• Jay@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I don’t want to sound cynical, but I really struggle with understanding what someone thinks they’ll actually accomplish setting themselves on fire. I it would be the most horrific way to die let alone doing it to yourself.

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      9 months ago

      You’re Joe Biden. You need to win an election.

      A US soldier just lit himself on fire about controversy that you know voters do not like about you. The situation clearly is developing for the worse for you.

      You don’t think they care? You should read up on Johnson’s feelings about protestors mocking his killing of America’s youth in Vietnam. He did not like it. I feel Biden is sensing much of the same.

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      9 months ago

      Yeah. Understand the power now rereading your sentence? It’s horrifying to think someone would do that by choice because society is so evil.

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      9 months ago

      You’re trying to understand mental illness. Look at this story for what it is: Yet another tragedy caused by America’s lack of attention to mental health care, especially for our enlisted personnel.

      You’re trying to find the glory in this suicide because this story of suicide is being glorified; we’re supposed to know better than that but clearly we don’t.

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        9 months ago

        Self-immolation is not mental illness any more than any other intentional sacrifice intended to support a cause. That soldier was no doubt taught that wearing the uniform may require the ultimate sacrifice for his comrades and country and that those who did so would be heroes, this is no different.