Caroline Orr BuenoDec 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.

Show threadCaroline Orr BuenoDec 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.
Show threadFrankie Saxx

@rvawonk
this sounds exactly like the apocalypse as imagined by a bunch of sweaty dudes in unwashed tighty-whities furiously posting manifestos from their mom's basement

Like, yes Stewart, it *is* hard to go 4 hours without electricity, I know, but in reality, if you shoot the transformer at the substation what happens isn't The Purge. We just endure several days of inconvenience while the power company repairs it and then you go to jail for domestic terrorism
@nicolewolverton

Dec 12, 2022 at 12:03amWeb