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[–] [email protected] 131 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

His last post that he made, in which he tweeted out the link to the twitch channel where he livestreamed his death:

Hard to guess what his politics were.

[–] [email protected] 82 points 8 months ago

Guy was incredibly based. o7.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

Wow. Those are powerful last words, sincerely.

[–] [email protected] 117 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Do libs actually think there's a well organized Marxist Leninist movement in the west? That we have our hands in everything? This is chud level of derangement, because they think the exact same thing.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 8 months ago

rightwingers think there is and that it's jews and/or the democrat~~ic~~ party. i don't know what group or org blue maga thinks is armpit deep in the ass of power.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 8 months ago

actually yes its called the republican party berdly-smug

[–] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago

Putins secret army!!

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[–] [email protected] 104 points 8 months ago (7 children)

It's seriously angering me how like, what he did is just being brushed off as "mental illness"

[–] [email protected] 79 points 8 months ago

They will convert all social ailments into personal flaws people have in their brains that they can use to discredit them as they see fit. Fuckin' hate liberals.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 8 months ago

If you do that, you don't have to look at any possible reasons for it. Can't have downers ruining our adventures overseas.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Not only that but the underlying assumption is that the mentally ill (and those considered mentally ill) cannot and do not have political agency. They are nothing but the sum of their afflictions.

It's unbelievably disgusting.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 8 months ago

Liberals are hardcore bigotted towards mental illness and see "being mad" as an easy out to dehumanise or delegitimize people.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 8 months ago

They do this all the time, every little thing becomes mental illness, even mild complaints are suddenly 'anxiety-depression'. To them all minorities and the poor are mentally ill, no fucking different than the damn chuds, what toxic individualism does to a mf class. same-picture

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago

If someone did this in front of a Russian or Chinese embassy these exact same people would be calling them a hero

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[–] [email protected] 100 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Military guy: 'I have realised that the army I am part of is committing genocide and I am ending my own life painfully to make a statement in defiance of said genocide'

This fuckin lib: "he wanted attention for this"

[–] [email protected] 77 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The thing is, they're almost right: it was a spectacle, he did want attention - ATTENTION TO THE GENOCIDE. They just can't (or refuse to) understand that anyone could take any action to benefit a larger cause instead of benefiting themselves as individuals.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Libs have made it clear they despise direct action

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 8 months ago (1 children)

When you think about it, the most effective form of protest is filling out paperwork to change your career.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

The ruling class is trembling

[–] [email protected] 76 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The amount of projection in that first paragraph is wild. Like, they fundamentally can't grasp why someone would care about the genocide, so start reaching for "if I did this, why would I," and all they can come up with is clout sharking.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago

The idea of taking a principled stand for something is literally incomprehensible to liberals.

[–] [email protected] 74 points 8 months ago (1 children)

"Sacrificing yourself for your principles" = "mental illness"

~libs

[–] [email protected] 52 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Well to them principles are things you only say you have, loudly and often, as a way to get social capital. Of course they can't understand dying for your beliefs, they don't actually believe anything.

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 8 months ago

Calling people who self-immolate crazy or mentally ill isn't really new, it happens with people who did it during the Vietnam War in USA.

But when people in bad countries do it, it's called courage or an indication of how nightmarish it is to live under an autocratic regime.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Oh yeah because as we all know attention is really helpful when you’re FUCKING DEAD, it can’t be because he was PROTESTING A GENOCIDE or something

[–] [email protected] 54 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Anyone left of Hitler is a tankie to these weirdos

[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Giving them too much credit, I could very much see them make the argument "Hitler was a tankie" unironically

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

If horseshoe theory is real, and eveyone left of hitler is a tanky, and if you keep going left and it wraps back around to hitler, then yeah. Hitler's a tanky.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

'Hitler's problem was that he was influenced by tankies!'

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Isn't that the old "Isn't it national socialism?" bit?

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 8 months ago (1 children)

"nooooo don't martyr yourself ur so much better off being a goon for hire aiding and abetting genocide"

No cause is worth sacrificing for to these people. Except maybe service of the boot bootlicker

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago

They need feeding tubes to eat because their tongues are permanently welded to the boot

[–] [email protected] 51 points 8 months ago

To the liberal brainpan, sincerity is a trope in fiction, or perhaps a long-obsolete custom from bygone times

[–] [email protected] 50 points 8 months ago

"For no reason"

...

Way to strip this person of all agency by trying to frame him mentally ill or otherwise Other him.

Talk about thought terminating type of thinking this reads like ultimate acceptance of both apathy and neoliberalism (should have used his individiual options and not bother the collective with that bothersome thing that is the reality of a genocide).

[–] [email protected] 47 points 8 months ago

Imagine seeing a protest, any kind of protest, and thinking to yourself, "ah, but they just want ATTENTION."

[–] [email protected] 47 points 8 months ago

I radicalized in part because of my mental illness. This does not mean I was taken advantage of. The fact that people don’t understand this is infantilizing and ableist.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 8 months ago

yeah it's our fault he did that when 2/3 of us are saying he should've done something else instead

[–] [email protected] 41 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Surprised no one commented on how moronic it is to think the US military just lets people quit when they aren’t feeling it anymore lol. They will laugh in your face. They own you the minute you sign the contract, barring extraordinary circumstances not including conscience.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago

Dude casually dropping the “just be Muslim” like that’s a thing

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago

Pretty funny how they think you can just convert to Islam and the army is islamophobic enough they will just let you leave after that and cancel your contract, but also it’s good and normal that our military is this racist

[–] [email protected] 36 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

How do I report this for harassment??? Why would you post this, I'm on a no-reddit binge and you destroyed it.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

Click the up arrow under the comment to report it

[–] [email protected] 29 points 8 months ago (1 children)

the soldier was literally an anarchist, right? that was how their twitch was themed

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

anarchist troop

How do you even square that circle, unless the politics was a very recent development?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago

Economic pressure? Material conditions? Aggressive recruiting? Familial pressure? Nobody is immune to propaganda? Plenty of ways. Though given the age I'd bet disillusionment and. political growth is the most likely answer.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago

we are both terminally online nerds and somehow have control of the entire left wing

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