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[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

They are terrified. He did terrorize their class. So maybe just maybe being a terrorist isn’t bad, it depends on who you terrorize?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 hour ago

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

[–] [email protected] 50 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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. 🎶

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 hour ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, trying to upcharge this from murder to "terrorism" is going to backfire spectacularly in the prosecutor's face.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Let's hope. But as we all know truth is financially dictated in our "justice" system, so it is a gamble.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (2 children)

That might be a good thing, because making a terrorism charge stick ~~is going to be~~ should in a just world be really really difficult.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

I thought you could just mutter terrorism under your breath and then say 9/11 and stick them in a cell forever.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Is it a separate charge?

He can still be convicted for 1st degree.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 hours ago

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".

[–] [email protected] 62 points 8 hours ago (12 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

If only Kamala had won, then the Biden administration wouldn't be doing this

[–] [email protected] 49 points 7 hours ago

For the ones in the back: the presidential elections aren't the only elections.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 8 hours ago

Who do we charge with terrorism for people being forced to watch their loved ones die from preventable causes that were denied treatment and cures by insurance companies? Asking for some revolutionaries I might or might not know.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 hours ago

If you say "Gitmo Bay" three times in the mirror, a dark universe Obama appears and snatches you.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

The unconstitutional Patriot Act says they can do that to citizens too, as long as they're suspected of terrorism. That's why everything is "terrorism" these days, because under that accusation they'll strip you of your constitutional rights and do whatever the fuck they want. It's tyranny.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Still, as a person not interested (usually) in agreeing with my counterparts, notice how this is a "good guy with a gun" situation. So maybe militia movement has a point. They just don't know how to use their correctness outside of their one part of society's fabric, but that's up to those who know those other parts. Cooperation and collaboration, all that.

And almost any "good guy with a gun" can be called a terrorist formally. It's an arbitrary separation.

So maybe gun rights really are human rights.

You've probably noticed how in any group the best decisions are made when every opinion is respected, and if it's incomprehensible, made comprehensible with good and kind effort, and where aggression and expulsion are minimized.

It's the same in politics.

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

Lefty here, yes, that is what we, including George Orwell, have been saying for years.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 57 minutes ago (1 children)

Yes, my aunts, uncle and cousin live in a country reproducing "Animal farm" the last 6 years, with the end goal of being occupied and turned into a reservation. That book is more like reality than many would think.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 minutes ago

Among the greatest books ever written

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