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submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 18 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.