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BumRushDaShow

(160,177 posts)
Sun Aug 31, 2025, 04:00 AM Aug 31

Alarm as US far-right extremists eye drones for use in domestic attacks

Source: The Guardian

Sat 30 Aug 2025 08.00 EDT
Last modified on Sat 30 Aug 2025 16.24 EDT


Taking their cues from modern warfare, the far-right American terrorist movement sees off-the-shelf or home-built first-person viewer (FPV) drones as a critical weapon in their own future war against the US government, which has American authorities on edge.

And there’s ample reasons for those fears: in the open and closed online spaces where far-right extremists congregate, talk is commonplace of how these cheap drones are revolutionizing current wars and will be the critical tools of a so-called second civil war.

“The use of FPV drones in the war between Russia and Ukraine, the use of drones by terrorist groups such as Isis, and the use of drones by violent criminal groups, such as drug cartels, give examples that domestic extremists may seek to emulate or learn from,” said Joshua Fisher-Birch, a professional analyst who has tracked far-right extremists of every ilk, for close to a decade.

“Groups or individuals could potentially use commercial or home-made drones for reconnaissance purposes or in an offensive capacity.”

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/30/us-far-right-extremists-drones

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BumRushDaShow

(160,177 posts)
2. I *always* had issues with those quadcopters
Sun Aug 31, 2025, 05:16 AM
Aug 31

and when the "consumer" little ones were let loose in the mid-2000s and I still lived in a hi-rise, I made sure I had double drapes across my windows and balcony doors.

stopdiggin

(14,404 posts)
8. not here. I too, saw the potential for targeted destruction (AND ill thought mayhem) well before ...
Sun Aug 31, 2025, 12:09 PM
Aug 31

There is very little in the way of defense against .... And an absolute multitude of malevolent uses -. (limited really only by the imagination ..)

But - despite a plethora of common sense concerns, explanation and warnings - our elected officials chose to shrug their shoulders ... And here we are ... The moron down the street that you wouldn't trust to watch a hamster ...

MayReasonRule

(3,780 posts)
3. I Remain Astonished That Red State Capitol Buildings Are Not Enveloped In Shrouds Of Pink Mist
Sun Aug 31, 2025, 07:15 AM
Aug 31

The American populace continues to demonstrate enormous amounts of restraint in the face of the current Nazi onslaught.

May reason's rule ultimately restore the freedoms that delusion's rule has destroyed.

Baitball Blogger

(50,911 posts)
5. I'm surprised its taken them this long to figure out.
Sun Aug 31, 2025, 10:23 AM
Aug 31

So, they don't regulate guns in this country. How about armed drones?

eppur_se_muova

(40,010 posts)
6. A widely held view, I'm afraid. Once the Ukrainians blew up a Russian vehicle with a drone, the writing was on the wall.
Sun Aug 31, 2025, 10:45 AM
Aug 31

BadgerMom

(3,318 posts)
7. Robo-dogs are in the offing.
Sun Aug 31, 2025, 11:26 AM
Aug 31

I wish I felt I was way off the mark, an alarmist. It’s the stuff of nightmares, but I see it coming. Just ask Yarvin, Thiel and their ilk. Humanism is to be eradicated along with empathy and compassion. We should fight as though as our lives depend on it because they do.

thought crime

(787 posts)
10. They love to impose this dystopia.
Sun Aug 31, 2025, 01:06 PM
Aug 31

Both Curtis Yarvin and Peter Thiel are evil psychopaths who should only exist in Batman comic-books. But here they are, bringing their absurd fantasies to our lives.

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