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Outside of one-in-a-billion shots like Mangione, we're still at the discomfort level of unreliable whackadoos being the only ones to try violent direct action. Which means that instead of picking targets that would actually make an impact, they're picking personally symbolic targets that they have easy, ready access to. And they're not even hitting those targets with real success / possibly creating innocent collateral in the process.
We aren't there yet.
Anti-fascist.
literally 1984
Although it appeared first glance to be an explosive device in an awkward moment of enthusiasm, it's actually just a Roman Celebratory Sparklemaker.
Just wait til someone invents the first practical incendiary drone that can be easily made on a consumer 3D printer.
In principle, it's quite simple. All a drone has to do is take off, travel to a fixed set of GPS coordinates, land, and then activate an incendiary of some kind. Maybe a thermite charge, maybe something simpler to set off.
This tech already exists due to the Ukraine conflict. But to my knowledge, it's never been packaged in a form that's easily replicable by an average random person in their home. But I see no reason why it couldn't be. And when it does, all Hell's going to break loose.
On the more class liberation side, it will make burning down the assets of the rich much, much easier and harder to stop. On the other hand, it will also make it easier for fascists to target those resisting fascism. You're an activist of some sort. One night, a drone lands on your roof at 2 AM and sets fire to your house. Who did it? Who knows. Good luck finding out.
Hell, on a large scale, this will make it possible for a single individual to cause a disaster on the scale of the firebombing of Dresden. Consider the extremely dry weather and accompanying fires in Los Angeles. That moment, when the city was dry as tinder and the winds were blowing strong. Imagine if at that moment, someone had decided to release a few thousand incendiary drones on the city. Maybe they saved them up, just for this purpose. Consider how valiantly the fire fighters there worked to protect Los Angeles. And now imagine an alternate history where at that moment 5,000 structure fires erupted simultaneously across the city, including multiples started on the roof of every fire station.
The technology already exists. It's just a matter of someone figuring out how to package it in an accessible form. When that happens, God help us all.
Something like that would be damn near untraceable. As long as you are far away enough and are long gone before anyone notices... and maybe even have a timer to start to give you even more time to disappear they would never be able to find you.
This goes double if you are in an area without a lot of cameras and thus video surveillance canvassing won't be of much else.
Cheap gps enabled drones are very plentiful on the internet. You don't need to 3d print anything except maybe the parts to hold the bomb. Just need to reprogram them to have them go to a fixed point and trigger a relay with an explosive. It's trivial, and the fact that it is not common for most people with the skills to do it is because they have a lot to lose if they are caught. Once you take away enough rights and liberties that smart techy people have nothing left to lose then you will see more remote drone attacks.
This is the reason the federal government has been trying to ban drone companies like DJI, they are afraid of the cheap throw away bomb delivery vehicles.
Buying the Drone leads to easier tracing. They can investigate anyone who bought any Drone for a certain amount of time. But printing one of your own and having far less traceable electronic components makes that job much harder.
There’s a lot of parts in there that may be traceable
Like I said, "nothing to lose" sure they may be able to trace it but by then they are fighting for their life against all odds. Also they could have a "freedom fighter team" where they buy the drones 2nd hand, in bulk, illegally, or just steal them. This would not be a covert operation, it would be a rebel force.
Given the safety record, you could probably drive by and throw a ballpeen hammer at them
2 am high-speed Molotov cocktail?
There are plenty of low tech solutions to some problems.
Allegedly!
It wasn't her.
My kind of gal
Why a Tesla dealership when there are police departments and churches available?
Isn't this exactly what negotiating with labor unions so workers have good quality of life was made to prevent?
More Americans will become terrorists, and it's no surprise. They have nothing to loose.
Nothing to lose but your chains, you say 🤔
Yup. We're about to see a whole lot more desperate people in this country.
Things are about to get wild over the next few years.
And it all could have been prevented by not voting for a traitorous felon rapist.
America makes the terrorist, and then asks why me!?
More Americans will become ~~terrorists~~ freedom fighters