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[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

People don't join terrorist groups because they think they can win, they do it because they're so pissed off at the target they want to strike back.

[–] SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

People do think they can win. I do not consider the Taliban a terrorist group, but they were irregular forces that fought a war, and they won, in a limited sense. The IRA won, in a sense, both with the creation of the Free State and with the end of the Troubles. Mandela won, although the ANC was designated as a terrorist organization. Vietnam won.

The Black Panthers were an actual threat to the racist institutions in the US. The Weathermen were not. The Panthers had a strategy. The Weathermen were angry college students without training.

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 months ago

Didn't the Weathermen reveal COINTELPRO?