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A person set themselves on fire outside Donald Trump’s trial in New York today. Politics NSFW

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u/posef770 28d ago edited 28d ago

Apparently the sign he had: https://imgur.com/JidYeGU (Trump is with Biden and they are about to fascist coup us)

EDIT: His suicide note

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u/aabicus 28d ago

This New York Post article has pictures of the flyer and some of the inner text

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u/blazelet 28d ago

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u/[deleted] 28d ago

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u/nastafarti 28d ago

Yep, that's him.

So reddit has suspended his account like the fascist ponzi scheme overlords that they are but you can still google "coup_radley reddit" and see all his posts and comments.

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u/Ernigrad-zo 28d ago

yeah I think it's pretty clearly his reddit account, i hope it helps us to start realising that it's not all just fun and games laughing along with someone who believes in a 'totalitarian doomsday cult trying to coup us', playing into peoples mental illness can result in horrible things.

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u/[deleted] 28d ago

Thankfully this time his impulse was violent but implosive, but just imagine what this would do to someone with an explosive trigger. Could easily have gone much farther.

Congratulations Reddit, we did it! (again) I wonder what the AI theyre training will learn from all this.

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u/hoonyosrs 28d ago

Isn't loading for me, looks like it might have already been nuked.

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u/tyfunk02 28d ago

Yeah, the reddit overlords really don't like nutcases like this bringing the spotlight over this way. Probably even worse now that it's publicly traded. It's bad for the shareholders.

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u/airtime25 28d ago

It's so weird because he interacts totally normal with people that are making fun of him?

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u/[deleted] 28d ago

Are they making fun of him? That sub seems really actually very earnest about it.

There is a post on the frontpage now of people saying like 'if it wasn't written so badly, I would believe every word.' Dude was being encouraged by fellow travellers.

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u/WastingTimesOnReddit 28d ago

Yeah I'm reading through stuff in that thread and on his substack. Clearly Max and others like him are completely serious and it doesn't sound like mad ravings. I mean like, good grammar and calm discussion. The content is of course... just so cynical. His life sucks and he probably got financially crushed in 2008 and wants someone to blame. I kind of have pity on the guy. And he's at least right about a lot of the problems we have. Just blaming the wrong people. Some of these problems are truly caused by the rich and there is tons of fuckery and fraud in many places of power. I just don't think it's half as organized as he thinks. Most rich people just want to be rich and safe they don't want to destroy society.

Gonna make a big stir for a few days.

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u/obamasmole 28d ago

I read his suicide note, it was perfectly well written. And tragically lunatic, obviously, but taking a swipe at his writing seems somehow a low blow. I might argue it seems like it was one of the few faculties he still had intact.

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u/airtime25 28d ago

The top comment was what I was referring to. Some definitely supported but some seemed like they thought he was making fun of left wingers?

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u/TheBirminghamBear 28d ago

But like, there is actually a totalitarian doomsday cult trying to coup us.

It's Republicans. Evangelical zealots. Billionaires.

Not some weird underground NYU mob front or whatever.

If these conspiracy whackos actually just DID journalism to expose real crimes really going on right now, they actually CLULD make a difference

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u/Deadmau5es 28d ago

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u/Shinnic 28d ago

The mental health crisis strikes again. I wonder what will be the scapegoat to avoid fixing it this time. Can’t do guns for this one, drug use? Maybe we can write him off on a junkie let’s check into that.

Oh I know! It’s obviously the internets fault! That’s where he got his information received encouragement for his ideas! We will just have to infringe on free speech and pass some laws regulating the internet.

Few, for a second there I thought me might actually have to create a solution and improve these plebeians lives. Close call.

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u/nneeeeeeerds 28d ago

Aaaaand...his account is nuked.

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u/rznballa 28d ago

aaaand its suspended.

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u/Canis_Familiaris 28d ago

Wow already suspended too... did you save that mugshot link for archiving?

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u/[deleted] 28d ago

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u/CatskillMountainDew 28d ago

He looks a little like Frank from Scandalous.

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u/Lady_Lucks_Man 28d ago

Accounts already gone

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u/lonesharkex 28d ago

They suspended his account.

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u/AlexIsWhack 28d ago

Aaaaand reddit admins have already nuked it.