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Several state buildings across the U.S. are on alert Wednesday, following a series of bomb threats made to buildings across the country. Threats were reported in several states— including Mississippi, Connecticut, Kentucky, and Georgia state capitols.

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[–] nicetriangle@kbin.social 139 points 6 months ago (27 children)

Not a single mention of the word terrorism. When the fuck is the media gonna start calling a spade a spade?

[–] xkforce@lemmy.world 33 points 6 months ago

Theyre afraid of getting bomb threats themselves

[–] Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world 23 points 6 months ago

You know exactly why.... Terrorist = Brown/Muslim

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[–] xkforce@lemmy.world 54 points 6 months ago (1 children)

One guess as to what party these terrorists belong to.

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

We’re BOYS and we’re PROUD because we want a fascist dick to suck!

[–] Rapidcreek@lemmy.world 30 points 6 months ago (2 children)

If the FBI can't even trace and track down such concerted effort, then there's a real problem.

[–] xkforce@lemmy.world 18 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Dont confuse cant with doesnt want to.

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago

The call is coming from inside the house

[–] Frog-Brawler@kbin.social 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Lack of funding might make you believe that. I’d have to ask, who do you suppose is in favor of not funding the FBI?

[–] xkforce@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

Im saying the right has probably infected the place.

[–] hglman@lemmy.ml 0 points 6 months ago

They did not.

[–] HootinNHollerin@slrpnk.net 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Right? All our communications are tapped by patriot act bullshit and they say this

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 28 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Weird choices. Georgia I get because of the ongoing Trump prosecution, but if it were Trump, why not Colorado and Maine?

[–] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 24 points 6 months ago

Maine state capitol was targeted

[–] qooqie@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Yeah I was thinking the same thing. The choices feel kind of random?

[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 20 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Turner diary influenced race war types want to create chaos for chaos. They think they're destined to create an ethnostate with enough civil unrest so it's all a means to an end.

[–] Jaderick@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

William Luther Pierce (author of The Turner Diaries /neo-Nazi) really should’ve received a good punch to the face or something during his lifetime. He was a loser before he met George Lincoln Rockwell and he was an irredeemable piece of shit after.

[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

He was one of the few I was happy to get a cancer diagnosis. He really took too long to die. Safe and sound in his terrorist trailer park base right in the United States. He deserved everything McVeigh got

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 6 points 6 months ago

Fascists create chaos so they can try to sell you the idea that they're the only ones who can end the chaos.

[–] snooggums@kbin.social 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Random threats are useful if the goal is to make everyone feel unsafe. Otherwise people might think it was targeted and that could help law enforcement speculate on who might be making the threats.

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

“Oh I wonder who it could have been? So many groups of people within the US looking to tear down democracy and install a fascist dictator. Guess we’ll never know.”

^ the FBI, probably

[–] xkforce@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Colorado's supreme court was targeted.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Not part of the bomb threats though, totally different deal.

[–] Frog-Brawler@kbin.social 3 points 6 months ago

In order to create plausible deniability. Make the threat “external.”

[–] Occamsrazer@lemdro.id 2 points 5 months ago

Well that depends on the motivation for the bomb threat.

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