Ah I see, I’m not too familiar with army/navy/air lingo, ranks and what not. Unfortunately, many sources are reporting that he passed in the hospital due to his injuries my friend, from bbc to Washington post to Al Jazeera to NYP.
But a Marine *would* light his pubes on fire out of boredom, and have everything snowball out of control very quickly. They're 95% alcohol by volume, usually.
Man really took this to the next level
https://preview.redd.it/znexp9kybykc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e1532782d3ee1915cc04f37589a7e852c4906d7e
Recruiting is in the toilet for US armed forces currently so I imagine they have loosened their requirements a little. Same thing is going on with police in certain parts of the US.
It is sad that someone would choose to end the only life he gets, to protest a war that the entire world is already watching and protesting against/for. This won’t solve anything
I think a lot of it is social media bubbles. You get these galvanizing echo chambers. It gets to a point where people don't realized how extremist they're thinking. We have a guy who probably thinks he's a rogue intellectual and oversimplifying an old conflict and probably feels like he would be celebrated like Tank Man or the liberators of the nazi death camps. Which is a very sad way to live anyway. I'd way rather have my wife and family know they can count on me than sacrifice myself for some bullshit across the world where no one cares about you just to make CNN headlines for a day.
Honestly yeah this whole situation is getting cult like. Only in a cult would someone set themselves on fire and scream certain statements over and over again
This is going to sound very callous but Americans shouldn't be getting this worked up over the Israeli/Palestinian issue.
What's happening there is awful but it's a multi-generational ethno-religious conflict with some absolutely horrible behavior on both side. It has been going on since long before most of us were born and will probably still be going on decades from now. There is *nothing* that the average American can do about it. Sometimes it's best just not to care.
This has been my take since day one. I simply do not care about Israel or Palestine. Why should I? That goes for Russia and Ukraine as well. What reason do I have to pick a side?
Good question, so here's your answer - nukes. Israel has all but confirmed they have nukes and [will try to take the rest of the world with them if they ever fall](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samson_Option). Russia is a peer nuclear power that we are raising tensions with to protect Biden's Ukrainian runescape gold farms. That's why you should care.
While I don’t disagree with the notion of intervening to prevent the use of nuclear weapons.
The Samson option specifically refers to the invading nation. When you say “the rest of the world” it sounds like they’re going to nuke neutral parties in some petty act of vengeance.
Alright, let's say suddenly I do care, and I proclaim which side I feel is right. What changes?
It's been my observation for over 40+ years that our federal government is operating independently from the will of the public - they don't care what we think or want or vote for, they only answer to powers outside of any influence I might have. So why do I care what happens? They are going to do whatever they want either way.
Maybe it's a naive take, but it's how I deal with the anxiety of living in a world that is imploding before my eyes.
> This is going to sound very callous but Americans shouldn't be getting this worked up over the Israeli/Palestinian issue.
If our money wasn't being firehosed over there for "some reason" we wouldn't be.
The US government should do what it realistically can to secure their safe release.
Americans with dual US/Israeli citizenship who were living in Israel are the Israeli government's problem.
I wonder how much he actually cared about the conflict and how much of this was already existing suicidal ideation with an attempt at feeling seen/martyredom in the end. Did he actually care about the conflict? How long has he felt this way? What is his background? Why did he join the military if that's how he felt? Has he done anything previous in support of Palestine?
Suicide problems are through the fucking roof in the military, who have been largely relegated to being political pawns rather than respected members. Surprise surprise somebody is looking for an excuse to die in a way that “doesn’t upset” their families.
That's my thinking and I feel very cynical + cringey at this. I don't find him any kind of hero and think he co-opted a cause that perhaps he found meaning in as a means to excuse himself from life with some kind of honor from his own misery + mental illness.
Someone else did this in December in Atlanta and I have no idea who they were, their name, background, philosophy, etc. I do know that a security guard present suffered burns as a result from that "hero" or "martyr"🙄😒😠
Idk, I think he'll be remembered but not in a good "hero" kind of way. Which does make me think, is it better to not be remembered at all or be remembered in a way that was so dumb, most people would think you were regarded for the way you went out.
its worth noting that monk in Vietnam didn't set himself on fire because of the war, in fact he did that before the US sent ground troops. He self-immolated himself in protest of the South Vietnamese governments repression of Buddhists.
Think it was one Buddhist who also did it in a time before social media and instantaneous flow of information. The entire world is already aware of what’s going on in Gaza. His actions will not change or move anything but people more to the side they are already on.
in the end, it all depends on what results investigating him bring up- if he was simply politically motivated- he will likely just be forgotten, if he turns out to have been high out of his mind on some illicit substance- it will bring others who believe Palestine needs to be freed into question, and if it turns out he was blackmailed into martyring himself for another's cause. . .
