167 points

I see the media’s extreme reluctance in calling white people “terrorists” continues.

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“Extremist” is such a copout term… as if they’re just eccentric rather than violent degenerates.

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Absolutely. It’s like how if you’re poor and crazy, you’re crazy; but if you’re rich and crazy, you’re eccentric.

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29 points

They know who their biggest audience is.

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21 points

No, no, trust me, if they were left leaning in anyway, they would be antifa commie terrorist

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14 points

Or Radical Christian Terrorists

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They ain’t no christian thank you very much. Else they’d avoid doing harm unto others, lying etc.

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Bit of a “No True Scotsman” fallacy, unfortunately. But I agree that many modern Christians do not espouse the teachings of Christ, but rather worship their own rules and prejudices. Just like the very people Christ admonished in their religious text.

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It would suck to have citizens as terrorists in your own country. But here we are, even if the media doesn’t want to call them that.

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Don’t get excited. That picture is a “booking photo from 2018,” from some previous fuckery.

This guy and his lackeys are just out there, freely doing this shit, right now. I imagine that if someone was to head over to the Ingles Markets in Lake Lure, NC, on NC-9 just south of US 64, they might still be there.

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The government should inundate them with The Brown Note™. If they have a “weather weapon,” you know they have at least that.

Teach them a lesson

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Over the past three weeks, members of the group, which falsely claims that Helene was caused by a “weather weapon,” have been making conspiracy-driven claims that the U.S. military is attempting to kill U.S. citizens with “directed energy weapons.”

I’m directing some energy at them right now, let’s see if they can pick up on it.

You want to pour sugar in tanks, like whatever. I’m not sure North Carolina has a legitimate need for armoured vehicles and the military industrial complex is pretty whack. But they also want to destabilize the cellular and electrical infrastructure which would be essential to provide relief for hurricane victims.

Doxxing elected officials and threatening the police is a bold choice. Usually these nutcases are making allies with the police.

By golly, this almost seems like it could be terrorism.

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I fully agree with your comment - thank you for sharing this.

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4 points

They probably wanted to target Ft. Liberty which is the home of 18th Airborne Corps

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I am leaning into the whole “Democrats have god-like power over the weather” conspiracy because it pleases me to use that as a reason for voting Kamala. Why vote against the team with the hurricane machine? They are obviously much stronger.

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Why are we worried about doxxing elected officials? Shouldn’t they self-doxx as a matter of principle?

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No, that’s a terrible idea.

If nothing else, the neighbors’ of elected officials would be subjected to all sorts of nonsense they hadn’t signed up for.

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I think there’s a difference between saying, “This is my name and I work here for the city,” and, “This is the home address of my opponent whom I’m sharing lies about and threatening violence towards”

Especially when you consider that it’s not just the officials, but their families who are exposed too

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I naturally draw a distinction between city employees and elected officials.

I’m sort of the school of thought that transparency of who they are and conflicts of interest should be a given. Release of tax returns, etc.

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Their home addresses don’t need to be public knowledge.

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39 points

This shit is bonkers crazy, where do these people come up with this stuff? It’s lunacy to the core.

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Given that they’re organizing on Telegram, I’m guessing they’re seeded and encouraged by Russia.

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All kinds of assholes use Telegram, not only Putin’s putos.

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My guess is a foreign campaign that found some useful idiots, but maybe I’m too optimistic that’s the case.

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Blowing up cellular and electrical infrastructure is BIG in white supremacist communities, the idea being that somehow these acts will push white people to an open race war.

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According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Veterans on Patrol founder, Michael Meyer is not a veteran. https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/veterans-patrol

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Oh, I’m sure. All of these extremist and militia nutjobs are just LARPing fools who wish for the worst, but would actually shit their pants if things really went down. They like feeling important in their otherwise mundane lives, not actually having to do anything dangerous.

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