DHS followed up with a “National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin” issued on Nov. 30 stating that “Domestic actors and foreign terrorist organizations continue to maintain a visible presence online in attempts to motivate supporters to conduct attacks in the Homeland.”
"domestic actors" and "foreign terrorist organizations"
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I refuse to have enough faith in the ability of Americans to believe this is some nationwide organizational thing instead of dipshit local militia chuds shooting up power substations because they saw other people do it on the Internet
This is splitting hairs, still violent right wing terrorism
They both are but one is scarier than the other because it implies greater plans on the horizon
I've lost any and all faith in the ability of any American to plan anything at all, beneficial or malicious
The right wing militia chuds have been pushing the idea of leaderless cell-based terrorism and sabotage for well over 40 years. They don't need high level coordination. This kind of sabotage is trivially easy and hard to defend against.
The problem for right wingers is that it's hard to get all this adventurism to coalesce into the type of naked, large-scale fascism they really want. As bad as the police are, they aren't disappearing people en masse like the Southern Cone dictatorships of the Cold War. As common as right-wing vigilante violence is, they can't get away with the kinds of death squads you saw during the Jim Crow era or you've seen in Latin America.
They'll get Years of Lead-style terror and increased police brutality, and that will help them more than it hurts them. But they want full acceptance of them and their program by the state, and that's not something they can force from the ground up.
Won't happen, not because it shouldn't happen (in any functional country we'd be conducting a full fash militia cleanse), but because militias are the brownshirts of the state as well as a resource for honeypotting when needed by the feds. This shit happened before in CA and the perpetrators of that attack were also never found.
No, the other kind of fascist crackdown. :no-mouth-must-scream:
The Iron Law of Treats says that this is how fascists finally self-defeat in the eyes of Americans
Yes we will soon be entering a decade long media war:
:live-tucker-reaction: this is clearly anteefa
:frothingfash: no! No! We're not anteefa! No! Please!
Watching them trip over each others' dicks to explain jan 6th has been a treat
I believe these attacks are ops to justify more funding into infrastructure using taxpayer money
Just like how they use domestic terrorist attacks to justify increasing surveillance, military budget, police budget, etc. they are using domestic terrorist attacks on infrastructure to justify sucking more money from the citizens to pay for infrastructure corporation's upgrades
They know it's already failing. They know the capitalists won't fix it themselves without a short term profit incentive. So they're trying to force the capitalists to improve it by giving them money and making them sign a contract
I predict this will go the way of when telecom companies got billions to improve internet connectivity, but almost all of it obviously just went into pockets of execs and into cash on hand balance sheet while very little got accomplished for improving their services/products
Have you seen the state of our infrastructure? Funding it would be good lol
I doubt it's an op tbh, if it is it won't be by the, uh, infrastructure industrial complex?
Since we live in hell, it's more likely that these are local fash militia things that got away from their fed handlers a lil bit. Don't get me wrong I suspect this will be used as an excuse to privatize infrastructure, but I doubt that was the planned intent of these acts
It's an op by the Pentagon/ClA because they've already submitted multiple reports on how the American power grid is failing and is a massive vulnerability to national interests
They don't want to improve the infrastructure to improve people's lives. It's to make it so everybody is still alive, able to commute to work, and the companies they work still having energy to run
Basically, it's the equivalent of the vaccines where they obviously didn't give a shit about your health but they gave everybody free healthcare anyways so that people wouldn't die and can still go to work
They let people with cancer and disabilities die because it's an extremely small population, expensive to cure, and even if treated, are less productive as workers
But they tried to treat covid since it would affect too many people
Same with infrastructure
they're not going to improve the infrastructure, they're just going to build giant walls around it
How would you make infrastructure "fail naturally"? I'm sure there's lot of monitoring on the health of these systems and regular check up reports (that get ignored)
Bringing down imperial core power networks is cool, hope it’s the Russians or Iranians or Chinese
