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TIL in 2013 a California power substation was attacked by gunmen. The attack appeared to be "a professional job." There are no leads and no arrests have been made (en.wikipedia.org)
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Pretty crazy incident. Evidence of prior scouting, cutting fiber optic lines, flashlight signals, and ensuring no fingerprints were left behind.

There was also a similar attack in North Carolina last year.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They've exhausted, or seemingly given up w/o trying, all democratic methods to employ their ideals so they've moved to terrorism.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It turns out that extremism isn't very popular. So fear is their only method.