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Man dies after setting himself on fire outside Trump trial courthouse (www.theguardian.com)

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Man identified by police as Max Azzarello, from Florida, declared dead after incident outside lower Manhattan courthouse

A man has died after setting himself on fire outside the New York courthouse where Donald Trump’s hush-money trial is taking place.

The New York City police department said on Saturday the man had been declared dead by staff at an area hospital.

Officials had said earlier the man, who was in his late 30s, was in critical condition.

The New York police department said the man, who they identified as Max Azzarello of St Augustine, Florida, did not appear to be targeting Trump or others involved in the trial.

Witnesses said the man pulled pamphlets out of a backpack and threw them in the air before he doused himself with a liquid and set himself on fire on Friday. One of those pamphlets included references to “evil billionaires” but portions that were visible to a Reuters witness did not mention Trump.

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[-] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Yeah, the first paragraph or so, I was like, yeah, this isn't that out there. But by the second or third paragraph the conspiracies went off the deep end pretty quick.

[-] Spiralvortexisalie@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

The vibe feels to be he was individually right about most things, but people can find one thing they personally disagree with and the media said he is crazy, so he must be crazy. The Simpsons point was somewhat more of a general sense of the media thats free to consume was paid for by somebody and probably not just the goodness of their heart decided to foot that bill. Arguably Simpsons was, is, and always has been paid for one by of the worst humans alive Rupert Murdoch (A literal Monty Burns), so you really do have to ask why?

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Having just seen a video essay on the trouble behind the scenes getting Futurama off the ground I can answer that question: because FOX was going downhill fast and The Simpsons was a hail mary play that paid off for them. But at the cost of giving Groening complete creative control of it, which they did not want to give him for Futurama until he made an episode exactly to their spicifications and they still hated it.

[-] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

There's always a grain of truth to conspiracy theories, that's why people buy into them so easily.

[-] Reyali@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah… this was the quote that jumped off the high dive for me.

In order to explain the massive anomaly [massive stock growth and drop], our criminal government unleashed COVID on the world and told us these were the “stay at home stocks.”

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