Humphreys County Sheriff Chris Davis said during a Saturday press conference there are believed to be “no survivors” from Friday’s powerful explosion at the Accurate Energetic Systems facility in Tennessee. He did not confirm how many fatalities there were, but he previously said 18 people were missing on Friday.
Accurate Energetic Systems specializes in the “development, manufacture, handling, and storage of a diverse array of energetic products and explosives for military, aerospace, and commercial demolition markets,” according to its website. The Associated Press reported that the company has sold to and had been awarded military contracts with the U.S. Army and Navy.
The powerful explosion at the facility occurred early Friday around 7:45 am local time, and was felt more than 15 miles away.
Do we know the proximate cause yet? Accident? Targeted?
Likely unregulated capitalism
Well, the explosives exploded.
I’d just like to make the point that there are a lot of these explosives factories making explosives around the world all the time, and very seldom does anything like this happen. I just don’t want people thinking that explosives aren’t safe.
Were these explosives safe?
Yes. Until they weren’t.
Well, I was thinking more about the other ones.
The ones that are safe?
I’m not saying it wasn’t safe, it’s just perhaps not quite as safe as some of the other ones.
But why wasn’t this one built so the explosives don’t explode at all?
They are built to very rigorous explosive engineering standards!
That’s not how explosives work.
I’ve seen comparisons to the Black Tom incident in WWI, where the Germans sabotaged an explosives factory in the US that was making shells for the English war effort. Interested to see if Russian sabotage jumped from just Europe.
No they’re still investigating, but there’s not much left to investigate. Also, apparently it’s still very dangerous and volatile bc of all the remaining chemicals
Seems to have been a big badaboom.
Holy shit, video of the aftermath of the explosion https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPooHZbDiee/
It just flattened everything
Not sure what the little pieces of green debris are but it seems to be all over the place…?
Don’t post pictures with a play button.
I didn’t click it ofcourse I promise.
Boy those workers must have had a blast!
Take those shitty jokes back to Reddit
Definitely, they were blown away.
They died like the people they killed.
They made munitions for 155 rounds …like those we sent to Ukraine.
I know some of you think the world will just hold hands and get along without weapons but it doesn’t work that way.
And that’s why the company sent the munitions directly to one of the few leftist Ukrainian militias, right? Nah. These were defense contractors.
I know some of you think the world will just hold hands and get along without weapons but it doesn’t work that way.
Not necessarily without weapons, in fact we’ll probably need weapons to smash capitalism, but without the United States and the imperialism my government supports? Yeah humanity doesn’t need that shit.
Lol you’re niave as fuck. The world will never just get along. There will always be power hungry people who want to control others and have no morals. So you can’t magically discuss with them to stop doing harm to others.
“Speak softly and carry a big stick”
The world will never just get along. There will always be power hungry people who want to control others and have no morals.
Yeah no shit Sherlock, that’s why we need to turn our guns on the empire, on the capitalist class, on the rulers of 🇺🇸 and 🇮🇱 and every other State, on this vocal minority of power hungry monsters who explicitly refuse to be reasoned with and shoot them until they’ve been reduced to paste. I am 1000% with you on the necessity of political violence. Burning these systems of oppression to the fucking ground is the bare minimum 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
But these weapons were never going to be allowed to fall into our hands. These were defense contractors for the empire. These were the weapons that would be deployed on us.
“Speak softly and carry a big stick”
Yeah that’s fine for ordinary people, but the United States has no right to “speak”, no right to carry any “stick”, big or otherwise, and no right to even fucking exist. 🏴🏴🏴🏴
And replace this civilization with what?
If you think the USA has no right to exist then neither does any other country on the planet. They all have bloody pasts.
And replace this civilization with what?
If you think the USA has no right to exist then neither does any other country on the planet.
They all have bloody pasts.
Yeah but the United States has a particularly influential bloody past, and a bloody present and future. I.e. the United States is the most dangerous enemy of humanity in recent memory, for example the Indigenous genocide, structuring an entire society around white supremacy, American imperalism and war all around the world, the climate catastrophe we are forcing upon the world, and the cyberpunk technofeudalist dystopia our tech bros are forcing all of humanity to submit to.
Yea either expected a anarchist or tankie reply lol
Anarchist are delusional kids who think everyone is going to magically work together.
They died doing the thing they loved, exploding.
