Something that's stuck with me for a long time is this quote within a quote about Susan Sontag:
"She was asked what she had learned from the Holocaust, and she said that 10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and that 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and that the remaining 80 percent could be moved in either direction."
-Kurt Vonnegut
https://inthesetimes.com/article/susan-sontag-and-arthur-miller
"This deal is getting worse all the time!" is the hallway one, but I thought the same as you!
The thing is: nearly everything can cause harm, in some small, indirect way. And everything is political, even if only some small, indirect way.
So taken to the "logical" extreme, me eating oatmeal for breakfast is terrorism. It harmed the people in the fields working for low wages, and it's a political choice to eat less meat for a meal.
This is why it seems silly to meant of us to call burning Tesla dealerships terrorism. Does sitting bud light cans count as terrorism? Do boycotts count as terrorism?
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/apr/03/trumps-tariffs-the-full-list
Are we allied with Iran?