George Monbiot has a strong and very convincing message about the draconian laws and repression on activists against the genocide.
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George Monbiot has a strong and very convincing message about the draconian laws and repression on activists against the genocide. It's a message relevant not only to the UK but anyone who lives in genocide-backing countries, because these governments' attempts to repress protest against Israel is turning our countries into parodies of democracy. If you're allergic to clickbaity titles, please trust me that the video below is as sober as can be: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECkVO4F_38I #PalestineAction
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George Monbiot has a strong and very convincing message about the draconian laws and repression on activists against the genocide. It's a message relevant not only to the UK but anyone who lives in genocide-backing countries, because these governments' attempts to repress protest against Israel is turning our countries into parodies of democracy. If you're allergic to clickbaity titles, please trust me that the video below is as sober as can be: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECkVO4F_38I #PalestineAction
(On a side-note: I can recommend installing #DeArrow as a plugin to your browser, which automatically turns click-baity titles into something closer to what they are about and also gets rid of #YoutubeFace. Even people with the most important and urgent messages like this one apparently need to play this game in our current attention economy).
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(On a side-note: I can recommend installing #DeArrow as a plugin to your browser, which automatically turns click-baity titles into something closer to what they are about and also gets rid of #YoutubeFace. Even people with the most important and urgent messages like this one apparently need to play this game in our current attention economy).
In these times, almost 25 years into the endless "war on terror", where governments like the UK are classifying activists with spray cans as a terrorist organization, it helps to remember what "terrorist" actually means. No, not someone spreading terror. It is broader than that. Terrorist is just the contemporary term for what was in the past called "enemy". That's almost always what those who call someone a terrorist mean: That's my enemy. #PalestineAction
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In these times, almost 25 years into the endless "war on terror", where governments like the UK are classifying activists with spray cans as a terrorist organization, it helps to remember what "terrorist" actually means. No, not someone spreading terror. It is broader than that. Terrorist is just the contemporary term for what was in the past called "enemy". That's almost always what those who call someone a terrorist mean: That's my enemy. #PalestineAction
I am a terrorist. I'm so tired of seeing how this word is being used and want to regain control over it. I think it is time we use the honorable tradition of reclaiming words used against us. Especially when those words are meant to divide us and manipulate the law to put people in jail for protesting genocide and using spray paint. If that's terrorism, then I am a terrorist too. #IAmATerrorist
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I am a terrorist. I'm so tired of seeing how this word is being used and want to regain control over it. I think it is time we use the honorable tradition of reclaiming words used against us. Especially when those words are meant to divide us and manipulate the law to put people in jail for protesting genocide and using spray paint. If that's terrorism, then I am a terrorist too. #IAmATerrorist
Remember that the word 'democrat' has a very similar usage in the early 19th century as 'terrorist' has today. Again, it was the word for enemy for the political establishment. Democracy basically meant rioting, destruction, looting and killing. In a matter of 50 years, the word completely changed meaning. The turning point was when a new political candidate in the US (I believe) started calling himself a democrat for shock effect. And got away with it.
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Remember that the word 'democrat' has a very similar usage in the early 19th century as 'terrorist' has today. Again, it was the word for enemy for the political establishment. Democracy basically meant rioting, destruction, looting and killing. In a matter of 50 years, the word completely changed meaning. The turning point was when a new political candidate in the US (I believe) started calling himself a democrat for shock effect. And got away with it.
@malte That is not going to work.
To identify as somebody who frightens others, whether that be frightening might or folks, it doesnt matter, because to frighten is generally viewed as a bad thing.
If I were you, Id pick a word that inbosoms your direct deeds against folkslaughtering overgrippers. Id weight how you are trying to unpillar their upholding of the zionist walldom. Here we can inbosom unpillar. Thus you could become a pillarpusher. This could gleed folks into nosiness.
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@malte That is not going to work.
To identify as somebody who frightens others, whether that be frightening might or folks, it doesnt matter, because to frighten is generally viewed as a bad thing.
If I were you, Id pick a word that inbosoms your direct deeds against folkslaughtering overgrippers. Id weight how you are trying to unpillar their upholding of the zionist walldom. Here we can inbosom unpillar. Thus you could become a pillarpusher. This could gleed folks into nosiness.
@malte I guess Luigi could claim the word terrorist, but an action that targets property? Are you trying to frighten the machinery? Are you trying to frighten the building? I think not.
You are simply doing deeds that neutralizes their activities and disincentivizes such activities. Maybe the investors gains a heartattack, but it could hardly be called terrorism.
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@malte I guess Luigi could claim the word terrorist, but an action that targets property? Are you trying to frighten the machinery? Are you trying to frighten the building? I think not.
You are simply doing deeds that neutralizes their activities and disincentivizes such activities. Maybe the investors gains a heartattack, but it could hardly be called terrorism.
@vegafjord As I said, the meaning of the word terrorist is not "someone that spreads terror or fear" (through bombings or killings), as the dictionary definition goes. It is simply the word for "enemy". That's what the UK government means when they call Palestine Action a terrorist organization. That they are enemies of the UK government (and the lobby organizations which have funded half of Starmer's cabinet). I'm simply saying, if they are terrorists in that sense, then I am too.
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@vegafjord As I said, the meaning of the word terrorist is not "someone that spreads terror or fear" (through bombings or killings), as the dictionary definition goes. It is simply the word for "enemy". That's what the UK government means when they call Palestine Action a terrorist organization. That they are enemies of the UK government (and the lobby organizations which have funded half of Starmer's cabinet). I'm simply saying, if they are terrorists in that sense, then I am too.
If we look at the etymology of the word according to Etymonline, it sais that the words comes from to frighten.
https://www.etymonline.com/word/terror
If I'm understanding you rightfully, you disagree with this etymological light.
But let's go with it. This isn't good either, because you frame yourself as somebody to be opposed - the other. It even waters the rage of bootlickers.
Frame yourself as warriors of mankind and samlife. Use symbolism that blossoms this connection.
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If we look at the etymology of the word according to Etymonline, it sais that the words comes from to frighten.
https://www.etymonline.com/word/terror
If I'm understanding you rightfully, you disagree with this etymological light.
But let's go with it. This isn't good either, because you frame yourself as somebody to be opposed - the other. It even waters the rage of bootlickers.
Frame yourself as warriors of mankind and samlife. Use symbolism that blossoms this connection.
@vegafjord It's okay, I understand you want me to call myself something. I am many other things by the way. And so are other enemies of the UK government. It is only in their eyes that we are terrorists.