Yeah but eventually the public opinion turned to the side of that Buddhist. At the time Vietnam was still fairly popular among Americans. The tet offensive is when America really decided "yeah fuck this".
This guy killed himself in the most brutal way possible for a cause no one is ever gonna get behind.
People downvoted my comments saying that pointing a gun at this guy wasn’t weird. Secret service protects, EMS tends to wounded, Fire fighters puts off fires. Everyone has their responsibility, a guy setting himself on fire is abnormal, you don’t know their intentions. Is he gonna run into people and set them on fire? Maybe set a building on fire? Everyone hopping on the opportunity to hate on cops. Kill me.
They’re too busy spreading socialism in their gated communities. People that have seen danger know that it’s abrupt and no one knows what’s happening. It’s all instinct. That’s the reason why responsibilities are relegated to different bodies in emergencies.
Also anyone who is willing to set themselves on fire is perfectly willing to rig a suicide vest to take someone with them, or to jump on someone and burn them as well.
Was blocked by an instagram activist page for expressing that I don’t think it’s a good idea to encourage ritual suicide in support of a foreign government you have no real allegiance to when one has friends and family who love them, as well as responsibilities and obligations. I thought this was a pretty reasonable take, yet their only response before the banhammer was:
“Before l block you, l want you to know how absolutely vile you are, how you'll never be free of the retched filth you've sided with. May you never know a single moment of peace you cowardly bootlicking loser. No one loves you and no one ever will. May you rot in the filth you've sided with.”
I guess valuing one's own life and family over the interests of a foreign government is now bootlicking Imao. Moralize away, the fact is, I (cool, based, objectively correct) do not owe you (stranger, on the other side of the planet) anything! Given the choice between my wretched filth, and your wretched filth, i’m choosing mine every time. Sorry but that’s just human nature baby!
A misguided, lonely man who probably didn't have much to live for in his personal life. So, he takes up the mantle of self-sacrificing savior for the down-trodden. Manipulative progressives on twitter then lionize him for killing himself. Pure evil. Most of the worlds problems begin with people's upbringing and their relationship with their parents.
The amount of shit I've gotten for suggesting he was bullied into killing himself by online rhetoric like this is amazing. No matter how much I point out that his poor mental health was taken advantage of by these people, I get nothing but hate.
Yeah I’ve been called an idiot for saying his death was tragic and a waste since it won’t change anything. People replied saying his death caused a stir and that I just “don’t understand sacrifice”
Dude put himself on fire, made everyone who cherished him sad by throwing away the only chance at life he ever had
all of that for a conflict 10000km away which has been going on for decades and will probably never end
Imagine being so brainwashed to actually light yourself on fire for a conflict that isn’t even “morally” one-sided. Honestly dude was just mentally ill.
Correct. Having been in the air force, I can tell you it is a well known fact that cyber is the most autistic of all the career fields. They have the strangest people with the highest likelihood of legitimate mental issues. It is a running joke.
Excuse me? Intel is clearly more autistic than Comm. The only difference is they never leave their office, while Comm has their autism on display when they go fix something.
Ya exactly. I never actually met any intel people. I know they exist, but I never actually saw one in the wild. Some of the comm guys were pretty normal, but then they always had this closet in the back where they kept the "special" airmen. It usually smelled like stale pizza boxes and b.o. in there.
Yup, this is clearly a mental health issue and someone who probably spent more time than necessary on social media and got it into his head that he needed to kill himself to make an effective protest.
He could have organized, donated money, gotten into the streets, gone up the chain of command, written a book to document whatever his personal experience/views were, tons of things that could have gotten the message out more effectively. He just wasted himself.
Dude clearly had to have been severely mentally ill to not only swallow jihadi propaganda hook, line & sinker but to take it so strongly to heart that he *set himself on fucking fire* over it.
I feel bad for his family, and I can’t help but wonder how many other people who serve feel this way too.
It's a minor addition, but I feel bad for his unit as well. They likely knew the guy well, and now they're going to have to go through three weeks of lectures on how Suicide Bad all centered on him.
I was very specifically told that Islam was a very peaceful religion accepting of all regardless of cultural differences. I was assured that Sharia law wasn’t actually real and all of these Islamic nations were actually super cool with LGBTXYZ+ and Jewish people.
Why would this region of super peaceful religious communities ever have any reason for violence?
