Cybertruck explosion in front of Trump hotel

gotta admit that's kind of funny

 

The two men who carried out apparent terror attacks on New Year’s Day — killing 15 people by plowing a pickup truck into a crowd of New Year’s revelers in New Orleans, and detonating a Tesla Cybertruck outside a Trump hotel in Las Vegas — both had U.S. military backgrounds, according to the Pentagon.

From 1990 to 2010, about seven persons per year with U.S. military backgrounds committed extremist crimes. Since 2011, that number has jumped to almost 45 per year, according to data from a new, unreleased report shared with The Intercept by Michael Jensen, the research director at the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, or START, at the University of Maryland.

Military service is also the single strongest individual predictor of becoming a “mass casualty offender,” far outpacing mental health issues, according to a separate study of extremist mass casualty violence by the researchers.

From 1990 through 2023, 730 individuals with U.S. military backgrounds committed criminal acts that were motivated by their political, economic, social, or religious goals, according to data from the new START report. From 1990 to 2022, successful violent plots that included perpetrators with a connection to the U.S. military resulted in 314 deaths and 1,978 injuries — a significant number of which came from the 1995 bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.

In the years 1990 to 2022, 170 individuals with U.S. military backgrounds plotted 144 individual mass casualty terrorist attacks in the United States, according to START research using the Profiles of Individual Radicalization in the United States, or PIRUS, database, which includes information on more than 3,000 subjects who committed extremist crimes in America. These troops and veterans represent approximately one-quarter of all individuals who plotted mass casualty extremist attacks during this span, outstripping their representation in the U.S. population.

Jensen and his colleagues found that while military personnel and veterans are not more likely to radicalize to the point of violence than members of the general public, when service members and veterans do become radicalized, “they may be more likely to plan for, or commit, mass casualty crimes, thus having an outsized impact on public safety.”

The researchers also determined that subjects “in PIRUS with U.S. military backgrounds are 2.41 times more likely to be classified as mass casualty offenders than individuals who did not serve in the armed forces.” This means that U.S. military service is a more reliable predictor for becoming a mass casualty offender than mental health issues, being a lone offender, or having a pre-radicalization criminal history.

Most mass casualty offenders with U.S. military backgrounds in PIRUS (73.5 percent) were associated with far-right domestic extremist groups and movements. Approximately 15 percent (24 offenders) were inspired by or connected to foreign Islamist extremist groups, such as Al Qaeda and its affiliates (9 subjects) or the Islamic State or ISIS (13 subjects).

 

"Gravitic propulsion system" with Chinese subs in the Atlantic?

Bro just read the entire Three Body Problem series after a bad PTSD break from the 2019 war crimes he described.

The man could've done more harm, so it bears some attention to find out whether he was 100% crazy or onto something. I hope his death finds some meaning in an otherwise senseless tragedy.

 

I have a friend like this. Super nice guy if you fit in his reality. Intelligent. But is full of flaws. When his regiment breaks down, he spirals out of control. And it almost always starts out with an atrocity fully founded in reality but starts to over think and gets caught up in all the conspiracy theories (reminds me of some posters here like myself). And before you know it, they start sounding like Bob Lazar and you begin to question everything they have ever said.
Livelsberger has probably seen some wild **** and therefore he felt validated with his wild conspiracy theories. Reaching out to his ex just before doing the deed says much. Inside, he was probably a train wreck but on the outside, well disciplined with the appearance of being in control.

 

Good to know that when your Tesla catches fire or explodes it will automatically lock you inside.

 

The exit wound in the back of his head was possibly a giveaway.

 

In fairness, the NO guy was not.

 

Is there such thing as a liberal religious fundamentalist?

 

Scientologists in 2040?