Kontextmaschine

5th December 2022

Link reblogged from For Mutiny and Desertion with 129 notes

Accelerationist Guide Calls for Metcalf-Style Attacks on ‘Sitting Duck’ Electricity Infrastructure - HS Today →

collapsedsquid:
An accelerationist handbook being shared among extremist Telegram channels calls for shooters to bypass softer targets in favor of causing chaotic blackouts by emulating on a broader scale an unsolved sniper attack on a California transmission substation.
The cover of the 14-page PDF features a depiction of a masked and hooded gunman wielding a semiautomatic handgun with a suppressor affixed and wearing panoramic night-vision goggles. In the branches of a swastika behind the gunman are depictions of acts of violence including three people being hanged, a group of buildings ablaze, and a police car on fire next to a figure holding an incendiary weapon.
The document begins by asserting it is not a text aimed at radicalizing new adherents, as the author(s) assume that readers are already committed to “doing what you can to strike a blow to this system.”
While lauding with racist language “noble acts of violence” perpetrated by white supremacists, it brands the mass shooting in May at a supermarket in a Black area of Buffalo, N.Y., as “treating symptoms of the cancer, not the cause,” and argues that attackers should choose targets “that do the most damage to the system and spark revolution and chaos.”
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’re caught, so as to not give them notoriety and breed copycats.

everytime I see this I read it as “Anarchist Style Guide Calls For…”