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Caroline Orr Bueno Dec 9, 2022

So in the past 12 weeks, there have been…
-multiple attacks via firearms on power substations in NC and SC (just this week).
-6 attacks via firearms, hand tools, arson, & metal chains at power substations in WA and OR.
-6 attacks via firearms on substations in FL in a single 12-day stretch in September.

This style of attack on power substations has been laid out in detail in multiple accelerationist documents, including an “accelerationist handbook” that circulated on Telegram this summer.

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Caroline Orr Bueno Dec 9, 2022

In July, DHS warned about an “accelerationist handbook” circulating on extremist Telegram channels that explicitly called for potential attackers to bypass mass shootings in favor of causing chaotic blackouts by attacking the power grid, which the handbook referred to as a “sitting duck”. Neo-Nazi accelerationists want to use this to start a race war; they claim that with an extended blackout "all hell will break lose [sic]" and white supremacists would be poised to take control.

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DrKylara Dec 9, 2022

@rvawonk The idea that an extended blackout will somehow spark a race war is strange to someone whose students have had to deal with fire-related outages here in CA. Even the deliberate Public Safety Power Shutoffs aren’t always predictable, and turning the power back on sometimes fails. Multiple days of blackouts in the poorest and racially mixed parts of Hayward lead to more community, not violence.
These idiots just want to hurt a society they hate.

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JenX

@DrKylara @rvawonk Yes they want to cause maximum hurt and disruption, and then blame it all on black people, or trans people, or immigrants, or “the left”, or anyone who they consider the other.