Mastodawn

#violence #Republicans #masculinity #ToxicMasculinity #MaleEntitlement #Livelsberger #Jabbar #misogyny
/7

"Our lack of honest conversation about the combustible interplay between America’s militaristic culture and personal machismo and their inherent contradictions means it won’t be long before we wake up to the next New Orleans."

#violence #Republicans #masculinity #ToxicMasculinity #MaleEntitlement #Livelsberger #Jabbar #misogyny
/6

"It feels like if people are truly determined to find the political links to mass murder, it is hiding in plain sight — misogyny, and the role that a long overdue assault on the contradictions and unfairness of modern patriarchy is now playing in the current backlash of right-wing, populist and testosterone-laced political movements, and not just in America."

#violence #Republicans #masculinity #ToxicMasculinity #MaleEntitlement #Livelsberger #Jabbar #misogyny
/5

As Will Bunch notes, though Livelsberger and Shamsud-Din Jabbar did not know each other, "their common bonds are striking." Both did military duty in Afghanistan. "And both, in their so-called minifestos of murder, sublimated their rage and feelings of misogyny to adopt a veneer of political rationalization."

#violence #Republicans #masculinity #ToxicMasculinity #MaleEntitlement #Livelsberger
/4

"Five days later, it’s clear that the roots of this latest spasm aren’t found in the deserts of Syria but ingrained in the modern demons of American life, in both our excessively militaristic culture and also in the overlapping crisis of male anger and rage that arguably also put Trump back on top in the November election."

~ Will Bunch

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/new-orleans-las-vegas-attacks-causes-20250105.html

Las Vegas, New Orleans, and the ugly truths America won’t talk about

A deadly U.S. New Year's Day inspires demagogues with little talk about the root causes of PTSD, misogyny, and unchecked male rage.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

#violence #Republicans #masculinity #ToxicMasculinity #MaleEntitlement #Livelsberger
/2

His solution was to '[f]ocus on strength and winning. Masculinity is good and men must be leaders,' he wrote. 'Strength is a deterrent and fear is the product.' He called for '[w]eed[ing] out those in our government and military who do not idealize' that masculinity and strength, and urged military personnel, veterans, and militias to 'move on DC starting now.'”

#violence #Republicans #masculinity #ToxicMasculinity #MaleEntitlement #Livelsberger
/1

Heather Cox Richardson summarizes statements made in two letters of Green Beret Master Sergeant Matthew Alan Livelsberger before he died by suicide with his explosion of a Tesla truck in Las Vegas on New Year's Day.

He wrote that the US is "headed towards collapse" due to moral loucheness, diversity programs, and policies promoted by the Democratic party.

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-5-2025

January 5, 2025

Investigators found two letters on a phone inside the remains of the rented Tesla Cybertruck that active-duty Green Beret Master Sergeant Matthew Alan Livelsberger exploded outside the Las Vegas, Nevada, Trump hotel on New Year’s Day.

Letters from an American

(((Cindy Weinstein)))Jan 5, 2025

Josh Marshall doing journalism: "Those documents [of Livelsberger] denounce Democrats and demand they be “culled” from Washington, by violence if necessary, and express the hope that his own death will serve as a kind of bell clap for a national rebirth of masculinity under the leadership of Donald Trump, Elon Musk and Bobby Kennedy Jr. Did you miss that stuff? Yeah, me too!"

#Livelsberger
#Tesla
#Trump