• null@piefed.nullspace.lolEnglish
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      18 days ago

      circular and inane

      I genuinely don’t think you know what either of those words mean if you think they apply to what I said.

      You are describing terrorists by using normatively loaded language to make them sound like just little guys trying their best and making little mistakes. It’s disgusting.

      • unfreeradical@slrpnk.netEnglish
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        18 days ago

        Israel is a terrorist state that calls as terrorists those who challenge its ambitions of occupation, apartheid, and genocide.

        Being vilified by Israel is not one and the same as being fundamentally wicked.

          • unfreeradical@slrpnk.netEnglish
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            16 days ago

            Hamas is labeled terrorist because it was assigned the label by Israel.

            Hamas is terrorist only as much as one terrorist entity is credible to decide exactly which groups or factions are terrorist.

            More generally, terrorist simply is a label states assign to their non-state enemies.

            By the same standards, the Continental Army would be terrorist, as would be essentially every belligerent that has engaged in anti-colonial struggle.

            Regardless, it should be concrete facts, not abstract labels, that are used to support arguments and conclusions.