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.
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.
I know “false flag” is a meme at this point, but this is just what it looks like when an accelerationist asshole thinks he’s clever.
His former girlfriend who was an army nurse also said that she thought he had a TBI.
Where did you find the note? I can only find articles that dissect it without its context.
Nah, he was just a fucking idiot and it’s a good day when any American thug like him wastes away.
Fuck veterans
‘Fuck veterans’ is a little harsh. Some enlist because they have no other prospects or can’t afford better education to land a job. Or they’ve been indoctrinated to think it’s ‘a mans duty to their country’. I’ve known plenty of veterans that despise the military afterward, despise current gov, and despise Trump.
As much as it sucks, enlisting is one of the few paths out of poverty in the U.S.
That is a very narrow view in how the military works. People like to pretend it’s voluntary. But if you are poor and you want to improve your life and perhaps go to college, it isn’t. Plus, unless you are American you can’t realize how hard the indoctrinate children into joining. All high schools have a recruiter there at all hours grooming kids into joining
Did not even take a megacorp CEO with him. What a failure.
Didn’t take anyone with him. Best terrorist we have seen yet, only offed himself.
Yay murder
That’s a great impression of a healthcare insurance CEO!
Are you Dora the Explorer on an acid trip?
Cause you just can’t stop licking Boots.
You applied for the united Healthcare CEO position December 5th, didn’t you?
It’s murder when it’s a human. The mega-rich aren’t human and belong in the ground where they can’t hurt anyone else.
Dehumanizing the other has succesfully been used to to make normal people commit horrible acts in the past as well.
While I agree with you in theory (because you’re completely correct with your point), these people also do horrible acts on a global scale daily. We’re at the point where either they go, or we all do.
We’re at the point where either they go, or we all do.
I’m sure this argument has been used before as well.
Hey buddy the boot licking conference is down the hall.
P.s. they’re never gonna pat you on the head.
But sometimes it’s a lie and sometimes it’s true.
Again, I agree in theory, but it has only been used in bad faith before. These guys are going to utterly destroy the very planet that sustains us.
There’s a difference.
The horrible thing about self defense is that its necessary.
It has and I am with you that we should not dehumanize our enemies. However, I also wonder the difference between dehumanizing your enemies because they are weaker than you and make a good target versus dehumanizing your enemies because they have exorbitant power over you. What if that’s what it takes to get people to actually stand up to the oligarchy? I don’t know.
Defense*
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.”
Given the location and vehicle, I say he is clearly mad at a certain side, can you guess which one? /s
Surprisingly (or maybe not), he’s a Trump supporter:
Livelsberger and his first wife divorced in 2018 in part due to political ideological differences, in particular his support for Donald Trump.
Livelsberger’s family revealed that Matthew intended to vote for Trump in the 2024 election.
EDIT: I just saw your
/s, I’m a foolThat factoid means nothing compared to the message he tried to convey.
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.
He said Musk should be supported…
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
I mean, we live inside of bullshit town, so it’s less unbelievable each day that something like the following is actually true:
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They killed a guy or the guy decided to “die for the cause” as a cult member
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Remotely drove his dead body in a cybertruck (like the fake FSD “taxi” demonstration from musk the other month)
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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
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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
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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
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Weird press articles about musk response being a “masterclass” in crisis management PR
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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
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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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This was also terrorism and occurred only shortly after the terrorist attack in New Orleans, and yet somehow it’s the brown Muslim getting all of the attention for being a terrorist.
Yes, the white guy who lit fireworks off in a Tesla said it wasn’t terrorism, but he also said that it was to send a message (“a wake up call”)–that’s terrorism. He was a right wing extremist terrorist but because he was white and not an Islamist, it’s just glossed over.
It doesn’t matter that he was a decorated soldier. He was a terrorist who literally wanted non-Republicans to be hunted down and forced out of the government.
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Too bad Vance is his replacement, horrible outcomes guaranteed.
If I were prone to conspiracy thinking I’d wonder if 25th’ing Trump wasn’t the plan the whole time. We have unelected VP Musk and Co-VP Thiel sitting at the helm of our nation.
They probably just expected him to croak in his own. Safe to say, they’re never gonna ask him to change his eating habits and they’ll probably respond slowly to a heart attack if it happens behind closed doors.
Been my running theory. He’s unhealthy enough that they can hope, he probably isn’t the type to look at the nutrition info on his McDonald’s.
If that doesn’t work, he’ll be an easy 25th case soon enough.
Theil and musk have a plan.
A guy like Thiel leaves nothing to chance.
Yeah, but Vance has nothing going for him. When he becomes president, Republicans will deteriorate into pretty infighting once again and people will be sick of it
I’m envisioning Trump being attached to electrodes that turn his body to mush and then an orange-tinted puddle.
It’s a nice thought :)
That’s very optimistic of you.
Is everybody just ignoring the email he sent to sam shoemate and instead going to trust the corporate owned msm reporting on this?
If he really was a right wing extremist then why would he detonate explosives outside of a trump building and cause property damage to one of the rights most symbolic moron leaders? Something doesnt add up in the mainstream narrative ,
We all know that a certain orange someone will write this off as just another sucker and loser gone.
whatever that shit didn’t wake me up at all
Ikr, I was late to work because of it. Smdh
Getting more press than the guys lighting themselves on fire outside the supreme court - so the wife beater has a point there.
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The egregores, Wyrms no longer content to lurch below, animate wielded flesh to strike with venom and abandon.
Did you just activate a sleeper agent somewhere on Lemmy?
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“Woke”
“Not a terrorist attack” – um detonating a bomb in a public place to get attention for a political purpose is basically the definition of a terror attack. Using fear to stop your opponents from opposing your favored political despots. Not to mention that even if there weren’t many injuries, the people who breathed the fumes from those batteries burning likely will develop cancer including the firefighters. And the cost of cleaning that up falls on the people who live there. Not exactly a beneficial act.
The media treating this as a patriotic act is just going to encourage copycats. And this guy was a bomb expert, but failed to realize that the temperatures he was creating would vaporize the fireworks, not shoot them off. If an expert could make that kind of mistake, just imagine the mistakes that will be made by the copycats. Look forward to many casualties from “patriotic” terrorists.
I haven’t seen anything to suggest that he was a bomb expert. Familiar with IEDs, but that doesn’t mean expert.
OK, expert maybe was the wrong word, but it was part of his job. And that the mistake he made was obvious to anyone with basic understanding of heat and how things like gasoline burns. It’s a simple concept that could have easily have been solved by simply opening the top and using the fireworks to trigger things or lots of other ways to do what he said was going to happen.
