your assumptions that he is not as compromised as you fear he is.. Joker Biden can’t believe more people haven’t figured this out yet, Biden can’t believe people give him the benefit of the doubt more than anybody ever, many are afraid to challenge Biden on his scheme because Biden won’t admit wrongdoing the same way people were afraid toQuestionHitler.
StockLogistics
7 months ago
Decoding October: 10/5/23 = JEW, attack on Israel two days later on 50th anniversary of Yom Kippur War, where are all the highly paid Intel agents?
Decoding November:
KAW, KEW, KIW, KOW, KUW,
KIRBY 11/18/2023 KRB_W
Protect RFK: anniversary of 11/23/63 assassination of JFK is on 11/23/23.
Think outside the box not about your pronouns or being offended by something CIA etc.
StockLogistics
7 months ago
Kirby’s dream land
“A senior White House official on Wednesday defended the Biden administration's response to Iran, while admitting Tehran's "broad complicity" in Hamas' attack on Israel.
John Kirby, the National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications, also said there was no intelligence to date suggesting Iran was directly linked to Saturday's attack.”
“This your last chance. After this there is no turning back. You take the blue pill, the story ends. You wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. Remember, all I'm offering is the truth. Nothing more.”
The Ma-Trix Rabbit year of the Rabbit 2023 Kirby’s dream land…
StockLogistics
7 months ago
Twitter = 2023 9 20 Ter (Ter for Terrorism)
No one saw the 50 year anniversary of the Yom Kippur War as a possible flash point in the Middle East? Are you kidding me ? Intelligence experts? Well paid Intel experts who know anniversaries are a key to terrorism? What are these people being paid to analyze? How did that single parameter not be considered ? That should be parameter number one.
Twitter = 2023 9 20 + 20 days = October 10 2023, ER for emergency. Twitter being changed to X (24) is part of the foreknowledge.
The word Twitter only had one date associated with it, years in advance to prepare for that, yet the Intel community brushed it off as a coincidence and irrelevant even as I detailed all the codes here for the past few months, they said StockLogistics? That poster is not correct… now look at what their ambivalence caused. Intel experts? Israel’s wall between z Gaza and Israel was undefended all the censors and surveillance of it meant nothing, no army was there in an instant the wall was breached, it was a deception not a defended wall.
StockLogistics
7 months ago
Listen to KKK Joe Biden’s speech through the lens that Biden is secretly (although obviously if you have half a brain) on the side of Hamas. First with inner glee and yet with a straight face described the brutality in graphic terms so as to spike the football on “Jews” which was the term he used. Imagine if Adolf Hitler wasn’t so overt about his hatred of Jewish people and instead was covert like Joe Biden, the Nazis realized they could get a lot more done in regards to world domination if they lied with a straight face rather than screamed their hatred at the top of their lungs. Finally Biden issued a “warning” to Hamas… “Don’t…”. If you listen to how he says don’t he says it like an elite liberal who really wants that extra glass of champagne he’s being offered at a high class party but while taking it says “don’t”, Biden says don’t like a bound sex slave on his knees would say to his master as he is being whipped and teased. Joe Biden’s speech was simply a celebration of evil cloaked in fake concern… and not even some of the most discerning republicans have figured that out because they themselves are too old and not discerning enough to read between the lines on Biden to decipher how compromised and KKK Biden really is on the inside, their wealth clouds their ability to discern evil and to call it out as I have in this post.
How many times on this board have I proven that there is something else going on in terms of codes and movies, yet have you seen anyone investigated or arrested in Hollywood? Has 9/11 been investigated for China’s involvement and Hollywood foreknowledge? Why does it matter? The same people in charge on 9/11 are in charge now, Hawaii got hit with a direct energy weapon and the administration has forgotten about Hawaii, does not mention it. Think about that. Look at the movie scenes I have mentioned and ask why no one else on the internet is telling about those scenes. 7 Billion people on earth and I am the only one posting about this on Twitter’s page in investorshub. When Luke and darth Vader have their light saber battle, what letter of the alphabet is prominent as the swords clash? X.
