US Soldier Sets Himself on Fire outside Israeli Embassy in Washington to Protest Gaza War - News18
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A US Air Force soldier is in critical condition after he set himself on fire outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC, Sunday. He live streamed the self-immolation action on Twitch where he captured himself standing outside the gates of the Israeli embassy and identifying himself as a member of the US Air Force.

“I will no longer be complicit in genocide [in Gaza]. I am about to engage in an extreme act of protest,” the man apparently said before setting himself alight and repeatedly shouting “Free Palestine!”

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    • the post of tom joad@sh.itjust.works
      482·
      9 months ago

      Fucking Christ my hearts beating so fast. Goddamn i didn’t want to see that but i watched it cus i thought i owed it to him… Goddamnit.

      And also shout out to the “hero” pointing his gun at his smouldering corpse as if it will lunge at him any moment.

      Goddamnit

      • NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social
        12·
        9 months ago

        That was fucking something. I’m like you I watch it because we owe it to him.

        He kept screaming free Palestine over and over, past the point where his lungs had to be toast, and stayed standing so long.

        • GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml
          5·
          9 months ago

          When people perform stunts (stuntmen running around engulfed in flames for movies) the most critical part, aside from extinguishing the flames as soon as is necessary, is making sure those people have oxygen. The fire will consume the oxygen that you would otherwise breathe in.

          • NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social
            4·
            9 months ago

            Yeah, but when you inhale super heated air, it scorches all of your alveoli?, the little fucking airbags in your lungs, and I would just figure that you would pass out very quickly from that lack of oxygen and the fact that you’re working all of your insides.

            I know that speech works from the diaphragm and all that but fuck men vocal cords.

            When I did my cryo training, they made very clear that you had about two steps into an oxygen free room, and you were done.

      • s1gtrap@lemmy.ml
        6·
        9 months ago

        At least one of them went “I don’t need guns, I need fire extinguishers!”

      • GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml
        4·
        9 months ago

        I read about this and saw the censored version last night. I nearly threw up seeing the uncensored version now. I feel similar to you.

        And to all the shitheads on twitter downplaying this as “glorifying mental illness,” fuck the lot of them.