It’s been like that since the start of the war on terror. The US can label anyone (including US citizens) they want as a terrorist and kill them and their family despite no due process.
Gsus4@mander.xyz 1 day ago
Wtf…they are putting these guys in the same bin as daesh and bin laden…terrorism means nothing anymore.
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EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
It’s honestly deligitimizing the word terrorism.
It’s like the “war on drugs”. The DARE program (an anti-drug program cops run in schools) was the single best promoter of drugs I’ve ever seen. When they tell people all drugs will kill you and thc is just as bad as heroin, when you try a joint or vape for the first time and don’t get immediately addicted or die, you think “well I guess heroin and crack can’t be that bad either”
If you call everything that’s against fascism, bigotry, and hate a “terrorist group” it really makes all the legitimate terrorism extremist groups look much tamer, and less people will think of them as terrorists.
freely1333@reddthat.com 1 day ago
I imagine heroin and crack aren’t that bad if you have self control.
EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 hours ago
You don’t have self-control when you start using them.
When you’ve seen an otherwise rational, smart adult ruin their entire family and steal from their own children in order to get a fix after “just trying it once”, you understand all the self control in the world won’t be enough.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 16 hours ago
You imagine. You sound like someone who’s either A), never struggled with addiction; or B), is currently struggling with addiction and just hasn’t realized it yet.
“It’s won’t be that bad if I have self-control” is a lie that many addicts told themselves in the beginning. You hear people mention it all the time at recovery groups.
The problem is that tiny little “if” is pulling several times more than its own weight in that sentence.
freely1333@reddthat.com 16 hours ago
I sound more like the people who say if you want to lose weight you need to eat less. Which while true some people do not have the ability to follow through on. Of course I’ve never done heroin or crack - but I wager the people willing to do heroin or crack are the kind of people most likely to get addicted to it.
Addiction is super fucked up but it’s not some sort of alien body snatcher that makes you have zero control of your actions.
Witchfire@lemmy.world 1 day ago
They put all transgender people in the same bin. They’re straight up Nazis.
quick_snail@feddit.nl 14 hours ago
Because they’re fascists
Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Since the UK regime designated Palestine Action a terror group UK the average terrorist is now a 60 year old white woman.
The amount of repression going on is insane
lazyViking@lemmy.world 1 day ago
it is not the same