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Man Sets Himself on Fire Near Courthouse Where Trump Is on Trial (www.nytimes.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (2 children)

https://theponzipapers.substack.com/p/i-have-set-myself-on-fire-outside

That is his justification.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That's sad. He's not wrong about many things but his brain's pattern association has gone off kilter.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

It's like this other lady just said:

it's not like he's wrong about most of what he said, but the days when seeing yourself on fire to call attention to what's going on is more than a blip on the radar are long gone.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

Mental illness is a hell of a drug