Ed George Soros and others targetted by Terrorist

[smartcooky]

No, that is not silly. It is aggravating as all hell to see people on Twitter and Facebook who go on an on about firearms, even those who damn well do know better, say things such as the highlighted.

Things like the explosives in fireworks, black powder, and smokeless powder must be stored in containers made specifically for them to be fairly safe, and storing them in a PVC tube can easily result in an explosion. The risk is highest with the firework explosive, then black powder, then the smokeless (smokeless has a higher ignition temp). The risk is greatest with the dust coming off the grains like is produced from agitation.

PVC pipes tend to create static very readily. Those explosives are easily set off from such a spark. Depending on the amount, the perp is either lucky or had grounded the pipes so they didn't explode on pouring, seeing as I doubt he kept his work area clean (one of the best ways to cut down on the risk).

As I said before, if one pours such explosives into a PVC pipe, one has created a bomb whether or not one intended to.

This part of the risk cannot be underestimated. You do not even have to have explosive material for suspended dust grains to cause an explosion. Even flour dust will explode...



Pouring/Putting explosive powder into ANY kind of plastic pipe, especially PVC which is really prone to static build-up and discharge, is a very risky thing to to.

 

[alfaniner]

I'm saying that with no one in the FBI, Homeland Security, police, etc. calling the packages bombs, there is a reason for it, and the most likely one is they aren't bombs. Seems logical to me.

You are wrong.

FBI Director Christopher Wray says more than a dozen pipe bombs sent to prominent Democrats and CNN were "not hoax devices."

Wray says each of the pipe bombs contained materials that could react and cause a potential explosion.

 

[zorro99]

Trump supporters are going to say that liberals, democrats, CNN and others orchestrated the synagogue shooting.

 

[Venom]

Hoping for the death penalty. Trump has already called for it, although this evil killer spending the rest of his life in a Supermax like John Gotti does have its appeal.

Supermax prisons are usually reserved for the most dangerous or high profile inmates, or killers who commit federal crimes. I don't think they'll take in a bum no-name convict, even if the crime itself is heinous.

Public shooting are after all a dime a dozen these days.

 

[dudalb]

Is any more proof needed that conspiracy theories are dangerous, not harmless?

 

[JoeMorgue]

Is any more proof needed that conspiracy theories are dangerous, not harmless?

Conspiracy theories hell can we finally stop pretending that people being factually wrong doesn't matter.

 

[dann]

Not as long as they are doing their utmost to ignore all facts and invent new ones because they fit their conspiracy theories better than reality.

 

[Squeegee Beckenheim]

I like the idea that he couldn't possibly have made them because he's obviously too stupid, and that he obviously didn't intend to hurt anybody because they weren't made correctly.

 

[JoeMorgue]

"I can't be guilty because I'm too stupid to know what I'm doing" is becoming a popular excuse around these parts.

 

[Squeegee Beckenheim]

LOL. No one thought this nut-job was a "Dem operative".

Tell that to the people who have said he was a Democrat sleeper agent, both out in the real world and in this very thread.

 

[BobTheCoward]

Is any more proof needed that conspiracy theories are dangerous, not harmless?

For many people spreading them, these are not conspiracy theories but truth.

 

[Stacyhs]

Nah...it's more like a Trump fan still clinging to the hope the bombs weren't real keeping the 'Sayoc must really be a Dem operative' dream alive.

LOL. No one thought this nut-job was a "Dem operative".

You might want to rethink that. Take a look at some comment sections on right wing sites like Infowars:

Flinch
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How did they find this guy so quickly? And with dna? Lab analysis takes time, THEN you get to go out and search for somebody. The whole thing is so fast it's almost like there was somebody outside the FBI building waiting to walk evidence through the moment the media story hit. How about... deep state types found a loser type with a record that nobody would miss, plastered his windows all over [illegal in the case of the front passenger window - cops would have pulled him over and cited him most likely] then planted one or two look alike devices and bam: schmuck comes back from work or the gym to find a phalanx of law enforcement and never knew what hit him.

Then there's the video with the pro-Trumper saying exactly what said: Sayoc could be a Dem plant. I don't have time to find it now (company due any minute) but it was linked in this thread yesterday.

 

[a_unique_person]

I don't disagree in the abstract but the point has been made.

Turning "(Insert stupid behavior here)... just like all Trump supporters! (Snare drum, wait for applause)" into every other post is not needed.

Agreed. It achieves nothing.

 

[LSSBB]

For many people spreading them, these are not conspiracy theories but truth.

A rather pointless point.

 

[Trebuchet]

Dear Denialists: We're not laughing with you, we're laughing at youl

 

[BobTheCoward]

A rather pointless point.

In that case, that is telling them truth is dangerous. That is anathema to skeptics

 

[Safe-Keeper]

Trump supporters are going to say that liberals, democrats, CNN and others orchestrated the synagogue shooting.

They will definitely use it as whataboutism material for all it's worth, yes .

 

[The Great Zaganza]

For many people spreading them, these are not conspiracy theories but truth.

Nope.
For those spreading them, they are a source of income.

 

[trustbutverify]

In that case, that is telling them truth is dangerous. That is anathema to skeptics

Dimwits pretending their infantile fantasies are true is dangerous.

 

[P.J. Denyer]

Not like most bumper stickers aren’t UV coated and waterproofed.

You'd almost think they were designed for the application.