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Pretty crazy incident. Evidence of prior scouting, cutting fiber optic lines, flashlight signals, and ensuring no fingerprints were left behind.

There was also a similar attack in North Carolina last year.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

These attacks are puzzling. What does anyone get from attacking electricity infrastructure?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

They were trying to jack on.

( Futurama reference )

[–] Gramatikal 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This one I'm not sure, but the NC one was done by a far-right conspiracy believer. It's also been done by some of the far-right militias that have popped up in the last decade.

They do it because they think it'll destabilize the country and start a civil war. One they want to win so they can inflict their ideology on everyone nationwide, whether it's wanted or not.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They've exhausted, or seemingly given up w/o trying, all democratic methods to employ their ideals so they've moved to terrorism.

[–] Gramatikal 4 points 1 year ago

It turns out that extremism isn't very popular. So fear is their only method.

[–] bhmnscmm 4 points 1 year ago

Very puzzling. I suppose anyone who wants to cause maximum chaos, or perhaps people with Ted Kaczynski like beliefs.