This is horrific, straight up fascist terrorism. Only gonna get worse.

  • JucheBot1988
    30·
    3 年前

    Man, we can take out our own power grid without any help from the Russians.

      • JucheBot1988
        2·
        3 年前

        Given that those two things are probably the only part of the US economy that’s really stable, this is a bit too accurate.

  • Shrike502
    28·
    3 年前

    And the Nazi paramilitaries aren’t even back from Ukraine yet

    • SovereignStateOP
      23·
      3 年前

      Blowback’s gonna hit us like a truck (bomb). Hope against hope that I’m a million miles away somewhere building socialism with mi camaradas or 내 동지들 by the time that shit hits the fan, but it’s more than unlikely.

  • chad1234
    28·
    3 年前

    There is no coverage of this in the Fake News MSM.

    • SovereignStateOP
      27·
      3 年前

      Yeah every major outlet has been reporting it as mere “vandalism” rather than what it is, a coordinated terrorist attack

  • DankZedong
    23·
    3 年前

    That’s mental. I wonder if right wing terrorism will even be stopped.

      • DankZedong
        24·
        3 年前

        A couple of weeks ago a right wing nutjob planning to do a terrorist attack was killed during a police raid. This was in Belgium and heavy weapons were found in his house. It made me realize that we need to step up our game as the left, because the right is doing so as well. This is in a country where almost no one has weapons, so to see them arming themselves was a bit of a shock.

          • DankZedong
            16·
            3 年前

            I tried looking for it but I can’t find the reason for him having so many heavy weapons. They mentioned he was a member of a shooting range, so some might be legally owned (which you can still do), but it doesn’t explain the dozens of weapons they found. So I don’t know unfortunately. My city is the main drug port in Europe, and illegal weapons are big, so that might be the case.

              • DankZedong
                17·
                3 年前

                Apparently the war in Serbia and Bosnia led to a huge increase of black market weapons. There’s a lot of smaller criminals walking around with 90s Yugoslavian weapons. Actual military grade weapons are harder to get.

                But I’m sure the Ukrainian war will have its effect on arms trade in Europe. And especially targeted at far right groups, with Azov and all that.

                • Shrike502
                  11·
                  3 年前

                  But I’m sure the Ukrainian war will have its effect on arms trade in Europe.

                  Have you seen the stats for the number of weapons that actually get to the front vs the number of weapons sold? Something like a third of all the military “aid” NATO gives to Ukraine just… got lost. Somewhere.

                • knfrmity
                  5·
                  3 年前

                  I was reading this week about how weapons supplied to Ukraine have already ended up in the middle east if I’m not mistaken.

              • carpe_modo
                4·
                3 年前

                I met someone in the air force that had snuck an RPG back to their house. Security for a lot of these weapons isn’t close to what it should be, and there’s plenty of demand for them. They certainly aren’t very concerned with their weapons winding up in the wrong hands.

            • Shaggy0291
              9·
              3 年前

              The shooting range is simply a networking environment. Its where a would-be gun buyer can get connected with the individuals who have ties to the black market and can hook them up with weapons in countries where gun ownership is restricted. In other words, its the place where legal gun enthusiasts come into contact with the sort of figures you would only otherwise reach through involvement in criminal gangs.

              What these weapons dealers have available for their customers varies greatly, but typically most of their stuff will originally come from Eastern Europe. A lot of weapons disappeared out of the arsenals of collapsed communist states at the end of the Cold War and fell into the hands of criminals in this way, though today the primest equipment is that being sent to Ukraine by NATO countries that then conveniently disappears once it changes hands.

    • knfrmity
      15·
      3 年前

      I don’t think it will be, except for a couple high profile cases law enforcement and intelligence use as propaganda for increasing their budgets.

      Both right wing terrorism and organized crime are incredibly useful tools for the bourgeoisie.

      • ComradeSalad
        17·
        3 年前

        The cost of everything related to guns is becoming increasingly prohibitive, with for example a single small box of ammunition costing up to a whole weeks worth of groceries. Along with that, all places to learn/practice skills are infested and crawling with these same types of right-wing delusional terrorists. I also don’t know if I’d trust myself to own a weapon such as a gun due to my mental health, despite how much I might like to own one.

          • ComradeSalad
            9·
            3 年前

            NSFW:TW

            spoiler

            Sadly, I feel that if worst comes to worst, I would never want to make myself or anyone else suffer, and I’d prefer to go quickly and painlessly. Which would only be achievable with a firearm, so having that in the equation and available would be horrifically dangerous, and I do not want to risk ruining everything all because of a quick 15 minute decision due to a rough patch that I could have pushed through. I also have family experience with that situation, so I am beyond terrified to allow myself to own a gun, no matter how much I love weapons and would love to own a Mosin or 74.

            It is sad how cost prohibitive it all is though, especially for a student that has to decide if he wants to put gas in his car to get to class and buy food, or to drive to the range and buy bullets. So sadly it isn’t very realistic.

            • CannotSleep420
              9·
              3 年前

              While obviously a bad thing, it’s strangely comforting to see people avoiding firearms for the same reason I do.

            • GloriousDoubleK
              6·
              3 年前

              This is also my issue. Id like to own a gun as a means of a quick way out. But also only due to the rise in fascist violence. When can I say that enough is enough amd Im certain we are at a point of no return? I dont want to get captured, basically.

          • SovereignStateOP
            15·
            3 年前

            Adding onto ComradeSalad’s points, they’re 100% a last resort if you can’t find some actual communists to shoot with. I was in a chapter with about 8 people 5 years or so ago and I was the only self-identified Marxist. Social democrats, anarchists, left-liberals. “Left unity” out the ass (unless you’re an ML, good luck).

            They’ve got a sex pest and ideological chaos problem. The SRA subreddit is evidence enough of their nonsense.

              • redtea
                7·
                3 年前

                By theory they mean the likes of Zizek and Chomsky, I’m sure. Unfortunately there are a lot of other popular, Western ‘Marxist’ theorists, too, who don’t support AES. They can be a good route in, but unless there’s some encouragement to read ML works, it’s a dead end branch of theory. For some reason, those newer theorists get rather a lot of distribution.

          • ComradeSalad
            11·
            3 年前

            I will say that the SRA are leagues better then almost every other organization out there, and they have been a fantastic resource in education related to Leftist gun ownership. However the cost of entry is still prohibitive, and the membership only adds to that. Along with the fact that as a student I am strapped for time, money, and transportation that would be required. It is also difficult to know where to start, but that is more problem for myself.

        • Shaggy0291
          61·
          3 年前

          Increasingly the most realistic looking way to arm up would be to something akin to what’s happened here; knock out the local grid and take advantage of the chaos to rob gun stores. Provided the plan was well organised and executed like this, a group of people could stand to walk away with a personal armoury.

  • big_spoon
    11·
    3 年前

    imagine being so triggered for a drag show that you need to cut off the power for all your county…