A highly decorated Army soldier who fatally shot himself just before an explosion of a Tesla Cybertruck at the Trump hotel in Las Vegas left a note saying it was a stunt to serve as “wake up call” for the country’s ills.

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.

    • poo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      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.

      • Free_Opinions
        814·
        2 days ago

        Dehumanizing the other has succesfully been used to to make normal people commit horrible acts in the past as well.

        • andxz@lemmy.world
          14·
          2 days ago

          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.

          • Free_Opinions
            314·
            2 days ago

            We’re at the point where either they go, or we all do.

            I’m sure this argument has been used before as well.

            • andxz@lemmy.world
              1·
              14 hours ago

              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.

        • Drusas@fedia.io
          3·
          1 day ago

          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.