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Ollie Garkie

(356 posts)
Thu Dec 8, 2022, 10:30 PM Dec 2022

Is something big being planned?

I'm thinking of the coup attempts in Peru, Germany. Also the electric infrastructure attacks.

Are these things now happening at a faster pace and in such a way that, either:

1. Eventually some attempt at something big gets past logistical and law enforcement barriers.

or

2. These things are decoys or tests, and the big one comes sometime between tomorrow and a couple years from now?

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Is something big being planned? (Original Post) Ollie Garkie Dec 2022 OP
Happy holidays !! dweller Dec 2022 #1
Unfortunately what happens in Peru doesn't stay in Peru. Sneederbunk Dec 2022 #2
All the fascists want to I_UndergroundPanther Dec 2022 #3
Frank Figliusi just said that Magats gab13by13 Dec 2022 #4
The FSB could take down US grids from Russia, in collusion with US white supremacist organizations. Marcuse Dec 2022 #5
Peru's attempted coup was from a Marxist not a Fascist AZSkiffyGeek Dec 2022 #6
His detractors do not accept the election results and wanted to impeach him on hearsay GreenWave Dec 2022 #8
I doubt it ymetca Dec 2022 #7
Huh? malaise Dec 2022 #9

I_UndergroundPanther

(13,375 posts)
3. All the fascists want to
Thu Dec 8, 2022, 10:42 PM
Dec 2022

Take over and take our world away from us and impose thier evil crap on everyone not like them. This fascist bullshit seems to be happening everywhere.

gab13by13

(32,511 posts)
4. Frank Figliusi just said that Magats
Thu Dec 8, 2022, 11:11 PM
Dec 2022

want to take down power stations, simultaneously across the country. Without electricity they want chaos and make it easier to install a fascist government.

Figliusi said that something should be done to stop the information that is being posted on social media about how to disable the electrical grid.

Marcuse

(9,062 posts)
5. The FSB could take down US grids from Russia, in collusion with US white supremacist organizations.
Thu Dec 8, 2022, 11:22 PM
Dec 2022

GreenWave

(12,697 posts)
8. His detractors do not accept the election results and wanted to impeach him on hearsay
Fri Dec 9, 2022, 05:40 AM
Dec 2022

So the center-left President was arrested within 3 hours, not 3 years and still going strong as our ultra right #45 is.

Castillo had said in an unusual midnight address on state television ahead of the vote that he would never stain “the good name of my honest and exemplary parents, who like millions of Peruvians, work every day to build honestly a future for their families.”

The peasant-turned-president said he’s paying for mistakes made due to inexperience. But he said a certain sector of Congress “has as its only agenda item removing me from office because they never accepted the results of an election that you, my dear Peruvians, determined with your votes.”

Castillo has denied allegations of corruption against him, saying they’re based on “hearsay statements by people who, seeking to lighten their own punishments for supposed crimes by abusing my confidence, are trying to involve me without evidenc
e.”

ymetca

(1,182 posts)
7. I doubt it
Fri Dec 9, 2022, 12:26 AM
Dec 2022

On the other hand, considering there's over a billion people on this planet having absolutely nothing better to do with themselves than some pretty shady shit, for whatever reasons, and that being amplified by social media? Yeah, that's a big problem.

Lots of unscrupulous actors these days. Various groups using social media to organize, but none having sufficient, what "gravitas"?, to garner enough to whatever their cause. Governments limiting the flow of information, battling misinformation and then government officials indulging in all the same "sins" themselves.

A wildly gyrating mire. Nobody really wants this. But many think they can ride the wave to something better than what they have now.

Our technology is challenging all our archaic, obsolete notions of property, class, money, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, nationality, and so on. Our horse-and-buggy Constitution is now woefully inadequate. As are most other governments around the world.

I think we're all just kind of wondering where we'll go from here.

It's like we're all being dissected, obsessed over by countless algorithms, until some mystical magic hat chooses which "house" we belong to. We're all being constantly "nudged".

I suppose this too is a nudge!

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