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Documenting hate speech, conspiracy theories, apologia/revisionism, and general tankie behaviour across the fediverse. Memes are welcome!
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I think their biggest failure was that they were incompetent and didnt properly direct their attacks like the healthcare CEO shooter. Terrorism is just a very flexible label. There are lots of people in history that were technically terrorists, but we still consider them heroes. Generally killing innocent people that dont actually match your groups target criteria is pretty dumb tho yeah.
"It's only terrorism if the other side is doing it" is hardly an attitude exclusive to tankies.
Horseshoe theory
I'm sorry. I'll book myself into the gulag straight away.
no, no, listen here, LIBERAL.
it's not terrorism because they only targeted evil people! Like twenty-year-olds and hijacking an aeroplane.
also funny how tankies have no political group in the modern day they can celebrate. they're stuck in the past because communism died a long time ago.
I'm ngl this confused the hell out of me because I've only heard of one RAF before and it ain't the Red Army Faction lol
I'm over here wondering what the fuck went down between the British and the Germans that required the Palestinians to rescue the British airforce.
I will now go and learn about this stuff.