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   akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 05:32:58 JST akasha

   “I will no longer be complicit in genocide.”

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     akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 05:32:44 JST akasha

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     AARON BUSHNELL ASHES REMAIN ON THE SIDEWALK NEAR THE OFFICERS’ FEET

     “You killed that man!

     You pulled your guns out instead of a fire extinguisher!”

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     akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 05:32:44 JST akasha

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     Aaron Bushnell volunteered to support San Antonio’s unhoused population and would regularly purchase blankets, sweaters and snacks from a store on base to give out to people living in encampments. He created a will before his death. He died for Palestine.

     AnthonyJK-Admin repeated this.
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     akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 05:32:44 JST akasha

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     Said so casually while he eats ice cream. And Palestinians starve. And Not a word about Aaron Bushnell.

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     akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 05:32:45 JST akasha

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     Aaron Bushnell and his name will always live on.
     #FreePalesitne

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     akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 05:32:45 JST akasha

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     https://youtu.be/U-Pu3JfGQDU He was an emotional person, and his conscience reprimanded him when he saw the children of Gaza burning in the fire of Israel. So he decided to burn himself, perhaps the humanity of the peoples of the West would ignite and force their rulers to stop this crime.💔
     #Aaron_Bushnell

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     akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 05:32:45 JST akasha

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     Whenever anyone points out the harm the US army causes this is said by Americans to absolve the soldiers who commit genocide. These people aren’t innocent victims, they’re complicit, that’s why Bushnell protested

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     akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 05:32:46 JST akasha

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     Aaron Bushnell died because he had too much humanity for a world run by people who don’t have any

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     akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 05:32:46 JST akasha

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     Turn my mutilated body into fire，Aaron Bushnell，The last American, a true democracy fighter, a great internationalist, a whistleblower of American imperialism against human atrocities, liberating Palestine and opposing Israeli atrocities!#FreePalestine #AaronBushnell #Palestine

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     akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 05:32:47 JST akasha

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     Aaron Bushnell’s name will live on as an example of moral defiance & protest against a regime of genocide. He gave up his life for something bigger than himself, against his own uniform.

     The walls are rotting, people are suffocating & this govt & its institutions refuse to care

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     akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 05:32:48 JST akasha

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     “Aaron Bushnell was a devout Christian who loved Church Music. His family are affiliated with the Community of Jesus Church, in Massachusetts. “

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     akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 05:32:48 JST akasha

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     He died the way he lived his life : by serving people. May God Almighty be of service to him now, give him forgiveness of all his sins and give him life in paradise . This world wasn’t good enough for him , it didn’t deserve him. 🥀

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     akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 05:32:49 JST akasha

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     Dont let Aaron Bushnell have died in vain.

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     akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 05:32:49 JST akasha

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     just want people to know that there's an ongoing vigil at the spot where Aaron Bushnell died. People have been coming by on their own to leave flowers. There are candles available for anyone who wants to light one.

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     akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 05:32:49 JST akasha

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     “I burn my body.
     So the flames may blaze
     The Truth."

     Vietnamese revolutionary poet Tố Hữu’s poem about Norman Morrison who set himself on fire in front of the Pentagon as a protest against the Vietnam war in 1965.

     RIP Aaron Bushnell

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     akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 05:32:49 JST akasha

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     AARON BUSHNELL WAS A PHILANTHROPIST WHO HELPED SERVE THE NEEDY

     He helped with the charity “Serve The People” in San Antonio, Texas.

     “Aaron was a valued member of our organization and the community who immediately jumped in to help the unhoused and any project that came up.”

     “He was dependable and persistent in the mutual aid work he did in a city that was still new to him.”

     The phot depicts Bushnell helping on a food stand for ‘Serve The People’.

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     akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 05:32:50 JST akasha

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     remember the name. respect the sacrifice

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     akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 05:32:50 JST akasha

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     his message is burnt into our hearts forever

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     akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 05:32:51 JST akasha

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     I can't believing I'm saying this, but Aaron Bushnell's last words were just read live on CNN.

