is Aaron Bushnell. I am an active duty member of the United States Air Force and I will no longer be complicit in genocide.

I'm about to engage in an extreme active protest but compared to what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonizers is not extreme at all.

This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal. I think this is a deeply emotional topic.

I mean, the cause of his self-immolation

is already a deeply emotional topic.

And then there's this entire fallout from this event that is really repulsive on social media, people of various

stripes of liberal, conservative, reactionary.

On the far rights you have people just straight up mocking and making fun of him, making memes about it, like 13 year old Edg lords.

And then on the liberal side, you just have these truly soulless, heartless human beings who are just completely

dismissing it as as mental illness. One of the things that sticks out to me is

the complete lack of almost anyone taking a step back to try and

absorb and process this tragedy.

Of course we're all quick to you know if we have social media to go out

there and drop our hot takes and immediately start going to to battle with people

who have terrible takes and in human takes but there's just a complete inability and a complete

unwillingness apparently for huge swaths of people to just refuse to look this in the

eye, to take a moment of, regardless of what your opinion is, to be humbled

by this, you know, incredibly courageous and selfless act of self-sacrifice, even before you can

generate your hot take, right? just to have a profound moment of reflection

But that's obviously not very possible in today's

ecosystem But I guess the first place to probably start we're gonna get into all of this and you know this is not a super scripted or outlined episode

This is going to be very organic for better or worse, but I feel like that's the best way to sort of address something like this

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