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New Orleans New Years Terror Attack [15 dead, 20+ critical/injured]


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NBC has some reporting:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/soldier-died-cybertruck-motive-criticizing-government-rcna186182

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Dori Koren, an assistant sheriff with the Clark County/Las Vegas Metropolitan Police, said investigators were able to access one of two phones found in the Cybertruck and viewed writing in an app that served almost as a journal, documenting some of Matthew Alan Livelsberger's movements and state of mind from Dec. 21 to New Year's Eve.

Two letters in the phone app appear to point to a motive in the blast, Koren said. In one, 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."

A second letter appeared to shed more light on Livelsberger's thinking.

"We are the United States of America, the best country ... to ever exist, but right now, we are terminally ill and headed towards collapse," the letter said. "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. ... I need to cleanse my mind of the brothers I’ve lost, and relieve myself of the burden of the lives I took."

Livelsberger expressed other grievances, including about conflicts elsewhere, domestic issues, societal issues and personal challenges, Koren said. He noted investigators continue to go through evidence found on the cellphone, and Las Vegas Sheriff Kevin McMahill said investigators have been unable to access a second phone found in the Cybertruck.

 

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Is it the reference to the Afghanistan war crimes thing thats got under your skin? Is that the so called kremlin-aligned talking point? It must be nice to live in a world where such a thing impacting a SF operator and loosening up a couple screws is so unfathomable. 
 

 

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2 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

Is it the reference to the Afghanistan war crimes thing thats got under your skin? Is that the so called kremlin-aligned talking point? It must be nice to live in a world where such a thing impacting a SF operator and loosening up a couple screws is so unfathomable. 
 

 

Can you show the class your source, Ana? 

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This is all I've been able to find:

https://www.newsweek.com/matthew-livelsberger-alleged-manifesto-read-full-email-sent-retired-soldier-2009573

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Is Manifesto Real?

After the alleged manifesto began circulating on social media following the podcast, reporters asked Las Vegas police and the FBI at a press conference if the suspect had written it. Authorities said they believe the letter shared by Shawn Ryan was authored by the bombing suspect.

 

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The fbi spokesman said that they “have strong evidence that suggests it was the subject that wrote it, but that they had not conclusively proven it yet”. Not kremlin talking points. Right out of the mouth of the fbi rep at the podium.

Here is a cbs article that gets at the content  

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/las-vegas-cybertruck-bombing-matthew-livelsberger-letter-mental-health-crisis/

A review of Livensberger's social media posts, interviews with friends who knew him well, and most pointedly, his email to Shoemate, offered indications he may have been struggling with those issues. On Friday, Shoemate discussed the letter on The Shawn Ryan Show, a podcast where Ryan, a former Navy SEAL and CIA contractor, interviews individuals primarily from the national security space. 

In the email obtained by CBS News, Livensberger referenced his ongoing concerns about civilian casualties caused by an airstrike in Afghanistan. The incident he mentioned appears to align with reports of U.S. airstrikes in May 2019 targeting alleged drug-processing facilities in Afghanistan, where more than 30 civilians, including children, were reportedly killed.

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6 minutes ago, chainsaw said:

Pretty clear now that he didn't want anyone to be hurt, and if he had intended to kill large numbers of people he had the skills to have eclipsed that Jason Aldean shooter

I never quite understood how that LV shooter missed Aldean.  He sure hit a crap ton of other people.

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1 minute ago, jimmyjazz said:

I never quite understood how that LV shooter missed Aldean.  He sure hit a crap ton of other people.

Maybe he tried, no way to know for sure and no way he could aim accurately. He just had a large, target rich area to aim at. A good friend of mine was there and still has crippling PTSD from seeing some girl's head get half taken off 5 feet away from him. Just a completely unreal situation.

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1 minute ago, Brian Fantana said:

Maybe he tried, no way to know for sure and no way he could aim accurately. 

Well, I disagree that there was no way to get off an "accurate" shot.  It was a 500 yard target.  Sniper distance, for sure, but maybe he didn't have that skill.  I honestly don't know if he had something in for Aldean or if it was just garden variety terroristic mayhem.  I don't recall any definitive reports.

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2 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

Well, I disagree that there was no way to get off an "accurate" shot.  It was a 500 yard target.  Sniper distance, for sure, but maybe he didn't have that skill.  I honestly don't know if he had something in for Aldean or if it was just garden variety terroristic mayhem.  I don't recall any definitive reports.

