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Tesla Fire Erupts Near Trump International Hotel on Las Vegas Strip - VINnews

video - https://subium.com/profile/bnonews.com/post/3lep3oiicck2a

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Edit 1

Posadas found video taken by an outside camera - https://hexbear.net/comment/5785898

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Edit 2

I changed the image. For me it's not even 2 pm on January 1st but I already nominate that as photo of the year.

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[–] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 77 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The symbolism is a little heavy handed but nice foreshadowing

[–] StalinIsMaiWaifu@lemmygrad.ml 33 points 5 days ago

I know authors who use light symbolism and they are all cowards

[–] Pandantic@midwest.social 63 points 5 days ago (1 children)

…authorities have not indicated whether it was accidental or intentional.

Which is better - unintentional because cybertruck is shit or intentional to make a statement?

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 42 points 5 days ago

Unintentional but trump claims credit anyway

[–] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 49 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Modern augury means reading omens in how the wreckage from a battery fire scatters and in the colour of the flames

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 20 points 5 days ago (2 children)

It needs a name. Telsaree?

[–] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 20 points 5 days ago

bazingamancy

[–] fox@hexbear.net 6 points 5 days ago

Thermoelectric lithomancy.

[–] DavidGarcia@feddit.nl 51 points 6 days ago (2 children)

tips fedora

Elone Muskoni sends his regards

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 27 points 5 days ago

Don Trump, it'd be a real shame if something were to happen to the lobby of this nice hotel yous gots here, if you catch my drift sopranos-poker

[–] axont@hexbear.net 11 points 5 days ago

making the world's most annoying man even worse by making him italian

[–] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 43 points 6 days ago

oh i love a good omen

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 33 points 5 days ago

Please tell me that’s a good omen.

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 31 points 5 days ago

This shit feels biblical lol

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 29 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Up there with the guy who tried to attack fbi with a hammer or some shit

[–] Posadas@hexbear.net 29 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)
[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 27 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Some dipshit chud loaded his shit up with fireworks and probably threw a cig butt back there.

[–] Posadas@hexbear.net 50 points 5 days ago (3 children)
[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 33 points 5 days ago

Your honor...saul-your-honor

[–] Lussy@hexbear.net 25 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Al Qaeda like wojak-nooo ‘Nooooo it was us, not the dumb truckerino’

[–] Hermes@hexbear.net 8 points 5 days ago

ISIS posting a "still love the truck" comment was sadly not on my bingo

[–] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 16 points 5 days ago

the truck just did that

[–] TrashGoblin@hexbear.net 7 points 5 days ago

Looking at the video, there were definitely fireworks involved... a bunch of them pop off after the main explosion.

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 31 points 6 days ago
[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 31 points 6 days ago
[–] Monk3brain3@hexbear.net 15 points 5 days ago

The video is crazy. The car (or bomb lmao) literally just explodes. No time to even get out

not my problem

[–] Ithorian@hexbear.net 14 points 5 days ago

Visual poetry

[–] HexaSnoot@hexbear.net 11 points 5 days ago

Omens & Portents

[–] johncutting@hexbear.net 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I asked a retired EOD mate and he kinda shrugged and said not to trust any of the knee jerk takes until a forensics team has had a chance to investigate. Explosions happen faster than your eyes can see and anything at this point is just a guess.

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 5 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I noticed that people on the net were saying it "might be fireworks". After a bit of googling all I found was a tweet by a rando who said it looked like fireworks.

[–] Hermes@hexbear.net 6 points 5 days ago

https://xcancel.com/sentdefender/status/1874546195944615987

Link from elsewhere in news, those colors and secondary explosions look like fireworks based on other explosions I have seen online.

[–] johncutting@hexbear.net 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

AP is now reporting gas canisters and fireworks were stuffed in truck. I still feel like waiting for evidence instead of reacting is a good lesson to take from the explosion expert. We are going to have A LOT of events like this in 2025 with a fascist actively encouraging stochastic terrorism in charge. We need to find a way to understand in a way that won't drive us insane.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-hotel-vehicle-fire-las-vegas-ad4c171c7a6af64f08db93d9fdc2d749

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 6 points 5 days ago

Thanks for the link.

We need to find a way to understand in a way that won't drive us insane.

Very true. I hate it when rank speculation is true or partially true. Going forward that just encourages yet more such thinking and yet more copypasta "proof" which is actually the opposite of proof.

[–] GoodGuyWithACat@hexbear.net 6 points 5 days ago

If this were the Roman empire, the Praetorian guard would be deposing Trump by now.