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Leftwing militants claim responsibility for arson attack on Berlin power grid | Protest over climate crisis and AI has cut power to tens of thousands of homes which may take days to fully restore (www.theguardian.com)
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This is not a good look. Far better to target things like private jets which are at the intersection of wealth and excessive emissions

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[โ€“] silence7@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 days ago

This was a singularly stupid choice of target if it was an actual left-wing group and not a bunch of Russian assets. Doubly so if a climate group โ€” we want to move home heating from fossil fuels to electricity, and this kind of attack makes it harder.

There's a reason it was mostly Nazis attacking substations in the US a couple years ago