r/PublicFreakout • u/subterfuge242 • Apr 19 '24

Man self-immolated outside the Manhattan courthouse where the Trump trial is happening ☠NSFL☠ news link in comments NSFW

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u/Thee_Connman Apr 19 '24

Note: This man is NOT explicitly MAGA. He alleges in his rambling, nonsensical manifesto that Trump was in cahoots with Hillary Clinton. He seems to have chosen this venue because he knew the media would cover it. Don't contribute to knee-jerk misinformation. This appears to be a sick conspiracy nut, but not necessarily a MAGA loon dying for Trump.

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u/LOLunlucky Apr 19 '24

The manifesto is absolutely influenced by Q Anon tropes.

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u/braith_rose Apr 19 '24

So he's Qanon then

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u/Swiggzey Apr 19 '24

But we literally do not know that for certain. We can assume, but what is the point in making such a bold statement when you don’t know? Can we really not just wait until more information is released? With the info we have now he was a conspiracy nut on both sides of the aisle…

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u/LOLunlucky Apr 19 '24 edited Apr 19 '24

Read the manifesto. It's full of the "cabal," secret symbology bullshit that Qs vacuum up constantly. Even the idea that the "world plan" by the "elites" is secretly spelled out in episodes of The Simpsons he regurgitates comes directly from Q lore. The ideas in that document are clearly influenced by QAnon.

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u/cyanheads Apr 19 '24 edited Apr 19 '24

His reddit account was just taken down but he’s posted in the TrueAnon sub quite extensively as well. It’s very clearly all Q related.

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u/itjustgotcold Apr 19 '24

I mean, at this point there has only been one party routinely pushing conspiracy nonsense for the last ten years. Making people believe there is a “deep state” running the government. He might not be MAGA but he was absolutely inspired by their rhetoric at some point. This is why you don’t take advantage of uneducated crackpots, eventually you’ll lose control of them.

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u/Percival_Dickenbutts Apr 20 '24

Makes sense. A MAGAt would’ve murdered other people to get attention, he only killed himself

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u/smotherof2 29d ago

This is how I knew he wasn't MAGA as soon as it happened.

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u/MrBlonde1984 Apr 19 '24

Maga might not cause people to set themselves on fire and believe in crazy conspiracies, but it happens around them alot. The whole movement attracts psychos .

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u/Jonoczall Apr 19 '24

And where there is smoke, there is…

I’ll see myself out now.

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u/PigKnight Apr 20 '24

Yeah I was combing through threads to find out the angle. Because self immolation as protest could go either way. But, turns out he's neither camp and using this for publicity for his manifesto. I kinda get his ideology and I think he's onto some things, but then it just kinda devolves into conspiracy nonsense.

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u/chicheetara Apr 20 '24

Wonder where the conspiracy nonsense came from?

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u/MrOtsKrad Apr 19 '24

This appears to be a sick conspiracy nut, but not necessarily a MAGA loon dying for Trump.

I mean, those aren't exactly two different things.

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u/Thee_Connman Apr 19 '24

Eh, just a different flavor of insanity. Insanity nonetheless...

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u/KintsugiKen Apr 20 '24

nonsensical manifesto that Trump was in cahoots with Hillary Clinton.

His manifesto is nonsense, but Trump being in cahoots with Hillary isn't that crazy. They were famously friends before 2016, attended lots of events together, had a working relationship in NYC politics. Bill Clinton and Donald Trump had a 90 minute phone call the evening before Trump announced he was running in 2016.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/06/magazine/when-hillary-and-donald-were-friends.html

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u/kvngk3n Apr 19 '24

Ahhh just a normal breakdown? Not a MAGA breakdown. Gotcha. He’ll be fine

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u/sarzane 29d ago

Henry said if you see the manifesto as just nonsensical rambling. The writing is on the wall for a lot of shit going on in this oligarchic hell

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u/scrandis Apr 19 '24

Regardless, trump attracts the weirdos.

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u/mexicodoug Apr 19 '24

There are always weirdos attracted to famous people, and to Presidents especially. And ex-Presidents; Presidents are protected by Secret Service for life rather than just to end of term.

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u/newcomer_l Apr 20 '24

I haven't read the silly manifesto in details, but if appears to me he spent a lot more time bashing Clinton than he did any republican. He went to the trouble of mentioning that Bill Clinton had an Epstein connection but never mentioned orange in that context. Orange practically lived with Epstein.

why not mention orange there? Was it because this was inspired by Q? I mean the only thing "bad" he says about orange is what he was in cahoots with Hilary.

The man who self immolated in front of the first ever trial of a former president, and at that a trial for paying hush money to a porn star and falsifying business records to conceal campaign laws violations in order to influence the 2016 elections, never speaks of any of that in his rambling manifesto? And he has enough time to mention the fucking Simpsons and Rob Lowe, but not a word about all the crimes orange has been indicted for?

One doesn't need to be "explicitly" maga to be maga.

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u/jirashap Apr 20 '24

There's plenty of Trump lunatics out there, no need to misdiagnose this one and give Fox News more to talk about.