I actually, genuinely thought it was an accidental fire.
Speaks to the shit reputation those shit trucks deservedly have. But also how dumb of a location for an intentional fire.
See that’s the thing.
Is a trunk/bed full of fireworks and gas average cyber truck stupidity or a real lazy attempt at arson/terrorism.
I think it might have been more about the message a burning cybertruck, in front of a trump hotel, right by the trump sign, sends, than it was about the violence. Especially since the person is military trained and knew this wasn’t going to go all OKC federal building.
But suicide bombing… Wasn’t that a Saudi thing?
The car is self driving ffs
I mean the guy may have been at the end of his rope for multiple reasons. I mean fort bragg/liberty has really high levels of lead in their water, mold in their facilities, etc., plus whatever PTSD he may have had. Who knows. However, being trained, he should have known this wasn’t going to be some massive explosion, that it was mostly just going to set the truck on fire.
This is beside the point of course, but I just want to point out that while I do think renaming facilities that were named after confederate soldiers is overall a good idea, in Bragg’s case they should have made an exception. Through incompetence, he accomplished more for the union than for the confederacy.
Kinda like the Finns calling their fire bottles “Molotov Cocktails” as a jab at Ambassador Vyacheslav Molotov.
Maybe he knew and is a misunderstood (trashy cyberpunk) “Burning Monk”
I wouldn’t be all that surprised honestly
You would think a little homemade thermite would be enough to reach the batteries and set them ablaze
yeah, lots of could have’s in this scenario. but who knows. maybe we will get more insight as time goes on.
The cyber truck is exactly what I would expect from someone whos only job experience is memes and shitposts. A rolling dumpster fire, mocked by everyone.
Eh, my kids think they’re cool, so they have the K-6 market cornered.
No offense to your kids specifically, but children are dumb as fuck.
No offense taken. To them, being “different” is enough, unless “different” gets you bullied, facts just get in the way.
Kids aren’t dumb, just inexperienced.
My first thought was literally “was it a bomb or did the batteries ignite?”
“The future should look like the future.” - Elon Musk
The cybertruck future looks like 1982’s Blade Runner.
That’s highly insulting to Blade Runner, which had very stylish vehicles.
It looks like a shell on an El Camino in a straight-to-video 1980s Mad Max ripoff.
I’d been comparing them to the models for the Quake mod Quake rally some time, I actually went to verify that I was remembering Quake Rally correctly and now I have to stop because the 90s video game mod had higher poly counts.
Syd Mead should slap you in the face for saying that.
Hey, it was supposed to look bad. A dystopian future where the entire earth was basically a third world country where all the good stuff was manufactured for the off world colonies.
If Trump were already in office I would still think they were covering it up with the claims of explosives.
Now please all aboard the SpaceX rocket everybody! A 6 barrel revolver with a single bullet is added for a fun game of Russian roulette. Just to out your mind at ease, the gun is not the biggest threat to your life.
SpaceX hasn’t killed anyone, incidentally it’s also the company musk has the least power over.
And? That is the bar it needs to cross to not be a steaming bad of turds?
Not, really, it would need to be better, by every measure, than all of its competition. And SpaceX is.
I wouldn’t necessarily call those two facts “incidental”. I’d be pretty confident calling it “cause and effect”.
whoosh
Tesla is publicly traded and has a board of directors. I believe Musk has more than half the votes though
SpaceX is privately owned by him and Gwynne Shotwell only serves as COO because Musk is happy with her in that role
Tesla engineers are limited in their pursuit of whatever weird shit Elon wants by pretty lose car safety standards. SpaceX has to comply with two governments, a dozen other companies, and hundreds of insurance companies safety standards.
loose*?
There’s still time
I WANT to give him that credit, but he’s never made anything in his life.
Made? Probably not. But I’m sure he’s responsible for pushing them out onto the streets knowing what potentially dangerous garbage they are.
conspiracy in my opinion: that guy was shot in the head and dumped into that car and then blown up for threatening to out Trump or Musk for some dirty dirty shit.
Someone threatened a powerful person and then the powerful person made sure to retaliate in a highly public way which would link their own brand to the murder?
Sometimes I wonder why my conservative family thinks that liberals are just as conspiratorial as conservatives, then I come across the comment you responded to and go “yeaaaah still don’t agree but I see where you would think that” lol
I hope it’s not as bad
If the stop the steal people and the flat earth people all appreciate being a part of an “in group“, I wonder what the liberal version is
It’s definitely not as bad, I’m just saying that it helps enable whataboutism
Well that’s the most fun conspiracy I’ve seen yet. Unfortunately it doesn’t work as there is video of the vehicle stopping, no one getting in or out, then it exploding
Ummm, didn’t musk actually just hold a snake oil press party were he had people remotely drive his vehicles and told the sycophants it was perfect safe robot magic driving the cars?
Kind of fucks your rebuttal there… What else you got?
No idea, I really don’t follow Musk. The vehicles can drive themselves though so sure
Ol kekius dick suckius made the shittiest car in existence
IRA agent
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