Not2BSubjugated
Callous Individualist
Who's we? Politicians doing shady shit without the approval of the governed is a fairly shaky 'we'. I'm not saying that to make an argument that American citizens are all sweet and innocent, or that there's no fault to electing leaders who turn out to be dicks, but by and large, nobody electing our representatives, right or left, WANTS to see the US military bomb civilians.It's not just about us and them.When other countries do it they are funding "terrorists". When we do it we are funding "freedom fighters".
When you're funding a military force engaged in warfare with another military force, it's generally understood that you're funding fighters.
When you're funding people who use physical violence against random civilians with the aim of leveraging widespread terror to achieve geopolitical ends, that's funding terrorists.
We do that. We simply lie and say we didn't intend to. When you drop a bomb on a house you know you are killing civilians.
I'm not saying that war doesn't kill civilians, and I'm not trying to imply that the US has never provided aid to groups that engaged in outright terrorism far beyond what could be viewed as a collateral loss of life due to military combat, but for fuck's sakes, let's not just let all of our terms bleed into each other. It's not just that a homogenized primate language of mush-mouthed meaninglessness would be offensive to every fiber of my sensibilities, it's also that melting English into such a monstrosity renders the meaning of our laws ever more malleable, leaving us ever more vulnerable to the sorta manipulative tyrants that would word-game themselves into positions of totalitarian authority.
Please, stop shitting on the defining boundaries between terms every time it's politically convenient. Language is more than just a tool for owning the right.
I'm being specific. I'm not the one twisting terms for some "Patriotic" cause.
I do agree that you're not twisting terms for some "Patriotic" cause. You're twisting terms for decidedly unpatriotic reasons.