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Re: ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville

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Post by Cyberthal »

This may be connected to the Dominion audit.

Last time I mentioned this rumor that I didn't see addressed in the comments, I got silently downvoted. Perhaps because I didn't provide links. So I'll now provide links, because this deserves a closer look.

A skeptical layman contacted the Facebook post author and confirmed that it wasn't a fabricated post:

https://twitter.com/kr3at/status/1342673196470964225

The author set the post to private because his phone was blowing up.

https://twitter.com/kr3at/status/1342680906381799424

Human remains were found at the bombing scene, which suggests a body in the RV, possibly a suicide bomber babysitting the payload to prevent heroics, or a murder victim. Suicide bombing would fit the Stephen Paddock pattern.

https://bigleaguepolitics.com/authorities-recover-human-rema...

This matters because as motohagiography observed, we're missing a motive. Right-wing terrorists targeting infrastructure is a possibility, but they archetypically target electrical, not Internet, since they regard the Internet as their propaganda equalizer against the MSM and means of decentralized cohesion. Shutting down the Internet during the Presidential transition would seem contrary to their interests. (Targeting electrical also interdicts Internet, but the benefit of the havoc caused in Democrat cities outweighs this in their eyes.)

My original downvoted lazy comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25542746

Re: ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville

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Post by pjc50 »

ksdjhfjkdhfsk wrote: post #454
pjc50 wrote: post #354

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Warnings tend to come with political bombings. But in this case we have a bombing with no manifesto - yet. A lot of effort for unclear purpose.

Don't worry, the script writers will unveil the next chapter soon. Get your popcorn buttered up. If you don't understand the purpose of this attack, look at the effects: * Keeping the populace fearful and terrified and "clamorous to be led to safety" * Increasing police state power * Legislation will be passed making it easy for RV owners to be searched and harassed, when previously they enjoyed some level of legal i…

Having lived in a country with very real political bombings, I have little time for false flag discourse without evidence.

Re: ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville

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Post by coolgeek »

mhh__ wrote: post #458
coolgeek wrote: post #442

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Venn diagram on anti-government militias and 5G conspiracy theorists is pretty close to a circle

In the UK we have some lefties getting in on the fun too - "buy my crystals to fix your 5G allergy" kind of stuff.

"lefties" is a much broader category than anti-government militias. Other than that, no argument from me

Re: ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville

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Post by nr2x »

graderjs wrote: post #451
nr2x wrote: post #444

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s a collection point of domestic VOIP for the FAIRVIEW program.

Nice find!

I stayed up late looking at network maps/etc trying to figure out any special features of the location, this was the only thing I could find. Likely coincidence, possibly not, but very high chance many people at 3-letter orgs have had a busy 24 hours as they also need to rule out some of the more exotic motives.

Re: ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville

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Post by mhh__ »

coolgeek wrote: post #463
mhh__ wrote: post #458

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In the UK we have some lefties getting in on the fun too - "buy my crystals to fix your 5G allergy" kind of stuff.

"lefties" is a much broader category than anti-government militias. Other than that, no argument from me

Although there is more overlap between the anti-government types and lefties than they would both like to admit, we don't really have a libertarian sect beyond a vague correlation with thatcherism (But even then, outright thatcherism is still a think for the wonks - having any political ideology at all is depressingly rare)

Re: ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville

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Post by tomatotomato37 »

vageli wrote: post #123
bigbubba wrote: post #119

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One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. There are certainly people who believe both or either of those were terrorism.

Terrorism is the use of violence to promote an ideology. Full stop. Nothing precludes a terrorist act from helping people. Even Pablo Escobar set up schools and other institutions in his neighborhood.

It's interesting you mention Pablo Escobar, because I don't know if you could say his bombing campaign was ideology-based; however it most certainly was intended to cause terror, e.g. (narco)terrorism.

Re: ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville

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Post by dang »

octoberfranklin wrote: post #331
edoceo wrote: post #259

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You're "countering" an assertion that was not made.

You're racist.

You've been posting a ton of flamebait and unsubstantive comments to HN. If you keep doing that we will have to ban you, so please stop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville

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Post by erikpukinskis »

notsureaboutpg wrote: post #397
harperlee wrote: post #393

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Same with ETA in Spain. > It's less common (although not entirely unheard of) if the bombing is a terrorist attack. But if, as you suggest, that target is infrastructure A terrorist attack’s first objective is to cause terror, not to kill people. Thus warning in advance is also effective to instill terror. And separating terrorism from bombing infrastructure is a weird dichotomy...

What about when countries bomb each other's infrastructure during war? That both causes terror in the populace and achieves a strategic objective... If causing terror were a hallmark of a terrorist attack, wouldn't every attack be a terror attack (even, for example, mass school shootings or shootings like the Las Vegas shooting, etc.)

Causing terror is the hallmark of terrorist attacks, it is what distinguishes it from normal guerrilla warfare.

Certainly there can be a mixture of both tactical and terrorist motives in an attack... 9/11 was seemingly meant to both instill fear and to hobble the U.S. financial system.

But what made it a terrorist attack, as opposed to an act of revolutionary war, is that it was intended to be very public and to frighten the populace.

And yes, mass shootings are considered terrorist attacks for precisely this reason, they’re meant to instill fear.

Consider: murdering a witness to stop them testifying against you. That has a primarily tactical objective. Not terrorism.

Killing someone who owes you a debt, on the other hand, is terrorism because it serves no tactical purpose (you definitely won’t get your money) it is only meant to instill fear in your other debtors.

There is certainly a lot of gray area here, but the that doesn’t render the underlying definitions pointless.

I’d be curious to hear your definition of terrorism though, as it seems to differ from mine!

Re: ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville

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Post by Thorrez »

ksdjhfjkdhfsk wrote: post #455
macinjosh wrote: post #263

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OKC bomb was in a Ryder box truck. Not a van.

No, actually the explosives were placed in the building itself. The "Ryder truck" story is the official lie.

Please provide evidence before spreading crazy conspiracy theories.
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