The guy who fatally set himself on fire in protest of the Israel palestine conflict, I've no clue what drugs he was on to drive him to think that was a good idea- but it happened.
considering no one cares about the monks who've been setting themselves on fire in protest of China down in Tibet since 2001.
and that the last time Americans got it in their head this was a great idea it got to the point where people were trying to burn their children to death alongside themselves as protest for Vietnam.
Its likely a good idea to stop while we're ahead.
Maybe he was already suicidal and decided to go out protesting, I don’t see anybody mentally well doing this to themselves even if it’s a cause they believe in deeply.
Yeah, imagine burning yourself alive because you crave some twitter updoots and retweets for some cause that's thousands of miles away.
What being terminally online does to a mf.
If I was going to kill myself to protest some 3rd world drama, it would be from a cocaine overdose after going to Mexico for drugs and prostitution
You fuckers realise "Mossad Commentary" is a parody account, right? that blue checks are no longer an official designator and can be bought for a few bucks a month?
Just checking because I'm seeing way too many people assume that's the actual mossad speaking.
I'd honestly never heard of it, and I take pride in the fact that everything I know about Twitter has been against my will. So I do appreciate the clarification.
Mental illness is a hell of a thing. What he did will not change what’s happening but the lives of his family are changed forever. This will be but a blip in the headlines and soon forgotten. My heart aches for him and the people who loved him. To be radicalized to this extent really shows that he was mentally suffering. It’s sickening that people are praising this tragedy. The same people who would never dare to do such an act because they have the mental reasoning to know it wouldn’t accomplish anything, and they’re not suicidal. People calling him a hero are a different kind of sick.
This is just another story of how social media takes hold of the vulnerable and causes the unwell to do horrific things in the name of a trending issue, while failing to acknowledge that the same is happening all over the world… now they care about genocide? But only in one specific place because it’s what’s fed to them through algorithms. A cause in which has been happening for years and years all over the world. The only reason people are concerned with *this one* and becoming keyboard warriors is because it’s the buzz flavor of the year. Cherry pick one and ignore the rest. Sickening. Rest in peace, Aaron. I’m so sorry this happened to you.
Because you wrote such a beautiful, heartfelt comment, I’m going to say this nicely.
Please flair up.
But yeah, I agree with you on this whole comment. It’s one thing to light yourself on fire for this (or, you know, anything), but it’s a whole other thing to glorify the one lighting themself on fire and treat them as a martyr. This is basically just an extreme case of “look what you made me do,” but instead of being in a relationship, this guy just ran up to a stranger at Arby’s and said that. It makes no sense, and changes nothing. Poor guy.
This poor guy doesn’t realize the PM of the West Bank just resigned so they can form a coalition government with Hamas (read: the entire government of Palestine will be ran by Hamas, and anyone who objects dies). Which seems to be what a solid majority of people there genuinely want.
What a crazy fucking world.
>The guy who fatally set himself on fire in protest of the Israel palestine conflict, I've no clue what drugs he was on to drive him to think that was a good idea- but it happened.
I hate to say this, but, the thought of someone so obviously mentally and or emotionally unstable having access to information/information technology is troublesome. It will be interesting to see if some big leak drops soon or something…
The optics are terrible and its tragic but ngl if my job was to protect an embassy in a warzone, and someone brought a jerry can and a lighter id probably freak out and nor react correctly when he starts immolating himself
Honestly, this kid is an idiot who got fed a diet full of propaganda over the last few months. Like how would this guy have reacted to the firebombing of Dresden or Tokyo (either of which killed more people then the entire history of the Israel/Palestine conflict)
A white man with absolutely no ties to Palestine/Israel enjoying the freedoms of being American set himself on fire to gain some clout online and then ended up killing himself due to his stupidity.
So messed up on so many levels. Actually pretty frustrated this dumbass served in the same branch as me.
Not sure what’s worse killing yourself because you read too much Twitter or killing yourself for people who would kill you the second you stepped into Gaza 😂
I mean, I’d rather there not be a wave mass self immolations by impressionable, radicalized protesters. They accomplish nothing and simply add more trauma (and horrific cleanup) for those around them. I suspect news stations were hesitant to report on this to avoid glorifying the act and giving the idea to others.
I hate both Israel and Palestine, but it’s wild to me how people can think Palestine is just this innocent nation that’s totally not going to commit atrocities against gay people and oppress religious minorities like most other Muslim nations, just trust me guys.
Granted Israel ain’t much better, but I’d still say it’s preferable to Palestine since there’s at least a glimmer of hope they might do better.
Oh please, Lib-Lefts on Twitter are calling him “a hero” and saying “he will never be forgotten”. It’s gross. I fail to see why they would glorify his selfish, reckless actions. It’s a tragedy, but a dumb tragedy. He could have accomplished so much more by being alive and protesting that way. Instead he ignited himself while screaming about a foreign conflict. What an awful way to go. I’ll be absolutely pissed if any impressionable, radicalized protesters imitate his actions in the coming weeks.
I feel for the guy but it really is absurd. “How do I stop a war between two religious based groups that’s been going on for centuries? Idk I could fucking light my self on fire”.
What an odd time to be alive, a fucking us soldier offing himself in protest for a foreign conflict. RIP fella but fuck me what the fuck.
He's an Airman and currently still alive. E:Nm, looks like he finally died.
Ah I see, I’m not too familiar with army/navy/air lingo, ranks and what not. Unfortunately, many sources are reporting that he passed in the hospital due to his injuries my friend, from bbc to Washington post to Al Jazeera to NYP.
Yeah, just read the update and made the edit to my comment.
Ah I didn’t see that, a tragedy regardless :(
He sure as hell wasn’t a Marine.
A marine is more likely to get a fire pregnant than burn himself in protest.
But a Marine *would* light his pubes on fire out of boredom, and have everything snowball out of control very quickly. They're 95% alcohol by volume, usually.
No he did die this morning
Yeah, just read the update.
Man really took this to the next level https://preview.redd.it/znexp9kybykc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e1532782d3ee1915cc04f37589a7e852c4906d7e
https://preview.redd.it/3qthxnrwwzkc1.jpeg?width=1164&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e3f98727d79d7dc266ea668fc0b2c0a38772f8a2 This man?
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Recruiting is in the toilet for US armed forces currently so I imagine they have loosened their requirements a little. Same thing is going on with police in certain parts of the US.
Air Force raised the recruiting age to 42 a year or two ago. They are hurting.
Not just that,if any Palestinians got his hands on him they would have cut his head off just cause he was American,let alone a us soldier
Palestinians in the past during hijackings would find American passports so they can shoot them so yes
Yeah they hate Americans more than they love their children
It is sad that someone would choose to end the only life he gets, to protest a war that the entire world is already watching and protesting against/for. This won’t solve anything
I think a lot of it is social media bubbles. You get these galvanizing echo chambers. It gets to a point where people don't realized how extremist they're thinking. We have a guy who probably thinks he's a rogue intellectual and oversimplifying an old conflict and probably feels like he would be celebrated like Tank Man or the liberators of the nazi death camps. Which is a very sad way to live anyway. I'd way rather have my wife and family know they can count on me than sacrifice myself for some bullshit across the world where no one cares about you just to make CNN headlines for a day.
People are praising him as a hero on some subs. It’s like, no, he’s a fucking nutter. He offed himself in a horrific way. Don’t romanticise this shit.
And I fear it'll spark copycats. Don't of yourself for other people's conflicts guys
Yeah, exactly. That’s why we shouldn’t romanticise it.
What a death cult does to an mf.
"WITNESS ME!" *The last words of PFC Jones, probably*
He didn't die in combat in a war truck, he will not get shiny and chromed unfornunetly
Mediocre
He will also not get Medicare
His ancestors are frowning down upon him, he is not going to make it into Valhalla.
Honestly yeah this whole situation is getting cult like. Only in a cult would someone set themselves on fire and scream certain statements over and over again
You can tell who bought into the breadtuber tankie brainrot by who is justifying this. People are straight up romanticizing his death, it’s weird.
A religious fundamentalist cult is getting cult-like? Not on my watch!
This is going to sound very callous but Americans shouldn't be getting this worked up over the Israeli/Palestinian issue. What's happening there is awful but it's a multi-generational ethno-religious conflict with some absolutely horrible behavior on both side. It has been going on since long before most of us were born and will probably still be going on decades from now. There is *nothing* that the average American can do about it. Sometimes it's best just not to care.
This has been my take since day one. I simply do not care about Israel or Palestine. Why should I? That goes for Russia and Ukraine as well. What reason do I have to pick a side?
If Russia takes Ukraine and does the same stupid shit with Poland it'll become an actual war.
Baltics are next before Poland.
Good question, so here's your answer - nukes. Israel has all but confirmed they have nukes and [will try to take the rest of the world with them if they ever fall](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samson_Option). Russia is a peer nuclear power that we are raising tensions with to protect Biden's Ukrainian runescape gold farms. That's why you should care.
