Creepy Wikipedia

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A fediverse community for curating Wikipedia articles that are oddly fascinating, eerily unsettling, or make you shiver with fear and disgust

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Self-immolation of Aaron Bushnell (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Sorry but I'm really tired of seeing the image of the man on fire everytime i open my lemmy app or reddit etc. PLEASE start tagging it as nsfw. I really really really don't want to see the footage in any way.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

It's the new normal that the ruling class want.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Do you imagine everyone in charge as moustache-twirling cartoon villains?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I mean, they do seem to be working towards that goal, yeah