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Then again, these kind of incidents seem to water down and trivialize a term that should be a much bigger deal than "butthurt dude says he's poisoning cookies in convenience stores but is most probably lying."

However, there is some consensus (among scholars who don't consider it meaningless) that terrorism is, in the (paraphrased) words of Bruce Hoffman, conducted by a subnational group or non-state entity with an identifiable chain of command or conspiratorial cell structure. In other words, a single individual acting alone doesn't constitute a chain of command. Two guys driving around in a beat up car while shooting random people don't constitute a conspiratorial cell structure. Even if they somehow set off a nuke, they're not terrorists, because they have no organization.

I mean, you're telling me that if two guys go out and blow up a building to try and extort political change...that's not terrorism. But if one guy goes out and recruits a second guy who works for him and he blows up a building to extort political change...well then it is because they've now got a "chain of command".

You're acting like the way the people choose to organize themselves is somehow more important than the actual act they've committed.

Substitute "saying" for "acting,"