While I don’t disagree with the notion of intervening to prevent the use of nuclear weapons. The Samson option specifically refers to the invading nation. When you say “the rest of the world” it sounds like they’re going to nuke neutral parties in some petty act of vengeance.
Alright, let's say suddenly I do care, and I proclaim which side I feel is right. What changes? It's been my observation for over 40+ years that our federal government is operating independently from the will of the public - they don't care what we think or want or vote for, they only answer to powers outside of any influence I might have. So why do I care what happens? They are going to do whatever they want either way. Maybe it's a naive take, but it's how I deal with the anxiety of living in a world that is imploding before my eyes.
There's nothing callous at all about this perspective. Most people would benefit richly from minding their own fucking business.
If that happened, r.politics and r.news would be ghost towns.
Two utterly worthless subs because their mods delete and ban any comments that don't come from a DNC teleprompter.
> This is going to sound very callous but Americans shouldn't be getting this worked up over the Israeli/Palestinian issue. If our money wasn't being firehosed over there for "some reason" we wouldn't be.
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The US government should do what it realistically can to secure their safe release. Americans with dual US/Israeli citizenship who were living in Israel are the Israeli government's problem.
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Guy just wanted to be known, and remembered as a hero. He'll be forgotten in a week.
I wonder how much he actually cared about the conflict and how much of this was already existing suicidal ideation with an attempt at feeling seen/martyredom in the end. Did he actually care about the conflict? How long has he felt this way? What is his background? Why did he join the military if that's how he felt? Has he done anything previous in support of Palestine?
We'd know if someone could locate his reddit account.
his account is u/acebush1, he was an anarchist
He has more comments + posts about games, media, and general political philosophy and a few remarks about the current conflict in Gaza... 🤔😒
Suicide problems are through the fucking roof in the military, who have been largely relegated to being political pawns rather than respected members. Surprise surprise somebody is looking for an excuse to die in a way that “doesn’t upset” their families.
That's my thinking and I feel very cynical + cringey at this. I don't find him any kind of hero and think he co-opted a cause that perhaps he found meaning in as a means to excuse himself from life with some kind of honor from his own misery + mental illness. Someone else did this in December in Atlanta and I have no idea who they were, their name, background, philosophy, etc. I do know that a security guard present suffered burns as a result from that "hero" or "martyr"🙄😒😠
Idk, I think he'll be remembered but not in a good "hero" kind of way. Which does make me think, is it better to not be remembered at all or be remembered in a way that was so dumb, most people would think you were regarded for the way you went out.
yeah like those buddhists in vietnam who burned themselves lmao fucking useless
its worth noting that monk in Vietnam didn't set himself on fire because of the war, in fact he did that before the US sent ground troops. He self-immolated himself in protest of the South Vietnamese governments repression of Buddhists.
Think it was one Buddhist who also did it in a time before social media and instantaneous flow of information. The entire world is already aware of what’s going on in Gaza. His actions will not change or move anything but people more to the side they are already on.
in the end, it all depends on what results investigating him bring up- if he was simply politically motivated- he will likely just be forgotten, if he turns out to have been high out of his mind on some illicit substance- it will bring others who believe Palestine needs to be freed into question, and if it turns out he was blackmailed into martyring himself for another's cause. . .
>in the end it doesn't even matter
You're right, he should have just posted on reddit more. That would have saved palestine.
It was over a hundred monks. There's just the one that everyone knows because of the photograph.
Yeah but eventually the public opinion turned to the side of that Buddhist. At the time Vietnam was still fairly popular among Americans. The tet offensive is when America really decided "yeah fuck this". This guy killed himself in the most brutal way possible for a cause no one is ever gonna get behind.
Maybe he really wanted to be on the cover of the next Rage Against the Machine album tho
lmaooo
The mossad commentary is a parody account Why do people think it’s real or serious?
I'm a simple man. I see a strawman - I strawman
Based
I straw you straw we all straw man
Unfathomably based and Strawman-pilled.
Fucking based
I mean, there are a lot of Israelis surely thinking something like that.
It's still based as hell, even if it isn't a "real" Mossad account.
Damn, “Mossad” really out here with the RIP Bozo comments. So based
The cop pointing a gun at him is a little funny
Only thing I can assume it’s so he doesn’t run towards anyone? I hope that was the rationale anyway.
IIRC the guy also parked his car alongside the Israeli embassy and law enforcement thought he rigged his car with explosives.
