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[–] [email protected] 148 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] 93 points 8 months ago

Guy was incredibly based. o7.

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[–] [email protected] 132 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] 67 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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] 74 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They currently seem to be in a race with the right wingers to see who can reinvent "Judeo-bolshevism" first.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 8 months ago

Cultural Marxism 🙄

[–] [email protected] 43 points 8 months ago

actually yes its called the republican party berdly-smug

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

Putins secret army!!

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[–] [email protected] 115 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] 85 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] 53 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] 49 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] 43 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] 35 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] 24 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] 112 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] 87 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] 47 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Libs have made it clear they despise direct action

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[–] [email protected] 86 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.

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[–] [email protected] 84 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] 84 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.

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[–] [email protected] 83 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

~libs

[–] [email protected] 59 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] 65 points 8 months ago (1 children)

NAFO pfp says it all with no words

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

Internet tough guy writing screeds about destroying the Russians and how badass NATO militaries are doesn’t actually care about the individual troops?

[–] [email protected] 61 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] 25 points 8 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 61 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 43 points 8 months ago

Liberals can't even analyze fiction anymore without assuming that because you consume it, you cosign it (and honestly even I still have occasional knee-jerks in this direction despite knowing better)

[–] [email protected] 60 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Anyone left of Hitler is a tankie to these weirdos

[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago (4 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 58 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] 55 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] 53 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Feel free to tell me off, but I am not happy with people who are against the barbarian westernist imperialism to die. I am not okay with any left winger dying. If any of you would even as much as get hurt I am going to have the big sad and I hope it makes you feel so guilty you will live a long and fullfiling life (after the upcoming communist revolution).

[–] [email protected] 54 points 8 months ago

I'm not exactly happy about it either, but saying the only cause was "mental illness" and that its the fault of "tankies" that he did this is so so much worse that it doesn't even bear mentioning. I wish that he didn't feel the need to do this, rather than organize with the living, but I think we all deserve the autonomy to make that choice.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

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

I hope the death of the Amerikan liberal, as an identity, as a class, and even as an individual, dies as slowly and agonizingly as Aaron's flames ate away at him. I want the Amerikan liberal's last gasps of air to be a cursing of whatever artificially-constructed god they worship; because they worship at the altars of no divinity with actual dogmas beyond greed, viciousness, and consumption.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 8 months ago (4 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] 28 points 8 months ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 46 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] 40 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 31 points 8 months ago

This take gave me brain cancer

[–] [email protected] 30 points 8 months ago (4 children)

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

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