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Analyzing 3 Different Reactions to 3 Publicly Violent Men

Samantha Tynisa
Thoughts And Ideas
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6 min readFeb 1, 2025

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From right to left: Luigi Mangione, Shamsud-Din Jabbar and Matthew Livelsberger

Luigi Mangione, Shamsud-Din Jabbar and Matthew Livelsberger all performed violent acts in public, but the media and the government’s response to each man is, vastly, different.

For some reason, something seems wrong with the way the media and the government are reacting to three recent crimes that occurred by three different men in three different locations for three different reasons.

But, despite, the many differences, there are so many details of each criminal act that is the same.

Each attack had a message behind it. Each attack did instill some fear in the American people. Yet, one crime was very quickly understood by the American people while two are still, somewhat unclear.

The first crime happened on December 4, 2024, by Luigi Mangione, an Ivy League Valedictorian who came from what was considered “Baltimore Royalty” family. I think the public was shocked by so many aspects of that story. The fact that someone finally attacked the healthcare industry after decades of healthcare professionals mistreating their patients.

Luigi Mangione’s looks were a second shocker. I, honestly, knew he was beautiful time I saw his smile under his hood from the CCTV footage. He was so beautiful, I thought he might actually be a woman. Then, the media began showing more and more pictures and he just kept getting hotter and hotter.

The third shock was that Mangione shot and killed Brian Thompson in broad daylight, in a busy area of Manhattan. The details kept coming and nothing seemed real.

Mangione has now been charged as a terrorist, which many say is an overreach.

Mangione suffered from chronic back pain since he was a young child and his disability was seriously impacting his young adult life. Mangione, purposely, said he didn’t want to harm any more people than Brian Thompson and he seemed to be almost waiting to be caught as he ate in a McDonald’s, face uncovered.

Based on Mangione’s manifesto, a document the media refused to show, Mangione was most likely suffering from mental illnesses and physical illnesses, too.

The media, also, began immediately chastising the American public because how dare we practice freedom of speech and say, “We get it” because the healthcare system is and always has been awful.

Then, you have Shamsud-Din Jabbar. Also, a handsome man and a former real estate agent who was an Army Veteran who placed homemade bombs throughout the French Quarter of New Orleans. Jabbar, then, drove his car down a busy street in the hopes of killing as many people as possible. Approximately 15 people were killed, with many more people having been injured. Jabbar died in a shootout with the police.

The public was told by the media that Jabbar had an Isis flag in his car (that I didn’t see from the different photos that were shared via the media), and he was, also, quickly labeled a “terrorist”.

Jabbar had gone through many things, such as, multiple divorces, financial troubles and there could have been some PTSD there since he served in Afghanistan and is, for all intense and purposes, a Black man and/or an Indian man in America who hails from a very “conservative” state of Texas.

Donald Trump quickly came out and, once more, erroneously called someone (this time Jabbar) an illegal immigrant. Yet, he isn’t one. Jabbar is an American citizen who was born and raised in Texas. He stated that he, “lived in Texas his whole life, except for when he was serving in the Army for 10 years.”

Elon Musk came out and named both Army Veterans “knuckleheads” while focusing mostly on his Tesla Cybertruck. The media shared stories of “experts” applauding Musk in his “handling” of the Las Vegas situation.

But, there was no “handling” that needed to be had. Musk LOVES attention and leaped at the chance to promote his Tesla vehicles. Teslas notoriously have been known to have many mechanical issues and consumer complaints.

Not to mention all the people who returned (or wanted to return) their Teslas because of how close Musk is to Trump.

The third incident was, also, on New Year’s Day. The same day as Jabbar’s attack in New Orleans. Matthew Livelsberger was, also, an Army Veteran. He, also, rented his car from Turo, a car rental website that allows people to rent other people’s vehicles. Livelsberger and Jabbar both served at Ft. Bragg (now known as Ft. Liberty) and Afghanistan, potentially at the same time.

Livelsberger drove from Colorado to Las Vegas while on leave from Germany in a rented Cybertruck that had several explosives in the back.

