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.
Kinda says a lot about the US military that a supposedly well trained soldier - green berets are supposed to be fairly elite right? - couldn’t figure out how to build a bomb beyond just stuffing a car with whatever random flammables they could find
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So he actually designed it perfectly: to look fancy but not do anything.
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Congress makes budget, administration says the VA needs about 12 billion more to cover their costs, the Republican Congress members vote against it.
I’m not saying a therapist would have helped prevent this, but I’m saying it very well may have helped prevent it.
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That’s fucked up. They sign up for a job where PTSD is basically a given, and then they’re not allowed to go to therapy?
Ridiculously, it’s seen as a sign of weakness, including by those who might be in the position to give you a promotion.
The whole military culture around mental health needs to be completely reformed, but I have no idea how that would be done.
If he was trying to keep his clearance, then he would strive to avoid any appearance of mental health issues. Strictly speaking you’re still encouraged to take care of your mental health, but you have no confidentiality in your mental health records if you have a clearance and certain psychological issues can be a cause to deny or revoke a clearance. Many clearance-holders opt to avoid therapy and other mental health treatments as a result.
The other replies were about going at all, but that’s not the key here
She said he’d lose clearance if he went, that means the things he’d say were psychotic and he knew it
His wife allegedly shared a trump tweet and said she read them to get the desire to kill people, that kind of statement to a therapist will get your clearances revoked fast
So the guy was a massive shitstain, knew it, and then offed himself pathetically. AKA your standard trump supporter
Yeah, his full suicide letter came out, and it looks like he was still fully on board with Trump and Elon. Doesn’t make sense why he’d blow up a cybertruck in front of a Trump building, but yeah. Lots of railing against the 1% while supporting a whole bunch of billionaires.
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Says a lot you can’t see he didn’t want to make a huge explosion.
Mission accomplished then. Still not sure what that ever was. Still not sure how this is supposed to “wake” anyone up.
This dude was a fucking moron either way.
Well, for one there are several dozen people discussing it here on this thread in a backwater social media site.
I know you’re trying really hard to be obtuse enough to maintain your contrarian nature with everyone you cross paths with.
I hope you do better in 2025.
Discussing WHAT? That some crazy dude killed himself in a truck? Wow so woke!