You mustn’t feel negative about yourself.
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Say watt?
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No, I don’t. I’m very down to earth. Quite neutral about it all.
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… but my television keeps telling me that a single fentanyl pill will kill everyone in the world 
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Less a prediction than a stochastic nudge.
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To think that before 9-11 one of the main foci of the FBI was white supremacy and neo-Nazis. The few big fuckups of Ruby Ridge and Waco made them more cautious about confronting groups in compounds, but they were active in tracking and pursuing that population.
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That’s not the case at all…
They treated them like “lone wolves” and did not bother with trying to break up these networks, which is why they are still around and why Trump was able to so effectively tap into those networks…
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You beat me to it; like, when did that ever happen?
Fred Hampton and the original Black Panther Party would like a word.
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The Panthers (and Hampton’s assasination especially) a perfect example of how federal law enforcement could use its power to break up organization that they deem “dangerous” to public safety. They also went after what they saw as domestic networks of Islamists. They never, EVER did that with any of the white supremacist groups. The only way that these groups have ever been broken up is via civil law suits. When Mulageta Seraw was murdered by members of WAR in Portland in the late 80s, the cops did nothing to get rid of white power thugs on the streets… it took a coalition of activists, punks, and anti-racist skins standing up to those pricks and Seraw’s family suing Tom Metzger and his organization to bring WAR down…
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We all at this point know WHY they didn’t break them up, either. Law enforcement has no interest breaking up terrorist groups that their officers and soldiers are active members OF.
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Main focus, only if you count largely ignoring them and running mass infiltration rings during the green scare as a main focus. Tom Metzger was free to run around inciting murder regularly until civil cases brought him down, but there’s hardly someone who has walked near a Food Not Bombs table without having to memorize the number for their local NLG contact. So yeah, the cops occasionally arrest a Nazi, but usually after they’ve killed someone, but if a left wing protest involves an activity as spicy as leaving the sidewalk you need to have careful conversations about people’s willingness to accept arrest.
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That has caused cancer patients to be too terrified to use it.
Good primer on that:
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Or having muddy shoes in a forest.
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Enough with the electrical puns people; can you please just all go ohm.
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It’s earthy humour, grounded in everyday life.
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Don’t blow a fuse. Be thankful that there are still some people with the capacity to stay positive in these troubled times.
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Stochastic Errorism?
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Those leaderless cells are always looking for signs that they’ve been activated. Hannity knows that, just like Trump.
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Here’s the full report from GAO in 1981:
I’ve not read it.
Just looking through that site, the utility infrastructure seems to come up every 5 years or so. The last one I remember hearing about in real time was the cybersecurity threat, but maybe the solar flares one came after that…
One of the common themes every time is that we don’t have enough replacement parts, so it really wouldn’t take much to incapacitate the system for months. IIRC, even something as seemingly simple as the large insulators have low stockpiles and a long lead time if ordering more.
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Former Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Jon Wellinghoff stated that military experts informed him that the assault looked like a “professional job”, noting that no fingerprints were discovered on the empty casings. While Wellinghoff described the attack as “the most significant incident of domestic terrorism involving the grid that has ever occurred”, a spokesman for the Federal Bureau of Investigation stated that they did not believe a terrorist organization was responsible.
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a spokesman for the Federal Bureau of Investigation stated that they did not believe a terrorist organization was responsible.
What’s that, you say? A lone wolf?
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