What political cause or ideology do you think this was done in support of?

It reminds me of the dupes on Facebook that comment “must have been a Kamala voter” on every video of someone doing something stupid.

Did you replace the battery at any point?

Luigi’s victim was shot early in the morning, not at night.

Lemmy loves to hate the guy, don’t they?

It’s usually applied to a non state actor, not a government.

The sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, for example, isn’t generally considered a terrorist attack.

That’s kinda on the person asking, you kinda have to be more direct about that.

Given that a smartphone will remain in good working order, and reasonably current in terms of tech, for 2-3 years, you’d have to be a bit of a mug to pay this.

And I’m pretty rough on my tech, I imagine most people would do far better than that.

The comment in the screen shot is Reddit, not Lemmy.

I don’t see how regulations can help him there, especially given the nature of the Web. Bluesky can always move offshore, beyond the reach of the US authorities.

I also imagine both Bluesky and Mastadon users will tell x users, loudly and clearly, to fuck off.

The definition of terrorism doesn’t say you need to terrify people at all.

Besides, there’s been a lot of acts that are generally agreed to be terrorist acts, that have targeted a very small group of people, such as a religious group, or even one specific individual. The IRA’s famous reply to Margaret Thatcher comes to mind.

It seems his goal was to terrify one small group of people, namely senior people in the healthcare industry, and I think that counts.

Potentially, but I think that’s true of most terrorists.

Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of violence against non-combatants to achieve political or ideological aims.

It’s pretty much always meant violence for an ideology or cause. And the political motivation is very much what makes the difference.

Words do have definitions.

From what the manifesto found on him allegedly said, it sounds like his actions were politically motivated. And violence in pursuit of a political goal is kinda the definition of terrorism.

I suggest you actually check the definition of terrorism, Capone wasn’t motivated by political ideals, he was motivated by good old fashioned greed.

Those tend to be a personal grudge, not a political statement.

“terror attack”

It was an attack targeting members of a terrorist organisation, and those pagers were only given out to members of the org.

That’s a Reddit comment though.

It’s entirely plausible this person knows the lady in question.

The fact you don’t know something doesn’t make you stupid, it just means nobody has ever taught you about it.

Carbon monoxide isn’t something people can just inherently know.