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Motherfucker, what do you think US foreign policy is? What do you call it when we burn Vietnamese families in their homes? What are the death squads that we train for?

Do bombs stop being weapons of terror when we drop thousands of them from planes? Does shooting peaceful Palestinian activists just not count because it's done from cushy sniper towers?

There's no way anyone really buys the terrorism shtick, they're just fascists getting off on participating in structural support for a genocidal lie

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[–] context@hexbear.net 23 points 2 years ago

it's because terrorism is violence with a political agenda, and anything that aligns with imperial interests is apolitical, you see

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 20 points 2 years ago

Imagine the terror of going to bed hungry and falling asleep to the sounds of drones buzzing overhead. Everyday forever.

[–] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The most solid “difference” I’ve seen is that it’s not terrorism if it’s being done by an official state military.

This still falls apart in this instance though because Hamas isn’t some random paramilitary, they’re the government of Gaza. If you’re gonna be a persnickety lib calling Hamas terrorists is still insane because they’re just as much a legitimate military force as the US Air Force, the Royal Navy, or the PLA.

And if Mexico or Canada did the shit to the US that Israel does to Gaza we would’ve been less forgiving than Hamas has been.

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago
[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago

War is a rich man's terrorism

Terrorism is a poor man's war

[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago

When white people do genocide it's the Rules Based International Order.

When non white people sneeze it's terrorism.

This isn't complex

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The western media apparatus dusting off the old terrorism box that's been in storage since like 2006, it's an old friend.

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

Now! That's what I call Terrorism. All the greatest hits.

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago

Terrorism is when reality nullifies my techno fetishism

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

Thinking of that line in Malcom Said It that goes "The bigger terrorist is the one with the bigger weapons"

[–] Catradora_Stalinism@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

American liberals are white supremacists, they just don't realize it

[–] jabrd@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

Truth. The next few days will be a great time to scratch your local libs by calling them racist for defending Ukraine’s right to defend itself against an aggressor but not Palestine’s. Shove that cognitive dissonance right down their throat