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Discussion: US Foreign Policy and State Sponsored Terrorism (self.pleasantpolitics)
submitted 4 months ago by auk to c/pleasantpolitics
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Here's how to do it:

You can make a strong argument that the United States has been a major sponsor of international terrorism throughout the 20th century and up until the present.

Is that still going on? Is support for Israel terrorism? Has it gotten better in the 21st century? Is it relevant what other countries have done, or what good things the US also does?

@lulztard@feddit.org I don't know whether this post will be any more useful than the other one, but the other one was pure hostility. You can't pick a fight with a whole community and start ordering them around and expect the conversation to go anywhere good. It's not your subject matter, it's your delivery.

I think it has a better chance of turning into a real conversation. If this one turns into a waste of time, too, I'll delete it, too, but I want to give a chance to this conversation, because the subject matter is fine.

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[–] punkisundead 3 points 4 months ago

Some thoughts:

  • I think it would be useful to have a definition of terrorism so there is an actual common basis for discussion, i dont have one tho.

  • What I noticed is that actions get often called terrorism to delegitimize those actions and the perpetrators, like a state calling rebels terrorists or right wingers call climate protesters terrorists or leftists call states terrorists.