Homeland Security officials described the incident in October as antisemitic, but in a social media post days afterward, Temple Beth Zion in the Boston metropolitan area town of Brookline said it did not appear to be motivated by antisemitism. Police initially told the synagogue that “the individual was unaware that he lived next to, and was shooting his BB gun next to, a synagogue or that it was a religious holiday.

“So you say you’re tired of the weakness and degeneracy of society and want to tear down a government that you think coddles the weak and doesn’t allow the master race to subjugate everyone else under their hierarchy? Well, I don’t think I need to take a political science course to know an anarchist when I hear one!” - cops (actually)

“Well, if a duly sworn law enforcement officer says so it must be true.” - journalists (actually)

The US has been using this kind of logic since Sept 12 2001 (arc)

SACHA PFEIFFER, HOST:

After the attacks on September 11, 2001, the George W. Bush administration arrested hundreds of suspected terrorists. Most of them were never criminally charged and eventually let go. Some spent years in inhumane conditions, even though they had no connection to the Taliban or al-Qaida. In 2002, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld visited Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where many of those prisoners were being held, and described them using this term.

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)

DONALD RUMSFELD: And one of the most important aspects of the Geneva Convention is the distinction between lawful combatants and unlawful combatants.

PFEIFFER: By labeling them unlawful combatants, the U.S. said it was justified in holding them indefinitely without trial and denying them international legal protections. The Trump administration is now applying the same term to people on board boats it’s blowing up because it says they’re transporting drugs from South America. The language here matters. It underpins the legal arguments presidents make to justify their actions. Here’s current Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth referring to the cartels that ship drugs from the southern hemisphere to the United States.

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)

PETE HEGSETH: So our message to these foreign terrorist organizations is we will treat you like we have treated al-Qaida.

A lot more good information and history in that article, but the important point is that because they’re not soldiers (i.e. lawful combatants), they don’t get Geneva Convention protection, but because they’re not criminals either they don’t get due process protection either. It’s a completely blatant and stupid way to just ditch all the humanitarian guardrails around government violence we spent the 20th century building, it was fucked 20 years ago and it’s fucked today but we never held the people doing it accountable so here we are.

Huh, I hadn’t thought of that implication but I see what you mean. I guess it’s always been kind of misleading though, because it’s not about the delay between strikes, it’s about shooting a target that’s already been neutralized to try to kill survivors.

Seems like the specific phrase might have orginated from a 2003 order the army gave to troops in Iraq (arc), which would explain the minimizing language (while we’re on the subject - blowing someone up with a missile isn’t exactly a “tap,” either), but then groups like Amnesty International ran with it to talk about how the Bush and Obama and Trump administrations would all drone strike targets a second time to kill medical responders.

Reminder that the US has been doing double tap drone strikes to try to kill medical responders since 2013 at least (arc)

Good to see the reality of our violent foreign policy is finally sinking in for some lawmakers but it took decades longer than it should have

That’s completely irrelevant, they demonize every Dem. It was a bad decision to put her up as a candidate because she’s a giant asshole and not a talented enough liar to cover it up.

I mean, if that one gains sentience and goes all SkyNet on us I’ll understand where it’s coming from

Soon

"… the federal agency announced a 20 million dollar settlement with the individuals who claim the agent invaded their privacy when he accessed their toilet cameras without their consent. A source who did not wish to share their name said the department was initially given back door access as part of an undisclosed agreement with Kohler to further their investigation into ‘transgender crime’ and further anti-drug smuggling efforts. When contacted for a statement on the matter, the department’s spokesperson stated, “Fuck off, lib.'”

And the fact that all he’s cognitively and physically capable of anymore is watching Fox and shitposting

Oh, somebody who voted for war with Iraq because she thought they had WMDs is worried about other people getting faulty information on the mideast? That’s cute

Lol, having a decades old friend send you a misogynistic meme, going along with it because you don’t actually believe in anything, and then having that friend turn around and give the whole exchange to the press because you’re a shitty judge of character who’s surrounded themselves with grifter assholes is, like, the most moderate Dem thing I could imagine

Yeah, Amnesty International has been calling us out for double tap drone strikes since 2013 at least (arc)

He’s also a piece of shit on immigration issues, the country would definitely be a better place if he got primaried

Maybe our country shouldn’t send those occupying forces next time then, but we did this time, and now the only decent thing for us to do is stand by the people our scumbag leaders put on the front lines of their foreign policy choices

Gotta distract from the fact that they were the ones who gave this guy permission to be here earlier this year and how all the evil shit they did to other immigrants over the past few months didn’t do anything to prevent this

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2452292924000493 (arc)

Except a chain email doesn’t have random commenters who link to the original or archives of the original

https://archive.is/Fv1u6

I hope it does, a big part of how we ended up here was because dipshits in the Obama administration refused to go after W’s people who committed crimes because they didn’t think it would poll well

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Quest?wprov=sfla1

what the hell is a hroom