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Trump recently made death threats aimed at the Iranian government.
Yep, and we know exactly what he is
Not disproving the point.
I get what you're saying but that definition of yours is lacking at best
Your previous comment left out the "to achieve political or ideological aims" part, which is the essential difference between terrorism and regular violence.
"Ideological" does not cover:
There are lots of situations in which a threat to kill is not terrorism. Quit trying to dilute the definition of terrorism.
Okay, and...? I never disputed that this situation counted as terrorism; I only took issue with your overly-broad definition. In fact, it's doubly weird that you're choosing to die on this hill because you didn't even need to go overboard making the definition wider than it is when the situation easily meets the real definition of it anyway! The guy you initially replied to was wrong and you would have been correct, except that you overstated your argument for no good reason.
Words have meanings and you're using one of them wrong. That's all.
Not necessarily. Not unless they're trying to force an ideology.
If I threaten to kill you because I plainly don't like you, that's not really making me a terrorist.
In most cases, no. All hate is not ideological hate, and most killings are not ideological either. Most of the violence we see in the world is due to people's personal relationships with each other, or are the result of some spontaneous fight.
The problem with what you're doing here is you're diluting the meaning of the word "terrorism". You wrote out the definition, but you don't seem to understand it. The key element is that terrorism is not just instilling fear, but using that fear to obtain political or ideological goals.
If instilling fear is sufficient to make someone a terrorist, any violent criminal or anyone threatening others becomes a terrorist, and the word loses its meaning.
Sorry, that just doesn't follow the actual definition of terrorism. Remove the comma, and "often" and we're real closer.
Literally the first result on Google From wiki:
Not every murderer is a terrorist.
Dumb. You don't get to change definitions of words because you don't grasp the concept. Sorry. You are just flat wrong here.
People typically have definitions like this in mind:
Acts (1) dangerous to life (2) designed to coerce a population or a government. Otherwise, any threat inimical to life would qualify.
Death is dangerous to life and groups of chuds threatening people who don’t sing their national anthem in their preferred language are attempting to coerce a population.
I think people in America typically have a definition like this:
They also think that politics is operated purely on lies and name calling for power grabs and so therefore since they gave the terrorist label to brown people, they can’t ever be one and all their actions are excusable since it’s impossible for them to be a terrorist.
An act directed to a single person isn't an act intimidating or coercing the civil population. In contrast, such an act directed at/broadcast to the general civil population does qualify as intimidation or coercion of the civil population.
They’re directed at all brown people
Unless the threat was public as a general statement to the public, it was directed only to the individual. Until the individual publicized it, did the public know?
I'm going to fucking kill Osama Bin Ladin. I'm going to build a time machine, go back in time, and strangle the motherfucker with my own two hands.