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Great, you're part of the problem.

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The people who are out here saying "totalitarianism was the inevitable consequence of federal standards for feces in bologna" are exactly the problem in America today.

That's just dumb.

Authoritarian governments and terrorist organizations are not the same thing.

Sometimes they are. E.g. Hamas is both the authoritarian government of Gaza and the terrorist organization.

One of those cases where it's very, very important the "the government" isn't a unified block, but a collection of a very large number of staff spread across a very large number of organizations. Only some of which have gone rogue.