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minus-squareBroadfern@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·14 days agoYeah. The second one is genocide and (often conveniently undeclared) war. School shootings and ICE kidnapping innocent civilians are terrorism, though.
minus-squareradiofreebc@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·14 days agoThe funny thing is that Israel was behind both of them.
minus-squareBroadfern@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·14 days agoLet’s not pretend that the US is magically incapable of independently being vile, lol. Israel as a nation state did not exist until 1948. We were committing atrocities well before that.
minus-squareFreeposity@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·11 days agoFederal, state and territorial governments of the US paid bounties for the scalps of Native Americans and in some states, for Mexicans as well. There was a mass depopulation effort to make room for settlers.
minus-squarePup Biru@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·14 days agoschool shootings generally aren’t about achieving political or other goals they’re mass murder; not terrorism
minus-squarerumschlumpel@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·13 days agoAFAIK the goal is often some sense of revenge.
Yeah. The second one is genocide and (often conveniently undeclared) war.
School shootings and ICE kidnapping innocent civilians are terrorism, though.
The funny thing is that Israel was behind both of them.
Let’s not pretend that the US is magically incapable of independently being vile, lol.
Israel as a nation state did not exist until 1948. We were committing atrocities well before that.
Federal, state and territorial governments of the US paid bounties for the scalps of Native Americans and in some states, for Mexicans as well. There was a mass depopulation effort to make room for settlers.
school shootings generally aren’t about achieving political or other goals
they’re mass murder; not terrorism
AFAIK the goal is often some sense of revenge.