“Also, one of my officers is a retired terrorist who still behaves like a terrorist most of the time, and another officer is a full-time terrorist (and also not an officer).”
So, like, in that episode where there’s some assholes showing up to pyroform that planet with the “illegal” colonists…. And Data uses that hand phaser to nuke an aqueduct.
Que?
Terrorists didn’t exist before ‘01?
The IRA being the most famous organisation probably in English speaking territories through the 70s and into the 00s wouldn’t be part of their history being from earth?
I’m confused
Of course it did. After 2001 every white nutball used terrorist as a synonym for pretty much any male from the middle east.
But then again the rightwingers who show up in masks with guns to harass gay pride events, or who were sending threats and intimidating poll workers in 2020 and 2024 would simply be called patriots by the same group of white nut balls.
I recall the IRA was framed differently from within the USA. It was a religious thing. Like some kind of continuation of the American Revolution, or some insanity like that. It also probably justified US meddling elsewhere in the world to similar effect. Gaddafi's supply of arms is exactly the same kind of thing as the US did in many other places. So labeling that activity terrorist in the media might be politically inconvenient in the USA. It is only terrorism if you're the country on the receiving end, freedom fighters on the other, and political calculus from outside.
49 Comments
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 360d
“Also, one of my officers is a retired terrorist who still behaves like a terrorist most of the time, and another officer is a full-time terrorist (and also not an officer).”
ummthatguy@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 360d
And then there's the tailor... the less said, the better.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 360d
(Psst, that’s the not-an-officer.)
ummthatguy@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 360d
Aware, just building on.
gnomesaiyan@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 359d
It's insidious!
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 359d
Is he also a terrorist?
ummthatguy@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 359d
He's also a well renowned gardener... and totally not a former black-ops operative.
InfinityOfThought@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 359d
Don’t forget an experienced torturer.
FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 359d
And a wonderful lunch companion
ooterness@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 359d
"And then there's the time my officer took a vacation on planet vacation, and decided to do a terrorism."
hakunawazo@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 359d
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 359d
I have been trying to find the one of these where he's a pony for so long
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 359d
And one of them dabbled in it because he's kind of a prude.
neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 29 pts · 360d
Based take from Gabriel Bell.
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 359d
Gabriel Bell pumps his shotgun in response
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz · 22 pts · 360d
Janeway: personally terrorises the borg
MaggiWuerze@feddit.org · 15 pts · 359d
I like to imagine that, at a certain point, the Borg just changed course, when they saw the Voyager in the distance
AceBonobo@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 359d
We are the... NOPE
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 359d
They were hoarding coffee. What did they expect?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 359d
A medal. How many Tuvixen did they have?
klemptor@startrek.website · 4 pts · 359d
Ah I would've thought the plural was Tuvices, but I like Tuvixen better!
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 359d
Ooo, I like Tuvices too
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 350d
At least tree fiddy
MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 359d
The Borg file a complaint with the galactic commissioner.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 360d
digital screeching sounds in the distance
MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca · 20 pts · 360d
"as a treat"
Olap@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 360d
Kira fucking loved coaching the Cardassians and storming the citadel with Damar
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 359d
Damar: How do we combat the Dominion
Kira: I'll gladly explain, step by step, how we kicked your lizard-ass off our planet
InfinityOfThought@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 359d
Kira: anyone of you little shits wants to see my Cardassian neck bones collection?
jordanlund@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 360d
And that's why Ensign Ro never got promoted...
GraniteM@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 359d
That's okay, she got to be an Admiral in another universe!
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 359d
Can you imagine if Ro and Kim had a baby? It'd never be promoted past cadet
_stranger_@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 359d
Sunsofold@lemmings.world · 14 pts · 359d
Janeway: "Now listen here, you little shit.."
790@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 359d
Janeway: "half of my crew can be terrorists"
undergroundoverground@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 359d
"Sometimes war requires you to terrorise the terrorists" Captain Sisko, probably.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 359d
So, like, in that episode where there’s some assholes showing up to pyroform that planet with the “illegal” colonists…. And Data uses that hand phaser to nuke an aqueduct.
autonomous@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 359d
Sisko: As long as you terrorize while wearing your uniform, it's okay!
rekabis@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 359d
Counterpoint to Sisko: Javier, the Marquis sympathizer. Sisko went after Javier like he had killed half of all DS9.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 359d
HE BETRAYED HIS UNIFORM
autonomous@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 359d
But he was a damned hero king in Krull!
autonomous@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 359d
Isn't that the kind of thing poisoning the atmosphere of several planets would be called?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 359d
That sounds like the kind of thing Maquis scum would say
Sertou@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 359d
Eddington was Valjean to Sisko's Javier, not Javier himself.
klemptor@startrek.website · 3 pts · 359d
Which is exactly what Eddington wanted!
j4k3@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 360d
waz@feddit.uk · 23 pts · 359d
Que? Terrorists didn’t exist before ‘01? The IRA being the most famous organisation probably in English speaking territories through the 70s and into the 00s wouldn’t be part of their history being from earth? I’m confused
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 359d
Maybe they are young? It certainly existed before 01. But it was after 9/11 that it became a buzzword that was over applied constantly.
Like some guy shoots up his office? Terrorism? No he’s just a nut. Traditionally terrorism had some kind of political or social component to it.
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 359d
Of course it did. After 2001 every white nutball used terrorist as a synonym for pretty much any male from the middle east.
But then again the rightwingers who show up in masks with guns to harass gay pride events, or who were sending threats and intimidating poll workers in 2020 and 2024 would simply be called patriots by the same group of white nut balls.
j4k3@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 359d
I recall the IRA was framed differently from within the USA. It was a religious thing. Like some kind of continuation of the American Revolution, or some insanity like that. It also probably justified US meddling elsewhere in the world to similar effect. Gaddafi's supply of arms is exactly the same kind of thing as the US did in many other places. So labeling that activity terrorist in the media might be politically inconvenient in the USA. It is only terrorism if you're the country on the receiving end, freedom fighters on the other, and political calculus from outside.