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[–] Rivalarrival 42 points 4 days ago (6 children)

I'm really not understanding. He was supposedly a MAGAt, but he blew up Elon's truck at a Trump building. What the hell was his point?

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 32 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I guess he figured he'd get more attention for his manifesto if he blew himself up using basically the 2 just talked about symbols. Unfortunately for him, someone else decided to do something similar in New Orleans and killed more people.

[–] MashedHobbits@lemy.lol 8 points 4 days ago (3 children)

And yet we’re all talking about him and not New Orleans.

[–] Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Not for long. He'll be forgotten by next week.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

I already forgot about it until I saw this post. This is just another Monday in the 20's.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

New Orleans was ISIS. As much as it sucks we're used to seeing that. This is a straight up puzzle to people unfamiliar with the mental and brain health problems being discovered in soldiers with long service and a high number of deployments with combat.

[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

It's been relatively equal from what I've seen around both traditional media and fediverse posts.

[–] TxzK@lemmy.zip 14 points 4 days ago

"He was supposedly a MAGAt"

Well, there's your answer. Do you really expect logic from these guys?

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Why is it always Republicans that cause violence?

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 25 points 4 days ago

Probably because conservatism comes from fear and hate, and those are pretty violent emotions. Someone with a lot of empathy, that sees other people as whole humans, is less likely to be right-wing and also less likely to do violence + terrorism.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

He was out of it. He didn't even know Harris had replaced Biden. You know those guys screaming about aliens on the sidewalk? Add 15-20 years of special ops experience and Republican propaganda. That's all there is to it. He didn't have any internal consistency, he both wanted veterans to take over DC for a purge of politicians and for everyone to rally around Trump.

He was diagnosed with depression, and if you read the article, it reads like someone suffering from more than just depression (perhaps PTSD or something).

The point is he was suffering from mental illness. There's no more logic to it than that.

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 1 points 3 days ago

His point was mental illness, suffering, and wishing to die with people recognizing his existing