That was when I first noticed that word being abused so egregiously. I wouldn’t be surprised if it started before that.

Yeah, that was the inflexion point.

Back then, people were cautioning against this lingusitic slight of hand, this overuse of rhetorically charged language... because they could lead to a world where 'everything i dont like is a terrorist'.

But they weren't listened to, PATRIOT ACT passed, and we now live in the world we were told we would, but even worse actually, because the internet is forever and the NSA has been doing its damndest to make a permanent hard backup of all internet traffic at its mega data center in Utah for over a decade.

Ironically what this means is that Osama Bin Laden won.

He goaded us into destroying ourselves, and we did, we went insane.

The 'Great Satan' is doing just a bangup job of carrying out the NeoCon plan for an American Century, what with electing an incompetent idiot rapist who has basically single handedly caused the second Great Depression, and caused us to lose almost all of our international allies.

we might be the fucking baddies

It depends. Is it relative? Even then, sometimes we are and sometimes we aren't.

There aren't many nations that have their hands clean.