It's not working too well but maybe we should just try to crucify rich people
this post was submitted on 29 Mar 2024
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what he might have wanted people to understand: world peace, remembering people about current wars, people should know love should be put front forth all other things
what people in comments understand: "lol this guy has a fetish" "did that achieve anything, just get on with your work" "he's a freak"
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fuck these spiteful and useless comments.
disturbing and violent self flagellating protest has been a tradition throughout most of recorded history. name calling and holier than thou attitudes are blatant ignorance of both history and ongoing attrocity and violence.
there’s also almost certainly a racial element at play, given the language being used. like the words “freaks” “whackos” “backwards” just happen to show up when it’s not a white guy doing the protest. i truly hope this comment can help with some self reflection on why our knee jerk reaction is the way it is here.
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CW: very edgy meme showcasing the racist undertones going on here.
35 times and so much peace accomplishment
Also nothing to do with race, what he did was pointless as well.
and do you think it's his mistake for trying to send a message even though it still hasn't been achieved?
Think he should take a different approach after all this time.
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It’s protest. What protest accomplishes is messaging. Communication of violence, in protest of atrocity.
Thousands of people, including foreign tourists, came to watch the annual religious spectacle in San Pedro Cutud and two other nearby rural villages.
I swear just the other day we were deeply moved by the self-immolation of Aaron Bushnell in protest of genocide. But when brown people do it it suddenly becomes “yikes this backwards culture,” “get a load of these whackos.” Really revealing our Western-centrism and implicit racial bias here.
To be clear, I also find it disturbing. That is the fucking point. But if your first instinct upon seeing this, like many of the comments here, is to speak derogatorily of this individual? You are the fucking problem.
Aaron bushel joked on reddit about his fellow coworkers being killed. Also was never moved by him lighting himself on fire.
If he is u/acebush1 I'm not really seeing what you are referring to as a joke.
Post title is literally them trying to be an edge lord.
As for the account
We started by investigating who owns/owned the "acebush1" Reddit account, and we came to the same conclusion: It does appear to be owned by Bushnell. The posting history of the now-suspended account contains plenty of references to the Air Force and a confirmation that the user was an active-duty member. It also contains a lot of posts supporting leftist, mainly anarchist, viewpoints.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/aaron-bushnell-antisemitic-posts/
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It ain't working. Cut down down your losses and do something constructive.
Surely it will work this time.
What a sick idea that we should celebrate a human being nailed to a cross, yuck. Another example of how religious beliefs are grotesque in the extreme and I'd rather believe in humanity instead of some supernatural shit like this.
There was no such person as Jesus and there never has been and there never as any such thing as "god" either. Stop being ignorant blind fools, people. Leave your shackles of religious nut-jobbery behind, go out and enjoy life and have some fun. Turn this "good Friday" into a GREAT Friday.
I think Jesus probably did exist, and he was probably a very successful cult leader who may have taken a lot of hallucinogens.
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Christus, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators, Pontius Pilatus, and a most mischievous superstition, thus checked for the moment, again broke out not only in Judæa, the first source of the evil, but even in Rome, where all things hideous and shameful from every part of the world find their centre and become popular.
-Tacitus
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I thought this was an Onion article as I scrolled, wtf.
This just seems like blasphemy to me. He is trying to impersonate Jesus Christ with this reenactment. This goes beyond a church play to reenact the crucifying of Christ.
Religion is blasphemy in and of itself.
Really? I believe it is there to teach morals and principles. I feel like it’s a comfort for those who have lost others, or have lost hope. Some people take it to an extreme, and use it to justify actions that aren’t always moral. I don’t see how worship and faith are blasphemy, though. Could you explain a little more about that?
All one needs to do is look at the shitty things that god asks of us. Why was it okay for god to fuck with Abraham and command him to murder his son? Why did god fuck with Job, because some other imaginary friend (who is somehow inferior to god and yet never vanquished by god) decided to talk shit? Where is the morality here? Why were the Israelites commanded to kill even the livestock of Amalek? What happened to “thou shalt not kill?”
It’s all a bunch of contradictory horseshit meant to keep the feebleminded in their place. You can contort it any fucking which way you want (and I have heard a lot of these contortions, having been indoctrinated into this shit at a young age), but all one need do is to examine the tremendous evils perpetrated throughout history to see that religion and morality have not a thread in common.
Certain people are hung up on suffering without ever moving on to what the Easter story is about: redemption.
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Maybe I'm alone, but this seems fine to me. I think evangelicals should take a page out of his book. Spend less time being horrible, and crucify themselves instead.
As much as I don't condone needless violence, even against oneself...
You have a great point. They should be putting their money where their mouths are.
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These whackos are so far gone they literally crucify themselves… talk about natural selection
They also got the crucifixion wrong because you're supposed to pin the victim to the cross through their wrist bones between the radius and ulna to ensure they don't fall down and actually properly starve them to death for everyone to see.
If you pin through the hands the victim can just fall over and escape.
The Romans were very efficient in low effort highly visible displays of punishment.
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Good luck next year, everybody. Maybe the 36th time is the charm
Wouldn't world peace involve not nailing people to crosses?
Yeah, but this guy doesn't have a magical world peace wand so he's doing this as a form of protest instead. Same principle as a hunger strike, or chaining yourself to a fence.