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This was not a concocted plot by the FBI. These guys had a plan, did reconnaissance, acquired supplies. It's crazy how close they actually got before they were arrested, considering how early on the FBI knew about them. Affidavit with more info: https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/1...

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What's crazy is it feels like no one's been keeping track of all the "Western chauvinist" violence in the past decade. Everything is pointing to some notion of a "last stand of the West" weird shit.

The Dayton, OH mass shooting[0] The El Paso mass shooting[1] The murder of an elderly Black man in Harlem as a prelude to mass murder of Black men with the express aim of inciting a race war[2]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Dayton_shooting

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_El_Paso_shooting

[2]https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/23/nyregion/timothy-caughman...

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