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And that fact is fucking stupid.
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NickwithaC@lemmy.world 1 day agoThey did wrong by breaking into an RAF base though. I can’t imagine anyone with any agenda getting away with that.
Denjin@lemmings.world 1 day ago
leraje@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Hardly a terrorist action though is it? Breaking in to throw around some red paint.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Come on, “throwing around red paint” is quite misleading, no?
They poured it into the engines of multiple RAF jets, destroying those engines. That’s several million in damages, and a lot of downtime.
scratchee@feddit.uk 1 day ago
I really think we need to distinguish between terrorism in the sense of “are they going to keep blowing people up?” and “terrorism” in the sense of “are my taxes going to go up because of this?” I feel like the word is being stretched for the second example…
echodot@feddit.uk 19 hours ago
Yeah what they did was excessive vandalism. Not terrorism not unless it’s the first move in a long strategy although if it is, it’s a pretty dumb one since they’ve all been arrested.
leraje@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
It is now - but yeah my heart bleeds for those poor RAF jets, they're definitely what's important here, not making the word 'terrorist' a meaningless empty word that can be used to justify anything at all.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Of course defence is important. How separated from reality are you for you to think it isn’t?
Sabotaging UK defence is obviously a bad thing, and it shouldn’t be taken lightly.
Denjin@lemmings.world 1 day ago
It does fall under the (completely bullshit) definition of an act of terrorism though.