Law enforcement officials are investigating whether the incidents were coordinated and whether they could be connected to other recent attacks on substations.
Gonna have to side with CNN on this one, throwing out the "T" word without having some solid leads is just going to wind up with innocent people getting messed up.
It's not that they should call them terrorists, it's that they aren't doing so. It's a real deviation from typical behavior and it has real implications.
I mean... isn't this what it should be? Instead of jumping to the worst of conclusions first and later, in small print, quietly saying "Oh shit, we were completely wrong with that initial inflammatory headline with zero corroborating facts."
Gonna have to side with CNN on this one, throwing out the "T" word without having some solid leads is just going to wind up with innocent people getting messed up.
It's not that they should call them terrorists, it's that they aren't doing so. It's a real deviation from typical behavior and it has real implications.
I mean... isn't this what it should be? Instead of jumping to the worst of conclusions first and later, in small print, quietly saying "Oh shit, we were completely wrong with that initial inflammatory headline with zero corroborating facts."
I'm not thinking in terms of "should," i'm thinking in terms of "how seriously do they worry about people losing their shit about this"
Given the racism in the USA, it seems like a pretty good thing to be worried about.
:galaxy-brain: