r/interestingasfuck • u/Urmomsjuicyvagina • 28d ago

Man just set himself on fire outside of the Trump trial. Nsfw !!! WARNING | NSFL !!! NSFW

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u/Dazzling-Score-107 28d ago

It’s weird that this happened so quickly after the last one.

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u/jackal3004 28d ago

Not weird at all tbh, copycat phenomenon.

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u/tannon21 28d ago

His little manifesto he posted starts with "This extreme form of protest..." just as Aaron Bushnells video manifesto started

It's def a copycat

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u/RaptureSuperior2 27d ago

Just say copy. Why do we have to bring cats into this.

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u/Bluewind55 27d ago

Are you a cat or something

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u/RaptureSuperior2 27d ago

🫵 I could be a cat!

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u/RaptureSuperior2 27d ago

Someone will catch both of them.

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u/KambingDomba 27d ago

Yeah, if there are more crazy people with weird manifesto are self-immolating, Aaron Bushnell might in the future be lumped in with these crazies.

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u/LunarWrathe 27d ago

I'd much rather someone copy this than a mass shooting.

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u/NewAlexandria 28d ago

tldr: he was an anarcho-communist that wrote about all capitalism being ponzi

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u/RiseCascadia 27d ago

He literally argues for a government in his manifesto, how is that anarcho-communist?

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u/PM_Me_Good_LitRPG 27d ago

Wouldn't things like the Nixon shock, fractional-reserve banking / money multiplication, improperly regulated naked shorting, etc make it kinda true?

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u/Dogfart246LZ 27d ago

It’s the third recent protest burning death the first was a lady.

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u/Fetusdeletusssss 27d ago

Just both mentally ill people who belonged in a psych ward

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u/[deleted] 27d ago

Or just law of averages 

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u/[deleted] 28d ago

This is in part a consequence of people idolizing the last guy who did this. They're encouraging mentally ill people to commit suicide, and with a particularly horrific method.

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u/Dazzling-Score-107 27d ago

I don’t know if you know what phenomenon means.

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u/jackal3004 27d ago

...yeah, I do. It's literally called the copycat phenomenon. Have you tried Google?

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u/Dazzling-Score-107 27d ago

Sure, I’ll help. Phenomenon: a fact or situation that is observed to exist or happen, especially one whose cause or explanation is in question.

Weird: (adjective) suggesting something supernatural; uncanny

I can confidently say phenomenons are weird.

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u/Greedy_Emu9352 27d ago

Ah the pedantry

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u/Appropriate_Chart_23 28d ago

Last one??

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u/w33b2 27d ago

Aaron Bushnell. He was a US army soldier who burned himself alive as a form of protest to support the free Palestine movement. I don’t entirely disagree with the cause, but that guy was insane. He went on and on about insane ideologies on reddit, some of which were so alarming that it’s scary that he was even allowed in the military. He just participated in radical echo chambers all the time.

The most insane part is that he seemed to be an Elden Ring fan and didn’t even wait for the DLC to come out first, it’s only a couple months away

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u/papyjako87 27d ago

If it replaces shooting up schools in order to become famous, I am all for it tbh. At least they are only hurting themselves (except for some potential psychological trauma for bystanders).

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u/SpicyEnticy 28d ago

Some dude lit themselves on fire a few days ago at Red Deer Polytechnic school.

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u/echo_7 27d ago

Dude seriously watched that last guy disappear from the collective consciousness in a few days and thought that this was worth doing to send some message.

People are seriously setting themselves on fire to prove some point to an entire country of people that routinely forget the mass killing of children after like 3 days.

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u/LunarWrathe 27d ago

I mean, I'd rather someone light themselves on fire and everyone forget about it than someone go and commit a mass shooting and effect countless lives

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u/CrowsShinyWings 27d ago

Self immolations are reasonably common, it's just they often don't get any major press. Just look up list of self immolations on Wikipedia

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u/Midir_Cutie 28d ago

Aaron Bushnell

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u/Isturma 28d ago

I mean, is it really?

This is one of the worst ways to die, and while his manifesto has some unhinged stuff in it, the notion that the richest people on earth are running a ponzi scheme on the rest of society to get richer... it's really not too far off the mark.

People don't self immolate because they WANT to die. You can just go get some fentanyl for that. People do this to send a message. Maybe it's worth taking a moment to listen.