Onlookers screamed as fire engulfed the man, who had thrown pamphlets in the air before he set himself aflame. A police officer tried to extinguish the flames before the man was taken away in an ambulance.
  • robinn_IV
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    7 months ago

    I want to know what the pamphlets say.

      • robinn_IV
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        7 months ago

        Graphic design is my passion. I’d say it’s maybe 50/50 or 60/40 for content. At least half nonsense.

      • BirdyBoogleBop@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        7 months ago

        Well that was definitely something.

        So he understood the Simpsons, a Clockwork orange, and 1984 except thought that the subject matter was being praised rather than being shown as a bad thing? I am going to assume the other referenced media is the same.

        I don't think you need to set yourself on fire to convince people shits fucked and getting worse. But. I don't think it is because of "that"

        • robinn_IV
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          7 months ago

          He was right about 1984, it’s defeatist nonsense.

            • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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              7 months ago

              I recently had an interesting discussion where someone interpreted the pessimistic ending as a result of successful in-universe propaganda from the Party, and that all the shit they said was just gaslighting and lies to make themselves seem omnipresent and make resistance seem hopeless.

              I don't think this was the intended message but the author is dead, we can make up our own head canons and no one can stop us!