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So, I was thinking about a brief exchange I had a little while ago with @gattsuru, as well as an earlier thread on the arrest of the guy who started the Palisades fire (plus perhaps some other comments here and there about how mass shooters and such tend to have poor target selection, as is entirely understandable with their being of generally unsound mind), I find myself asking: setting aside very-low-probability scenarios, how much damage could a reasonably-competent solitary actor — “a lone man with a grudge against the world,” to quote @Edawayac_Tosscount — pull off in a single “attack”?
The OSS published a field manual about this for WW2 resistance fighters. It mostly focuses on practical, low-level resistance and sabotage rather than grand acts though. Amusingly one of their suggestions is simply to be annoying and incompetent.
It also depends how you calculate impact. For example the idiot who tried to smuggle bombs in his shoes has probably caused hundreds of aggregate human lives to be wasted by the delay of every air passenger now having to remove their shoes, despite his attack being completely unsuccessful.
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