Livelsberger parked in front of a Trump hotel, allegedly killed himself prior to parking at the Trump hotel and blowing the Tesla car up.

At least 7 people were injured.

This comes after a large controversy between Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, Trump and MAGA.

Elon Musk stated that he wanted more H1-B visas for immigrants so they can come to work for his company. The timing was awful because Musk had just fired a ton of American employees.

The internet exploded and MAGA was livid that more jobs wouldn’t be created for Americans, specifically, white American men, a large portion of MAGA and Trump’s base that put him in office for a second time.

Vivek Ramaswamy came out and threw gasoline on the fire when he state that Americans are “mediocre” and have a “lazy, anti-education” culture.

Then, to completely ether the entire situation, Trump came out and said H1-B visas are good when many times before, he said they were not.

A lot of people put two and two together and feel that Livelsberger’s “wakeup call” was directly aimed at Trump and Musk because of the Cybertruck being rented and driven to the front of the Trump hotel to be blown up.

The FBI said that Jabbar’s attack wasn’t a terrorist attack. Then, they came out shortly after and said that it was a terrorist attack.

I believe due to all the similarities and connections, everyone was expecting Livelsberger’s attack to be considered a terrorist attack, too.

But, the FBI took longer to come out with a statement about Livelsberger. And when they did, the story they spun sounded extremely suspect.

The FBI told the public that Livelsberger was distraught because his wife, who’d just had a baby with Livelsberger, caught him cheating and kicked him out the house.

The media, also, allowed Livelsberger’s Air Force Veteran uncle, Dean Livelsberger, to speak out on Livelsberger’s behalf and give a squeaky clean review of his nephew.

Livelsberger’s uncle Dean Livelsberger told reporters on Thursday that his nephew was a “Rambo-type” patriot who loved his nation and Donald Trump. “He used to have all patriotic stuff on Facebook, he was 100% loving the country,” he told the Independent.

Of course, Livelsberger’s relative, bearing the same surname, will say these positive things about his nephew. What Veteran, of all people, would want to be linked to a terrorist? And he has to walk around with that very unique name. The reality is that most people will speak kindly of their loved ones no matter what crimes they’ve committed.

Livelsberger’s uncle coming out of nowhere made me wonder why the investigative journalists didn’t look as hard to find a friendly relative of Jabbar and Mangione? Didn’t they deserve the same unbiased story as Livelsberger? Why not find all these kind relatives to give glowing reviews of the other 2 men who were quickly labeled “terroists”.

It’s almost as if the media is already controlling the narrative and trying to dictate public opinion of these 3 separate situations.

But, to me, if Livelsberger’s suicide note is any indication, he’s also a terrorist.

Livelsberger could have went to the woods somewhere and just killed himself there if he didn’t want to harm anyone.

Instead he did a lot of planning to end up in front of the Trump Hotel in Elon Musk’s Tesla Cybertruck.

Why did Livelsberger need to go to such lengths to prove a “wakeup call”?

What was the “wakeup call” exactly?

As an Army Veteran from a family of Veterans myself, Livelsberger’s so-called suicide note sounded more like a manifesto.

It sounds, to me, like Livelsberger, also, had something to prove just as the other 2 men did.

Livelsberger was, also, trying to have an impact on the public and he used dangerously violent methods to do this. He could have done anything else and not done it in front of Trump’s Las Vegas hotel in Musk’s Cybertruck.

Why aren’t these 3 men looked at the same? Which details of these three violent crimes makes one suspect a “terrorist”, yet, another suspect simply a “poor guy” dealing with mental health issues? Was it the killing of others? Each attack had the potential to kill people. Two incidents were successful in their goal to cause fatal harm to someone else, and one was not.

Yet, despite all the glaring similarities, Livelsberger seems to be getting a great deal of benefit of the doubt and sympathy that could be applied to the other two men who, clearly, suffered from a mental breakdown, as well.

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Samantha Tynisa
Samantha Tynisa

Written by Samantha Tynisa

Providing My Unpopular Opinion as A Mom, Writer, Army Vet, MBA Grad, Web & Graphics Designer, Activist, Entrepreneur, CEO, Black in Tech, Educator. Real Estate

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