Do you remember Bush?

Yes, same MO.

Yeah, this has been going on for decades.

ANd I never said it's exclusive to any side.

This is propaganda.

Funny story. Most news through American history was propaganda.

That's why there are still small town papers with "democrat" or "republican" in the name.

Yes. There were few wars in American history that the media didn't play an important role in stoking.

More than that.

But yes.

I can't completely prove or even articulate it, either, but something really, really irks me about this story.

Besides, nobody uses regular mail anymore. Nowadays, I would have sent bombs by e-mail.

I'm pretty sure the FBI will determine the nature of the devices by tomorrow, assuming they haven't already.

Whether they release that information is uncertain.

They might not want to tell the bomber that they know the bombs are fake, for fear that he'll start making real ones.

Yes, they probably will. And then one of two things will happen:

1.) They turn out to be complete BS, and the story will be memory holed.
2.) They are actual IEDs in which case we will be hearing about the "right's violent rhetoric" until the election.

They are not actual IEDs. There's no power source.

Okay, then it's going to be memory holed. That, or they will start talking about "intimidation".

What Atkins said.

You can build better bombs with 10 minutes of searching Google or a trip to the library.

Then, the democrats will predictable take the podium and talk about how brave they are and how they will stand up to political intimidation (while, at the same time completely disregarding that they are the ones who started it).

Heck, the bombs in the Anarchist Cookbook are better than these. And the guy who wrote that was making up half of it.

But you are right about one thing. The perception is what matters.

And that perception will be manipulated.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Improvised_explosive_device>
`An IED has five components: a switch (activator), an initiator (fuse), container (body), charge (explosive), and a power source (battery).`

scratch that less than a minute. Wikipedia tells you how to do it better.

Well, I am not going to try and show off bomb making skills on Discord.

The power source is completely absent, and from what I know the initiator is fake.

I do'nt want to shell out shekels for a lawyer again.

It's not a blasting cap and it's not a military detonator.

I'm going to have to disagree there.

Not everyone would have access to that kind of thing and they might have intended to just spark it somehow.

no

they would have at least tried it out

That doesn't work for high explosive, and to create a spark for low order explosive (like black powder) you need significant voltage.

And there's no source for that.

and if it's so bad that it would have never gone off, they didn't intend to

because then their tests would have shown that it cannot ever work like that

Yeah, the lack of a good source is the odd part.

Like you can take C4 and light it with a lighter. It'll smoulder.

Clearly didn't know what they were doing and clearly never tested it.