'We Are All Culpable': Third American Self-Immolates to Protest Israel's Gaza Onslaught
'We Are All Culpable': Third American Self-Immolates to Protest Israel's Gaza Onslaught
In a video, Nelson said he would set himself ablaze "to stop supplying Israel with the money and weapons it uses to imprison and murder innocent Palestinians" and "to pressure Israel to end the genocide in Gaza."
This new TikTok trend is dark af
Goddamn you for making me chuckle
Bring back the ice buckets :(
Unbelievable that someone would be brave enough to do this. Respect... rest in peace.
People are "brave" enough to put a shotgun in their mouth and pull the trigger too. That's not worthy of respect, it's the symptom of a disease. And we'll all rest the same way, since the afterlife is a bronze-age fairy tale.
Idk its their life to do what they want with it.
Has the US government acknowledged even one of these?
If Biden doesn't ignore it entirely, he'll call it an accident or whatever Netanyahu-senpai tells him to say.
Q — outside an Israeli — or outside the Israel Embassy. Was the President aware of his death? Did he have any sort of response to it?
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Yes, the President is aware. And we can — I can say that it is — obviously, is a — it’s a horrible tragedy, and our thoughts are with the family of the servicemember at — during this — I could — we can’t even imagine this hor- — horrible, difficult time.
Just thoughts and prayers. No acknowledgement of his reasons why, no policy change, just more weapons sent for Israel's genocide
There have been so many genocides in the history of humanity, none in recent history are unique or the worst.
If you care about others, you’re exactly the person who shouldn’t kill yourself.
Be Careful Americans! If Israel causes you to Kill Yourself that's a Kill for them and we ALWAYS Punish Israel's Murdering of Americans with MORE BOMBS!
If your elected leaders are using your tax dollars to send guns and tanks and bombs to Israel then THEY are responsible for the resulting carnage, not YOU. And your time would be better spent electing better leaders instead of setting yourself on fire.
If your elected leaders are using your tax dollars to send guns and tanks and bombs to Israel then THEY are responsible for the resulting carnage, not YOU. And your time would be better spent electing better leaders instead of setting yourself on fire.
Yeah, but it kinda breaks down at the "electing better leaders" part, since we don't have an anti-genocide candidate in either major party.
Very few policies are determined by party platforms at election times. There were no pro-civil-rights-movement candidates from the major parties back in the 1960s either. Events drove them, and those events didn't just randomly happen. There were decades of organizing, recruiting, training, planning, and hard debate that went into them, and people laid their lives on the line in furtherance of actual goals, not empty gestures.
Similarly, neither major party opposed the Vietnam war, or either of the Iraq wars, or the invasion of Afghanistan, or gay rights. That's all just an excuse for inaction. Public opinion can be changed, even if it sometimes happens too late. But if you're not willing to get out in the streets, nothing will happen at all.
Electoral politics ends with the presidency. It doesn't start there. Bernie worked for progressive causes for decades before running in 2016. He worked his way up from mayor to Congress to Senate. His near miss in the primary in 2020 pulled Biden to the left on several issues.
If you want to end support for Israel, and I agree we should end support for Israel, even if they stop the war tomorrow. Then you should be writing letters, going to county Democratic meetings and finding candidates to run for state legislature that share your beliefs.
What really sucks is that this poor person's cause will be scooped up and used by groups trying to sow division, and don't actually give a flying fuck about the genocide. If you want to engage with accounts using him as a bludgeon, look through their history first. If it's legit, fair enough. If it's obviously a political account, point out what they are doing and block em.
This person went as far as they did for their belief. The least he deserves is not being used by fake bullshitters and bot nets. If you can't agree with that, you're disgusting.
RIP and we are as a collective weather we like it or not. I didn't forget about a climate scientist doing the same thing.
It's mindless and morally reprehensible to valorize someone's suicide, regardless of the excuse they might have given.
Seems like one would fly over and join the fight vs setting oneself on fire.
Do you think we'd be reading an article about this guy flying overseas?
The goal is to draw attention to something.
He would then be reported on as a terrorist, kinda undermining the whole optics.
So instead of possibly doing something to directly help Palestinians that might be misunderstood after his death, he sets himself on fire? Because optics? No way anyone could ever misunderstand that 🙄
It accomplishes nothing at all. Makes no sense to do it over actual direct action if you plan to die anyway.
Neat agitprop, Ozma!
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