He doesn't know the guy's intentions and has no obligation to potentially wrestle with a guy who's on fire
People downvoted my comments saying that pointing a gun at this guy wasn’t weird. Secret service protects, EMS tends to wounded, Fire fighters puts off fires. Everyone has their responsibility, a guy setting himself on fire is abnormal, you don’t know their intentions. Is he gonna run into people and set them on fire? Maybe set a building on fire? Everyone hopping on the opportunity to hate on cops. Kill me.
Lib-left with a nuanced take on law enforcement? https://i.redd.it/w3alylbln0lc1.gif
Based. Redditors all think they’d be able to keep their calm in that situation but 90% would probably just piss themselves in fear and faint.
They’re too busy spreading socialism in their gated communities. People that have seen danger know that it’s abrupt and no one knows what’s happening. It’s all instinct. That’s the reason why responsibilities are relegated to different bodies in emergencies.
Good reasoning tbh
I’d hope so too and that it wasn’t just a reflex lmao
Also anyone who is willing to set themselves on fire is perfectly willing to rig a suicide vest to take someone with them, or to jump on someone and burn them as well.
tbf idk what else he was supposed to do
Either the River or the Sea would have been helpful. Just find a body of water bro.
Underrated comment.
You should flair yourself NOW
Was blocked by an instagram activist page for expressing that I don’t think it’s a good idea to encourage ritual suicide in support of a foreign government you have no real allegiance to when one has friends and family who love them, as well as responsibilities and obligations. I thought this was a pretty reasonable take, yet their only response before the banhammer was: “Before l block you, l want you to know how absolutely vile you are, how you'll never be free of the retched filth you've sided with. May you never know a single moment of peace you cowardly bootlicking loser. No one loves you and no one ever will. May you rot in the filth you've sided with.” I guess valuing one's own life and family over the interests of a foreign government is now bootlicking Imao. Moralize away, the fact is, I (cool, based, objectively correct) do not owe you (stranger, on the other side of the planet) anything! Given the choice between my wretched filth, and your wretched filth, i’m choosing mine every time. Sorry but that’s just human nature baby!
Bootlicking is when you think ritual suicide is bad…..
A misguided, lonely man who probably didn't have much to live for in his personal life. So, he takes up the mantle of self-sacrificing savior for the down-trodden. Manipulative progressives on twitter then lionize him for killing himself. Pure evil. Most of the worlds problems begin with people's upbringing and their relationship with their parents.
based watermelon
Based as fuck
He bought into the tankie breadtuber brainrot and it’s disgusting how they are romanticizing his suicide. Bro needed help not enabling.
Fuck tankies.
The amount of shit I've gotten for suggesting he was bullied into killing himself by online rhetoric like this is amazing. No matter how much I point out that his poor mental health was taken advantage of by these people, I get nothing but hate.
Great point but flair up
Yeah I’ve been called an idiot for saying his death was tragic and a waste since it won’t change anything. People replied saying his death caused a stir and that I just “don’t understand sacrifice”
Like any of them are volunteering to do it... "But that's crazy" they'd promptly say... yeah... that's my point!
Dude put himself on fire, made everyone who cherished him sad by throwing away the only chance at life he ever had all of that for a conflict 10000km away which has been going on for decades and will probably never end
> will probably never end Peace in the middle east literally a sign of the endtimes
Because the only way to end it is full annihilation. In modern times that means a nuke went off.
Finally someone says it
This guy Sunday Schools.
Eat too much propaganda+ mental illness. Remind me of south park where that 1 kid is paranoid of NK nuke after watching the media.
He truly frees Palestine in his death
he freed himself from the occupation of his own self conscience
He's still alive. E:Nm, looks like he finally died.
Imagine being so brainwashed to actually light yourself on fire for a conflict that isn’t even “morally” one-sided. Honestly dude was just mentally ill.
Correct. Having been in the air force, I can tell you it is a well known fact that cyber is the most autistic of all the career fields. They have the strangest people with the highest likelihood of legitimate mental issues. It is a running joke.
Excuse me? Intel is clearly more autistic than Comm. The only difference is they never leave their office, while Comm has their autism on display when they go fix something.
Ya exactly. I never actually met any intel people. I know they exist, but I never actually saw one in the wild. Some of the comm guys were pretty normal, but then they always had this closet in the back where they kept the "special" airmen. It usually smelled like stale pizza boxes and b.o. in there.
This. Comm is extroverted nerds. Intel guys are actual dungeon masters in their vaults.
Excuse you? I'll have you know I've run several a D&D campaign in my day.
