Something does not add up here. Making RV full of explosives
and exploding it in a right place not a small feat. Oklahoma City Bombing, for example, took 8 month from start to final blast.
5G paranoids, IMHO, have attention span of a fly and, frankly speaking, just too dumb. I just don't see one of them executing such complex project, and avoiding FBI attention while doing it.
It's one of about a dozen different theories that have come out over the past two days. Sounds like everyone is grasping at straws right now. In the early days of an investigation, that's understandable for investigators, but the press grabs each of these theories as they come out and runs with them. If it turns out that the 5G paranoid theory is incorrect, doubt there will be even a token retraction or clarification. Instead it will be move on to the next thing and pretend the previous one was never suggested.
As another commenter mentioned, diesel fuel and fertilizer are ubiquitous. Tannerite, as you specifically mentioned, can be purchased in bulk by tens-of-lbs at single stores. In fact, you're likely to save a good chunk of change doing so.
I'm not being sarcastic when I say that the US is awash in explosive materials.
The Covid/cancer angle got the most attention in the mainstream press, but among some of the theorists I follow on Twitter, the general take is that 5G does not really have much application as a consumer technology (do people really need to be able to download 4K movies in 2 minutes on their mobile phones?). It does, however, have numerous applications in ubiquitous high-res video surveillance, autonomous weaponry, and the like.
Not familiar in the technology at all but was there not promise of better cars with 5g capability like the ability for all of them to be coordinated and send messages between cars like described in this article
https://www.zdnet.com/article/connected-cars-how-5g-and-iot-...
There are indeed some legit consumer uses one can point to with 5G, but at the very least they all tend to come with the implication of more surveillance as one effect. For example, the fleet of cars all pinging messages and coordinating with one another implies that their exact location becomes knowable at all times to some centralized network node.
Sounds like you might have an interesting take on what creates a conspiracy theorist? I don't meet many in my life (and I don't follow any, like you), but it seems they are becoming ubiquitous.
Speaking personally, I started out as an avid Skeptic Magazine reader and conspiracy doubter, but became interested in conspiracies after watching those inclined to believe in them accurately predict in real time (including in HN comments) that Jeffrey Epstein would die in prison before he would be allowed to come to trial or testify against the numerous wealthy & powerful people with whom he was associated. The media then proceeded to immediately circle the wagons and insist that anything other than 'it was a lone suicide' was 'baseless conspiracy theory.'
I imagine for most conspiracy theorists it's a similar process. They see some evidence of our society's widespread institutional corruption and the mass deception which is deployed to protect it, and begin looking for the truth in alternative avenues. Unfortunately it is then very easy to exit the first hall of mirrors into another one, like QAnon.
A lot of the last decade can be summed up as "other people being stupid is a problem for you even if you're not stupid". Applies to social media and fake news and financial scams and COVID-19 and Sex Ed and now this.
Is that so? The designers of toxic recommender systems on social media are stupid? The bundling of thousands of mortgages into "AAA" bonds was done by stupid people? The lab in Wuhan where they were collecting bats was staffed by stupid people? Ok maybe that last one is fair.
The sub prime crisis is almost a perfect example of this actually. Why stuff bonds with shit? Because there are buyers who will spend 1bn dollars on a bond tranch without doing 10k in analysis of the underlying. Not just some buyers, a huge market of them. If people had done a little due diligence 5 years earlier, the crisis would have been 20 times smaller. It would have been a minor story on page 27 of the finance section.
Social media algos are the same. They recommend conspiracy bs because there are 1million morons glugging it down for every developer pushing it. They fund his bonus cheque. That's none of my business until they go out and vote or refuse to wear a mask...
If anyone had alleged "toxic paper is being stuffed into these CDOs and rated AAA by the ratings agencies even though they know it's garbage" while it was ongoing, it would have been dismissed as "conspiracy bs".
Let me get this straight. Thieves and grifters are not the problem, none of your business in fact, it's the rubes who fall for their sophisticated schemes?
I just said it cost people who didn't get involved just as much as it cost the rubes. You and me are paying for those bailouts despite never being dumb enough to buy a cds or criminal enough to make a bad one...
Even so, the blame is not with the "stupid", especially when stupid seems to be a catch-all definition for all kinds of reasonable behavior, including acting in one's own interest, and not having all the information available before making a decision. Sorry, I cannot support elitism, and I don't have a better definition on-hand of what I'm seeing here, so let's call it even with "stupidity" ok? I blame the thieves and grifters.
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 67.1 ms ] threadTruly a "paranoid" notion, completely disconnected from reality.
5G paranoids, IMHO, have attention span of a fly and, frankly speaking, just too dumb. I just don't see one of them executing such complex project, and avoiding FBI attention while doing it.
I don't see why not. The United States is absolutely stuffed to the gills with explosive materials. Tannerite is basically everywhere, for example.
I'm not being sarcastic when I say that the US is awash in explosive materials.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/ev974m/isis-fake-bomb-terror...
https://www.france24.com/en/20121018-new-york-bomb-plot-arre...
etc
In any case I’d assume an anti-5G extremist would attack 5G infra directly, if they were going to go there.
https://tnsr.org/2020/11/the-u-s-navys-loss-of-command-of-th...
I imagine for most conspiracy theorists it's a similar process. They see some evidence of our society's widespread institutional corruption and the mass deception which is deployed to protect it, and begin looking for the truth in alternative avenues. Unfortunately it is then very easy to exit the first hall of mirrors into another one, like QAnon.
Social media algos are the same. They recommend conspiracy bs because there are 1million morons glugging it down for every developer pushing it. They fund his bonus cheque. That's none of my business until they go out and vote or refuse to wear a mask...
I just said it cost people who didn't get involved just as much as it cost the rubes. You and me are paying for those bailouts despite never being dumb enough to buy a cds or criminal enough to make a bad one...