• WatDabney@sopuli.xyz
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    20 hours ago

    Causing harm to civilians in order to coerce the submission of a government is the very definition of terrorism

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      19 hours ago

      Technically it’s worse:

      State terrorism is terrorism conducted by a state against its own citizens or another state’s citizens.[1][2][3][4] It contrasts with state-sponsored terrorism, in which a violent non-state actor commits acts of terrorism under the sponsorship of a state.

      Governments that are accused of using state terrorism may justify their actions as efforts to combat internal dissent, suppress insurgencies, or maintain national security, often framing their actions within the context of counterterrorism or counterinsurgency.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_terrorism

      I know people hate being pedantic, but we can’t afford to be lazy. Because that makes it harder to sort thru historical records to see how our ancestors overcame it.

      MAGA uses old playbooks so much, we’d be idiots not to treat it like an open book test and see why it failed last time.