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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlM to United States | News & Politics@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years ago

On Bushnell

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlM to United States | News & Politics@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years ago
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Heroicism in the Age of Apathy
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    Bushnell did post things online. His facebook is https://www.facebook.com/aaron.bushnell.94, but from what I can tell his final message (“Many of us like to ask ourselves, ‘What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?’ The answer is, you’re doing it. Right now.”) is deleted.

    There are several Bushnell quotes scattered throughout, like “be complicit in genocide”, from some of his last spoken words: “My name is Aaron Bushnell, I am an active-duty member of the United States Air Force and I will no longer be complicit in genocide”. And when it says “No, he clearly stated” in the article, what follows is a quote directly from the mouth of Bushnell. Bushnell had an active Twitch channel, in which he among other things streamed his self-immolation, and during that he says a number of things, like “I am about to engage in an extreme act of protest but compared to what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonisers, it’s not extreme at all. This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal.”

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      Thanks. Do you have a link to any reputable public (non-authwalled) articles that cites this primary content?

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        https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/what-we-know-about-the-man-who-self-immolated-in-front-of-the-israeli-embassy/ar-BB1iVyGC

        Article has some of the quotes, and the video has some of the others.

        Also you can use archive.ph to get around paywalls.

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          And I don’t really like NYPost, but their article features most of the quotes.

          https://nypost.com/2024/02/26/us-news/us-air-force-member-dies-after-setting-himself-on-fire/

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          I guess MSN isn’t technically auth walled, but it doesn’t load without JS. I found this though, which is a much better article than the OP

          https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/02/26/us-soldier-self-immolates-in-opposition-to-israels-genocide-in-gaza/

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        Video Link Torrent if you need.

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