• VILenin [he/him]@hexbear.netM
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    7 months ago

    It’s part of the latest trend to go “x thing is y by a technical definition even though everyone knows it isn’t, but I’m going to call it y anyway because it makes it sound more dramatic than it actually is”

    For example, “punching fascists is literally domestic terrorism, arrest this domestic terrorist!” as if it were equivalent to blowing up a building. This is how liberals operate.

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      7 months ago

      Problem is the laws can and most likely will be written in order to control any sort of resistance, they’re already hitting people’s wallets for “supporting terrorism” and they’re the ones defining what it is