“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.
“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).”
And then there's the tailor... the less said, the better.
(Psst, that’s the not-an-officer.)
Aware, just building on.
It's insidious!
Is he also a terrorist?
He's also a well renowned gardener... and totally not a former black-ops operative.
Don’t forget an experienced torturer.
And a wonderful lunch companion
"And then there's the time my officer took a vacation on planet vacation, and decided to do a terrorism."
I have been trying to find the one of these where he's a pony for so long
And one of them dabbled in it because he's kind of a prude.
Based take from Gabriel Bell.
Gabriel Bell pumps his shotgun in response
Janeway: personally terrorises the borg
I like to imagine that, at a certain point, the Borg just changed course, when they saw the Voyager in the distance
We are the... NOPE
They were hoarding coffee. What did they expect?
A medal. How many Tuvixen did they have?
Ah I would've thought the plural was Tuvices, but I like Tuvixen better!
Ooo, I like Tuvices too
At least tree fiddy
The Borg file a complaint with the galactic commissioner.
digital screeching sounds in the distance
"as a treat"
Kira fucking loved coaching the Cardassians and storming the citadel with Damar
Damar: How do we combat the Dominion
Kira: I'll gladly explain, step by step, how we kicked your lizard-ass off our planet
Kira: anyone of you little shits wants to see my Cardassian neck bones collection?
And that's why Ensign Ro never got promoted...
That's okay, she got to be an Admiral in another universe!
Can you imagine if Ro and Kim had a baby? It'd never be promoted past cadet
"Sometimes war requires you to terrorise the terrorists" Captain Sisko, probably.
Janeway: "Now listen here, you little shit.."
Janeway: "half of my crew can be terrorists"
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.
Sisko: As long as you terrorize while wearing your uniform, it's okay!
Counterpoint to Sisko: Javier, the Marquis sympathizer. Sisko went after Javier like he had killed half of all DS9.
HE BETRAYED HIS UNIFORM
But he was a damned hero king in Krull!
Isn't that the kind of thing poisoning the atmosphere of several planets would be called?
That sounds like the kind of thing Maquis scum would say
Eddington was Valjean to Sisko's Javier, not Javier himself.
Which is exactly what Eddington wanted!
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
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.
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.