When Joe Biden says “don’t” he isn’t telling them “don’t” he is begging them “don’t… but really do.” Oh please master Hamas don’t but really do stick that up Joe Biden’s XXX. Joe Biden and the rest of the Democrats worship Satan because traditional religion is not an option to their voters and donors, traditional religion ruins the vibe at their orgies and parties, and yet even if you want to maintain a vibe that is fine, but these people have crossed way into the dark side, how deep they are into the dark side is manifesting itself in Hawaii and Israel and where next ? Joe Biden is a follower of the evil some think he denounced in his speech but why do people think k that? Because they give him the benefit of the doubt as an old demented man, but you shouldn’t give him the benefit of the doubt that is exactly what Biden requires to continue advancing the dark side upon humanity. Wake up.
StockLogistics
7 months ago
Look at how subservient and mind-controlled Democrats are, they literally do anything the government says and are proud of it, it makes them feel “elite” to be injected by corrupt profit seeking pharma because “elite” is the opposite of “conspiracy theorist” in their unquestioning minds, the “elite” have money, they must have gotten it by trusting the China controlled American government rather than spending time “theorizing”:
7 out of 10 democrats want their certificate of elitism and for Joe Biden to pat them on the head, Good Dog, go get your leash.
Big Pharma and the Democrat racist sellouts raped America with the vaccines, just as China would desire them to, because America’s compromised response has been to aid China’s unconventional warfare from day one of the pandemic. America has wanted to make friends with China for decades and China laughs and steals and rapes along with the corporations helping them do so.
Do you think the Democrats will roll over and lose in 2024? No they will create crisis after crisis until they can rig the aftermath of their schemes.
StockLogistics
7 months ago
Democrats, who with major corporations have ceded the U.S. to China-control and manipulation at their will, should be investigated by any remaining American controlled entity for their being directed by Chairman Xi to utilize natural Halloween chaos to create “American nightmare” in U.S. cities:
“We want to make sure that people come to New York City know what to expect, and they have the opportunity for a safe and dignified migration, one that can lead to the American dream; as I say over and over again, not to an American nightmare.”
https://nypost.com/2023/10/06/mayor-adams-visits-migrants-in-ecuador-fails-to-tell-them-not-to-come-to-nyc/
Jay Zee
J Z
10/26
Empire State of Mind - Empire’s Death Star Destroyed in Star Wars:
Em
StockLogistics
7 months ago
“Hizzoner (and Herroner on occasion) is a corruption of the title "His Honor", used in particular to refer irreverently to the mayor of larger cities in the United States, especially the mayors of New York City, Philadelphia and Chicago.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hizzoner_(disambiguation)#:~:text=Hizzoner%20(and%20Herroner%20on%20occasion,York%20City%2C%20Philadelphia%20and%20Chicago.
“Mayor Adams visits migrants in Ecuador — fails to tell them not to come to NYC: ‘He just came and said good job’”
QUITO, ECUADOR — Mayor Eric Adams dropped by a family shelter in Ecuador during his whirlwind migrant discouragement tour Friday — but he failed to tell any of the asylum seekers there not to come to the Big Apple, The Post has learned.
Hizzoner spent roughly an hour meeting with 10 migrant families at the shelter in Quito, as he kicked off day three of his Latin America trip that was purportedly aimed at dissuading asylum seekers from heading to an already overburdened Gotham.
When The Post visited the Fundación Gotitas de Oblación shelter after Adams’ private meet-and-greet, staffers — who were blasting Jay Z’s “Empire State of Mind” — were shocked to learn of the mayor’s underlying migrant message.
“I didn’t know anything about that,” said one of the shelter supervisors, via a translator.
“He just came and said good job.”
Instead of using his time to persuade the migrants not to step foot in the Big Apple, employees said the mayor was more interested in learning about the services the non-profit shelter provides — including how they help get migrants into permanent housing and to find them work.
Another worker added that he gave Adams a tour of the facility but the mayor never brought up migrants relocating to New York — or the US — at all.“
https://nypost.com/2023/10/06/mayor-adams-visits-migrants-in-ecuador-fails-to-tell-them-not-to-come-to-nyc/
The China-loyal racist Democrats want to rebuild NYC as a smart city, remove migrant issue as a campaign issue by simply removing NYC from the map, in their sick minds a problem solved and a population depopulated of the most eager to start big Families:
StockLogistics
7 months ago
Dear FBI: Why we’re these two scenes deleted?
