“I will no longer be complicit in genocide [in Gaza]. I am about to engage in an extreme act of protest,” the man apparently said before setting himself alight and repeatedly shouting “Free Palestine!”

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    • Bloobish [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      10 months ago

      deeper-sadness honestly sad, one of the few good troops to realize how fucked the system is and then did the utmost sacrifice in protesting the system

    • rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.works
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      10 months ago

      Seems weird that an anarchist was a US soldier. Maybe he joined before he came to the political beliefs he held as he burned, or perhaps he came to these beliefs because of what he saw in the army.

      • Maggoty@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        That happens quite a lot when you recruit teenagers with the promise of tech job skills.

      • DarkNightoftheSoul@mander.xyz
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        10 months ago

        Excuse me, what?

        It is incontrovertibly ON TOPIC to point out the fact that his dying words were FREE PALESTINE followed by a scream of DEATH AGONY because he was ON FIRE. His remarks factually did not conclude in the reported way. This is not a joke. I disagree it is crass or insensitive (Whose sensibilities am I supposed to have offended, precisely? More importantly: why the fuck should I care that their feelings are hurt by my pointing out the message he died to scream to the world?), and regardless it is factual and relevant. Go back and watch again if you don’t believe me, if you have the courage.

        “Crass jokes” aren’t prohibited by your badly written rules even if it were a joke.

        Your moderator indiscretion is what is crass here, if anything. Shame on you.

        • Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml
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          10 months ago

          Nah i’m with the mods on that one, it came off way too much like you were laughing at them.

          • DarkNightoftheSoul@mander.xyz
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            10 months ago

            Well, I’ll be the first to admit it’s very hard to tell what a person’s intent is through text alone. I could have provided more context. I suppose it felt to me like it didn’t need context because it was seared into my brain.