• FALGSConaut [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    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

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      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 emoji com chapéu de cozinheiro beijando as pontas dos dedos

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          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.

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            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.

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              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.

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      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.

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    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

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        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!

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          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

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    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

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    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.

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    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.

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      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.

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      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”

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    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.

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      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.

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    Lol, lmao. Ignoring all the drone stuff (GRAVITIC PROPULSION), why would the DEA be in a position to help cover up US warcrimes in Afghanistan?

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      Because a lot of the most violent sociopathic war criminals from that war also ran drugs? Just a wild guess. But nothing in what I said is false.

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        DEA can also requisition special forces for things like raids into Mexico or assassinations in Columbia. Usually the DEA has its own personnel, sometimes they’ll work with groups like Mexican federales, but if they think they’re up against experienced/well-equipped cartel members, they’ll call in special forces.

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          Oh yeah that Sicario movie had some of that shit in it right? Now that I think about it I vaguely remember a lot of media that featured this wonderful crossover episode type beat.

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            Sicario specifically had the FBI being unknowing patsies that the CIA used to avoid the whole “can’t operate on US soil” thing, which they would definitely never just ignore.

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              Ah that’s right. Such a transgressive film. (lol)

              Was the sequel any good? I like watching trash movies and getting mad at the imperialism sometimes.

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                I just watched the sequel the other day and it’s an entirely different film from the first. It was basically going to be its own thing with a lot of the crew from the first movie, but yeah the studio interfered and wanted them to turn it into a sequel. Antonio Banderas is practically playing a different character altogether.

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                Haven’t seen it myself. It has most of the same cast, but the writer said the studio butchered his script, and Villeneuve is replaced as director by a guy called Stefano Sollima. Sollima apparently directed a film called ACAB in 2012 so maybe the politics are good? I’ve heard there’s a bunch of action schlock though so idk.

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                  Ah word. Yeah idk either. I feel like there’s a reason I gave it a miss, probably dunked on via podcast or something. Not like the original wasn’t but it was pretty much zeitgeist saturation and hard to miss really.

                  I think I’ve seen ACAB but fuck if I can remember anything about it.