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Federal agents seem to be really good at foiling insane comic-book-villain schemes (with a glaring exception about 10 years ago) but really bad at stopping millions in damages caused by arsons coordinates on Twitter and Facebook over several months.

I didn’t think several months of riots in Portland, Kenosha, Atlanta, Washington D.C. and other cities had been debunked by such esteemed fact-checkers as snopes.

There have been a number of people arrested for arson with regard to brush fires. Google turned up this for me https://nypost.com/2020/09/20/six-accused-of-starting-oregon...

I think it would be premature to conclusively say what the motive of every case of the wanton destruction of our forests may be. However, I’m very impressed that the oracles at snopes were able to divine the motives of these actors prior to arrests, trials or even public statements. I bet they clean up at the lottery!

You just posted a link that does a lot to disprove your allegation of organized fire starting.

Riots and vandalism in Portland weren’t organized? That’s a strange conclusion for a story (one of several) about men arrested for setting fire to forests. Given there has been no trials for the people arrested in the story, I don’t know where this proof is you’re talking about which refutes whatever point you’re saying I have.

Organized protests? Yes. Premeditated vandalism, no.

I'm not going to try do the impossible and prove a negative when you're the one that made the initial allegation I'm still looking for substantiation for.

But you just stated confidently that there were no instances of premeditated vandalism in the United States over several months and hundreds of incidents, many of which have pending investigations. Did you prove that negative or is it impossible?

You mean 19 years ago?

Yes, thank you! I’m kind of surprised because it doesn’t feel like that long ago at all.

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