He was an asshole who wanted fish in a barrel, and that's exactly what the hotel and concert venue allowed to happen.

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1 hour ago, Schulz2.0 said:

As someone that was in the military, the "military member who is experiencing mental health issues but doesn't want to come forward to get help because they might get processed out" checks out, sadly

Babbling about anti-gravity technology is kind of a tip-off that something is up.

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What we have been seeing with "drones" is the operational use of gravitic propulsion systems powered aircraft by most recently China in the east coast, but throughout history, the US. Only we and China have this capability. Our OPEN location for this activity in the box is below.

"China has been launching them from the Atlantic from submarines for years, but this activity recently has picked up. As of now, it is just a show of force and they are using it similar to how they used the balloon for sigint and isr, which are also part of the integrated coms system. There are dozens of those balloons in the air at any given time.

"The so what is because of the speed and stealth of these unmanned AC, they are the most dangerous threat to national security that has ever existed. They basically have an unlimited payload capacity and can park it over the WH if they wanted. It's checkmate.

"USG needs to give the history of this, how we are employing it and weaponizing it, how China is employing them and what the way forward is. China is poised to attack anywhere in the east coast

 

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You bail out 956? It never fails to surprise me watching the most self-assured clowns, stomping their feet and talking in very authoritative voice, just fucking falling right on the face time after time after time after time. 956 has mastered that act. He relies on the short attention span of many posters here, and a very deep subject matter expertise in one small niche that doesn’t translate broadly, to run out his craft. That’s why everything comes back to kremlin talking points for him. His world doesn’t get much deeper than that.  

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9 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

You bail out 956? It never fails to surprise me watching the most self-assured clowns, stomping their feet and talking in very authoritative voice, just fucking falling right on the face time after time after time after time. 956 has mastered that act. He relies on the short attention span of many posters here, and a very deep subject matter expertise in one small niche that doesn’t translate broadly, to run out his craft. That’s why everything comes back to kremlin talking points for him. The world doesn’t get much deeper than that for him.  

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1 hour ago, Anastasis said:

You bail out 956? It never fails to surprise me watching the most self-assured clowns, stomping their feet and talking in very authoritative voice, just fucking falling right on the face time after time after time after time. 956 has mastered that act. He relies on the short attention span of many posters here, and a very deep subject matter expertise in one small niche that doesn’t translate broadly, to run out his craft. That’s why everything comes back to kremlin talking points for him. His world doesn’t get much deeper than that.  

Annie. Sweetie. Calm down child. Nobody is claiming Kremlin talking points about the LV trump tower bombing except you shitting in this punch bowl. Where tf are you coming from lol. Please quote your posts here if you're gonna go off the rails and thread shit.

Or you can just keep rhetorically "many people are saying" it until you believe it yourself. It's gotten you this far, after all.

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22 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

I hate Jason Aldean as much as the next person, but I doubt somebody cared enough about him to want to assassinate him.

Have you listened to a millisecond of his music?  I’d personally advocate for an army of Manchurian Candidate Cletuses that could be triggered with the first shitty twang he strums at a show. Then they tear him to shreds on stage, doing the music world a massive favor. 

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2 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

Phil: “So Joe, I don’t know if you’ve ever heard of Albert Fish, but he was a contemporary of another famous Albert, perhaps you’ve heard of him, Albert Einstein.  This Albert Fish fellow inserted dozens of needles into his groin and pelvic region, and functioned at a high state of awareness, at least until the government forcibly removed them.”

Joe: “So you’re saying I should I insert needles into my pelvis if I want to operate at a higher state of awareness?”

Phil: “Joe, ask yourself why the government forcibly removed those needles from Albert Fish.”

Joe: “Interesting”

Albert Fish was a real jerk

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3 minutes ago, Captainant said:

Annie. Sweetie. Nobody is claiming Kremlin talking points about the LV trump tower bombing except you shitting in this punch bowl. Where tf are you coming from lol. Please quote your posts here if you're gonna go off the rails and thread shit.

Or you can just keep rhetorically "many people are saying" it until you believe it yourself. It's gotten you this far, after all.

it’s goldfished brain morons like you that 956’s propaganda works on  

 

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So, unhinged suicide. Not terrorism.

Spencer Evans, the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Las Vegas Division, said the incident appeared to be “a tragic case of suicide involving a heavily decorated combat veteran who was struggling with PTSD and other issues.”

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/03/us/las-vegas-cybertruck-explosion/index.html

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