Five, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

as in anyone espousing the ideology of instilling fear as a weapon.

I wish that was what the word “terrorist” means.

It has always meant anyone using asymmetric tactics to oppose states or capitalism, both violent and non-violent. If it simply meant using fear as a weapon, then every state that has prisons and police would be terrorist.

The standard usage of the word is so hypocritical that it has become an authoritarian allegiance-signifying pejorative without any deeper meaning.