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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

again: terrorist isn't a meaningful epithet.

but you do seem obsessed with my feelings

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No I don't even know who you are. I've never read your screen name. You could be the initial person I responded to or just some other idiot terrorist sympathizer.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

no one is sympathising with terrorists for any objective application of the label, because objective application of that label is impossible.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No it's pretty easy. When you force your way into a place specifically to murder civilians with no other goal other than to spread terror, you're a terrorist.

You agreeing with terrorists makes you a bad person, it doesn't make them "not terrorists."

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

terrorist isn't an objective label, no matter how much emotionally charged language you use. what you described is murder. calling it terrorism is a political position.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

this isn't a refutation. it's an appeal to ridicule.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes that is what your every post deserves

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

it's a fallacious argument that doesn't undermine my actual position at all, it just betrays a lack of ability or interest to engage with intellectual honesty.