• FALGSConaut [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    77·
    6 days ago

    I like the part where he says he has knowledge of war crimes and immediately reveals its because he was doing war crimes

    Edit: also his “massive VBIED” couldn’t even break some windows lmfao

    • happybadger [he/him]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      72·
      6 days ago

      Yesterday the explanation that made the most sense to me was what someone else on here proposed. This guy wanted to blow up a bunch of random shit in the desert and accidentally detonated it prematurely. That was the only explanation which gave him any kind of plausible deniability for being the donkey of the week.

      But nope, it was actually a car bomb. A green beret specially trained in explosives, Rambo fleeing to Mexico with multiple agencies on his tail, and this is what he builds. The cybertruck is already like if you asked a toddler to design a truck. He built a car bomb like that same toddler would. Filling it with fireworks because wow go boom. This is donkey of the month-tier failure and him doing it because NATSEC podcasts scared him over Chinese weather balloons is chefs-kiss

        • happybadger [he/him]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
          18·
          6 days ago

          I’m still not convinced it wasn’t. There are multiple videos of the body of the truck being electrified and shocking people. I wouldn’t feel safe storing fireworks or propane in it. The latest news I saw was that he shot himself prior to the explosion though. It’s so embarrassing either way but somehow worse if this is what he actually intended to do.

          • FumpyAer [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
            18·
            6 days ago

            The odds of that kind of failure within 15 seconds of parking in front of the hotel just doesn’t make sense to be pure chance. Why not at one of the 12 charging stations he went to? Not to mention shooting himself.

            • happybadger [he/him]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
              23·
              6 days ago

              I’m just trying to give him an excuse. There’s a long history of US military veterans snapping and I can’t think of any that were this comical. It’s like the Coen brothers directing Rambo.

    • Chronicon [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      32·
      6 days ago

      seriously, he could have done 10x more damage just by crashing the fuckin cybertrukkk into the building. like that truck could probably get through the front glass at least with some run-up, right??

      cw self harm

      I guess that might have made it harder to off himself before detonation though.

  • happybadger [he/him]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
    64·
    6 days ago

    foucault-shining The boomerang coming home is fun. This man was driven to ultimate mediocrity by balloon conspiracies, UFOs, and his own demonic history.

    • darkcalling [comrade/them, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      37·
      6 days ago

      I’ve heard that so, so, so many special forces people are conspiracy nuts who are into Q or other equally deranged shit. Makes you wonder if they specifically feed them a drip of carefully crafted lies that drives them mad or what it is exactly. Maybe it is as you mention all the warcrimes they do fuck up and fragment their psyche.

      • barrbaric [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        35·
        6 days ago

        I think it’s mostly just that they’re pretty stupid right wing guys. The difference between them and your garden variety chud is that they have military training and have gone through the conditioning that brainsculpts people into mass murderers.

      • DefinitelyNotAPhone [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        26·
        6 days ago

        Being in special forces, from what I’ve heard from people who have been around them, is 95% just being stupid and/or deranged enough to put up with the kind of bullshit that differentiates it from more typical doorkicker boot shit. Most of that comes from rabid nationalism, but given that most of these dorks are chuds you also have bleed in from conspiracy theorists.

        • JustSo [she/her, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
          24·
          6 days ago

          According to one of those SOF youtubers who recently did a video telling his audience not to hold SOF influencers up as heros, or hope your children grow up to become like them- he described the selection process as finding people on the sociopathic/narcissistic spectrum who are basically capable of doing fucked up shit, not feeling bad and being able to compartmentalise or rationalise that behavior effectively enough to not be too dangerous when re-integrated into society.

          Q and most conspiracy stuff really hooks people on that spectrum too, I think, being in the know, being better than the sheeple masses etc. Add in an incentive to feel like all the time you spent learning how to be an efficient murderer is useful “just in case” etc. I can see why it attracts them.

          I have a friend who has flip flopped all over the ideological spectrum over the years. They are over their most chuddy shit now and despite being a south asian trans girl, most of their friendship circle are ex-SOF. “They’re good guys.” etc. That friend has never been mentally stable and was deep in the Q hole for a while so I imagine that’s why she so easily bonds with the boys from the 101st drag you out of bed brigade (or whatever.)

