My wife actually knew the guy from college. They were friends and she said that he was normal then. The last time they talked was back in 2019 when he had went to a baseball game in Florida and my wife wished she was there (we actually made it down there in 2022). The last thing he posted on social media before all of his, um, research was about his mom dying and we wonder if that might have triggered something. My wife was worried about him because he wasn't getting help and she worried that he would do something crazy, which was a worry that wasn't unfounded.
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Tl;dr nutso crypto conspiracy bro
Cryptocurrency is our first planetary multi-trillion-dollar Ponzi scheme.
This actually makes a lot of sense if you've followed crypto for over a decade and look at the markets.
Ycombinator is where a lot of the technology that takes advantage of us begins. I think it's a stretch to say Bitcoin started as a conspiracy, but I would definitely believe that everything that followed could be the result of bad actors pulling the strings.
The strangest thing in crypto is how uniform the value of currencies are over time. They all go up at the same time. They all go down at the same time. And they do this with near-identical amounts.
This can only mean that it's the same people who are invested in multiple currencies.
Seeing how massive companies like "Red Bull" got popular paying influential people to shill their products, it wouldn't surprise me in the least that some investors are paying people to make and shill cryptocurrencies.
Sure it sounds crazy, but goddamn have I been feeling like this whole country has been conned lately. Inflation keeps going up, we keep getting poorer, and the billionaires keep making record profits. Like what the actual fuck? This guy may not have gotten everything right, but the idea that we’ve been conned out of the America Dream by a kleptocracy (the billionaires) that actually rules this country and have been taught by media that we’re helpless in making any real change absolutely rings true.
That's the mission of the people who are trying to tear apart our democracy: make people think the whole system is broken and beyond repair.
That's where all these people arguing against voting for Biden and Democratic majorities are coming from. They don't actually think the two parties are the same (or they wouldn't if they were honest about them). But they sure as heck think America would be better if not everyone could participate in it's governance.
So it's up to us to work on defending the democratic power we have and work on repairing and improving our democracy. That means completely redesigning the campaign finance system. That means expanding voting access. That means expanding the Article 3 courts from top to bottom. We need to fix our media. Break up monopolies and oligopolies. On and on.
We can make our democracy better if we work together to fix it.
We can make our democracy better if we work together to fix it.
You can't fix something you never had.
Stuck between mental illness, stupid fucking crypto bro type of sorts or both.
Either way, loaded with pop culture references and dumb as hell.
Nobody bothered to look at the pamphlets I suppose.
Here's an image of one of the pamphlets.
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CNN reporters on the scene observed one of the flyers, which said “NYU is a mob front” and “had various allegations of wrongdoings against the school.”
Second person to set themselves on fire this year. It’s becoming the face tattoos of protesting.
It's your face and your tattoo, so if this is how you feel you need to express yourself I support it.
I owed Aaron Bushnell the time to listen to him and understand his message, even if I think I probably already agree with them.
Likewise, I think I ow this person the time to listen to them and understand their message, even if I think I probably don't agree with them.
Unlike many people who think they are on the left, I actually do believe and am fully committed to the principle of individual liberties being inviolable. That includes gay rights, trans rights, religious rights, political views, an most importantly, that your body and mind are your own and there is no authority that can remove that agency from you.
Look if this is a rightwing conspiracy theorist and they believe this passionately in a fiction, consider that half the time when these nut jobs go off they shoot up a school or a sporting event. This person did the most extreme form of protest imaginable. But they also decided that they didn't need to take others with them to make their point. We should try to understand why they made the conclusions they did, even if, especially if we don't agree with how they arrived at them.
yeah, it's called mental illness. they have all the right in the world to do what they did. more power to them, but it's definitely not healthy behavior and I would question their state of mind and beliefs to react in such an extreme manner.
so that monk that kit himself up protesting the us invasion of Vietnam. He was mentally ill?
I think you have to be mentally ill to protest via self immolation. There is much more you can do alive than you can do dead. Bringing attention to a cause in this manner is very effective... But ultimately pointless if everyone is already aware of it.
That monk did succeed in becoming a symbol of protest. But I don't think he created a profound change that was worth his life.
Basically -- suicide is never the answer. And as protest it's rarely effective.
You might consider that you simply have a shallow experience of what it means to believe something. It's not that different than signing up for the military in a time of war or running into a burning building to save a life.
It's your decision, but it takes character to be willing to sacrifice yours self for something you truly believe in, for better or for worse.