This is another example that makes me skeptical of any spectacular activism. The state is more than happy to severely punish people for the minutest of actions, all while having control over mass media, so you have to be careful that you aren't throwing your life away for zero impact. And at least in the US, it's spent the last few decades growing and perfecting the jail and prison system to the degree that it can absorb a large amount of social unrest without any trouble.

Very rarely is attention-seeking praxis capable of breaking into the spectacle a la Aaron Bushnell.

Radicalism needs to be socially reproducible to have revolutionary potential, needs to outcompete capitalism's social reproduction. We need to create revolutionaries faster than they get imprisoned, killed, burnt out, isolated.

Just like the West doesn't have real heroes, it can't have effective martyrs.