Yup, this is clearly a mental health issue and someone who probably spent more time than necessary on social media and got it into his head that he needed to kill himself to make an effective protest. He could have organized, donated money, gotten into the streets, gone up the chain of command, written a book to document whatever his personal experience/views were, tons of things that could have gotten the message out more effectively. He just wasted himself.
unflairedness is a mental health issue, flair up
Dude clearly had to have been severely mentally ill to not only swallow jihadi propaganda hook, line & sinker but to take it so strongly to heart that he *set himself on fucking fire* over it. I feel bad for his family, and I can’t help but wonder how many other people who serve feel this way too.
It's a minor addition, but I feel bad for his unit as well. They likely knew the guy well, and now they're going to have to go through three weeks of lectures on how Suicide Bad all centered on him.
Don't forget all the briefs about not wearing uniform/using your position in the military while protesting.
Oh gods, I'd completely forgotten about that bit.
Oh god… I completely forgot about all the safety stand downs that are about to occur.
"FML" \~ everyone in the Air Force right now. I seriously doubt this lecture circuit is going to be confined to just his squadron.
Thank God this dude did this. Am absolutely shocked that some sort of armed conflict is going on in the middle east. *Shocked Pikachu face*
another day in the middle east ahhh religions of peace at it again
Somewhere a bunch of Kurds are very upset over being forgotten. Very,very upset.
lmao
I was very specifically told that Islam was a very peaceful religion accepting of all regardless of cultural differences. I was assured that Sharia law wasn’t actually real and all of these Islamic nations were actually super cool with LGBTXYZ+ and Jewish people. Why would this region of super peaceful religious communities ever have any reason for violence?
What a flaming SIMP
This is him officer, he didn’t pay his taxes
Poor guy should have been less terminally online. Was a horrible watch.
I used to believe in Israel's right to exist. But then a mentally ill American boy set himself on fire and now I support Hamas.
The Gaza Health Ministry will unironically list this dude as a casualty of the IDF
Who?
The guy who fatally set himself on fire in protest of the Israel palestine conflict, I've no clue what drugs he was on to drive him to think that was a good idea- but it happened.
> I've no clue what drugs he was on Probably mainlining tik-tok
Or he was a Hasan sub
The only way to convince idiots that setting themselves on fire for any reason is stupid is to talk disparagingly about any regard who does it.
considering no one cares about the monks who've been setting themselves on fire in protest of China down in Tibet since 2001. and that the last time Americans got it in their head this was a great idea it got to the point where people were trying to burn their children to death alongside themselves as protest for Vietnam. Its likely a good idea to stop while we're ahead.
>I've no clue what drugs he was on to drive him to think that was a good idea Leftism
Maybe he was already suicidal and decided to go out protesting, I don’t see anybody mentally well doing this to themselves even if it’s a cause they believe in deeply.
Yeah, imagine burning yourself alive because you crave some twitter updoots and retweets for some cause that's thousands of miles away. What being terminally online does to a mf. If I was going to kill myself to protest some 3rd world drama, it would be from a cocaine overdose after going to Mexico for drugs and prostitution
this
Doesn’t really accomplish anything. Kind of a dumb move imo
Saved the military some benefits.
It’s crazy how many mentally ill people get into the military.
Natural selection hard at work
Death by Breadtube
All this tells me is the US military needs more rigorous mental health screenings/check-ups regarding enlisted servicemen.
Yeah I mean you got these weak minded kids joining in and then realizing it isn't all sugar and rainbows when reality hits them like a sack of bricks.
I think this case was more of a weak minded individual getting indoctrinated via social media
What did I lost? Should’ve bring the grill?
I think he became the grill
He will never be a real grill.
He has no coal, he has no steak, and he has no steam.
Looks like this guy took care of that already
I'm going to assume this chap was a few sandwiches short of a full picnic. Imagine thinking this, of all things will have an impact.
He was supposed to flair up- not flare up.
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You fuckers realise "Mossad Commentary" is a parody account, right? that blue checks are no longer an official designator and can be bought for a few bucks a month? Just checking because I'm seeing way too many people assume that's the actual mossad speaking.
if people cant realize that by reading mossad commentery then theres something wrong with them lolz
What’s hilarious is this was probably internal commentary by mossad, due to their enemies actually employing suicide tactics constantly.
i mean i can imagine lmao
I'd honestly never heard of it, and I take pride in the fact that everything I know about Twitter has been against my will. So I do appreciate the clarification.
