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Is everyone just now learning terrorism means political violence?
I mean, terrorism is just politically motivated violence.
This country was founded by terrorists.
They want to make Luigi an example. "Don't do what he did, he's being quickly processed with terrorism added to the charges. You don't wanna be a terrorist do you?"
It's not that what Dylan Roof did wasn't terrorism, it's that he wasn't in New York state. Same with that case involving Trump and property values, never would have been charged in Montana for that, everyone knows assessed value and real value are two different things.
... and in other news: Insurance CEOs are some of the best human beings walking on this Earth! Just this morning, one of them gave $50 to a homeless person who lost everything paying a hospital bill. What a golden heart!
I misread that as golem heart.
It pretty neatly fits the definition of (individual) terrorism (which doesn't really exist). It was an act of violence, not based on personal grievance with the direct victim, but based on grievance with the system he represented. But, yeah, they probably wouldn't ever pull that when someone gets murdered for racist reasons, which you could also classify as terrorism.
🎶 Because it's about class and not about justice. 🎶
For what it's worth, we do have hate crime laws that are supposed to be used in cases where racism is at play. I'm not saying it's always used, but we do have additional penalties for it.
This is kinda the OG definition of terrorism actually. Back when 19th century anarchists invented this hot new direct action political tactic called terrorism. It was all the rage, for a while, but it backfired and increased public sympathy towards the bourgeoisie and the nobility.
They are terrified. He did terrorize their class. So maybe just maybe being a terrorist isn’t bad, it depends on who you terrorize?
The only difference between a terrorist and a freedom fighter is your point of view.
funny how murikans are Super against gun violence all of a sudden when it happened to a rich white male.. but not so much when its a class full of poor kids
Do you actually have a point? Innocent children slain: bad. Evil leech that has a large part in oppressing us - maybe not so bad.
Do you really think the dude being white has anything to do with it? Pretty sure "CEO of health insurance company" is a sufficient descriptor and race has nothing to do with it
Spot on
Seems like most Americans are pro Luigi, but the government isn’t
The government and their bosses
The kids were already born, they don't give a shit about them after that
Yeah, trying to upcharge this from murder to "terrorism" is going to backfire spectacularly in the prosecutor's face.
Let's hope. But as we all know truth is financially dictated in our "justice" system, so it is a gamble.
I love how they media seems shocked whenever they find Americans who have been radicalized, when one of their counterparts have been radicalized Americans for the last handful of decades.
That's on purpose - by acting shocked they expect viewers to react the same way. It's essentially telling their audience how to feel about the story without outright saying "you should feel like this".
The same way the laugh track in sitcoms ques the audience to know that something was supposed to be funny. Try watching those shows without the laugh track and see how funny they feel or how often you laugh
US voters
Oof! Ha ha
PD: How do I ban people who post hard truths?
I voted for Jill Stein, don’t blame me
The only real choice tbh.
Please tell me this is a joke.
Yeah, why would somebody with Arabic characters in their username vote for Jill Stein? Truly a mystery.
Has to be.
...
Right?
I voted for Jill Stein, don’t blame me
how did you not hand the US to amerikkkan oligarchy?
By voting for Jill Stein.
The left keeps voting for Democrats, and the country keeps getting more and more fascist. But sure, it's the Green Party that's the problem!
How to trigger an american?
Tell them you voted third party. Yes, the two party system is perfectly ok.
If only Kamala had won, then the Biden administration wouldn't be doing this
For the ones in the back: the presidential elections aren't the only elections.
Rumor has it, if you say, "deny, defend, depose" in your phone 3 times, you'll get charged with terrorism too. Hopefully you're an American citizen or else it's off to Guantanamo bay for you.
If you say "Gitmo Bay" three times in the mirror, a dark universe Obama appears and snatches you.
Does the dark universe do "enhanced interrogation" too, or the opposite?
They just call it "interrogation."
(I just felt I had to add the "dark universe" because here in ours he's comparatively pretty fucking alright when compared to the current leadership of the states. I criticised the US government back in his day as well, but the president isn't a magical dictator and the longer it goes the more I miss him.)
As a person who grew up in American schools post-Columbine, with kids in schools now, and none of us are CEOs, this is probably the take that saddens me most about this whole event. It’s our kids, and the argument used to be about freedom. Soon, we won’t even have that. What was the fucking point? (Rhetorical: profit)
I know we’re all alive at a special time in humanity. We think we’re so civilized. Then I look around, and it’s the same history playing on repeat. When do the monkeys figure out it’s one species? (Rhetorical again: 😬)
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