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  Probably, what scares me most right now is how effective AI images and deep fakes are becoming. I wonder if one fake video released at the right time with eh right context can spark the powderkeg. Seems like only a matter of time before it becomes a huge issue. We can barely trust what we see and hear even now. Shits gonna be bananas.
context: This is going to become a common problem as copy cats decide this is an easy way to cause havoc. >
  
  It's already a problem. Infrastructure attacks have been on the rise for a while. Expect escalation.
  edit: uncited number removed. >
  
  
  They really, really want to shoot people (see: the beatification of Kyle Rittenhouse) but they can’t
  
  This kid is literally selling a video game called "Kyle Rittenhouse's Turkey Shoot" and that tells you all you need to know about who he is >
  
  Yeah, and in the advertisement he calls on people to play the game and help him fight “the fake news media turkeys”.  Because reporters are all turkeys and are all reporting lies about Republicans…and I have no idea what you should do about that, but play this game where you control Kyle as he shoots turkeys. >
  
  And of course the media will report it as a "both sides" issue and refuse to acknowledge the fact that one of those sides is literally fantasizing about murdering them. >
  
  Media can only run the stories their billionaire owners will allow them to run. Go listen to NPR if you want principled journalism. >
  
  Please. NPR utterly failed the challenge Trump presented to them, and went right on reporting the news as though everything was normal, “both sides-ing” their way straight to hell. They acted like cowards. I stopped donating to my local affiliate in 2017 and by 2018 had stopped listening entirely. 
  Steve Inskeep, in particular, can get fucked. Mealy-mouthed little shit. >
  
  I listened to NPR for years. I’d say it was one of the reasons I learned about media literacy. Ironically, those same lessons in critical thinking led me away from NPR, and it was for this exact reason. >
  
  I listen to random articles occasionally but NPR remains my go-to "hourly news" summary. >
  
  All of these dumb cunts should be charged with terrorism. >
  
  Anybody know examples of what happens to those caught doing this kind of thing? Seems very much like domestic terrorism. >
  
  A similar attack just happened in north Carolina. They're pressing terrorism charges. >
  
  against who? the "mysteriously motivated lone wolf group" they still havent found yet? >
  
  wtf. Spray painting a dick and balls on the side of a walmart is vandalism. This is terrorism >
  
  Our Local Sinclair owned media outlet called it “Burglary”. There’s some serious media spin going on for this. >
  
  What are they burglarizing? 
  People's safety and comfort? >
  
  Apparently burglary and vandalism have significant overlap and burglary doesnt require theft. It apparently means breaking and entering a building to commit a crime. The theft doesn’t have to be the crime. 
  I just found this out from a discussion earlier about it.
  I wish they would just call it terrorism. >
  
  Calling these attacks "burglary" is beyond ridiculous. It's equivalent to saying the 9/11 hijackers "burgled" the twin towers because they broke and entered the building and committed a crime.
  Using that term is nothing but white washing right wing terrorism. >
  
  What's the difference between "vandalized" and "intentionally attacked"? >
  
  Intentionally attacked is still to harmless. Specifically targeting critical infrastructure like in these cases is basically domestic terrorism >
  
  No argument from me >
  
  Hate to say it but imagine if a camera caught a guy blowing up the power station who has a dark taint or even brown/dark skin….
  Most big media outlets would be screaming terrorism like there is no tomorrow 
  If the perpetrators doesn’t fit the established "bias" then it is somehow not as bad >
  
  What if it were some coordinated attack from a group of individuals who have a religion from somewhere in the Middle East? Would it be an act of terrorism then?
  /s, because you know, it could be some “Christian” who is doing this, and their religion came from that region originally. Whatever the heck it became today is not what Jesus taught. But it’s just double standards; if a dark skinned guy did this for religious reasons, it’s terrorism. >
  
  If it's a white guy, he is a lone wolf, needing psychological help. Most likely driven mad by the woke community that excluded him from their social circles because of his conservative values. His loneliness drove him to extremism. >
  
  Yep, definitely wasn't extremism leading to loneliness.  (Yes, I know that was the point) >
  
  i was affected by this. thank god it wasn’t still freezing outside. waking up to no power on christmas morning was not fun. >
  
