I disagree with the title "miss the old days"
The world wasn't any better before, it's just the nostalgia chemicals in your brain tricking you.
this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2025
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Let’s not forget the classic.
But they let that Plasticine Action bloke go, so it's all right now, right?
No no no. This is a modern day terrorist!
the real terrorists are dressed like the terrorists used to be. they badgeless, cover their faces, and operate on a regime of kidnapping.
i'm talking about the feds if anyone's not picking it up
I had my mother describe to me what she thought an anarchist was.
Then I had her explain the difference between her explanation and her view of a terrorist.
Then I asked her about some famous anarchists.
Then I asked her about famous terrorists.
She still thinks anarchists are a problem. She may be progressive and protesting, but white boomers still don't get it.
People still think atheists are problem in the US. We have a long way to go.
My mother >.<
Pretty sure terrorists are throwing subway sandwiches too.
Maybe they should add a clause to the Geneva Convention regarding the use of sandwich-based weaponry
I carry around a subway tactical assault sandwich for self defense now.
"the foot longs must measure one foot AND be more than $5"
They’re charging him with felonybologna assault
You still have fond memories, such as the Patriot Act. The fascists who rule you will certainly make good use of that - it's somewhat ironic, considering that the law is now called the Freedom Act.
I love showing the citizens of occupied countries fighting to expel an invading force and calling them terrorists.
Honestly reminds me of Deep Space 9.
I read terrorist as tourist
The old days was pretty fucked up too...
The whole reason they attacked the WTC was to show their fight wasn't against regular Americans, it was the wealthy ruling class who was fucking over regular Americans almost as bad as they were fucking over random people in the middle east...
911 was fucked. October 7th was fucked. Iraq/Afghan war was fucked. What they're doing in Gaza is fucked. Why are people on here always justifying killing innocent people for the sake of their bs ideology? Seems you're no different from those wealthy people, where the lives of people you don't even know that you've deemed unworthy mean nothing.
always justifying killing innocent people
Why didn't you have a problem with the innocent people dying when they didn't live in America or Israel?
Seems your no different from those wealthy people, where the lives of people you don’t even know that you’ve deemed unworthy mean nothing.
You're saying it's only bad if it happens in Israel or America...
Like...
Surely you have to understand that neither of those "terrorist attacks" were the first time innocent's died...
It was daily life in the countries who launched those attacks, and had been for decades.
You honestly can't even attempt to imagine what it would be like for someone over there, you can't possibly imagine what could drive them to respond in kind instead of just laying down and taking it?
The post quite literally mentions Afghanistan, Iraq, and Gaza being atrocities. It pretty clearly implies all these things are terrible. You purposefully ignored those points to, once again, justify murder and rape. Gaza was stolen as the west sat idly by for decades. The middle east was plundered for oil. Religious ideologues funded by a wealthy middle eastern nation crashed their planes into government and civilian centers in the US. A political group that hasn't been elected in 20 years committed war crimes to push Israel to commit more war crimes. All these things happened and they should all be condemned. There's no need to act as though any sides were justified.
You're making a whole lot of assumptions....
You shouldn't do that, you're not very good at it.
OK I'm sorry.