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[–] [email protected] 60 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Aaron Bushnell, hero and role model

[–] [email protected] 48 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

I wish he had another choice. We failed him by not being organized enough to welcome him as a comrade. Instead he chose to do the only thing he could. I admire his courage, but it's a damn shame we lost someone willing to die for Palestinians.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

He was actively involved in anarchist organizing with Serve the People in Akron, OH.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I wasn't aware of that, but I say that's an indictment of their organization; a small org that doesn't ever get beyond charity work and the occasional street protest could not save him from despair. A few thousand likes on Facebook? Is that the height of the organization he could join in his area? I'm sure they're trying their best, but we have to get organized on a much larger scale to be able to do anything that matters.

Beyond being an indictment of their org, that's an indictment of us all. We are not organized enough. Not even close.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago (1 children)

We've failed him, we've failed the Palestinians, we've failed our immigrants and refugees, we've failed our LGBTQ+ people and people of color, we've failed our poor. The story of America is a story of one failure after another.

And I say "America" even though this is world news, because he was American.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Sometimes I have this thought that feels like a realization that it was never even about "the people" or "freedom" to begin with.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

It was about creating an in-group and implementing a caste system under the deceptive guise of democracy. What it's never actually been is democratic or free.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 months ago (4 children)

I'd like to know why anyone would downvote this. Do you support genocide?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Sadly there are still a lot of vile people on Lemmy. A lot less than Reddit, but still plenty

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

And they all stick to the same 3 instances.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Maybe people are understandably uncomfortable with self immolation? Nobody has ever liked an effective activist in their time. The civil rights protesters in USA had a <25% approval rate in the 60s.

I think this person did what he thought was right, and I will remember him for that. And peace can't come soon enough.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

We should ask the question: is it really effective? Is anybody even talking about the guy who self-immolated in Colorado for the cause of climate change? Hell, even this event is being suppressed and swept under the rug. And those media orgs who do cover it are choosing to take up a "mental illness" angle to dismiss it.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago

I fully agree. I have mad respect for him, which is why I expressed my admiration and support.