            • JustSo [she/her, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
              18·
              6 days ago

              I only pay attention to this stuff very peripherally but I’m watching a video right now apparently the whole spec ops influencer world is in shambles right now because, surprise surprise, they are all unrepentant liars who have been telling bullshit stories, or other people’s stories, to drum up business for their post-service “learn 2 shoot the bad guy” classes and brand endorsements etc.

              Never believe the word of a special forces guy, I’m sure there are some good ones honest ones but they are by nature selected to be the sort of person who will lie to your face for personal gain and are incapable of feeling remorse. By design. They don’t even need to brainwash the empathy out of them, it’s just a useful portion of the normal human population that gets recruited.

              Your boss is probably one too. Almost every single person I’ve worked for has been a high masking narcissist or sociopath.

  • Horse@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    46·
    6 days ago

    My first car was a 2006 Black Ford Mustang V6

    actual walking stereotype
    lemme guess, he got it on a ridiculously shit finance deal and also married a woman a week after meeting her lmao

  • Azarova [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    56·
    6 days ago

    jesse-wtf US and China have alien tech and China is on the verge of starting ww3 by invading the East Coast (??? but also xi-plz ) and also btw he did and covered up a whole bunch of war crimes? And then made the world’s worst VBIED while being gangstalked by 3 letter agencies?? lol wtf is going on

      • Azarova [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        361·
        6 days ago

        You don’t understand, flying drones at low altitude with all their lights on is a devious 4D chess ploy by the Chinese to drive the American population insane prior to their imminent full-scale surprise invasion!

        • JustSo [she/her, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
          22·
          6 days ago

          Ironically something similar to this is in a CIA doc somewhere. I want to say Project Blue Beam but it’s been ages and I get my wires crossed- basically a plan to use clouds as a holographic projection medium targeted at the psychic vulns of various populations- aliens for some, angels for others etc. I don’t remember many of the details because like most CIA bullshit it’s just silly.

          Exploding cigar, anyone?

          fidel-wut

  • DefinitelyNotAPhone [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    37·
    6 days ago

    I enjoy that apparently drones are checkmate because you can put a bunch of explosives above the White House, but somehow the fleet of nuclear ICBMs that China has publicly had for decades isn’t worth mentioning.

  • Cimbazarov [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    30·
    6 days ago

    So he pulled this stunt to stop a world war between US and China? Doesn’t add up to me given that he’s also supposedly a pro-Trump guy.

    Could this be a false flag for trying to manufacture consent for a war with China? Feels like something someone would be forced to do and not genuine. But also I’m not in the same headspace as a chud Green Beret guy, so idk maybe this seemed logical to him. Shoutouts to exposing war crimes though.

    • Wheaties [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      17·
      6 days ago

      At a guess; Elon has to play ball with authorities in China, or he looses a huge market for his cars. So, as far as chuds are concerned, this means Musk might as well be a communist and Trump needs to be made aware of this.

      Stir in a few spicy rumors and whack theories, let steep in a guy who feels a bit guilty for being part of a war crime, and wamo, yer looking up cyber trucks on rental apps.

    • invalidusernamelol [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      10·
      5 days ago

      It’s totally internally consistent. This was him screaming as loud as he could to Trump with his message. A blood sacrifice to his God.

      Just sad that the message was pretty generic UFO conspiracy shit instead of like “Stop the war in Gaza” or “Do something about climate change” or “Give us access to healthcare”

  • BoxedFenders [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    30·
    6 days ago

    I thought for sure there would be a connection to New Orleans but it’s looking like they were two separate lone attackers. But still…two divorced military dads renting an electric pickup truck on Turo for a New Year’s attack is just too coincidental to ignore.

    • FumpyAer [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      15·
      6 days ago

      Is it enough that Turo enshittified car rental by making it Peer to Peer with close to zero human to human contact? Also, I don’t know how many traditional car rental agencies are carrying cyber trucks in their fleet, but given the way CT value precipitously drops with use, it can’t be many.

      Car rental agencies work by getting a great deal on a fleet of brand new cars (from the best manufacturer bid), using them as rentals for about a year, then selling the cars for as much or more than they paid for them using the dealerships the franchisee also owns, or in the case of Enterprise, their own branded, vertically integrated sales lot.

      With a Cyber Truck, nobody is buying slightly used ones even at 30% markdown, and Tesla is not going to have fleet pricing until they massively increase their production past the demand for new ones, which at this rate will take a decade.

      TL;DR - The only people renting out cyber trucks are individual owners trying to offset the cost of their extremely poor investments. On apps like Turo.