It’s strange that they’re doing this. It would fit the mainstream media profile more to just bury it under the veteran mental health label.
Any idea of why they’re allowing Bushnell to be heard?
Shocking things get views which probably outweighs the negatives of promoting anti-Israel propoganda. CNN also has the ability to spread the mental health crisis line far wider than any internet personality, which is probably a more effective tactic to undercut Aaron’s words than just trying to ignore something so shocking, especially when other competing channels will be showing it.
I really think the biggest part of it is that he was in the military- not only does mainstream society see them as more credible, they’re more involved in the genocide. They can’t sell it as some weird hippy guy doing something crazy. And I think it has the potential to hit Biden so much differently if the momentum of this story keeps up.
because he streamed the video and the video went viral on telegram and social media, so it couldn’t be hushed or ignored. they needed to mention it to tamp it down and get a narrative going.
Please understand manufacturing consent. The media won’t necessarily bury the truth by failing to report it. They will just have one report about it and 99 other reports about how mentally ill he was, or “is Gaza a genocide”, or remind you about the “Gaza Rapes”.
Anything nuanced is simplified and anything simple is bogged down in nuance
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Fuckin 25 years old
The same age as Ned Kelly, and although Bushnell is famous for far less than Kelly, I can only hope that Bushnell’s last words will ring as famously as the Jerilderie Letter.
“There’s warm coffee on the stove when you get here buddy…”
If he wasn’t an active-duty solider, this would have been totally buried by news.
Modern day John Brown.
I imagine he was privy to a lot more than most people see, and most of what we see is pretty fucking bad.
He probably didn’t see any particular imagery we didn’t, but knowing the work you’re required to do is contributing directly to the bloodshed would get to you
He had orders to be ready to deploy to israel.
Saw a comment on Reddit claiming that this is Aaron Bushnell’s account. https://old.reddit.com/user/acebush1
Looks like they joined the military because they were flat broke and lost their job during COVID, if this is the right user account and I have the timeline right.
I think I literally found his moment of radicalization, it was learning the truth about MLK: https://old.reddit.com/r/Christianity/comments/lb18bl/in_honor_of_black_history_month_may_i_suggest_the/
17 upvotes. 2 comments, one of which had no upvotes. On a simple “Here are some MLK Jr sermons” post. Damn.
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What, you mean he wasn’t just an evil troop who joined up to be a hog?
It is. His insta’s the same. Turns out he was involved in organizing in my area
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You can’t change the system from inside the system.
Edit: the only good slaver is a dead slaver ban me you bootlickers
He wasn’t even just a comrade, he was a chapo
Good so I know my parents saw this—since CNN is on in their house 24/7–and then they thought: “But this will make it easier for Trump to win the election!” Then they thought that all violence is bad, something that did not apply on 10/6, in Ukraine, or really anywhere else. Then, as CNN cut to ten minutes of pharmaceutical commercials, they forgot about it.
This is not a reflection on Bushnell obviously, I have nothing but respect for him. I just hate my parents.
If they actually report it like this during prime time that would be more notable. It’s CNN so assume this was cynical, probably the presidential horse race needs some spicing up.
Based (except for the self-immolation, I’m so sorry for him and his family).
Rest in power to a real one. If you’re gonna go out, best to do it for a reason and in a way that’s hard to ignore.
well goddamn. Too early to tell but I hope I was wrong about news coverage / sticking power. I’m going to a vigil tonight.
Maybe this is disrespectful, but has anybody else been listening to “Born in the USA” a lot since Bushnell’s self-immolation? Given the song’s themes of US imperialism and working class issues, from the perspective of a (former rather than active) member of the US Armed Forces, you know.
I dunno. There’s just something kind of… I dunno how to put it other than “painfully captivating” about someone famous only for his death, especially when that death happened “right before your eyes” in a sense. This tiny moment when this soul enters our collective awareness at the same time as he leaves it, having chosen to dedicate that singular moment to what he stood for. There is only so much we can learn about who he was as a person before that point, and nothing more we will learn after that point because there is literally nothing after that point. It’s like starting a book in medias res right at the end.
Sigh. I hope Bushnell enjoys the afterlife. Free Palestine; death to fascism, colonialism, and imperialism; long live the Palestinians. Though he burned himself and his death was very striking, let us organize and fight and let us remember the myriads killed in this genocide.
Born in the USA
This reminded me that the Rascal Flatts cover of this song exists and I must share my pain
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Huh seems they skipped the, “This Is What Our Ruling Class Has Decided Will Be Normal” part
No, they read that aloud as well