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[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca -3 points 1 day ago (19 children)

Seems a bit much to label them as terrorist but they've done a lot of vandalism on various companies. Seems their MO is to find a target rationalize how it's somehow tangentially associated with Israel and then break some shit.

They crossed a line when they did this to a military base and vandalized some RAF planes. They had some weirdo rationalization for this, but forgot to rationalize how this kind of thing will help anyone in Gaza. They seem to be just breaking things to get attention for themselves.

[–] qevlarr@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (4 children)

You don't see the connection with the air force? The military? Are you dense? Tell me you at least understand why they did Elbit and Thales...

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The RAF isn't part of the IDF last I checked.

Doing these kinds of stunts based on weird tangential connections does not gain any support for a cause. In fact it just turns people against it. This kind of thing is done purely to improve these people's standing within the cause, but doesn't further the cause itself. It's just narcissistic attention seeking behaviour.

[–] crapwittyname@feddit.uk 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Nonsense. "This kind of thing" won women the vote and got us a weekend.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Those movements succeeded because they were lead by people that has clear goals and were able to make plans. They weren't random people just doing random acts of vandalism to get monetization from tech bro billionaires.

[–] crapwittyname@feddit.uk 1 points 34 minutes ago

Palestine Action has clear goals though.

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