Rest in power to a real one. If you’re gonna go out, best to do it for a reason and in a way that’s hard to ignore.

Huh seems they skipped the, “This Is What Our Ruling Class Has Decided Will Be Normal” part

Maybe this is disrespectful, but has anybody else been listening to “Born in the USA” a lot since Bushnell’s self-immolation? Given the song’s themes of US imperialism and working class issues, from the perspective of a (former rather than active) member of the US Armed Forces, you know.

I dunno. There’s just something kind of… I dunno how to put it other than “painfully captivating” about someone famous only for his death, especially when that death happened “right before your eyes” in a sense. This tiny moment when this soul enters our collective awareness at the same time as he leaves it, having chosen to dedicate that singular moment to what he stood for. There is only so much we can learn about who he was as a person before that point, and nothing more we will learn after that point because there is literally nothing after that point. It’s like starting a book in medias res right at the end.

Sigh. I hope Bushnell enjoys the afterlife. Free Palestine; death to fascism, colonialism, and imperialism; long live the Palestinians. Though he burned himself and his death was very striking, let us organize and fight and let us remember the myriads killed in this genocide.

frankly i hate the news on this. probable trans person based on their username. i dont like seeing our people kill themselves, its just bad and awful and i hate everything about it. if any of you fuckers get any ideas like this i will hunt you down

Saw a comment on Reddit claiming that this is Aaron Bushnell’s account. https://old.reddit.com/user/acebush1