Recent comments in /f/Washington

Guilty_Jackrabbit t1_j339gwe wrote

I don't believe it. If they're impulsive enough, lacking enough vision, and low-effort to want to rob a cash register, there's 0 reason to take time to figure out how to disable multiple power substations to do it. If they were trying to be smart, surely they know that destroying power substations would really up their legal risk if caught.

My bet is an analysis of their phones/computers will be very revealing, and that they're selling this "robbery" story to try and avoid more serious charges.

Then again, maybe they're stupid in just the right ways.

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Terry-Scary t1_j3385sg wrote

Also look at when it was harvested on the container. I have bought some in the past that is several months to a year old.

Back before it was legal it was grown prepped for sale then sold (at least if it was produced in the state) it was much much fresher

Drying it as much as they are preserves it longer and reduces quality issues that could impact human health when used

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Nightshade_Ranch t1_j335bhm wrote

Trial run.

I've never been a conspiracy theorist, can they stop making it seem like this is as obvious as a conspiracy as it seems like? I certainly believe they were "known" to the FBI. We don't have anyone doing shit about any crime anywhere in this area of Washington, and we're supposed to believe the FBI was keeping tabs on these apparent nobodies that just wanted to rob some rural stores?

I'm coming up with the crazy shit on my own now and it's seeming less and less crazy.

If this had happened just days before, we would have been so fucking vulnerable to ANYTHING anyone could have thrown at us, terror-wise. The whole region was encased in solid slick ice and no one could safely get anywhere, emergency services would have been almost useless. We're right next to JBLM and anyone not living on base is largely in these areas.

This all feels like a test of a planned procedure before full deployment/release. It's not the first. That this is the apparent testing ground makes me think the "real deal" is going to be somewhere far away, that isn't paying attention like our areas will be now.

If the FBI had just said they had no clue at all and they're just as baffled at this randomness as the rest of us it might be believable, but it seems like they've given it away that they are not at all baffled.

Where and when might this strategy have the most dire consequences?

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[deleted] t1_j332p12 wrote

You are correct, and it certainly codified that way in some laws, but you always need to be careful about taking commonly accepted definitions and applying them in legal cases. For example, in straight up, being charged with terrorism, intent is called out, but in crimes about funding terrorism, there’s a lot less requirement to have proven intent.

Here’s some info that may be pertinent.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/terrorism

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loquacious t1_j332j2a wrote

A lot of small businesses keep the float in the till overnight, because there's usually not more than like $100 in there, and there's more valuable things to steal in the store. I know a lot of bars do because they have like 5 to 10 thousand dollars worth of liquor right there and the float in the till is the least of their worries.

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loquacious t1_j331tkr wrote

You can be an idiot tweaker gacked out of your head as well as a racist white supremacist with a dumb idea about how to try to start civil unrest.

There's actually a long history of Nazis being on drugs. Hitler was thwacked out of his skull on a cocktail of amphetamines most of the time, and many/most of his filmed speeches show signs of extreme agitation that he was abusing stims, because, well, he was.

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