Matthew Livelsberger, a 37-year-old Green Beret from Colorado Springs, Colorado, also wrote in notes he left on his cellphone that he needed to “cleanse” his mind “of the brothers I’ve lost and relieve myself of the burden of the lives I took.” Livelsberger served in the Army since 2006 and deployed twice to Afghanistan.

“This was not a terrorist attack, it was a wake up call. Americans only pay attention to spectacles and violence. What better way to get my point across than a stunt with fireworks and explosives,” Livelsberger wrote in one letter found by authorities and released Friday.

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    My Elon-brainwashed relative alerted me to the fact that on twitter, the main rumor is that he killed himself to bring attention to the drone sightings being a secret Chinese gravitic propulsion technology.

    God I hate that site.

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      I have been enlightened!

      Now, there’s probably some twisted reasoning that got someone to that conclusion. I wonder how it worked.

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    Not to be a big asshole or anything, but we’ll forget about this by Monday.

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    Read the note… This guy must have had some TBI from his deployments. I mean he gets to the top of the forest, but then refuses to see the trees.

    Yes billionaires and the 1% are a cancer on society… So the solution is to put two of them in charge? Like holy shit, you literally just fucking said they didn’t care about us, and that we’re cattle to them. Oh except for these two, the illegal immigrant that made a fortune over staying his visa and pays no taxes, and the rape ape who’s been convicted of fraud multiple times, who hires illegal immigrants, refuses to pay overtime, and also pays no taxes. Those two are the shining exceptions…

    I can’t even fathom the cognitive dissonance he must have lived with daily. If this guy were in Jones Town he would have cut in line for his Kool aid even after seeing people start to drop dead.

    Thank you for your service, and for showing yourself out.

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      Where did you find the note? I can only find articles that dissect it without its context.

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    Since some news sources are afraid to state his stance:

    In one letter, he tells “fellow service members, veterans and all Americans” it’s time to “wake up” because the country’s leadership is “weak” and “only serves to enrich themselves.”

    Source

    Given the location and vehicle, I say he is clearly mad at a certain side, can you guess which one? /s

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      I’m not here to support the dude’s pro-trump stance. I do, however, believe class consciousness starts when we recognize we share some of this veteran’s grievances, such as Musk’s relationship with Trump. We’re all getting screwed right now.

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    Why are they withholding exactly what he meant with his list of grievances? Probably because its’s right wing AF, he’s white, and had lots of guns. When are they going to play the “mental illness angle?

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      Just based on what was said up top, there’s a pretty good chance this guy had some pretty bad mental health problems. That doesn’t mean he’s wrong.

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      Mental illness? Ah yes because blowing yourself up is a totally normal thing for a totally normal person. Nope. No mental illness here at all.

      At this point it’s pretty clear that if you’re a Trump and musk lover you have mental illness.

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        Point being that it’s “mental illness” when it comes to right wingers doing shitty, bizarre things. It’s terrorism or some kind of “typical” behavior associated with whatever dirt they can dig up on a left-leaning perp. Luigi being a prime example - he gets called a terrorist, Livelsberger probably won’t be despite his attack being plainly politically motivated.

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    The summary shows his warning.

    The following is the terrorist attack …

    Tesla engineers, meanwhile, helped extract data from the Cybertruck for investigators, including Livelsberger’s path between charging stations from Colorado through New Mexico and Arizona and on to Las Vegas, according to Assistant Sheriff Dori Koren.

    “We still have a large volume of data to go through,” Koren said Friday. “There’s thousands if not millions of videos and photos and documents and web history and all of those things that need to be analyzed.”

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      This is the lede being buried. Other than that its just the typical Ya’ll Qaeda domestic terrorism we’ve all come to know and expect.

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    Found the reason why.

    The writings found on Sergeant Livelsberger’s phone suggest that he had been increasingly concerned about politics. In one note shared by the police, Sergeant Livelsberger said that people should “try peaceful means first but be prepared to fight” to get Democrats out of the federal government.

    So this isn’t necessarily a problem with Trump, this guy was just another “democrats are the problem with the Real America™” Republican that happened to have mental issues driving him to be a suicide bomber.

    He wasn’t even anti-Musk, he seems to have worshipped the authoritarian.

    In another, he said that “masculinity is good and men must be leaders,” adding that people should rally around Mr. Trump and Elon Musk, Tesla’s chief executive and a top donor to the Trump campaign.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/us/las-vegas-tesla-explosion-soldier-ptsd-notes.html

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    We all know that a certain orange someone will write this off as just another sucker and loser gone.

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    I mean, we live inside of bullshit town, so it’s less unbelievable each day that something like the following is actually true:

    • They killed a guy or the guy decided to “die for the cause” as a cult member

    • Remotely drove his dead body in a cybertruck (like the fake FSD “taxi” demonstration from musk the other month)

    • Parked at decrepit old trump hotel with arrival and lobby area in desperate need of repair, but in a place that would assure press coverage for brand and to stoke bases’s victimhood complex

    • Remotely detonated explosive when it was clear of most people and in a way that was loud and showy, but without extreme loss of life

    • Cops at first won’t name cybertruck directly as involved vehicle as they “investigate” and then immediately cop starts talking in specific detail (uncharacteristic of cops) mentioning truck by name and how that specific brand model truck contained blast probably

    • Weird press articles about musk response being a “masterclass” in crisis management PR

    • trump will fundraise a lot off of the “attack” and also make a huge fraudulent insurance claim ridiculously inflating costs of ruined assets and remodeling "there was van Gogh in the lobby, you couldn’t see it, but it was there

    • dead person’s writings will serve to radicalize more nutjobs ready for the slaughter as soon as their divorce finalizes.

    (Keep in mind that while you were reading all that, musk is on Twitter now admitting, after being publicly caught and humiliated, that he has had fake Twitter accounts for years where he personally goes to his own posts and comments on how great he is, to himself, as the world’s richest person, on paper.)

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    Kinda says a lot about the US military that a supposedly well trained soldier - green berets are supposed to be fairly elite right? - couldn’t figure out how to build a bomb beyond just stuffing a car with whatever random flammables they could find

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      Congress makes budget, administration says the VA needs about 12 billion more to cover their costs, the Republican Congress members vote against it.

      I’m not saying a therapist would have helped prevent this, but I’m saying it very well may have helped prevent it.

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    The egregores, Wyrms no longer content to lurch below, animate wielded flesh to strike with venom and abandon.