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Blocking terrorist financing is nothing new.
by singpolyma3 2y ago
Blocking terrorist financing is nothing new.
- logicchains 2y agoIf you give the government the power to block financing to anyone they declare a terrorist then they'll just declare anyone who opposes them to be terrorists.
- brainwad 2y agoEmpirical evidence suggests otherwise, at least in liberal democracies.
- eimrine 2y agosurvirorship bias
- elevatedastalt 2y agoEmpirical evidence can suggest anything you want it to if you choose to ignore empirical evidence that's inconvenient to you. The Canadian trucker protesters were not "terrorists" by any stretch of imagination, but sure let's assume otherwise because it helps us sleep better at night, right?
- singpolyma3 2y agoPretty sure building a bomb on Parliament Hill makes you a terrorist group. Nevermind all the other dangerous stuff that was going on.