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[โ€“] tombruzzo@aussie.zone 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Violence of the state: OK.

Economic violence of corporations: OK.

Violence of extremist groups whose interest aligns with capital: OK.

Minority groups looking to defend themselves and enact change: hold on there, buddy, you just might be doing a terrorism

[โ€“] Nath@aussie.zone 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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Will give you the formatting you were looking for. ๐Ÿ‘

[โ€“] tombruzzo@aussie.zone 3 points 1 month ago

Thank you, all fixed now

[โ€“] eureka@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago

Eh, while that hypocrisy is real, your post didn't really describe the situation. When it comes to 'terrorism', in the past few years and much of that article, ASIO have consistently been talking about neo-Nazism (particularly the NSN). Neo-Nazis are not anti-capitalist nor a minority group defending themselves (they are a clear aggressor). And of course they're bad for liberal democracy/capitalism and too foolish/idealistic to work alongside capital like 1920s fascists, instead desperately resorting to lone-wolf terror acts (to try and incite a nonsense 'race war'), so yes, they're being readily branded as terrorists, and correctly - they are explicitly aiming to promote terror.

As for the other cases being discussed like the Wakeley stabbing, I don't see how that's in the self-defense of a minority group. As far as I've seen, they're not attacking fascists or CEOs, or trying to enact systematic change. There's right ways to do political violence or self-defense, and these cases don't seem to be them them.

"This is the new thing, people will go to violence with little or no warning, and they [have] little or no planning in some of these that I've talked about," he said.