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To be... Uh... Fair??? they didn't say "terrorist" in that tweet.
AOC prescribes to the idea that Hamas is exclusively a terrorist group.
Question honestly from a place of ignorance: is it not?
I don’t know much about that group other than the attack a couple years ago. I do know that IDF is a terrorist org because they’re currently committing a genocide.*
Fair, but they said "Hamas supporter," not just "Hamas". I'm just nitpicking, but yeah.
Terrorism is just a propaganda word for common military strategies, which "civilized" nations like to pretend they don't do.
EVERY nation with a military is automatically a terrorist organization by definition. That's literally the primary job of the military - to terrify the opponent into surrendering, or not getting froggy in the first place.
Warfare is when a western country does it, terrorism is when an enemy of the US does it.
Then why was he arrested?
Because fascists don't care about the law? What even is this question?
The party line is that he is a terrorist. It is implied by the arrest, not by the tweet.
I know they think he's a terrorist, but I just wanted to point out that technically the tweet never actually calls him a terrorist or Hamas or anything of the sort. It's more of a minor nitpick than anything.
I would argue AOC was addressing the situation generally, rather than the tweet specifically.
That's fair. As I said I was nitpicking, not making any sort of serious argument.
Do they? According to Marco Rubio, he supports terrorists, but that isn't the same thing.
They never implied that he's a terrorist, only that he supports terrorists.
Arresting him says otherwise.
What reason did they give for arresting him?
Department of Homeland Security accused him of "leading activities aligned to Hamas"