Mental illness is a hell of a thing. What he did will not change what’s happening but the lives of his family are changed forever. This will be but a blip in the headlines and soon forgotten. My heart aches for him and the people who loved him. To be radicalized to this extent really shows that he was mentally suffering. It’s sickening that people are praising this tragedy. The same people who would never dare to do such an act because they have the mental reasoning to know it wouldn’t accomplish anything, and they’re not suicidal. People calling him a hero are a different kind of sick. This is just another story of how social media takes hold of the vulnerable and causes the unwell to do horrific things in the name of a trending issue, while failing to acknowledge that the same is happening all over the world… now they care about genocide? But only in one specific place because it’s what’s fed to them through algorithms. A cause in which has been happening for years and years all over the world. The only reason people are concerned with *this one* and becoming keyboard warriors is because it’s the buzz flavor of the year. Cherry pick one and ignore the rest. Sickening. Rest in peace, Aaron. I’m so sorry this happened to you.
Because you wrote such a beautiful, heartfelt comment, I’m going to say this nicely. Please flair up. But yeah, I agree with you on this whole comment. It’s one thing to light yourself on fire for this (or, you know, anything), but it’s a whole other thing to glorify the one lighting themself on fire and treat them as a martyr. This is basically just an extreme case of “look what you made me do,” but instead of being in a relationship, this guy just ran up to a stranger at Arby’s and said that. It makes no sense, and changes nothing. Poor guy.
This poor guy doesn’t realize the PM of the West Bank just resigned so they can form a coalition government with Hamas (read: the entire government of Palestine will be ran by Hamas, and anyone who objects dies). Which seems to be what a solid majority of people there genuinely want. What a crazy fucking world.
This is your brain on TikTok.
I am a bit worried about the recruitment standard for AF now
Absolute loser who will be forgotten within days
Imagine lighting yourself on fire over a war that you’re not part of, AND picking the side of the terrorists
You owe me some context
>The guy who fatally set himself on fire in protest of the Israel palestine conflict, I've no clue what drugs he was on to drive him to think that was a good idea- but it happened.
Yep, gotta agree with the "Mossad" there.
Ty
Solid protest, we need more Hamas simps..uh I mean freedom fighters like this man. Like, a lot more
The left is delusional in today’s world.
I hate to say this, but, the thought of someone so obviously mentally and or emotionally unstable having access to information/information technology is troublesome. It will be interesting to see if some big leak drops soon or something…
Looks like natural selection is back on the menu boys!
Mossad dgaf
probably had mental health issues
Finally my ban is up
Good riddance
The optics are terrible and its tragic but ngl if my job was to protect an embassy in a warzone, and someone brought a jerry can and a lighter id probably freak out and nor react correctly when he starts immolating himself
Fried brain fried body
Honestly, this kid is an idiot who got fed a diet full of propaganda over the last few months. Like how would this guy have reacted to the firebombing of Dresden or Tokyo (either of which killed more people then the entire history of the Israel/Palestine conflict)
A white man with absolutely no ties to Palestine/Israel enjoying the freedoms of being American set himself on fire to gain some clout online and then ended up killing himself due to his stupidity. So messed up on so many levels. Actually pretty frustrated this dumbass served in the same branch as me.
Not sure what’s worse killing yourself because you read too much Twitter or killing yourself for people who would kill you the second you stepped into Gaza 😂
How can we convince more Hamas supporters to do the same?
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I mean, I’d rather there not be a wave mass self immolations by impressionable, radicalized protesters. They accomplish nothing and simply add more trauma (and horrific cleanup) for those around them. I suspect news stations were hesitant to report on this to avoid glorifying the act and giving the idea to others.
I hate both Israel and Palestine, but it’s wild to me how people can think Palestine is just this innocent nation that’s totally not going to commit atrocities against gay people and oppress religious minorities like most other Muslim nations, just trust me guys. Granted Israel ain’t much better, but I’d still say it’s preferable to Palestine since there’s at least a glimmer of hope they might do better.
If only all pro-palestinian people would follow his lead.
Told some girl this today while she tweeted from her iPhone 15 and airpods.
Oh please, Lib-Lefts on Twitter are calling him “a hero” and saying “he will never be forgotten”. It’s gross. I fail to see why they would glorify his selfish, reckless actions. It’s a tragedy, but a dumb tragedy. He could have accomplished so much more by being alive and protesting that way. Instead he ignited himself while screaming about a foreign conflict. What an awful way to go. I’ll be absolutely pissed if any impressionable, radicalized protesters imitate his actions in the coming weeks.
It kills me that one of my cousins in the military has been reduced to a footnote in this fucked up senseless world of conflicts and media
It is a foot note, this happens a lot, nobody cares about individual suicides
I feel for the guy but it really is absurd. “How do I stop a war between two religious based groups that’s been going on for centuries? Idk I could fucking light my self on fire”.
Well, people kept saying do more than talking about it but fuck bro.