Summary

Matthew Livelsberger, a 37-year-old Army veteran from Colorado Springs, has been identified as the driver of the Tesla Cybertruck that exploded outside Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas on New Year’s Day.

Livelsberger died in the blast, which injured seven people with minor injuries.

Authorities are investigating the explosion as a potential act of terror, noting Livelsberger’s military connection to Shamsud Din Jabbar, the suspect in the deadly New Orleans attack hours earlier.

Firework mortars and fuel canisters were found in the truck, with no confirmed motive yet.

  • @[email protected]
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    134 days ago

    Luigi is white. Didn’t stop prosecutors there. Or is Italian not white enough anymore, suddenly?

    • @Chip_Rat
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      104 days ago

      Don’t know how much you are joking, but Italians were not considered “white” until fairly recently. I had an instructor (who I thought was an old sexist racist pos) who started telling a story about going to a hunt camp where he was the only white guy. I perked up, like “wait, what? Have I misread this 80 year old German man? Am I just blind?”

      Then as he carried on in the story. “Yeah they were all a bunch of drunk Italians, but some of them were ok!”

    • @very_well_lost
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      64 days ago

      Everyone knows Italians are criminals! Didn’t you watch the Sopranos??

    • @[email protected]
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      4 days ago

      It’s only terrorism if it’s done by brown people or directly affects rich people.

    • @foggy
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      34 days ago

      Race war? 🤔

      Class war. 😎

      • @SkyezOpen
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        14 days ago

        Why not both at the same time? I want to see middle class mixed race people having a CRISIS on the battlefield.

        • @foggy
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          14 days ago

          Because we don’t judge people on superficial characteristics such as race.

          That, by definition, makes you racist.

          • @SkyezOpen
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            14 days ago

            It’s a hypothetical war in which the sides are so granular and arbitrary that nobody knows who to fight for. It’s silly.

            • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝
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              14 days ago

              The point is, class war is simpler. Let’s say income taxes doubled, while capital gains become completely untaxed. Are you sad or happy? That’s your class sympathies.