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Feb 26Liked by Moneycircus

You are absolutely right, he is a very brave and highly honorable man and his selfless action should be honored. SAY HIS NAME!!! Aaron Bushnell !!!

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"Ritscher's self-immolation took place on the side of the Kennedy Expressway near downtown Chicago during the morning rush hour of Friday November 3, 2006. In a suicide letter published on his website, he described at length his political convictions as to the Iraq War and his choice to take his own life, writing, "if I am required to pay for your barbaric war, I choose not to live in your world."[2]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malachi_Ritscher

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Feb 27Liked by Moneycircus

I was just about to comment on that.

It didn't do squat to stop anything and has long since been memory holed. Apparently people setting themselves on fire is only impressive if it is a Buddhist monk who is not from around here or an excuse for a color revolution.

I can hope Aaron's protest goes further, but I doubt it will.

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Eloquent column. With the exception of a very few states/nations who have spoken of genocide, we hear almost nothing about Gaza except, as you point out, Israel's point of view. I'm in disbelief that most people have failed to realize the staged aspect of this extermination: "Hamas fighters" gliding over the most secure border in the world with go-cart motors propelling them. Oxfam writes: "Daily death rate in Gaza higher than any other major 21st Century conflict ." The Guardian yesterday reported that "The death toll in Gaza is likely to pass the grim milestone of 30,000 this week...." Israeli dead number around 1,400-1,500. Much like WWII, this conflict bears every sign of deliberate orchestration funded, supplied, and promulgated by those who created ISIS and steal oil from Syria with impunity: those who want 15-minute cities, bioengineered humans, and minds formed by VR-simulated reality. Oh, wait. I think we have the latter already.

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It must be noted that deep fakes are ubiquitous on the internet (which has been DEAD since at least 2016, viz. whittled down to bots; algorithms; said deep fakes; CGI; nudges; propaganda; etc.; etc.); and i would not be surprised in the least if this is but one more example of said phenomena (although, obviously, this is very difficult to prove). If this is so, it would beg the question: why would the Kakistocracy (Kak) invoke such a sick and sinister machination for the masses - or, at the very least, alt news/conspiracy theorists/dissidents/etc. - to imbibe?!? Well, it's very simple: the kak must always find ways to push, prod and poke said masses; so that they can continue the alchemical processing of human beings via the corralling, collating and co-opting of humanity into clear, distinct and discrete manipulable and malleable units of bio-digital blobs (see previous agendas s/a: white/black; gay/straight; trans/feminist; BLM; Covid; Ukraine; Gaza; etc.; which have, in toto, served as springboards for Kak to digitize; computerize; computationalize; anti-socialize; dumbifize; conformitize; numbifize; etc.); which serves as the catalyst to fully manifest man's final destination: post-humanism!! That is all!!! RGB-Y4 out!!!!

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We see this attempt to nudge our behaviour and conscience daily - we have a four-year experiment called Covid to prove it.

But Bushnell's immolation is not a psyop that would benefit the Kak. As other comments have told, previous protest have quickly been memory holed.

I suspect that this Airman and San Antonio Texan had the intellectual depth to have researched the immolations of Vietnam described above and those of the Buddhist monks and nuns, and judged the action worthwhile. We shall never know.

Interesting that school shooters always leave a manifesto but Aaron Bushnell, it seems, decided that few words were needed to explain his action.

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Feb 28Liked by Moneycircus

So many of the psy-opped, including the unibomber tend to leave rambling manifestos of varying lucidity. I pretty much feel that if someone doesn't write it all down and just does it, they are more likely to be sincere.

Believe me, if I were to consider some @n@rchy by d33d, I would leave as little behind to explain anything that I could beside the basic message. I gotta hand Aaron that.

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Feb 28Liked by Moneycircus

anyone exposed to analyses of a significant number of those 'manifestos' by those in the so-called, 'conspiracy world', will also realize that a not so insignificant number of them were fake (i.e., ghost-written by intell agencies for example); and, moreover, a manifestation of the machinations employed by the Kakistocracy (viz. a staged deception)

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Feb 28·edited Feb 28Liked by Moneycircus

Agree. Many are 'fake'. It's a part of the MO. It's like a comic book. The 'bad guy' simmered for years and conviently detailed every thought into a prosecutable form. I just don't think they have to do too much to fake it. Easy enough to get an unstable person to write it themselves under prompt. Double points for shit you put into their head to begin with,

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You mention the Buddhist monks during the Vietnam war but we should also remember Jan Pallach who set himself on fire in front of Soviet tanks when those entered Prague in 1968.

However, I'm struggling with this story here. It just doesn't make sense. I didn't check, though. A sure sign of fakery will always be whether there's nothing else on sovial media but the police version of things.

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Feb 27Liked by Moneycircus

It may be memory holed in the west but widely available in the Arab world. I imagine it may shame some states and give courage to Gazans to know that some in the west really care

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