I can’t speak for why he was specifically concerned with minimizing loss of life; but the AT&T switching facility looks like a pretty solid candidate for a strategic target; and I’d imagine that, for someone who doesn’t expect to be able to evade the feds, there could be a lot of appeal to being killed effectively instantly in the blast rather than being hunted down and then sent to a tiny concrete box in ADX Florence forever.
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Oh that part is easy: terrorism. They were trying to accomplish terrorism
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Still bothers me that people think this was 5G Related. It may be, but the reason people currently are saying it is in the news that way is because one station in Nashville, WSMV, a station that has historically missed things, ran a story:
In this story, they basically have ONE source. Who isn’t on record, but alledgedly was asked by the FBI about 5g. The source said that Warner never spoke about it at all. The FBI has declined comment stating they don’t talk about active investigations.
So , yes, maybe the FBI asked a question or two in that nature. That doesn’t mean this guy was a 5G covid conspiracy theory nutjob. It means that WSMV did a hack story that says absolutely nothing when you read it, has basically no sources, and isn’t based on reality.
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Suicide.
Apparently so. But maybe more…
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Really? I thought the reason people are saying that might be a motive is because it happened so close to an AT & T building.
I mean, if all he meant to do was kill himself and render his RV unusable, why not do it out in an empty field?
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Good question. His choice of location shows that he was more interested in making some sort of statement, or at the very least have people talking about him. 
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Well, the guy was obviously in it deep (cancer, no work, other unknown issues…) and decided to end it, possibly he thought he could take it out on some people who were responsible (in what reality I dunno)?
In this case Occam’s razor isn’t too outlandish.
It damaged 41 buildings downtown, not just the AT&T building. It was a block away from a really touristy area of downtown. The RV played a song about Downtown.
Maybe this is just where he wanted to die.
Does that really make it less horrific or shitty?
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I didn’t mean to engage in speculation about his mental state so much as determine if there was such speculation offered by the person interviewed. It is way out of my wheelhouse as they say. The fact that there appears to be no tragic loss of life here makes me a little more inclined to speculation in general however. I am interested in the consequences of the act and who may have benefitted, how did he acquire or make the bomb, did he really act alone, is the warning recording a human voice or synthetic one?
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Why do some people go out by stopping rush hour traffic on a busy bridge before jumping.
My theory is that some people want to feel a taste of being noticed, mattering to a whole bunch of people, before disappearing from the stage. Planting a big “I was here” sign, even if it’s only for a brief moment.
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This is taking a city block with him, not just stopping traffic. On Christmas day, no less. Seems rather self-centered in a pretty destructive way, to me.
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AND do a fuckton of damage in the process.
If all he wanted to do “downtown” was die, there’d be no reason to blow up his RV too. He could’ve just shot himself on the sidewalk.
The warning recording demonstrates that he knew it would cause massive damage. And so, the question remains, why did he want to cause massive damage?
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He is charged with two counts of felony filing a false report and one count of tampering with evidence.
Seems like a major asshole, but I don’t get the charges.
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I’m also confused by this.
Your link says he damaged the sound system, and maybe that covers the tampering with evidence, even if it is a bit exaggerated.
What i’m not sure is about how similar it was from the original audio (which i haven’t heard).
I’m not sure if it was just a similar song or if it also have a message about a bomb and a countdown.
And, even in that case, it seems strange to have it as ‘false report’ instead of something closer to a threat or disturbing the peace with loud sounds.
Yeah, it would make sense if he were upset about 5g, but the problem is that there doesn’t seem to be any evidence that he was.
Just because the FBI allegedly was asking if he was, doesn’t mean he was.
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I’m not saying he was.
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Maybe just playing “Downtown” is now suspect.
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