The "maximum penalty possible for murder in first degree and murder in the second degree as an act of terrorism is life without parole," said Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
The rebels in Star Wars are technically terrorists. Lucas even modeled them after the Vietkong. Same for the Fremen in Dune. In the book, Paul’s holy war is called the Jihad.
To be fair, that’s also often portrayed very critically. But yes, the Bajorans are pretty obviously Jew/French resistance proxies, while the Cardassians are almost comically Nazi-like.
Yeah. I remember as a kid wondering why they would attack the states like that and my parents and every other adult I asked have different versions of “they hate our freedom” or “they’re Muslim extremists and want everyone who isn’t Muslim to die.” I live in Canada so I can only imagine how much worse it was in the US. To me, even as a child of 11 years old, that sounded far fetched and didn’t make much sense. Once the internet became popular I looked it up and realized it wasn’t as black and white, good vs evil as all that. Honestly that’s one of the things that made me start seeing the US as an evil country and start realizing what imperialism was and how horrific it was for the world.
And now the words “terrorist” and “hero” have become synonymous, undoing decades of 9/11 imperialist propaganda in one fell swoop.
I mean I wish. But a man can dream.
The difference between a terrorist and a freedom fighter is who wins the war.
Or who owns the paper reporting it
The rebels in Star Wars are technically terrorists. Lucas even modeled them after the Vietkong. Same for the Fremen in Dune. In the book, Paul’s holy war is called the Jihad.
In DS9, Kira Nerys refers to herself as a terrorist all the time.
To be fair, that’s also often portrayed very critically. But yes, the Bajorans are pretty obviously Jew/French resistance proxies, while the Cardassians are almost comically Nazi-like.
FUCKING YES
Hopefully this should open some eyes, but 9/11 was literally America’s version of the recent invasion in Israel.
If anyone reads Osama Bin Laden’s manifesto, he explicitly states that Western support for Israel is one of the main reasons for the attack.
Yeah. I remember as a kid wondering why they would attack the states like that and my parents and every other adult I asked have different versions of “they hate our freedom” or “they’re Muslim extremists and want everyone who isn’t Muslim to die.” I live in Canada so I can only imagine how much worse it was in the US. To me, even as a child of 11 years old, that sounded far fetched and didn’t make much sense. Once the internet became popular I looked it up and realized it wasn’t as black and white, good vs evil as all that. Honestly that’s one of the things that made me start seeing the US as an evil country and start realizing what imperialism was and how horrific it was for the world.