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Just noting that "terrorist" has become so over-used and diluted that today it's a generic bad word, much as "communist" was in the 1950s, that denotes dislike on the part of the speaker. Unless there
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An essential ingredient of terrorism is, unsurprisingly, #terror.
Mild-annoyance-ists exist, and various laws probably cover them, but I cannot be terrified by for instance the application of cold #soup to a thing or person, nor a grammatical demand that un- or most specified actions be taken in or over some geographical area.
"ance" may be redundant. I expect there is a better #German word.
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