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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Terrorism is indeed when you kill civilians with no military aim in mind.

why should the military aim matter? THAT'S PURELY POLITICAL. terrorism just means you don't LIKE the politics of the person doing the killing.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Terrorism is explicitly killing done without military targets in mind. It's explicitly political, and targeted at civilians, to instill terror.

I'm sorry you don't like the definition of the word, but it is the definition of the word.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s explicitly political, and targeted at civilians, to instill terror.

like police shooting black men

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No that's just good old fashioned racism combined with stupidly poor recruiting and training practices.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

make any excuse you want: it fits the definition you gave

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It really doesn't, but you'll never care about reason anyway. You're just another edgelord.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

call me any names you want,: you're the one whose definition of terrorist includes cops

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes I am aware that I am correct.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No I'm not. I don't even have context because I don't care, but I don't change opinions easily because I'm almost always right

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m sorry you don’t like the definition of the word, but it is the definition of the word.

it's loaded language. i know what the definition is, but using it only means you don't like the politics of the killers.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No it means they're doing things that fit the definition.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

being loaded language, using it actually means what I said.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Every member of Hamas is likely going to die like the terrorist scum they are, and the world will be a markedly better place for it

Nothing you say will change that fact.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Every member of Hamas is likely going to die like the terrorist scum they are, and the world will be a markedly better place for it

the phrasing makes me think you think this hurdtmy feelings. in truth it just shows your too small minded to understand why terrorist use a meaningless label

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't care about your feelings. I care about dead terrorists.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

again: terrorist isn't a meaningful epithet.

but you do seem obsessed with my feelings

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No I don't even know who you are. I've never read your screen name. You could be the initial person I responded to or just some other idiot terrorist sympathizer.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

no one is sympathising with terrorists for any objective application of the label, because objective application of that label is impossible.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No it's pretty easy. When you force your way into a place specifically to murder civilians with no other goal other than to spread terror, you're a terrorist.

You agreeing with terrorists makes you a bad person, it doesn't make them "not terrorists."

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

terrorist isn't an objective label, no matter how much emotionally charged language you use. what you described is murder. calling it terrorism is a political position.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

this isn't a refutation. it's an appeal to ridicule.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes that is what your every post deserves

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

it's a fallacious argument that doesn't undermine my actual position at all, it just betrays a lack of ability or interest to engage with intellectual honesty.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Terrorism is explicitly killing done without military targets in mind.

like police shooting black men