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I didn’t think the invisible committee operated south of the Mason Dixon line. (Fragen Sie mich noch einmal, ob ich Französisch spreche, und ich werde Sie auf weniger unterhaltsame Weise an die Wand stellen.)
So do you speak French?
DVEs have been talking about ways to target power substations for a while now. This is the first instance that I've seen of someone actually acting on that information. Background: https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/591331-dhs-warn... https://www.cbsnews.com/news/domestic-violent-extremists-plo...
This is a dead-ringer for the Metcalf sniper attack: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/02/05/272015606... Edit: dead-wringer => dead-ringer
Seems like some group is making another test of their abilities. Perhaps gathering data on government response and repair times. Makes me wonder if a coordinated multi-location strike is coming sometime in the future. Scary stuff.
Vast majority of physical infrastructure has no security beyond a rickety fence. It is good that most terrorists are as mentally unstable as they are, because a rational person with some easily homemade bombs could easily disable most anything they want with no real chance at being caught.
I think it has more to say about how civil the countries and groups the US has attacked are, at least when it comes to hurting US innocents in return.
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What group is that? Do you have a link to any further info here?
I think this is what the parent refers to https://twitter.com/cmclymer/status/1599253199126683650 , though there is no confirmation that they are behind it, only that they are glad that it happened.
For many people, myself included, who grew up in the country, the power going out is not a big deal, and was a pretty regular occurrence. I say this not to downplay it, but because it's easy to see how someone could see the power go out while something they didn't approve of was happening, and feel happy about it, without really considering how big of a deal the outage is for people in the city.
I could be wrong of course, but the most single explanation is that this person just saw it as karma, not that they somehow knew something
Vast majority of physical infrastructure has no security beyond a rickety fence. It is good that most terrorists are as mentally unstable as they are, because a rational person with some easily homemade bombs could easily disable most anything they want with no real chance at being caught.
Legit too scared to even write the concept down in the event someone got the idea to even try.
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I think this is what the parent refers to https://twitter.com/cmclymer/status/1599253199126683650 , though there is no confirmation that they are behind it, only that they are glad that it happened.
"the power is out and I know why" implies advance knowledge of the attack at the least, and most likely their involvement in planning/coordination. why else would she know? Also, we shouldn't mince words here, this is a terrorist attack on civilian infrastructure for political ends. If this had been done by islamists, we'd call it as such. Instead we play the "gosh well she technically didn't say she did it" and "gos…
Hopefully they will be able to find the people behind this attack though. And if it turns out to be the person above I hope they will be stuck down with both terror and hate crime.
Vast majority of physical infrastructure has no security beyond a rickety fence. It is good that most terrorists are as mentally unstable as they are, because a rational person with some easily homemade bombs could easily disable most anything they want with no real chance at being caught.
Yes! A single person with a bunch of time, $200k, and making purchases that aren't watched at all has all the resources required to take out the entire electrical grid and cause mass loss of life. Legit too scared to even write the concept down in the event someone got the idea to even try.
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Yeah and no. Metcalf was similar in terms of targeting the transformer with rifle fire. But it was more professionally done (in terms of minimizing forensic footprint) and more hands-off, compared to the gate being pulled down by a truck as in this case. There are a number of potential suspects, but my feeling is that if there are no arrests in 72 hours you can expect a bunch of copycat attacks. Substations are very…
The FBI is investigating after a right wing extremist appeared to take responsibility for the attack, with the intention of disrupting a local transgender event. [1] https://twitter.com/Esqueer_/status/1599464591196491777?cxt=...