\n\n\n\nAn accelerationist handbook being shared among extremist Telegram \nchannels calls for shooters to bypass softer targets in favor of causing\n chaotic blackouts by emulating on a broader scale an unsolved sniper \nattack on a California transmission substation.
The cover of the 14-page PDF features a depiction of a masked and \nhooded gunman wielding a semiautomatic handgun with a suppressor affixed\n and wearing panoramic night-vision goggles. In the branches of a \nswastika behind the gunman are depictions of acts of violence including \nthree people being hanged, a group of buildings ablaze, and a police car\n on fire next to a figure holding an incendiary weapon.
The document begins by asserting it is not a text aimed at \nradicalizing new adherents, as the author(s) assume that readers are \nalready committed to \u201cdoing what you can to strike a blow to this \nsystem.\u201d
While lauding with racist language \u201cnoble acts of violence\u201d \nperpetrated by white supremacists, it brands the mass shooting in May at\n a supermarket in a Black area of Buffalo, N.Y., as \u201ctreating symptoms \nof the cancer, not the cause,\u201d and argues that attackers should choose \ntargets \u201cthat do the most damage to the system and spark revolution and \nchaos.\u201d
Recent attack had me remembering the metcalf substation shooting, yup still unsolved but there was this piece in July of 2022
I wonder if some of these might be like arsonists where they just do it for the thrill. Apparently some nontrivial fraction of major wildfires in California are started by arsonists, and the cops and courts encourage the newspapers not to report it on the front pages or name the offenders when they\u2019re caught, so as to not give them notoriety and breed copycats.
everytime I see this I read it as “Anarchist Style Guide Calls For\u2026”
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