They seem pretty reasonable to me and I monitor this kind of thing for a living. There are absolutely groups that are this radical and organized. What dooms most radical groups is one of 3 things:

- inability to shut up leads them to boast

- LARPing revolutionary war shit makes them go for the excitement of massing at hard targets state capitols etc. where they are usually easily contained

- bloodlust takes over and a member cuts straight to murdering and is quickly located

> No suspects have been named in the shootings, and investigators have yet to announce a potential motive

How does it make the right (or any group specifically) look bad? There’s online innuendo that this was done for stupid reason X. I’m sure there’s another online unsubstantiated theory that it was actually stupid reason Y, while it might end up being stupid reason Z.

Edit to add: it says “right” above because that was responsive to parent comment text, which has since been stealth-edited.

the power grid in the US seems pretty fragile, it really doesn't seem that far-fetched that some right wings dolts would shoot power equipment in order to achieve their goals.