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     akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 05:32:51 JST akasha

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     A man feeling such overpowering shame that it becomes too much, and he needs to fight it back with whatever means necessary, to not let it eat him alive; a man suffocated and crushed under the unbearable weight of a broken conscience and broken dreams saw a horrible death as the less painful experience; a man who could not go on living when his government and his people murder thousands of children with absolute indifference.
     Such a man made the ultimate sacrifice yesterday

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     akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 05:32:52 JST akasha

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     He did it. Aaron Bushnell forced this to happen. He did something so jarring and impactful that the mass media would be forced to report the raw facts about it if they want to avoid internal conflict like CNN and NYT have been experiencing in recent weeks. He left them no choice.

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     akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 05:32:53 JST akasha

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     To live in silence while children are slaughtered is a sign of mental illness.
     #AaronBushnell US special operations forces are currently in Israel and we know US drones are flying over Gaza. The United States of America is a full participant in this conflict. https://responsiblestatecraft.org/us-special-forces-in-israel/

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     akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 05:32:53 JST akasha

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     If I must die,
     You must live
     to tell my story
     to sell my things
     to buy a piece of cloth
     and some strings
     (make it white with a long tail)
     so that a child, somewhere in Gaza
     whole looking haven in the eye
     awaiting his dad who left in a blaze
     and bid no one farewell
     not even to his flesh
     see the kite, my kite you made, flying up above
     and thinks for a moment and angel is there
     bringing back love
     if I must die
     Let it bring hope
     Let it be a tale

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     akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 05:32:53 JST akasha

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     https://x.com/alon_mizrahi/status/1762198831129628829?s=20 an essay on Aaron Bushnell by Alon Mizrahi

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     akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 05:32:54 JST akasha

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     Today, the world lost Aaron Bushnell, a brave, noble, and conscientious human being, but his message reached and resonated around the world.

     Aaron proved that his conscience's ability to bear the scenes of dead and wounded Palestinian children was weaker than his ability to bear the pain of fire burning his body, so he continued to chant freedom for Palestine until the last moment of his life.

     Thank you Aaron, but we will continue to cry for you as we cry for the children of Palestine.

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     akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 05:32:54 JST akasha

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     “No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away...”
     Terry Pratchett; Reaper Man

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     akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 05:32:54 JST akasha

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     https://theintercept.com/2024/01/11/israel-air-force-targeting-intelligence/ Biden Admin Deployed Air Force Team to Israel to Assist with Targets, Document Suggests
     US Airman Aaron Bushnell did not kill himself to protest some other country's war

     The US Department of Defense has compelled the participation of Air Force members like Bushnell in Israel's Gaza genocide

     Their orders to deploy to Israel read "mandatory"

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     akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 05:32:55 JST akasha

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     Aaron Bushnell wasn't "using a political justification to take their own life". He made it very clear: "I will no longer be complicit in genocide."

     The US' political extremism in supporting genocide pushed him. Policy was the accelerant.

     He just lit the match.

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     akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 05:32:55 JST akasha

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     What an incredibly strong, caring and amazing young man. To sacrifice his very life for the cause of freedom is the ultimate price to pay. Thank you Aaron Bushnell, I will forever uphold your name. Thank you to the parents that raised this courageous hero.

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     akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 05:32:56 JST akasha

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     The ones who are mentally ill are those who can sit through a genocide & not feel anything. Bushnell was more alive— human than most. He had so much empathy that he chose this most brutal form of protest to cut through the disinformation & shed light on our devastating failure.

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     akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 05:32:56 JST akasha

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     A pathetic boot licking individual would find this act of bravery defiance and humanity a completely alien concept . Aaron Bushnell is one of the most courageous and just man to ever walk the earth

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     akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 05:32:56 JST akasha

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     https://youtu.be/BJpWOikX9jU WARNING: Graphic video

     The last words of Aaron Bushnell, who set himself on fire at the Israeli Embassy

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     akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 05:32:57 JST akasha

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     just a small archive: this is Aaron Bushnell's facebook likes before the page gets taken down...

