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Not really. Now this is a little nuanced, but I'll give it

Sep 11, 2019, 9:49 AM [ in reply to Been listening to a podcast about the Revolutionary War and ]

a shot. Terrorism as a term is about as overused as racism these days.

But the way I see it, if you're fighting a government/nation, you're not a terrorist. If you're fighting a people, an ideology, or a religion, a race, etc. then you are a terrorist. As such, a terrorist knows no political/governmental borders. Their objective is solely to instill fear (terror) in people. It's not to achieve territorial or governmental change through any direct action. It is not intended to topple a government, but instead to instill fear in a people.

"One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter" is a phrase often heard. There's some truth to it only if you have an expansive view of the term terrorism. Terrorism has been expanded in my lifetime because the term has been used by nations (governments) to label enemies that are often governments or nations themselves. We ourselves have been guilty of this. Now there ARE governments that support terrorists and terrorism to act offensively on their behalf by proxy, but that does not make the government "sponsor" (or nation) a terrorist itself.

Again, nuanced, but I hope you get the picture.

As an example, you could say the Boston Tea Party was an act of domestic terrorism. But an organized uprising, and eventually a standing army, fighting a nation as Washington did, that's not terrorism. Often revolutions start as a collection of acts of domestic terrorism that later organize into a military army that then fights the state army. In our own history, symbolic acts early on as in the Boston Tea Party, those acts could be called terrorism. But once a standing army is organized, they become freedom fighters. This is what ISIS tried to do. They started as terrorists and organized with plans to become a nation state. At the point they began acquiring land for their caliphate through organized military action, they went from being terrorists to a state enemy. Same with the Taliban. When they were fighting the Russians in Afghanistan they were terrorists originally. They later became a state.

I hope this makes some sense.

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As we speak, someone in the Congo may be coming down with Ebola, with just the right mutation to make it airborne. They will pass it to their family members. ONE of those family members will pass it to a neighbor. Pretty soon the whole neighborhood will have it and 60% will die. Within a week it will cross to other countries and spread rapidly around the world in weeks. In 2 to 3 months, half the people on Earth will be gone.

OR....fat lazy slobs will continue having lower and lower sperm counts. Eventually we will be too fat and have too few sperm to reproduce. Within 100 years the world's population will drop 25%, then 50% more the next century.

Or....a giant meteor hits the planet and puts us in a winter that last for 30,000 years and kills 80% of humans.

Or....somewhere in Africa flea bites a bat. That bat has a novel flu strain. That same flea lands on a bird and bites it. That bird had a novel flu strain. Then the flea lands on a pig, who has yet another flu strain. That pig gets slaughtered with a flu virus unknown to mankind. The butcher gets sick and dies. Then his family, then his village, then within a few months over half the world dies from a flu pandemic that strikes so fast it's spread everywhere before we can even make a vaccine.

Or.......antibiotic-resistant bacteria, or.....you get it.

If I'm having to bet, I'd wager the world's population will be far less than it is today in 100 years. Not more. I'll take the under on that one.

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Duly noted. Not a teacher.***

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If it makes you feel better, I'm old and still don't think

Of course they don't. They are more worried about they

We all are.

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I'm more worried about a car wreck taking the kids to school

Our greatest terror threats lately have been citizens.

Been listening to a podcast about the Revolutionary War and

Only to those that disagreed with him.***

Not really. Now this is a little nuanced, but I'll give it

Not really surprising though, look at the type of person who

I assume you've watched this movie then.

I have, and it's more true than people want to believe

If it's any consolation, mother nature has a way of thinning

I'm pretty sure you could wipe out at least half of the US's

Solar storm kills power grid. Forgot that one.***

I read some "study" that claimed

I was watching a Woodstock documentary on Netflix and

My son loves that documentary

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also, kids today have grown up always being at war

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