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Maybe it's not about the actions themselves but raising public awareness for an issue. And as such they have obviously succeeded.
Destroy a bit of concrete = fairly big media coverage but probably just minor fines
Destroy a whole DC = very big media coverage but also probably many years in prison
But what do I know, I'm sure that I'm also insanely dumb.
You can just 3D print a drone or buy one on AliExpress and fly and deploy thermite bombs on those centers. As long as you don't have fingerprints on any of it and deploy it covertly you should be fine. Go without your phone and cycle. Fly some drones in, then get the fuck out.
If Ukraine can take out a 3 million dollar tank with a 150 dollar drone, then so can you.
You're not going to achieve the goal you want when you just make fun of yourself. People won't take you serious when you're just a laughing stock. And you probably achieve the oposite: people don't want to be affiliated with those idiots in any way.
This is the same with veganism. Because some terror vegans made fun of themselves by acting like fucking idiots, veganism now has a bad name. Many people refuse to even think about what they are actually doing when eating meat "because fuck those stupid vegans, right?". While all this time those vegans have valid points. But because they don't know how to sell it properly, all they achieve is opposition and hate.
Extinction Rebellion consists of exactly those vegans.
Like I said before, they blocked trains to protest climate change.
I know many leftist activists in The Netherlands. They all do a major facepalm when you say the words Extinction Rebellion. Even the left, with the same goals and values, can't take them serious and hate them for giving the left a bad name.
I'm not the person you're replying to, I'm even not disagreeing with the premise as a thing so much as I am saying not gonna happen.
Having said that ... Oh right the famously easy to get thermite bombs.
Also a lot of security you'd need to do to make it so you're not traced back with a digital footprint to AliExpress and/or sites that served those 3d printable drone files.
Not to mention procuring all the other parts for the drone probably will leave a trace too. Maybe you could pay cash at a hobby shop some towns away for the servos and motors and such.
Plus you need to then get the equipment to fly it and modify the drone to carry munition.
Which brings us back to the super easy to get thermite bombs ...
Your post can't be a serious suggestion. It did give me a good chuckle though so I appreciate that.
thermite is a real diy compound. all you need is a file, some rusty iron and some aluminum. and the magnesium strip for the catalyst/fuse.