https://twitter.com/EktaShahMD/status/1762264360141951226

  • Tunnelvision [they/them]
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    4 months ago

    Well that might be your opinion, but it clearly wasn’t theirs. They were being asked to do something that directly went against their moral code and they didn’t think being silenced was a good compromise so they took their dying breath speaking for the Palestinian people as someone who was being asked to help kill them. Think whatever you want about it, but it was their choice and we should show some respect to it either way considering the circumstances. If it starts up some copycats then maybe your opinion will have weight behind it, but until then it just looks like you’re shitting on someone who was put in a tough position and decided they’d rather die than being complicit in imperial genocide or be silenced through military justice.

    • kristina [she/her]
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      4 months ago

      You sicken me. Fucking disgusting

      Nothing will come of this. Just one more dead nice person

      • Tunnelvision [they/them]
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        4 months ago

        Nothing will come of this.

        The choices were go to prison and shut up or kill Palestinians. Shitting on the dead because their suicide is not going to be the spark that saves the Palestinians is kinda fucked. If you don’t agree then that’s fine, but I’m disengaging at this point. Hope you get over yourself at some point and realize people do things based on what they think is right and not if you personally agree with them or not. Go be mad at someone else.

        • HexBroke [any, comrade/them]
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          4 months ago

          Sort of tortured binary thinking there.

          There are more options than

          • set self on fire
          • go to prison and never speak again
          • kill Palestinians
          • kristina [she/her]
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            4 months ago

            It's ultimately the christo-leftist self sacrifice ideology that we see on display here. These people fetishize the idea of sacrifice even when it accomplishes nothing. It's also telling that Bushnell had just severed connections with a Christian cult. This has nothing to do with respecting the dead and more to warn people not to fucking kill themselves. You can do so much good in your life and it's possible and worth it to live so you can feel happy.

            I've also had many many friends kill themselves over the years, as is common for a trans "elder". I'm sick of seeing good people die to no benefit and I'm sick of seeing ideologies disseminated that justifies it.

          • Tunnelvision [they/them]
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            4 months ago

            Maybe there were other options, maybe there wasn’t I don’t know but if someone more knowledgeable knows something I’m all ears. Ultimately whatever ended up happening was going to change the course of their life forever and in the end they chose to end their life in service to the Palestinian people speaking about the injustice they face. It makes no sense to lambast them for it just because it might be in vain.