Fuck all this “let’s not celebrate the gruesome murder of a political opponent” bullshit, the man was a stochastic terrorist. Let’s dunk on the douchebag and piss on his grave together. I hope more fascists like him get it through the neck

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    5 hours ago

    but whoever got Charlie didn’t need more than that so I disagree.

    If assassinations could win wars we’d already be living in an anarchist utopia - that’s what anarchists used to be famous for, remember?

    the implication of your argument is that we shouldn’t try

    Not at all… but it’s going to require a lot of “back-to-the-drawing-board” thinking.

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        What is warfare if not assassinations slaughter on a large scale?

        FTFY.

        That is certainly how colonisers view warfare - they do have the propaganda machines to explain it all away, after all.

        Are you sure YOU do?

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      What is guerilla war if not a series of well-planned assassinations by a much worse armed force. The USA showed the whole world how effective that tactic is at winning wars, by losing to it again and again.

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        What is guerilla war if not a series of well-planned assassinations by a much worse armed force.

        That is absolutely not what insurgencies are. Assassination is a tactic - not a strategy - and it is most definitely not some “lens” through which to flatten and simplify what insurgency actually is. It’s that very kind of superficial thinking that is the whole reason the US military establishment cannot fathom why they can’t seem to win at this kind of warfare.

        Just remember this… even dodgy tankie outfits like the Weather Underground and the RAF understood that assassination could only get them so far before it began backfiring on them in a big way - and, with hindsight, it’s easy to see that they were still being way too optimistic about it.

        Sure you want to hold onto this idea?