Back to the Future Deleted Scene - Phone Booth (1985) - Michael J. Fox Movie HD
The 9/11 imagery is abundant in the phone booth scene, deleted to cover up its direct reenactment of the 9/11 attacks:
1. At 8:59 pm, George is being negligent of his responsibility to manage time, he checks the clock, he then has a horrified look on his face, The clock hands are closest to 9 and 11 as well as 1 minute before the new hour. For some reason George then goes frantically into the phone booth to check the time with the operator. Keep in mind that the President of the United States on 9/11/01 was named George. The phone booth doors have two long rectangles resembling the twin towers which were destroyed on 9/11/01. Then 4 white guys, call them Democrat Intel agents of the moment prank George by locking him inside the phone booth with a trident, like Poseidon’s trademark trident. Donald Trump, whom BTTF directors Zemekis and Gale modeled Biff’s character after, has an audio tape in which Trump is overhead saying that he “grabs them by the Posei”, Don said that on the audio. Tridents made up the perimeter fascade of the twin towers, Poseidon was the son of Titans, “Cronus, KRONOS (Cronus) was the King of the Titanes and the god of time,” remember the clock at the beginning of the deleted scene. Strickland then tells George do you see what happens when you are a slacker, the same as people criticized George Bush for taking too many vacations prior to 9/11/01 and not being prepared to stop the attack. The drill operation on the ground on 9/11/01 was called operation Tri-pod, Tri-dent, Tri-pod, the code name for 33’Thomas street NSA building operation is operation Titanpointe.
Back To The Future Part II Deleted Scene - Old Biff Vanishes (1989) Movie HD
Look at the license plate closely, the numbers, the shapes, the bumper sticker. The scene was deleted because it referenced 9/11/01 too closely, more evidence of a cover up and long term US government And or Hollywood knowledge of the 9/11/01 attacks.
The American people deserve an investigation into the reason these two important scenes were deleted. The architect of the twin towers said the tridents were designed to be called “trees”, twin pines mall in back to the future became lone pine mall when Marty traveled back in time and ran over a pine tree. Twin towers, with direct reference to tridents and trees by its architect, became the one tower that stands today.
StockLogistics
7 months ago
“According to the publication’s investigation, which included documents obtained by whistleblower Edward Snowden, there is “compelling evidence that 33 Thomas Street has served as an National Security Agency surveillance site, code-named TITANPOINTE“
https://nypost.com/2023/10/05/what-its-inside-at-33-thomas-street-nycs-mystery-spy-hub/
“The Tridents are two 80-foot tall steel columns that once formed part of the exterior facade of the North Tower are the first artifact visitors see. Called “trees” by World Trade Center architect Minoru Yamasaki, 84 trident columns formed the perimeter structure of the first five stories of each of the Twin Towers.”
https://www.911memorial.org/taxonomy/term/1656#:~:text=The%2070%2Dfoot%20high%20columns,atrium%20of%20the%20Museum%20Pavilion.
“In Greek mythology Poseidon (Neptune to the Romans) was a son of the Titans (Giants) Cronus and Rhea, and the brother of the supreme god Zeus. Poseidon's attribute is a trident. With it he could stir the waters and split rocks.”
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/rijksstudio/subjects/poseidonneptune#:~:text=In%20Greek%20mythology%20Poseidon%20(Neptune,%2C%20or%20sea%20nymph%2C%20Amphitrite.
Back to the future deleted scene trident locked phone booth
StockLogistics
7 months ago
Trump to become Speaker of House, then Biden Harris impeached so Trump becomes President :
“The order of succession specifies that the office passes to the vice president; if the vice presidency is simultaneously vacant, or if the vice president is also incapacitated, the powers and duties of the presidency pass to the speaker of the House of Representatives, president pro tempore of the Senate,”
StockLogistics
7 months ago
“Gilded Age, period of gross materialism and blatant political corruption in U.S. history during the 1870s that gave rise to important novels of social and political criticism. The period takes its name from the earliest of these, The Gilded Age (1873), written by Mark Twain in collaboration with Charles Dudley Warner. The novel gives a vivid and accurate description of Washington, D.C., and is peopled with caricatures of many leading figures of the day, including greedy industrialists and corrupt politicians.“
https://www.britannica.com/event/Gilded-Age#:~:text=Gilded%20Age%2C%20period%20of%20gross,collaboration%20with%20Charles%20Dudley%20Warner.No
Mark = X
Twain = 2023 AI N
StockLogistics
7 months ago
The U.S. Perpetual War since World War 1, to destroy resources to thus maintain the standard of living at current inadequate levels, and the people peaceful and non rebellious against the State “protecting them” from the external enemies when the traitors are in Washington D.C and corporate boardrooms loyal to themselves, The Party:
Eurasia - World Wars 1 / 2
East Asia - Korea/ Vietnam
Eurasia - Cold War
East Asia - Afghanistan
Eurasia - Ukraine
East Asia - Taiwan?
