So this is terrorism but they refuse to give terrorism charges to local militias?
this post was submitted on 19 Dec 2024
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Hence the joke
Local militias are perfectly acceptable as per the second amendment, as long as they're "well regulated", whatever that means...
it means that it needs to be an actual maintained organization, not Jim bob and his buddies threatening anybody they don't like. it's also not a requirement, it's only the reasoning provided.
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From what the manifesto found on him allegedly said, it sounds like his actions were politically motivated. And violence in pursuit of a political goal is kinda the definition of terrorism.
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Uhuh... And the school shooters? No terrorist charges?...
Those tend to be a personal grudge, not a political statement.
Pretty sure you could agree he had a personal grudge as well
Potentially, but I think that's true of most terrorists.
I think that for terrorism you need the goal to instill terror in the population. Since it was so specifically targeted and only one victim, I don't know how well it fits. Also, most of the population doesn't feel terror, maybe he should be hit with satisfaction charges.
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I'm pretty sure it's up to the state attorney to decide what charges to bring is all I'll say.
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Was he actually Italian though? As in, speaking Italian, having an Italian passport etc.? Y'all Americans have weird definitions of nationality, just having a foreign sounding last name isn't really enough...
When someone from America says they Italian or whatever they aren't talking about nationality, it's about ancestry, where your family came from not what county you were born in
No no no no........it's about what kind of food your mom cooked when you were a kid.
Which makes me.......uhhhhhh........clown? I don't know. She bought a lot of McDonalds.
So... Scottish?
I don’t know how, but your comment wove a huge Scottish folk tale in my head revolving around fast food franchises.
in a loud Scottish accent “Let us sing of the day that the McDonalds slew the evil Burger King and rescued Wendy from her castle top prison, which was guarded by the monstrous Jack in the Box!”
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She was constantly making lemon meringue pies?
According to Italian law if you have Italian ancestry, you're Italian. There's a whole process (with many asterisks and exceptions) in which you can apply to get your Italian passport
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Dude's name is Luigi and his last name sounds like a pizza restaurant. That settles it for me, thank you very much.
You joke, but that kind of prejudice is pretty hurtful in day to day life
It's important to remember that the Italians and the Irish were treated as a low rung of American society not all that long ago.
They are legitimate victims of the brunt of American hate.
Is there anyone Americans haven't hated and/or discriminated against yet? Anyone ever not been a victim of the US?
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sorry but Luigi Mangione sounds like a name a token Italian character would have in harry potter. idk how prejudiced it is to assume this is an italian name.
Is it though? You would be hurt if someone thought you were Italian? You must think pretty poorly of them lol
In America since we came here and took the land from the natives we just assume everyone's family came from somewhere else at some point in recent history. A lot of families are very proud of their ancestry and talk about it a lot.
My name comes from an ethnic background but I dont look ethnic so I always get weird Looks at doctors offices because of it. I think its pretty funny but I guess some people dont find it as funny to be "profiled" so to speak. It really depends on the culture you grew up in and how high tolerance actually was for that sort of thing in your life, at least thats my two cents. I dont mind it but others might.
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Who cares?
Everything is hurtful now. Even nationality... jeez
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The word you are looking for is enthnicity. Enthnicity describes the (self-)perceived belonging to a population group. This is of course highly subjective.
There is undeniably perception of grouping in the US based on heritage, where it doesn't really matter when your ancestors arrived, just from where. So from an American POV it makes sense to call him Italian, because he is in the same perceived group as all the people from Italy.
On the other hand from a European POV it doesn't really matter, where your great grandparents come from. You are part of the US-Group, so you are American.
This is not an exclusive US Problem, but a general migration problem & it happens everywhere. Comments like yours are the reason, why people from migrated families feel like they are in-between cultures. Instead of writing snarky comments on the internet, just accept that your perception of ethnicity is part of your ethnicity and other people can have other perceptions.
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More of a
visits Italy for the first time over summer
continues to tell every living soul that their father's father's neighbour's goldfish, was italian
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”We are all domestic terrorists…”
-CPAC (Republicans) 2022
uh, dunno if people have noticed but the Mediterranean is kind of goin through some shit right now. Also Italy has a pretty notable history of bombings and assassinations
But also what the other person said, dude is american. I’m so sick of my family members talking like sopranos characters because our grandparents were actual Italians. Plus they 100% definitely didn’t say gabbagool and proshoot before like 2003
Yes, we know he's an American citizen, calm down please. So was Al Capone BTW, who certainly worked a lot harder to deserve a terrorism charge, but they ended up nailing him on tax evasion. So perhaps it's really the definition of terrorism that changed. I think you're taking the joke a little too serious.
As for your family members, I'm afraid I can't help you with that.
I suggest you actually check the definition of terrorism, Capone wasn't motivated by political ideals, he was motivated by good old fashioned greed.
I refuse to calm down and I demand help
There, there
So "terrorism" equals "middle eastern"?
Hey, I don't make the rules.
There's only one country who thinks like that, and they happen to be the whitest, most prolific terrorists on the planet
Is it Switzerland again? They always seem to be right on time..