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The airman, who filmed the incident and could be heard yelling “Free Palestine,” was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries after collapsing to the ground.

The U.S. Air Force member who set himself on fire outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., in an apparent protest against the Israel-Hamas war has died, according to a U.S. official.

Next of kin notification is continuing, so the Air Force won’t release his name until 24 hours after the final notification is complete.

The District of Columbia Fire and Emergency Medical Service Department responded to a call about a person on fire outside the embassy just before 1 p.m. Sunday, and found the flames extinguished by the Secret Service’s uniformed division.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Or discredit him as a libtard crazy. That is what people on the other side of this argument have been saying. I hate this world.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago

I wish I could say I was surprised.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The base’s Pavlovian rejection of anything said by an accused outsider has got to be one of the Republican party’s biggest real “achievements.”

Or maybe I’m giving them too much credit. Mixing simple “ill will towards others” with a dash of “confirmation bias” will produce a very similar result.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"The" achievement. It was enabled by humanity's shitty heuristics and still developing (it will never get to develop, I don't think) ability for longer term thinking.

It wasn't hard to do, but they sure kept at it.

If we can't fix it, if the world continues on a slide to shit, if it's all doomed to a stupid end then I have but one desire:

That when the echelons at the top tumble alongside the rest of civilization, they try at the end, right at the very 11th hour to recall their rabid masses because they need them to listen...

Only to hear back "Fake news" as the rabid mass of blind hatred they built tumbles down their would-be world too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

There are days your wish seems to be the most likely outcome in the long run.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

The base’s Pavlovian rejection of anything said by an accused outsider has got to be one of the Republican party’s biggest real “achievements.”

I see this in every argument on Lemmy.