Eurasia - ?
How did it start? Did it not continue to evolve and perfect itself as a disease of the Republic?
“The Panic of 1907 was a financial crisis set off by a series of bad banking decisions and a frenzy of withdrawals caused by public distrust of the banking system. J.P. Morgan and other wealthy Wall Street bankers lent their own funds to save the country from a severe financial crisis.”
https://www.stlouisfed.org/education/the-panic-of-1907-jp-morgan-and-the-money-trust#:~:text=The%20Panic%20of%201907%20was,from%20a%20severe%20financial%20crisis.
“In addition to consolidating and controlling several railroads and industries, J.P. Morgan led in resupplying the U.S. Treasury's gold reserve during the depression that followed the panic of 1893 and organized the financial community in averting a financial collapse after the market panic of 1907.”
https://www.britannica.com/biography/J-P-Morgan#:~:text=In%20addition%20to%20consolidating%20and,the%20market%20panic%20of%201907.
StockLogistics
7 months ago
The character “O’Brien” in Orwell’s “1984” became O’Biden in real life in 2024, (Winston is 39 at the beginning of the book, 1984 + 39 = 2023) compromised American bureaucracy is an embarrassment and shameful, all hate them, those compromised by China are both elected and unelected sellout traitors rather than reformers of the corporate dominated system that sells out Americans every day. The United States can and will defeat its own Orwellian nightmare. The United States is ordained by God above all governments to defeat totalitarianism in all its controlling manipulative forms. Oligarchies hate strong human leaders that raise awareness of totalitarian mismanagement and negligence, Oligarchies prefer demented “nothing leaders”, figureheads, puppets, symbols, who speak but say nothing of substance, qualifying as gibberish leaders, But Who are the oligarchs in the United States? Are they not attempting to complete a coup to then use the technology of the day to cement themselves in power until the sun expands and engulfs all the planets or an asteroid destroys all life prior to that?
2 plus 2 = 4
2 2 4
2024
2 plus 2 = 5
2 2 5
2025
Americans can have their finest hour in defeat of their own diseased agencies, filled with do nothing pay check collectors loyal to anyone except Americans and who have abandoned the idea of reform.
“Winston again recognizes the switch! Now the Party announces that Oceania is at war with Eastasia, and not Eurasia after all.
The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor [...]. The social atmosphere is that of a besieged city, where the possession of a lump of horseflesh makes the difference between wealth and poverty. And at the same time the consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing-over of all power to a small caste seem the natural, unavoidable condition of survival. (2.9.28, Goldstein's Manifesto)
War is a necessary tool for the Party because it keeps the people peaceful, such that rebellion is far from their minds.
The primary aim of modern warfare (in accordance with the principles of doublethink, this aim is simultaneously recognized and not recognized by the directing brains of the Inner Party) is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living. (2.9.25, Goldstein's Manifesto)
War is a necessary tool for the Party because it keeps the standard of living in check, maintaining the inequalities essential to a totalitarian state.
In one combination or another, these three super-states are permanently at war, and have been so for the past twenty-five years. War, however, is no longer the desperate, annihilating struggle that it was in the early decades of the twentieth century. It is a warfare of limited aims between combatants who are unable to destroy one another, have no material cause for fighting and are not divided by any genuine ideological difference. (2.9.22, Goldstein's Manifesto)
Oceania is permanently at war with the other superstates. Such war is not necessary - except in the sense of keeping the warring states- constituents in check. Oceania uses war to control its constituents.
https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/1984/quotes/warfare “
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