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Holy shit. (CW: Self immolation but it's a US troop) (hexbear.net)

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[-] JohnBrownsBussy2@hexbear.net 94 points 4 months ago

It's obviously sad and very disturbing, and should be the kind of thing that wakes people up. Unfortunately, the US media is very careful on downplaying/misreporting self-immolations, even though in theory it's the type of macabre story that they'd capitalize on.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 62 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Soon from the US media: "We need to ban all images from Gaza so young people don't hurt themselves!"

[-] VILenin@hexbear.net 30 points 4 months ago

“We must accelerate the development of the empathy-disabling brain chip”

[-] Raebxeh@hexbear.net 40 points 4 months ago

I think it’s treated similar to suicides where giving them certain kinds of publicity causes a predictable uptick in suicide rates. How it took them so long to start applying the same standards to mass shooters, I’ll never know.