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[–] 187 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

If throwing a can of paint is the same as throwing a bomb then why not throw bombs? Seems like a dumb thing for a government to promote...

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  • [–] 32 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    Thats actually what they want. They are engineering a reason.

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  • [–] 161 points 2 weeks ago* (4 children)

    Kill thousands of Palestinian children, including by picking infants up by the ankle and swinging them hard as you can into brick walls, and impaling pregnant women through the stomach and leaving them to die in the dirt?

    You're a "settler."

    Throw paint at something to protest that?

    You're a "terrorist."

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  • [–] 45 points 2 weeks ago* (14 children)

    The British government paved the way for those settlers, don't forget. They assumed control of the land, kicked out the natives and beckoned for all the Israelites to enter, who, obviously, started murdering anyone still in Palestine. This chapter of their cruelty started in 1948 and Britain's government, who has always been a piece of shit, made it so.

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    [–] 104 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Ah yes, nothing screams terrorism like... paint.

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  • [–] 36 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    It’s vandalism. It’s property damage. It’s rude as fuck. But it’s not terrorism. Trying Americans for protests calling it terrorism is a form of terrorism.

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    They also called paint £200k in damage. And broken windows £500k. Just utterly insane figures to inflate the seriousness of what's just basic vandalism of a building.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 weeks ago

    In Italy, when we occupied the high school against the Berlusconi government, we were asked for one € each for one pane of glass broken.

    That made for an extremely expensive glass since we were around 1000 in the institute and it was 2002.

    Of course, the Dean pocketed more vaffanculos than coins.

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    [–] 61 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    The UK has successfully watered down terrorism to mean "petty crime"

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  • [–] [S] 61 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Labour has paved the way for Reform to go full fascist.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 weeks ago

    Yeah, I always have to remind myself that these repressive stories from the UK are being done under the government elected in to stop the conservatives. Where do the more conservative parties have to go when this is the baseline of the center left?

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  • [–] 43 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    We really live in a country where terrorism means anything that the government wants, Huh.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    If by "we" you mean people in the UK, yes.

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  • [–] 32 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Where is the terror exactly? That's prevarication. Anyone judging paintings as terrorism should be put to jail.

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    [–] 29 points 2 weeks ago

    i remember the days when terrorism included fatalities

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  • [–] 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    violence is the anwser, not spray paint, you'll be designated as a terrorist either way so you have nothing to lose.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Oh nooo... PAINT!!! What utter terror...

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  • [–] 19 points 2 weeks ago

    In the UK the state can deprive a person of their UK citizenship when they are labeled a terrorist by the state. Guess what will happen next to these people.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 weeks ago

    Craven, servile authorities with no morals or balls might be able to stop people finding ways to voice their horror at the fact gutless IDF fuckholes mass murder Palestinian babies and children, but they'll never stop people knowing Netanyahu's an inhuman cunt, who deserves to be thrown into a deep, deep pit for the rest of his life, for ordering it.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 weeks ago

    My friends in America wonder why I don't move back to the UK, and I always tell them, same shit different weather.

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    [–] 15 points 2 weeks ago

    literal whole buildings for entire blocks have graffiti and random crap in places all around the world. Spray paint clearly isn't good enough.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 weeks ago

    This term is used to discredit certain people...

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  • [–] 12 points 2 weeks ago

    I don't think anyone's been terrorised by this creative painting social exhibition. Hell, I'm sure some employees of the bank enjoyed it as well.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 weeks ago

    If the penalty is so steep for minor offenses, they will encourage real terror. Why wouldn’t the next ones just blow up the bank if they’re going be charged as terrorists regardless? It’s not a charge you ever recover from.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago

    terrorism is such a low bar nowdays, I miss when they had to work for it

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  • [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago

    Anyone who finds spray paint on a bank more terrifying than the Arms Manufacturing Industry is a fucking psychopath.

    They should have to prove terror has been caused to a considerable part of the population.

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