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13455177 No.13455177[DELETED]  [Reply] [Original]

Instead of just sitting there, what if he did some crazy acrobatic stuff while burning, or a funny dance, and died doing a handstand, but kept it for hours until melting.

>> No.13455236

>>13455177
Listening to rage as I shit right now

>> No.13455266

>>13455177
Self-immolation appears the most powerful message created by hominids. It emerges only from an immense measure of suffering, sure, but also a substance of conviction, philosophy and moral development. Of the United States' civilizational achievements, the closest sacrifices we have might be when soldiers embrace certain death in service of their fellow soldiers, but even that is largely something insular and tribal. I don't think Marines leap on a grenade for the sake of home and girlfriend but for their buddies. Whereas those burning monks were sacrificing themselves for something larger than the squad, battalion or corps.

>> No.13456044

>>13455266
Ameriburgers have self-immolated as protest too, you know.

>> No.13456103

>>13455177
Haha, right? What if he did the floss, haha?

>> No.13456146

>>13455266
An American tranny self-immolated for gamer rights

>> No.13456399

>>13455177
He is a testament to all of humanity.

>> No.13456412

>>13455266
Good post

>> No.13456699

>>13455177
ur mom did a cool dance on my dick last night

>> No.13456819

>>13456044
Yeah remember that one in front of White House that nobody covered lmao

>> No.13457005

>>13456819
The Arab Spring is said to have commenced by a Tunisian's self-immolation. If someone ever did do such a thing in the United States, it would not be trivial. Whichever part of the establishment refrained from coverage would be purchased by that which indulged our limbic responses to such monumental imagery.

>> No.13457592

>>13457005
>is said
By who?

>> No.13457618

>>13457592
Everyone who followed the news at the times know that. First it was demonstration in Tunisia because that one guy (trained as an engineer irrc) immolated himself after having been humiliated and having had his fruit stand confiscated. From there it spread to the whole country and then the whole Arab world.