  My wishes to you for the best Christmas you could have considering the circumstance. I thought I had a horrible Christmas when the heating element in the stove went out. >
  
  Dollar stores have 50 cameras on the ceiling and behind mirrors.
  Power substations, a critical part of electrical infrastructure, and there's no security at all other than a Master lock on the gate. >
  
  I mean if you are gonna sit off to the side and just shoot a rifle into a substation then really nothing is gonna help short of a force field.. Like what is even the purpose of this? Killing power for a wide area is gonna make EVERYONE in that area mad, it doesn't matter your cause because now everyone in that area is directly against your cause.
  Really there is no faster way to get people to turn against you than to shut off their power. >
  
  The first time that your power is knocked out, you are mad at the jerk who knocked out your power. The fourth time, you’re mad at the government for letting it happen. >
  
  Or maybe during the commission of the fourth time, some of those pissed off people from the third time, are sitting in hides waiting for those terrorist to strike a fourth time. >
  
  We have that. Or are supposed to, at least. It's called the police or national guard and we've already paid the bill for them. We need to make them do their job. >
  
  Some of those who destroy power sources..
  Are the same that work forces.. >
  
  Whoever did it should be held liable for every death that occurred.  This is an act of domestic terror. >
  
  legally they can be even a car accident death caused by traffic lights being out can be prosecuted not sure the exact charge >
  
  IANAL but maybe second degree felony murder in Washington state. >
  
  In Oklahoma, that would be felony murder. Infrastructure attacks are a felony, and any death that occurs as the result of a commission of a felony is murder under state law. >
  
  This is called "felony murder" and it applies in WA:
  
  In the state of Washington, the common law felony murder rule is codified at Revised Code of Washington §§ 9A. 32.030(c) and 9A. 32.050(b) >
  
  Attacking infrastructure isn’t vandalism, it’s terrorism. Vandalism is painting graffiti on a bridge not using thermite to melt the support structure. It’s domestic terrorism, flat out. >
  
  If it’s a white person it’s vandalism, if the person is colored it’s terrorism. That’s how the media and country see it. >
  
  I’m a white person in rural, central NC. Pretty sure it was some white redneck bubba that hit the substations here, and I haven’t heard a single person call it vandalism. Only the media is calling it that, and it’s time we ask why. >
  
  Look at the politics of every news ceo in this country. >
  
  Yea but 30,000 email begins to froth at the mouth >
  
  If caught doing this during winter chill months, charges of attempted murder for each family household wouldn’t sound too unreasonable. >
  
  Or when the summer temperature hits 120 degrees. >
  
  I wish the same could be applied to my power utility that purposely turns off power to prevent the grid from blowing and causing fires of mass destruction every year. >
  
  Didn’t all of these power providers receive federal grants to fix the security of these things 20 years ago? >
  
  They put in new locks. >
  
  God damn lock picking lawyer strikes again >
  
  "This is the Lock picking lawyer and what we have here is a Masterlock model 69420 padlock serving as the only means of access control to this critical infrastructure. Unfortunately it's vulnerable to a low skill attack." >
  
  He then proceeded to ask it nicely to open and open it. Then opens it again to prove it's not a fluke.
  "And that concludes my 1 minute 30 second video until next time" >
  
  They should putting these douchebags away for 20 years when they catch em.. especially during the winter. >
  
  Good news! 18usc1366 gives a 20 year sentence.  Life if someone dies >
  
  Has anyone heard of a single arrest being made in connection to any of these attacks so far? Seems surprising that law enforcement is taking something this big so lightly. >
  
  Hopefully some of that $800 billion defense bill is going to protect these substations. >
  
  "vandalized". fuuuck you. >
  
  It's just amazing how fucking stupid people can be. >
  
  "we are all domestic terrorists" >
  
  Media reports should stop saying it was vandalism. It trivializes what was done. It was domestic terrorism. >
  
  Sure would be nice if the DHS started arresting these domestic terrorists. >
  
  Arrest their own boys in blue and all their friends? That's never going to happen. >
  
  Domestic terrorists. That's what they are. >
  
  Damn, russia really did get a whole movement in this country to attack itself. All with the internet.