How would you feel about being set on fire?

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Another American self-immolated today, is that two or three now this year? Alarming trend.

NEW YORK, April 19 (Reuters) - A man set himself on fire on Friday outside the New York courthouse where Donald Trump's historic hush-money trial was taking place, but he did not appear to have been targeting Trump, officials said.

The man burned for several minutes in full view of television cameras that were set up outside the courthouse, where the first-ever criminal trial of a former U.S. president is being held.

"I see a totally charred human being," a CNN reporter said on the air.

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Witnesses said the man pulled pamphlets out of a backpack and threw them in the air before he doused himself with a liquid and set himself on fire. One of those pamphlets, titled "The True History of the World (Haunted Carnival Edition)," included references to "evil billionaires" but portions that were visible to a Reuters witness did not mention Trump.
 
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Ah, here it is. This is the one I saw. He was a Redditor who used to post about his pamphlets.

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So long story short, everything’s (secretly!) fascist. Need @Clinamenic to weigh on the crypto and NFT comments. Plenty of normal, non-self-immolating people hate that stuff, but is this guy’s narrative something you’ve heard before?
 
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I was eating lunch two blocks away from this. lot of stuff going on at the court. walked past yesterday and saw a palestine crowd, the columbia students i guess, cheering as three of their team were walked over and released by the cops. the crowd were celebrating but the three looked dejected as they walked over
 
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Somehow he folds the Rob Lowe sex tape scandal into a Clinton narrative...

To better understand our form of government, I will point you to one of the most astonishing pieces of stand-alone evidence I’ve found: Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton’s 1988 DNC speech where he nominated Mike Dukakis for president against George H.W. Bush. The speech is a vile, mean-spirited roast of Dukakis that makes no sense whatsoever: For Clinton to ruthlessly attack a member of his own party should have been political suicide, and he repeatedly mocks Dukakis’ noble and earnest qualities.
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Notably, actor Rob Lowe, who was supporting Dukakis, was victim of a teen sex blackmail operation at the DNC that year. Since we know Clinton is a close associate with teen sex blackmail artist Jeffrey Epstein, we can suddenly make perfect sense of the nonsensical speech by applying this lens: Bill Clinton is a cocky mob boss who blackmailed Mike Dukakis because Dukakis thought his job was to help the public. He teases out the future public revelation that Kitty Dukakis drank rubbing alcohol, and offers a strange anecdote about the crack epidemic that reveals he is an exceedingly proud drug runner.
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The Simpsons!

One of the key findings of this research is that Harvard University is one of the largest organized crime fronts in history, which is how they churn out billionaires – it’s a major hub of this sprawling criminal network.

As it turns out, dozens of the writers of The Simpsons went to Harvard. So I asked myself the question: If The Simpsons served the interests of organized crime, how would it do so?

Well, it offers a dysfunctional family suffering from moral decay, a community incapable of solving its problems, a worker drone who slaves away for an evil billionaire, and cathartic laughs for our poor collective circumstances.
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And so, we realize the criminal truth of The Simpsons: Our elites are telling us that our eroding collective circumstances are our own fault, and we can’t do anything about it, while they steal the American Dream from us. It is, for lack of a more elegant word, brainwashing.
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shakahislop said:
I was eating lunch two blocks away from this. lot of stuff going on at the court. walked past yesterday and saw a palestine crowd, the columbia students i guess, cheering as three of their team were walked over and released by the cops. the crowd were celebrating but the three looked dejected as they walked over
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Given his manifesto’s silence on settler colonialism I wonder if they would count this man among their “martyrs.” More likely, and with bitter irony, they’d probably denounce him as a fascist.
 
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[The Simpsons] offers a dysfunctional family suffering from moral decay, a community incapable of solving its problems, a worker drone who slaves away for an evil billionaire, and cathartic laughs for our poor collective circumstances… It is, for lack of a more elegant word, brainwashing.
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Now that’s straight out of Dialectic of Enlightenment, this dude’s on the level 😎

Cartoon and stunt films were once exponents of fantasy against rationalism… Today they merely confirm the victory of technological reason over truth… To the extent that cartoons do more than accustom the senses to the new tempo, they hammer into every brain the old lesson that continuous attrition, the breaking of all individual resistance, is the condition of life in this society. Donald Duck in the cartoons and the unfortunate victim in real life receive their beatings so that the spectators can accustom themselves to theirs.
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dilbert1 said:
Given his manifesto’s silence on settler colonialism I wonder if they would count this man among their “martyrs.” More likely, and with bitter irony, they’d probably denounce him as a fascist.
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i haven't been a part of it but the palestine protestors keep popping up. they've been relentless. power to them i think.

it's more or less an irrelevance in the grand scheme of things but some kind of battle has been playing out on the streets here. plenty of sticker wars going on with both sides keeping it up. the one that i've seen recently is 'me too except for the jews' which is up all over the place. some of the photos of people who were kidnapped are still up. the speed and scale that they managed to get those up everywhere, right back in october, was quite something.

the street protests have been regular in midtown by the UN. a while ago i was cycling towards the williamsburg bridge and came across schreeching honking traffic tailbacks, everyone swerving around and trying to find a way out of it, all through the narrow streets south of delancey, came around the corner and the protesters had just shut down the bridge, maybe fifty of them sitting down blocking the massive road and a few cops with them watching. it was beautiful sort of. a couple of (i guess) jewish girls were walking into the thick of it and getting into arguments with them. brave i think. it's easy to slag protesters off especially coz they're mostly so young. but i stayed and watched the protestors for a bit and they seemed simultaneously focused in on reality and far divorced from it. the former coz they are the ones thinking about what it means when your country is a supporting part of such great crimes while the rest of it are ignoring it and going on bike rides. but divorced from it coz it felt like they were first and foremost thinking about a broad political arena, totally sidetracked and funnelled into almost theoretical political discourse. the real demand they should be making i thought was for the bombardment and the siege to stop immediately. but they weren't focused on that. they were focused on 'abolish the settler state'. it just seems so dumb to me as a strategy to bring it back to that point when the immediate situation is so severe, and when that particular demand is so controversial and dreamy
 
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