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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2024 03:02:57 JST Paul Cantrell

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   @cwicseolfor @Zumbador
   I don’t fully endorse this further extension of the meaning of the word “terrorism,” whose meaning is already dangerously overstretched. (“Psychological warfare,” yes.) But strongly agree with the larger sentiment here.

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     cwicseolfor (cwicseolfor@urbanists.social)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2024 03:02:59 JST cwicseolfor

     • Zumbador

     @Zumbador @inthehands Very much this. I don't think the hopelessness was intentional in relation to the pandemic specifically, but it's a feature, not a bug, in late-stage capitalism, which is the context in which the pandemic went from natural disaster to rampant social murder.

     Cf. abortion bans, the looming specter of bathroom bills & book bans: rights revocations mean you can't guess, so you can't plan. It's terrorism. For many it rehashes existing trauma too.