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Driver of Tesla Cybertruck in Las Vegas blast had spent years in US army
(www.theguardian.com)
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Firmly firmly firmly onboard the "this attack was not genuinely intended to do damage" train. Either this will end up (officially) being an "unfortunate accident" where some dude was just gonna go blow shit up in the desert and was staying at a trump hotel on his way there, and flicked his cigarette butt the wrong direction; or this dude's FBI-assigned "here's how to make a bomb" radicalization agent trained him wrong as a joke so that this could be used as a cybertruck & trump hotel ad.
Wanting to blow shit up in the desert would be an Occam's razor explanation for having petrol cans and fireworks, and I could see a cybertruck guy being stupid enough to carry those things in a truck with an infamously electrified body. On that same tier I could see it being a spectacular suicide, like an obnoxious version of self-immolation with the most attention-grabbing vehicle he could rent.
There is some fucking hamfisted "the ford electric truck killed all these people" "the cybertruck saved everyone" "the brown dude was an evil terrorist" "forget about shooting CEOs" messaging being hammered into the collective subconscious. Hypernormalization marches on.
We're gonna find out motor companies are actually radicalizing people to carry out terror attacks using their competitor's vehicle for the sole purpose of smearing it
Or his FBI handler loaded up the truck and told him "Drive this to the Trump casino in Vegas, don't ask any questions."
this seems like the most simple explanation