It's not my definition, it is THE definition.

Not asking about the French people, but the German people there on the beaches. Did they feel terror? I bet they did

This post was edited by El1te on Jun 5 2022 11:39am

I guess you like to make up definitions:
Oxford:
The calculated use of violence or threat of violence to inculcate fear. Terrorism is intended to coerce or intimidate governments or societies in the pursuit of goals that are generally political, religious, or ideological.



Wkipedia
Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of violence and fear to achieve an ideological aim. The term is used in this regard primarily to refer to intentional violence during peacetime or in the context of war against non-combatants (mostly civilians and neutral military personnel).[1] The terms "terrorist" and "terrorism" originated during the French Revolution of the late 18th century[2] but became widely used internationally and gained worldwide attention in the 1970s during the Northern Ireland conflict, the Basque conflict, and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. The increased use of suicide attacks from the 1980s onwards was typified by the 2001 September 11 attacks in the United States.


If you don't think having a list of public officials you want to murder doesn't count as terrorism, like wtf does?

This post was edited by Cascadian on Jun 5 2022 11:46am

Terrorism by colloquial definition only applies to nonstate actors, so thats categorically out the window

Something like the Hodgkin's Congressional ball game shooting in 2017 is what straight forward terrorism incident against the state looks like. This is something else, labeling it the same is obfuscating reality to push agenda.

Perhaps we need more language for describing acts of terrorism and extreme groups. Especially around foreign state sponsored and domestic extremest with twisted view of patriotism.

more like parasite infection.