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     akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 05:32:57 JST akasha

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     He was a soldier expected to put himself in harm's way to fight whatever United States govt wanted him to. This time he chose the cause, the battle and the sacrifice.

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     akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 05:32:58 JST akasha

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     Aaron Bushnell is the hero who upheld the real American values and morals to defend human freedom until the final moment of his life. His last words were, "Free Palestine."

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     akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 05:32:58 JST akasha

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     https://social.wake.st/@liaizon/111998910479915943

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     akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 29-Feb-2024 02:45:33 JST akasha

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     Aaron Bushnell was braver than the entire IOF and it’s not even close. Bravery is not following orders to murder children—a literal robot can do that. Bravery is discerning which acts are immoral and standing against them—it’s recognising that murdering children is always wrong.

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     akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 29-Feb-2024 02:45:33 JST akasha

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     Aaron Bushnell wasn't mentally ill. Our culture has an illness for questioning his motives during the first genocide and ethnic cleansing that's broadcast live

     AnthonyJK-Admin repeated this.
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     akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 29-Feb-2024 02:45:33 JST akasha

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     read this old comment Aaron Bushnell made about Cop City in Atlanta. He had consistent views and expressed them clearly and coherently. He was smart as a whip and very well informed.

     AnthonyJK-Admin repeated this.
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     akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 29-Feb-2024 02:45:34 JST akasha

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     Levi Pierpont was friends with Aaron Bushnell

     Here he describes Aaron as “just a really sweet person” who had a "strong sense of justice."

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     akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 29-Feb-2024 02:45:34 JST akasha

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     One of the main reasons the self-immolation of Aaron Bushnell is having such an earthshaking impact on our society is because it’s the single most profound act of sincerity that any of us have ever witnessed.

     Something as authentic and sincere as anything could possibly be, with the very noblest of intentions.

     He live-streamed himself lighting himself on fire and burning to death in order to draw people’s attention to how horrific the US-backed atrocities in Gaza actually are.

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     akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 29-Feb-2024 02:45:35 JST akasha

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     i dont know if the reddit account is him or disinfo .. but his friends give their account of how he thought.
     "He told me that we have troops in those tunnels in Gaza and that it's US soldiers participating in the killings..."

     A friend of Aaron Bushnell recounts the last conversation between them.

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     akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 29-Feb-2024 02:45:35 JST akasha

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     Notice how the haters have given up trying to find evidence of Aaron Bushnell's alleged "mental illness"? Because everything that turns up about this guy's past and online presence shows he was far more beautiful than they could dream of being.

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     akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 29-Feb-2024 02:45:35 JST akasha

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     Source: All of Aaron Bushnell’s Reddit comments are available here: http://old.reddit.com/user/acebush1/

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     akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 29-Feb-2024 02:45:36 JST akasha

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     Aaron Bushnell vigil.
     Times Square. New York.🇺🇸

     Showing the names of all the murdered Palestinian civilians.💔🇵🇸

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     akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 29-Feb-2024 02:45:36 JST akasha

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     Aaron Bushnell worked in the US Air Force’s 70th Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) Wing and had knowledge of US military involvement on the ground in Gaza, assisting in Israel's genocide.

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     akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 29-Feb-2024 02:45:36 JST akasha

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     Aaron Bushnell who set himself on fire in protest of Israel’s Genocide was active duty in the US Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance division.

     1 day before, he told a friend that he processes Intel data & US military is involved in genocide of Palestinians

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     akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 29-Feb-2024 02:45:36 JST akasha

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     I didn’t think it was possible, but with every bit of new information we learn about Aaron Bushnell I become increasingly more in awe of the way he chose to live than the way he chose to die

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     akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 29-Feb-2024 02:45:37 JST akasha

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     Aaron Bushnell had set up a will, specifying that his savings go to a Palestinian children’s relief fund 💔🇵🇸

     Rest in Peace

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     akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 29-Feb-2024 02:45:37 JST akasha

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     This Reddit response from Aaron Bushnell last year demonstrates a level of sanity that is not common in the American public.

     It is not Aaron who was sick, but the society around him—and he knew that.

