I know they think he’s a terrorist, but I just wanted to point out that technically the tweet never actually calls him a terrorist or Hamas or anything of the sort. It’s more of a minor nitpick than anything.
Terrorism is just a propaganda word for common military strategies, which “civilized” nations like to pretend they don’t do.
EVERY nation with a military is automatically a terrorist organization by definition. That’s literally the primary job of the military - to terrify the opponent into surrendering, or not getting froggy in the first place.
Question honestly from a place of ignorance: is it not?
I don’t know much about that group other than the attack a couple years ago. I do know that IDF is a terrorist org because they’re currently committing a genocide.*
Hamas is the government of the Gaza strip. They have a military and they do military operations. If you call them terrorists, you might hold that same opinion about other governments
i don’t consider Hamas to be a legitimate government since they haven’t held any elections in Gaza since 2006, nor do they provide services or international negotiations. Fatah, comparatively, is a legitimate government but lacks the ability to resist Israeli genocide
To be… Uh… Fair??? they didn’t say “terrorist” in that tweet.
Then why was he arrested?
Because fascists don’t care about the law? What even is this question?
The party line is that he is a terrorist. It is implied by the arrest, not by the tweet.
I know they think he’s a terrorist, but I just wanted to point out that technically the tweet never actually calls him a terrorist or Hamas or anything of the sort. It’s more of a minor nitpick than anything.
Do they? According to Marco Rubio, he supports terrorists, but that isn’t the same thing.
I would argue AOC was addressing the situation generally, rather than the tweet specifically.
That’s fair. As I said I was nitpicking, not making any sort of serious argument.
They never implied that he’s a terrorist, only that he supports terrorists.
Arresting him says otherwise.
What reason did they give for arresting him?
Department of Homeland Security accused him of “leading activities aligned to Hamas”
AOC prescribes to the idea that Hamas is exclusively a terrorist group.
Terrorism is just a propaganda word for common military strategies, which “civilized” nations like to pretend they don’t do.
EVERY nation with a military is automatically a terrorist organization by definition. That’s literally the primary job of the military - to terrify the opponent into surrendering, or not getting froggy in the first place.
Warfare is when a western country does it, terrorism is when an enemy of the US does it.
Fair, but they said “Hamas supporter,” not just “Hamas”. I’m just nitpicking, but yeah.
Question honestly from a place of ignorance: is it not?
I don’t know much about that group other than the attack a couple years ago. I do know that IDF is a terrorist org because they’re currently committing a genocide.*
Hamas is the government of the Gaza strip. They have a military and they do military operations. If you call them terrorists, you might hold that same opinion about other governments
Joke’s on you, I already thought most governments were terrorist organizations ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
based
I mean… Yeah, a lot of governments are.
In any case that shouldn’t justify the genocide of those countries’ civilians.
Hmmmm I won’t call them terrorists then but I DO hold that opinion about many other governments, especially the US hahaha
i don’t consider Hamas to be a legitimate government since they haven’t held any elections in Gaza since 2006, nor do they provide services or international negotiations. Fatah, comparatively, is a legitimate government but lacks the ability to resist Israeli genocide
Israel has not allowed any elections in Gaza since 2006* FTFY
I think this might be a legitimate use of “both sides” but I don’t know enough about them to say for sure.
One side has all of the power and uses it to make elections illegal 🤷
Fair point!
Lol at that genuine typo
Oh dear hahaha. I’m glad folks got what I meant, at least!