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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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I highly doubt that a green beret would not understand the difference between pyrotechnics and explosives. This seems like solid evidence in my mind that this was an accidental blast and that the terrorism story is fabricated.
In a funnier universe, he was merely going to film a vertical, reactionary rant as a guy in a truck with sunglasses as these types typically do
The Tesla exploded because it just does that. Fireworks were also completely unrelated.
I didn't think this is the case but I deeply want to believe this lol.
Depends on the certs he achieved during his time in SF, but I know the GBs do recieve the basics of explosive manufacturing and utilization training to round out their skill set for the purpose of augmenting their force multiplier potential when deployed to create and train paramilitary forces in hostile territories.
reference to unaliving.
All I can think of that tries to exclude secret squirrel shit and goes non-conspiracybrain is that during his small window back in stateside, he went hogmode, tried to think of something cool that would appease the anger of his hog god-emperor and give the middle finger to the judas techno-demon at his side, went out to scout out good places to put on a show or was going to set up for the show, the demon machine spirit in his rent-a-can decides to BSOD on his ass and self-immolate while locking him inside, and super-trooper, knowing about how dogwater it is to burn to death decides to log out early.Didn’t they announce that he had shot himself (or that someone shot him)? Makes this seem like much less of an accident
EDIT: LIFE IS BURGER
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c86wnx174q8o.amp
This was my hunch too, it also satisfies the propaganda purposes of pretending that musk & trump are poor wittle smol beans who are being persecuted
Counter point, having gotten the certification at one point doesn't meant that he spent all his time doing the "things".
Its not unheard of for soldiers to get certs and special training for the pins, patches, ribbons, promotion points, and bragging rights then just never do much with them.
Still want to believe the more funny reality that CloutAtlas described though.