i can’t watch more than a few moments, and no one should have to, but it should be published. it’s his last message to us. big tech is censoring it, but we can make sure it stays alive.
torrent link: https://archive.org/download/aaron-bushnell/aaron-bushnell_archive.torrent
Crazy video. His last post on Facebook before the event.
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.
This protest is a stupid waste of life. I don’t know what convinced him to throw away his life for a few days of media headlines. Alive he could have made a bigger difference. This war is already on the news all around the world, he is not raising any additional awareness.
it’s sad. i don’t know how much good he would have done being enlisted though. i’ve heard that the contracts basically say the government owns you.
He made the ultimate sacrifice to stand in opposition of the government that owned him, Aaron Bushnell, we will never forget your name!
He could have quit his job and become an aid worker and done activism while volunteering.
He did what he consider impactful and worth it. Some might not agree, but whatever he did took crazy determination.
Quit his job? Well he could try becoming a conscientious objector but the process for getting there might not be that different from being set on fire.
The whole war is a stupid waste of life.
This should be tagged NSFW
NSFL
It’s already against the rules, and really shouldn’t be here.
“No visual content depicting executions, murder, suicide, dismemberment, visible innards, excessive gore, or charred bodies. All other violent imagery requires a Content Warning.”
I’m glad it’s archived. It’s horrifying to watch, but still a fraction of the kind of horror happening to Palestinians. Respect and RIP.
This guy earns the title of “Most American Cop” for pulling a gun on a charred fucking corpse.I.Q. of a cucumber. What a dumbass.
I think he’s panicking. The shuffling is like a scared kid who doesn’t know what to do. He’s traumatized after unexpectedly watch a man burn himself alive. And the gun makes him feel safe, even though it’s illogical. Just my guess. Maybe he’s just an asshole. It’s pretty awful regardless.
He’s also guarding the Israeli embassy at a time when many people hate them. I’d be on edge if that was my 40 hours.
A freeze response is a perfectly common reaction to something like this. Happens regularly in car accidents. People panic, freeze, drive straight into a tree. It’s not unlikely that you would react in the same way.
If anything you’re the one with the IQ of a cucumber to think otherwise.
The freeze response probably should’ve come before the gun came out.
As well, it’s not some regular Joe-schmoe. It’s (supposed to be) a trained professional who is (supposed to be) entrusted with a gun whose purpose is (supposed to be) to serve and protect the people. A trained professional is supposed to know what to do in a shocking situation beyond instinct. That’s (supposed to be) the whole point of training them.
So sure, random Lemmy user might react the same way (though probably without drawing a gun). A police officer shouldn’t.
It’s (supposed to be) a trained professional
That’s why the gun came out. His brain locked up and his training kicked in. Unfortunately he has no training about what to do in this type of scenario because it’s completely unexpected.
Maybe the training shouldn’t be, “draw your gun and then figure out what’s going on”
Good point, how about you go guard the Israeli embassy right now.
What in the rabbid fuck must his thought process have been?
Just watched a man inmolate himself with his own two eyes. I can’t imagine there was much of a thought process at all. Real life is not the same as a video. It’s relatively easy to watch something through a lens after the fact and talk about what makes sense and what doesn’t. In the moment, guy was having some intense trauma happening right in front of his eyes and trying to do his best in the moment.
Probably just wanted to end his suffering…who am I kidding.
Holy shit. I’ve been places and seen some shit… but this… this hits.
If any of you are considering watching it, just… Don’t. Know that a man I immolated himself in protest to the war in Gaza, and that he suffered intense pain for that protest. Make of that what you will.
