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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (3 children)

It is not a terrorist organization to go out and cause terror and trouble.

Did you not notice the events that started this recent shit? Hamas certainly engages in terrorism, as does the IDF.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago (2 children)

There’s an old adage that one man’s freedom fighter is another man’s terrorist.

Allowing a label to dictate your view of the events is naive at best.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I always say "if you look at it from the current government point of view, Luke Skywalker was just a terrorist."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Darth Vader blowing up Alderaan with the Death Star was justified self defense.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Uh, it's a nice saying, but it's not really that true. There are some defining differences in terrorists and fighting a war

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Anyone or government can call an individual or group “terrorists.” To the British, American revolutionaries were terrorists. Every movie you’ve seen where the hero fights back against an evil government is a terrorist. Jason Bourne is a terrorist.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

History didn't start on October 7th.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Did you not notice the giant wall around Gaza and the starvation and israeli bombing of their infrastructure before October the 7th?

Are you gonna call the Ukrainians terrorists too for blowing up the train track that connects Russia to China?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago