The guy is white, so let's try the good old Ctrl+F "terror" and yup, sure enough, zero results.
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"Hmm..." thinks I, after reading the headline. "I wonder if this is going to be someone on the right or the left. I have my suspicions, but let's not jump to unfounded conclusions."
Turns out my conclusions were (once again) entirely founded.
The neighbor also told investigators that Mr. Spafford sometimes used photographs of President Biden for target practice at a local shooting range and believed that “political assassinations should be brought back.” After the attempt on President-elect Donald J. Trump’s life in Pennsylvania in July, the papers said, Mr. Spafford told his neighbor that he “hoped the shooter doesn’t miss Kamala,” an apparent reference to Vice President Kamala Harris.
Mr. Spafford moved to his farm this fall, and the neighbor went to visit him there in October wearing a secret recording device, the papers said. Mr. Spafford told the neighbor that he had various types of explosives at the property and discussed fortifying it with “a 360-degree turret” in which he planned to mount a 50-caliber rifle, according to the papers.
No Lives Matter is an offshoot of the broader “accelerationist” movement, which seeks to accelerate radical social change through sabotage and violence. Some scholars of far-right extremism believe it takes its name from a song entitled “No Lives Matter,” by the pro-Trump Canadian rapper Tom MacDonald.
song entitled “No Lives Matter,” by the pro-Trump Canadian rapper Tom MacDonald.
I understand the words in this sentence, but the order they are presented in is... Baffling.
Guy doesn't like group think. That's why he became a figurehead of MAGA...
....I may need more than one bottle of prosecco to prepare for 2025.
Not sure that clears up anything.
"MAGA Rap" - all I can think of is some kind of low(er)-rent Kid Rock knockoff. 🤣 😂
I'm sure I'm wrong, and I'm not going to look into it any deeper, but that's what the phrase "MAGA Rap" brings to mind for me.
I’m assuming this was for when “the election was stolen”, but it wasn’t because musk won :)
Will we ever start seeing terrorism changes for these terrorists?
Of course not; he's a white, right-wing nationalist. Nothing to see here.
Not unless they're a minority or they kill or threaten someone rich and conservative. The rich part there is really important, they won't care if a poor conservative gets killed. They might care a little if a rich progressive gets killed, but only if they think there might be a chance it would lead to attacks on rich people in general.
...that largely exists on encrypted online messaging apps like...
If you're a journalist demonizing encrypted communication, I can't take you seriously.
Get used to it, that's the next rhetoric. If the government can't read it and filter it, they're going to try to stamp it out over the next few years.
Actually the FBI has been recommending people use more secure communications lately due to Chinese spying through SMS network infrastructure.
That was knee-jerk because we can't do shit about the espionage. As we go down the slippery slope of authoritarianism, their ability to see everything we say will become paramount to them.
Although they recommend WhatsApp, which is owned and controlled by Meta. I'd be surprised if they don't have access to that.
That part's not new, that started in 2001. But journalists specifically have a vested interest in having secure and private communication. It's not in their interest to equate it with terrorism.
I wonder what the holdup was, taking over a year to move on information, and then only on the pretense of a sawed-off shotgun as a reason. It seems really, REALLY cautious.
I wonder if neighbor was being pressed to "infiltrate" the circle. Something's really off here.
The way the guy talked, he seemed to imply he knew about a lot of other people involved in that movement. Perhaps the FBI was just really making sure all of their i's were dotted and t's were crossed so nothing goes wrong with bringing him in and getting him to divulge a lot of information. Or.. the guy has already blown off half of a hand making his explosives. Maybe the FBI was waiting in the hopes he'd blow the rest of himself to kingdom come and they wouldn't have to deal with him lol.
My guess is legality of methods obtaining info.
I can have "on good authority" that you're doing XYZ, but that doesn't mean I can go snooping in your private shit. I need probable cause.
Do they just have group chats on telegram where they hype each other up and finally one yells “Leroy Jenkins” and runs off to do something stupid?
Fascism =/= nihilism. The hegemonic narrative doesn't understand anarchism, nihilism, leftism, etc...
"encrypted" + telegram?
= online ?
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