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Steve Bannon: "The public schools and private schools ought to be designated as terrorist organizations too" (www.mediamatters.org)
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[–] 20 points 1 year ago (6 children)

That's the way it's been used in the US since 9/11/2001. Not sure about other places.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Brits have been using it that way for centuries. Go dig through papers from the 1800s, you'll find them describing anyone resisting their colonialism as "terrorists". Legally, the US is working from the exact same definition that British common law uses.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    That makes sense, since, as far as i can tell, the U.S. seems to be a modern hybrid of the British empire which spawned it and the German war machine it assimilated into itself about 80 years ago.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    It's amazing how much damage Bin Laden did to America by killing what traffic does in a few weeks (or toddlers with guns in a decade). Trillions in debt, scared shitless and divided like never before.

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