“I will no longer be complicit in genocide [in Gaza]. I am about to engage in an extreme act of protest,” the man apparently said before setting himself alight and repeatedly shouting “Free Palestine!”

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  • rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    Seems weird that an anarchist was a US soldier. Maybe he joined before he came to the political beliefs he held as he burned, or perhaps he came to these beliefs because of what he saw in the army.

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      8 months ago

      That happens quite a lot when you recruit teenagers with the promise of tech job skills.