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Foiled American terror attack

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Blightfitting · 17/06/2026 07:07

Awful.

BBC News - Group planned to attack White House UFC event using snipers and drones, FBI says
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqx10xlje1lo

And, once again for the dullards... It isn't Muslims or asylum seekers or immigrants who are bad, it's bad people who are bad. The people who whip up hatred whip up this.

US President Donald Trump seen through metal wire fencing. He is wearing a blue suit and a white baseball cap that says "USA". In the background is a crowd of people and the White House

Group planned to attack White House UFC event using snipers and drones, FBI says

In newly unsealed court filings, the government says the group allegedly expressed grievances about corruption, the Epstein files, and data centres.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqx10xlje1lo

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MyThreeWords · 17/06/2026 15:11

Scary stuff. Increasingly I think that it isn't any particular ideology or bigotry that is primarily responsible for causing people to plan this kind of violence. It is the strange and dangerous dynamics of being overly online in an algorithmically driven environment. It is driving susceptible people insane.

Blightfitting · 17/06/2026 15:15

MyThreeWords · 17/06/2026 15:11

Scary stuff. Increasingly I think that it isn't any particular ideology or bigotry that is primarily responsible for causing people to plan this kind of violence. It is the strange and dangerous dynamics of being overly online in an algorithmically driven environment. It is driving susceptible people insane.

Yes, I agree. Social media algorithms and the smart phones which out them into people's hands have done huge damage in just 20 years or so.

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minipie · 17/06/2026 15:16

MyThreeWords · 17/06/2026 15:11

Scary stuff. Increasingly I think that it isn't any particular ideology or bigotry that is primarily responsible for causing people to plan this kind of violence. It is the strange and dangerous dynamics of being overly online in an algorithmically driven environment. It is driving susceptible people insane.

Hard agree

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