What the Guy Who Set Himself on Fire at the Trump Trial Had to Say About Covid and Vaccines
Lighting yourself on fire is not empowerment. What do you think?
I think it’s a sad day when yet another American male feels he needed to set himself on fire to get a megaphone. Did the guy who killed himself protesting the war in Gaza actually make a difference?
Max Azzarello, an investigative researcher who set himself on fire outside of the Trump trial in Manhattan, allegedly posted a manifesto that included in part (emphasis mine):
Consider America since 1988: Institutions like healthcare and universities have become parasitic in their skyrocketing prices. News media tells us to be angry and tribalized. Daytime television warns us of moral decay. Local news tell us to fear our neighbors. The Simpsons tells us we’re too oafish and divided to save the American Dream. Seinfeld tells us to celebrate the assholes and be irritated by all the normal people around us. “Reality” TV tells us that real life is filled with hedonism and strife.
Social media, owned by crypto criminals like Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk, is flooded with nonsense conspiracy theories and memes reminding us that we are hopeless, helpless, anxious, depressed, ironic, scared, apathetic, escapist, lonely, misguided, and jaded, telling us we can’t do anything but have a laugh at our circumstances.
Liberals mock the hypocrisy of conservatives; conservatives mock the hypocrisy of liberals, and our collective circumstances erode. The left shouts “All Cops Are Bastards,” which ensures they’ll be hated by the police and the public (and flies in the face of leftist theory). The public’s distrust of the government is at an all-time high, but so is the belief that we are helpless to do anything about it.
And with all this, a sharp rise in apocalyptic messaging: Climate change will kill us all; COVID will kill us all; vaccines will kill us all; AI will kill us all – no matter the bubbles we ascribe to, we’re bombarded with existential crises with no solutions. We’ve seen a surge in apocalyptic film, literature, and video games that tell us there is no way out of our poor circumstances but total societal breakdown. Zombies tell us that the public is our enemy. If you go to your nearest convenience store, you can buy a can of water called “Liquid Death.”
This is our rotten farce: For our entire lives, we have been flooded with media designed to slowly steer us into a world where the American Dream was dead, where the public was fully divided against itself, where everybody believed we were powerless to do anything about our worsening circumstances. It is all so they can organize an unprecedented, apocalyptic rug pull on the entire populace as they pivot to fascism, which is perhaps best understood as kleptocracy at the barrel of a gun.
When we piece it all together, we understand the truth: We are in a totalitarian doomsday cult.
So excess deaths are just part of a psy-op to make people feel hopeless and disempowered?
Except, this guy’s “solution” was to douse himself with gasoline and commit hare kare?
So what’s his real message here? That you can empower yourself, but only through extreme acts of self-violence?
This seems quite contradictory to me…and makes me wonder if this messaging of self-violence is on purpose.
What do you think?
What he writes is not crazy writing.
It's just a fair enough comment on how things are.
This is a sign of mental illness, trauma etc. This world is pushing people to the edges...and over. I am sad obviously to hear about this. But I think it is a distraction from the real news, like our failing economy and the fact that this government is corrupt on all sides of the aisle and in between.