• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I mean. Even typing it I was remembering Philly PD doing it…

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_MOVE_bombing

    But that was 40 years ago and was easily swept under the rug.

    While he could order it to happen, and it’s technically possible every obeys that order…

    Actually pulling it off would virtually guarantee every major city being 100x worse than LA has ever been, even 92 LA. Hell, that only took a decade to beat in Cincinnati. It would be trillions of dollars in infrastructure damage alone, not even getting into lost revenue.

    Any attempt to use feds everywhere would spread them too thin and make them ineffective everywhere.

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      3 days ago

      I was thinking Tulsa/greenwood when I wrote the comment, but move/philly was in the back of my mind

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      3 days ago

      Remember, trump said blue states would “disappear off the map” before his midterm ‘surprise’

      I was reticent about the idea before, but had mentioned it as a terrifying possibility. But, at this point, I would have to consider it likely that he would do much worse than a silly little bomb.