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When the physicists need burner phones, that's when you know America's changed

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267 points giuliomagnifico | 2 comments | 29 Mar 25 18:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.403s | source
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renewiltord ◴[29 Mar 25 19:14 UTC] No.43517794[source]▶
The people opposing these things do themselves a serious disservice by conflating someone who attended the funeral of the top guy of a designated terrorist group with the biologist moving biomaterial between research labs.

Now every time I hear one of these stories I’m just waiting for the other shoe to drop and hear about how the frog biologist attended Prigozhin’s funeral (purely out of recognition for his work as a chef, of course)

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timewizard ◴[29 Mar 25 19:22 UTC] No.43517872[source]▶
> who attended the funeral of the top guy of a designated terrorist group

Designated by whom? I personally have never once felt "terror" from the existence of Hamas nor do I feel confronted by those who would go to the funerals of it's leaders.

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1. tqi ◴[29 Mar 25 19:34 UTC] No.43517980[source]▶
By the government of this country and many others.
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2. timewizard ◴[29 Mar 25 19:47 UTC] No.43518097[source]▶
It was by the US State Department in 1997.

Those are either some seriously tricky terrorists or this designation was never meaningful to the citizens of this country.