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Emergency declared and curfew imposed following North Carolina power grid attack
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Re: Emergency declared and curfew imposed following North Carolina power grid attack
#62In west Texas, vandals use power transformer bushings for target practice all the time.
Which is a lot different from dumping a mag into one of the expensive and hard to replace components at a substation, then driving around to another substation and doing the same thing again. The large oil filled transformers get really expensive really fast.
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#63Kind of surprising to not see the words "domestic terrorism" here, so let me be the first? This very well could be domestic terrorism and for now it would be prudent to treat it as such.
What is your definition of domestic terrorism? (I don't understand how it "could be", vs. "clearly is".)
Anyway, the press seems to be loathe to use that term when white conservatives are involved, and it happened in North Carolina.
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#64Kind of surprising to not see the words "domestic terrorism" here, so let me be the first? This very well could be domestic terrorism and for now it would be prudent to treat it as such.
I think we should wait before labeling what could just be economically anxious Americans exercising their right to free speech.
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#65Kind of surprising to not see the words "domestic terrorism" here, so let me be the first? This very well could be domestic terrorism and for now it would be prudent to treat it as such.
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I read it just now and I didn't get any impression they did it or knew who did it, just as you say they they were happy. 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…
Not unreasonable, but the person in question is a former army captain in a psyops unit at Fort Bragg who was kicked out of the force after she brought 100 people on a bus to DC for the January 6 protests, and has been hit with a restraining order to keep off city property for a year int he town of Southern Pines due to her anti-vax protest activity.
This doesn't mean she had any foreknowledge of the recent events, of course, but her comment doesn't read as an off-the-cuff casual reaction either. She's surely aware of the impression it would create thanks to her training and real-world experience with political activism.
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#67They don't like to use the words "domestic terrorism" when the people who did it are white.
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#68Kind of surprising to not see the words "domestic terrorism" here, so let me be the first? This very well could be domestic terrorism and for now it would be prudent to treat it as such.
What is the actual importance of this rhetoric / labeling discussion over all emerging domestic news stories? Do you not feel that it constantly gets in the way of an actual discussion. I feel like this topic has been ongoing for over a decade.
There are so many ways to describe the world. This is being described as a “[premeditated] attack”. Is there some ulterior motive I’m missing?
Sorry to seem to ranty over this, but it seems like an extremely forced meme at this point. I’m usually arguing for the importance of words, but on this specific criticism, genuinely, I beg the question, who effing cares?
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What does this have to do with the article? And why should we listen to someone with "If you hate cancel culture I'll cancel you" in their profile?
"We can get rid of all the rules, even the Constitution, to put me back in power" doesn't strike you as incitement to violent action? Not even the slightest bit?