Aaron Bushnell

Here I would like to talk about political self immolation. I am skeptical of the idea of self harm in service of delivering a political statement. You shall only deliver a political statement if you have a propaganda machine behind you that will hype your suicidal ass as a martyr.

I will give you an example, in Czechia we have Jan Palach, who self immolated in protest against the intervention of the Warsaw Pact in Czechoslovakia in 1968. He was followed by Jan Zajíc and Evžen Plocek. There were other followers in other Commie countries.

The Communist authorities dismissed these individuals as idiots, madmen. But post-Communist regimes have largely rehabilitated them. I personally share the opinion of the Communists without agreeing with Communism, or even the Soviet and Warsaw pact intervention in Czechoslovakia in 1968. Fuck your protest, you a weak suicidal twat.