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I think self immolation is a intensely contradictory thing.
Because on the one hand I don't want people to do it, at all, I don't want the people who have the courage and the compassion to do it, to do it and die. These people were comrades. And it often feels like it doesn't even tip the scale against the atrocities that it is in protest of.
On the other the people who do are heroes. I'm not religious but while we argued about Bushnell here, the Palestinians, the Yemeni, all the oppressed people fighting this genocide immediately recognised Bushnell as a hero and martyr. It shows the oppressed people that even in the heart of the Great Satan, people support their righteous cause.
Like it's complicated and I would like it if the cause of it was not happening, rather than just self-immolation was not happening.