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Elderly Oklahoma Man Dies After Igniting Himself On Fire When Deputies Attempted To Serve Eviction Notice (www.news9.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago

My dad was getting evicted from my childhood home that my dad built. Mostly from little faults on his own.

He was never suicidal but he told us that he was going to fight the police and would rather die than leave the house. He was pretty much planning on going down with the house.

After years and years of battling the bank that screwed my dad and losing my mom to cancer, I asked my dad to stop fighting and we convinced him to live in an apartment that my siblings pool together to pay for.

The point of it is losing a home is very depressing and hurtful. We don't need police to serve paper, but social workers and government support for people that got displaced.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Better to burn the landlords instead

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

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[+] [email protected] -91 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (10 children)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Be sure to say hi to him when you get there.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Ah yes. That passage where Jesus said, "pay your landlord, for he is the idol which thou should worship for letting thyself life in thou's abode."

Or when he said, "ignore thy neighbor when he is in pain, for he is not thy self."

Or that passage in the bible that says, "it is easy for a rich man to get into the kingdom of God, and it is also easy for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle."

I think one of Jesus' teachings said, "provide housing for thy sojourner, but only if he pays thee 30 silver coins."

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

If you believe an invisible sky daddy watching all of your moves, ready to send you to burn for eternity at the slightest fuck up, then you need to grow up.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago

Ah yeah. There’s always someone who is so devoid of a conscience that they will say something like this. It’s thinking like this and those that participate in it that keep the world from being a good place to live.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

After you burn for the first few million years then burning would get pretty boring, I would imagine.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I'm just a dirty heathen, but...... Don't we all sin? And don't they all weigh evenly?

Hell is gonna be standing room only. Better bring a folding chair with me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Christians would believe your sins are forgiven if you repent, but suicide is a special case because you have to be living to repent. If your sin results in your death, you can't repent.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (2 children)

In which hell?

Come on, get specific with your religious fervour.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I’m pretty sure everyone here died sometime between 2020 and 2022 and is in hell. We all just don’t know where we are yet.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I was born into a capitalist hellscape. Does that count?

[+] [email protected] -10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I dunno, you’re not in a diamond mine, or locked up in a basement being sold for sex… and you can afford a phone

… so I’d say, relative to the many possible hells that exist on earth, a capitalist hell for you is pretty nice.

Edit: italic text added for clarification

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

All those other things happen in capitalist hell. It's incredibly selfish to think everything is fine if only you are fine.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 7 months ago

That’s true. Good thing I don’t think that. Good thing I never said anything like that. I wouldn’t want anyone to hear what they wanted to hear, twist the original intent, and then send a retort designed to make me look like some kind of selfish person in order to make themselves feel superior.

Here, I’ll use your tactic: It’s incredibly hypocritical to suggest that you are living in hell because other people suffer, while you enjoy the comforts of a capitalist world. You are not living that hell. You are just viewing other people’s suffering, with popcorn, and offering up your thoughts and prayers.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 7 months ago (1 children)

For the life of me, I cannot imagine why any sane person would worship such an evil god-concept as the one many christians claim to believe in.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (2 children)

The term for a follower is "God fearing" for a reason. Most of them worship out of fear, not love.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I am Love.

But I will fuck u up the minute you doubt me.

-god

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Go fuck yourself dude, be self righteous somewhere else.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I assume the comment means in this person's eyes, not in their own. It seems like sarcastically discussing their beliefs, in that they didn't actually do anything that matters and are just worried this guy sinned. I don't know though. It's impossible to tell the difference between sarcasm and authenticity in text.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

Well I mean sarcastic or not, the comment isn't appropriate. It's very unlikely she started praying because she thought the person was a sinner, she started praying for the person's safety. Prayer for something like this is an expression of concern.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like he might not necessarily have intended to kill himself so much as to just burn the house down.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Bet whatever rich fuck now owning the house is going to have a party this weekend celebrating. With the judge.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I know this is a joke, but I don’t imagine this is a simple cleanup

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

And who will do the cleanup? More poor people who don't own houses.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 7 months ago

I wasn't joking. I was being mildly hyperbolic. Landlord is just going to file an insurance claim. Probably get a tax break for the loss. Maybe instead of making 900,000 this year they make 875,000. Life goes on because fuck poor people

[–] [email protected] 30 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I guarantee you the landlord has insurance and will do none of the work themselves.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Just numbers on a balance sheet to them.

[–] [email protected] 80 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Horrible conclusion to a desperate situation. The article didn’t mention it but the dog was in the bedroom with him and also died as well.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I get that this is not the kind of situation where one would think about this, but poor pets are always victims, no matter what. They don't understand what or why, they just suddenly are suffering :(

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago

I've been watching a documentary about the collapse of the Soviet Union and those are always the worst parts. Fuck people, but don't leave the scared monkeys caged in a zoo in the middle of a war. We carelessly exploit so much and just throw it away.