• The Real King Gordon@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    The fact there have been two is astounding to me. Im sincerely interested in the psychology behind this. What would lead to this with such a horrific outcome?

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      4 months ago

      Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.

      When a revolutionary speaks truth and justice to sheep they hate them for it. The sheep want the convenient, short term comfort of bandwagon safety. They’ll readily sacrifice their shallow moral and ethical principles to defend this feeling. They’ll viscously attack all who disturb it.

      Some of us commit our lives to the fight for future lives of dignity. Some communicate with words, some with actions, and many with both. But, words are increasingly meaningless: Our semantic appropriated, reading comprehension taking a nose dive, attention spans less than a minute, human communication itself corrupted in capitalization of technology.

      Aaron Bushnell killed himself to communicate with you. It’s not horrific. It’s what’s necessary.

      And then I realized they were stronger than we. Because they could stand that these were not monsters. These were men … trained cadres. These men who fought with their hearts, who had families, who had children, who were filled with love … but they had the strength … the strength … to do that. If I had ten divisions of those men, then our troubles here would be over very quickly.

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        4 months ago

        But suicide by self immolation because of it?

        Why? What drives a person to do that?

        If you’re willing to die for the cause, why not immolate the Israeli consul for example?

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          4 months ago

          Because they would be labeled as a terrorist and promptly dismissed. Gandhi wasn’t perfect, but he knew how to get shit done. The US is the most destructive and lethal country in the world, just like Kamala said at the DNC.

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            4 months ago

            Gandhi did non-violent protests.

            He didn’t burn himself alive, nobody would remember him if he did