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Rest in Power, Aaron. (midwest.social)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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He was a member of Akron's Serve The People mutual aid organization.

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The most important thing to take away is that Hearsay Evidence deserves top billing in this message and their copyright must always be respected.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I will no longer be complicit in genocide. Say it out loud.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 11 months ago

Fuckin hell. So young and a brutal way to go.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 11 months ago

This is what they bring it down to:

An incident report filed by a Secret Service agent states that they “received a distress call regarding an individual exhibiting signs of mental distress outside the Israeli embassy.”

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago

Looks like he was fighting for justice and not against it

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago

He was my age...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So what happen to this guy?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Air force member who self-immolated outside the Israeli embassy

nsfw

[+] [email protected] -77 points 11 months ago (3 children)

... ya cuz that will definitely stop them.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Protests do work. The reason that protests work is because they carry an inherent threat, that a group of people X care enough about situation Y to do Z act. Self-immolation is one of the absolute most extreme forms of protests, which carries an inherent message that people are willing to do a massive amount to upset the status quo if it continues.

I don't think Self-immolation is a good thing, there are definitely better pathways to getting change, but in martyring himself, he's put a huge slant against the IDF.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It is literally currently impacting US policy regarding Israel

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

What changes have been implemented as a result of this?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

We can't ever know these things for sure, but President Biden's rhetoric on Late Night sounded a lot tougher toward Israel than anything he's said in public before. (That could also be the result of the Michigan primary today. Either way, it seems protest has had some effect.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The Democratic Party is currently shifting its policies toward being tougher on Israel, focusing more on a ceasefire, etc

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They were already doing that, though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Not really!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (2 children)

How dare you trivialize this person's sacrifice you fucking waste of oxygen

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago

Being an able bodied young man this guy could have hopped on a plane and been a huge help to any NGO operating in the Israel/Gaza area providing actual direct help to people in their worst moments. The concern and passion about the situation is remarkable but there are way better ways to go about it than simply offing yourself publicly.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago

He was a mentally ill person who committed suicide in public. The idf sucks dead donkey dicks but this has done absolutely nothing to stop them from killing and raping kids.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I take it he was from Ohio?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago

Seems he was from Massachusetts, but apparently had connections to several Ohio groups. I had to hunt a bit for it.

"He seems to be associated with at least two Ohio-based anarchist organizations, Mutual Aid Street Solidarity and Burning River Anarchist Collective. Bushnell had the groups bookmarked on Facebook."

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/air-forces-aaron-bushnell-pictured-32217370

[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Couldn't he just refused? Why kill yourself?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago

He was just a plane ride away from providing actual help with NGOs. The passion is remarkable but suicide is almost always a tragic waste of life.