Surveillance video shows a man setting himself on fire outside the Israeli consulate in the US city of Boston.
  • Fizz@lemmy.nzEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Pointless waste of life. This doesn’t move the needle at all.

    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      This kind of protest only works if the political class possess empathy, instead of being the most corrupt and narcissistic puppets the plutocracy can muster.

        • Saleh@feddit.orgEnglish
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          4 months ago

          Problem is the American people being openly in favor of genocide, as long as their team is the one committing the genocide. This includes the “progressives” you find here on lemmy, arguing that it is okay to vote for genocide because the Reps would do more genocide.

          The American people, and many other people in the world (Germany, UK, France…) are complicit.

          • jpreston2005@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            4 months ago

            Nobody but republicans are voting for genocide. Everyone with a conscious and brain are voting for the lesser of two evils because that’s the only choice we have. You’re inflammatory BS does nothing but make you seem more fringe, less thoughtful, and therefore easier to ignore.

            • Saleh@feddit.orgEnglish
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              4 months ago

              So who is bypassing congress to deliver bombs to Israel? Is it Trump? I thought Joe Biden is the current president. And Biden kept pushing the fact that he is a staunch Zionist. Also Harris kept talking about supporting Israel, providing a stage for families of Israeli hostages, while denying any Palestinian to speak on stage at the DNC congress.

              However your immediate attack shows exactly the problem. When people have the wrong skin colour or are in the wrong place, American culture is fine with denying them their humanity and human rights. And that is across the political spectrum as you are showing with your comment.

  • SirDerpy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    This is the second third one. Here’s the second:

    On February 25, 2024, Aaron Bushnell, a 25-year-old serviceman of the United States Air Force, died after setting himself on fire outside the front gate of the Embassy of Israel in Washington, D.C. Immediately before the act… Bushnell said that he was protesting against “what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonizers” and declared that he “will no longer be complicit in genocide”

    Source

    • The Real King Gordon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      The fact there have been two is astounding to me. Im sincerely interested in the psychology behind this. What would lead to this with such a horrific outcome?