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     akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 29-Feb-2024 02:45:37 JST akasha

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     Aaron Bushnell wasn't addressing the Israeli government with his soul-jarring message. He wasn't even addressing his own government. He was addressing you. Each of us. His goal was to get us all to open our eyes to the horror of what's happening, and spur us to action to end it.

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     akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 29-Feb-2024 02:45:38 JST akasha

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     Aaron joined the military to protect democracy and fight for freedom

     In the past few months he witnessed the biggest massacre since Pol Pot

     Not only did America not step in to stop the massacre we actively helped Israel

     Realizing that he had fought on the side of evil and there is nothing he can do to prevent it, except by this extreme act, this magnificent young man laid down his life in an act of selfless raw courage

     RIP Aaron

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     akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 29-Feb-2024 02:45:38 JST akasha

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     Salute Comrade Bushnell.

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     akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 29-Feb-2024 02:45:38 JST akasha

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     https://youtu.be/2JAEVBE5A1Y?si=5HLMqK6BiESbHiPC refuse to be complicit !!!!!

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     akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 29-Feb-2024 02:45:38 JST akasha

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     🫡

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     akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 29-Feb-2024 02:45:39 JST akasha

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     When will the commanders in chief talk about Aaron Bushnell? 2 Americans have literally set themselves on fire because of americas support of genocide. We are ruled by ghouls

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     akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 29-Feb-2024 03:07:36 JST akasha

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     Talia Jane is the reporter who is doing the best reporting on comrade Aaron Bushnell. Making sure the facts are out and the disinfo is rebutted

     AnthonyJK-Admin repeated this.
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     akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 29-Feb-2024 03:07:36 JST akasha

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     There's a faked screenshot going around of something Aaron Bushnell supposedly said on Reddit. But, again, it's fake. Instead of contending with his actually-stated views, certain people prefer to fabricate evidence of him being a rabid Jew hater. Very original tactic

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     akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Sunday, 03-Mar-2024 21:27:16 JST akasha

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     Aaron Bushnell’s sacrifice should only deepen our commitment to a free Palestine; the EMT’s attempts to save him should deepen our commitment to expanding life-saving services; and the cop’s response of drawing a gun should deepen our commitment to abolishing the police.

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     akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Sunday, 03-Mar-2024 21:27:16 JST akasha

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     admire Aaron for what he did but i really wish the Palestinian resistance — in all its forms — would be openly and vocally supported and admired in the same way and by the same people who are now in awe of his act of resistance

     AnthonyJK-Admin repeated this.
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     akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Sunday, 03-Mar-2024 21:27:16 JST akasha

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     The reason Aaron Bushnell's martyrdom strikes directly at the imperial core is because here is a white man who chose to burn himself alive rather than being complicit in doing so to others.

     They do not want anyone thinking too long about what that implies.

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     akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Sunday, 03-Mar-2024 21:27:17 JST akasha

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     Reminded me of the words of Joe Hill, “Don’t mourn, organize!”. We have to honor Aaron Bushnell by doing whatever best we can to end this genocide

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     akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 07-Mar-2024 06:45:56 JST akasha

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     "We have power, we just don't hold it. In order to hold it, we have to organize to grasp it collectively."
     — one of Aaron Bushnell's last posts on Reddit

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     akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 07-Mar-2024 06:45:56 JST akasha

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     Aaron Bushnell committed revolutionary suicide. He committed class-race-nation suicide to bring attention to the literal genocide in Palestine. His last words were quoted on national news across most countries. He sacrificed more than any of us have.

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     akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 07-Mar-2024 06:45:56 JST akasha

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     the zionists are going out of their mind over his heroic act...which means they know it's a big deal and will shift things

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     akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 07-Mar-2024 06:45:56 JST akasha

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     Aaron Bushnell will be remembered in history and you will tossed into the dustbin of history.

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     akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 07-Mar-2024 06:45:57 JST akasha

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     one day, we’ll visit statues and memorials to Aaron Bushnell

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     akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 07-Mar-2024 06:45:57 JST akasha

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     Levi Pierpont, a friend of Aaron Bushnell who met him at basic training and went on to become a conscientious objector.