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Re:Too many people have peed in the pool by yummyfajitas on Monday February 15, 2016 @02:35PM (#11105370)
Remember, the US used to have anti-communist witch hunts in which people were forced to give up their careers,...

Actually we still have those, and twitter often plays an important role. C.f. Pax Dickinson, Justine Sacco or Brandon Eich.

Luckily we've moved beyond lynchings and other such political terrorism in the US. It still seems to happen in Europe, however: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/26/french-taxi-dri... http://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2015/nov/12/greek-g...

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Re:Too many people have peed in the pool by ZeroGravitas on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @04:10AM (#11108681)
Your prison system has been described as a slow-motion Holocaust and the new Jim Crow. Does that not count as political terrorism?

Or is this the same linguistic problem where 3000 dead in an intentionally collapsed building in NYC is terrorism, but two million killed by intentionally collapsing a middle-eastern state doesn't really have a word that we can use, so it seems harder to grasp somehow.

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