Seems an improvement over the murderous fruitcakes. Maybe he will start a trend. Better he torch himself than take a bunch of others with him.
Remember that Air Force guy from February?
U.S. airman who set himself on fire outside Israeli embassy in apparent act of protest has died Aaron Bushnell, 25, an active duty member of the Air Force, was confirmed to have died Feb 26, 2024 https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/us-airman-self-immolation-israel-embassy-1.7126137#:~:text=A%20U.S.%20Air%20Force%20airman,local%20police%20said%20on%20Monday.
If there's another one soon it could become the popular thing to do.
@BizSuitStacy That's a meme. I can mock up a meme just as good. Regardless. By Texchik's logic, Trump is a lib because he shook hands with Clinton. And Azarello's death should serve as a cautionary tale for the conspiracy wackos on this site, of which you are one.
I can not fathom why a person would set themselves on fire. They must know the pain would be unbearable. They must know death is a high probability. They must know that if they survive there will be months and months of pain. They must know that if they survive disfigurement will be permanent and ghastly.
Apparently he was a conspiracy nut. He threw a bunch of pamphlets about conspiracy theories on the ground before he set himself on fire. That just makes this even funnier.
@Ynotisay No doubt it was his choice, but what has his mental state been for the last year(s)? Did he have any relatives or friends...or doctors...that have any input on him?
Compared to most other high-income countries, the U.S. has a smaller total supply of mental health workers, with 105 professionals per 100,000 people. Canada, Switzerland, and Australia have approximately twice that number of mental health workers.....so we have a shortage of healthcare workers, doctors, nurses. Not good!
The United States ranks 29th in the world in prevalence of depressive disorders, with a rate of about 5%, or about 15 million Americans, estimated to have some form of depression. It is the largest country on the top 30 list of countries with the highest depression rates.
For 'the richest country in the world' the US falls short in many areas of importance to citizens.
@JSul3 Because I dig data what I came across is 268 mental health providers per 100K people in the U.S. And what is mental health? Does being manipulated to believe in lies count? If so, I could point to most any hardcore MAGA as suffering from mental health issues. Sometimes people go off the deep end. And there's a lot of reasons for it. Maybe it's mental health but maybe it's other things. The upside here is that he decided to take himself out instead of a lot of innocent people. I'm not being cold and heartless about this. But the knee jerk 'mental health' argument is the immediate go to on a host of issues. Maybe it was in this case. And if had anyone around him who was decent and sane, I'm very sure they encouraged him to talk to someone. But you can only lead a horse to water...you know?
Why do so many veterans have mental issues? I think we both know why.
How was Jim Jones able to convince so many to drink the toxic kool aid? Were they all weak minded....easily manipulated....manipulated via fear and/or "a reward on the other side?"
In the olden days in many nations they used to have places called mental asylums where people with mental problems like that where housed and taken care of.. But woke activists pushed the line that Mental asylums where evil prisons for those poor special people and that the whole system needed to be shut down and the patients liberated to live happy ever after out in the community..
Well the governments liked that idea because it would save them a lot of money in closing all the mental asylums and sacking all the specialists..
So the wokeist patted themselves on the back and the vulnerable where thrown out onto the pavement to fend for themselves and some of them from time to time get guns and knives and run around shopping malls or theaters carrying out mass killings or they watch main stream media and end up living in fear of trump so much so that they go and torch themselves because their warped minds cannot think of something else to do to make some kind of point to no one..
It's in all of the newspapers = https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/who-is-maxwell-azzarello-the-homeless-man-who-self-immolates-outside-donald-trumps-hush-money-trial-101713553872810.html
"God is dead. And we killed him. And there will never be enough water to wash the blood off our hands" - that was what Frederick Nietzsche wrote.
You probably don't want to hear what I'm thinking. Other than my prayer that merciful God save that poor soul who did this from the agony of his act and take him home now.
Man who set himself on fire near NYC courthouse holding Trump trial pronounced dead Maxwell Azzarello, 37, was pronounced dead at about 10:30 p.m. Friday
Like Trump, the dude was just grandstanding for the attention he never received from his parents as a child. And as the world has done with Trump, we can sweep this one to the side as well.
