Happening now - man sets himself on fire outside of Trump trial

[Eric]

WTF is going on? CNN reporters are freaking out about it down there.

 

[Eric]

Laura Coates being very descriptive about smell of burning flesh and accelerants.

 

[fooferdoggie]

glad trump was not around he could have blown up and caused massive damage and bullshit getting flung far and wide. well much farther then usual.

 

[rdrr]

It really takes some dedication to protest by setting yourself on fire. This person along with the Air Force Airman a couple of weeks ago, have been the only ones I remember, outside of the Vietnam protesters that I read about as a kid.

 

[Yoused]

It appears to have more or less nothing to do with the trial, just using it as a focal point. The manifesto, "The Ponzi Papers" looks like a conspiracy theory, but to me it looks not too far off reality. I mean, it does contain a healthy dose of teh crazy, but there is some, imho, reality in there that is worth taking note of. We all just ignore too much.

 

[Herdfan]

It really takes some dedication to protest by setting yourself on fire.

Especially since it appears to not have been a spur of the moment.

 

[Chew Toy McCoy]

Read he's a Florida man. So there's that.

 

[Herdfan]

Read he's a Florida man. So there's that.

And it is Friday.

 

[GermanSuplex]

It appears to have more or less nothing to do with the trial, just using it as a focal point. The manifesto, "The Ponzi Papers" looks like a conspiracy theory, but to me it looks not too far off reality. I mean, it does contain a healthy dose of teh crazy, but there is some, imho, reality in there that is worth taking note of. We all just ignore too much.

Yeah. I read it. The details themselves aren’t really all that believable. He accuses Trump and Hillary of being the same and probably in cahoots. I highly doubt that. But he was clearly committed to what he believers, and the overall sentiment of his rambling isn’t that far off some of the concerns we’ve expressed on these boards throughout different topics. Just with a veneer of nonsense.

Could be a smart guy suffering a mental health crisis. It takes a lot to set yourself on fire, I’m going to at least listen to someone with that level of commitment. Don’t know if that makes me crazy too…

 

[fischersd]

And here I was hoping this would be a trend with the MAGA nation...

 

[Yoused]

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Not too surprisingly, he died from his burns. I find this kind of action difficult to comprehend.

 

[GermanSuplex]

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Not too surprisingly, he died from his burns. I find this kind of action difficult to comprehend.

He needed help and didn’t get it in time. No sense in trying to rationalize the irrational.

It’s stuff we talk about - the wealthy ruling class, etc - taken to a bit too literally and seriously.

His manifesto or whatever had a lot of true stuff in it and he was probably rational at some point.