Over the last few months the word "terrorist" has lost all meaning.
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It's too bad, because 'terrorist' really was a useful word. Now that it's being used so broadly there's no concise way to talk about 'classic' terrorists.
Kind of like 'hacker' changed in meaning, from 'enthusiast' to 'evil-doer'.
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Over the last few months the word "terrorist" has lost all meaning.
...
It's too bad, because 'terrorist' really was a useful word. Now that it's being used so broadly there's no concise way to talk about 'classic' terrorists.
Kind of like 'hacker' changed in meaning, from 'enthusiast' to 'evil-doer'.