Aaron Bushnell claimed he had secret knowledge of US troops fighting in Hamas tunnels under Gaza — just hours before setting himself on fire
"His actual job involves the processing of intelligence data. Some of what he was processing had to do with the Israeli Gaza conflict.
“One of the things he told me is that coming across his desk … was the US military was involved in the genocides going on in Palestine,’’ the friend said,
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Disgusting comment. The guy self-immolated, expecting to die, to seek attention he would never receive?
Where’s your humanity?
I think it’s rather disingenuous to say that just because he intended to die, he didn’t want the attention. The attention kind of seems like the entire point of the act.
Yes, but not for himself.
The guy killed himself in a fiery protest to not get attention to his cause?
It wasn’t framed like that.
Different branches work together all the time.
Bit of a weird leap. He wanted to draw attention to a particular cause.
People who just want attention find ways of drawing it to themselves so that they can actually enjoy it.
Eli5 the military stuff?