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US Soldier Sets Himself on Fire outside Israeli Embassy in Washington to Protest Gaza War (www.news18.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Alsephina@lemmy.ml to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

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“I will no longer be complicit in genocide [in Gaza]. I am about to engage in an extreme act of protest,” the man apparently said before setting himself alight and repeatedly shouting “Free Palestine!”

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[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 94 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Anyone who still visits reddit, how [deleted] is this story over there?

Edit: I've created a torrent for the video if anyone wants to help seed. His sacrifice in bringing attention to the US-sponsored genocide in Palestine must not be forgotten.

[–] matcha_addict@lemy.lol 106 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Using the word "genocide" bans you in r/politics now

r/washingtondc locked the post

[–] Aermis@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

Wait really? Just using genocide gets you banned in politics? What a bunch of shmeggs. I got banned there years ago because the mods simply went through my post history. I'm still shook with how the narrative and mind of users are tilted towards a very skewed viewpoint.

Some people believe the user base of reddit is diverse, and they're getting a healthy view of the world. Unbewknowest to them they find themselves dumbfounded when the world isn't conforming to what they believe is the majority opinion

[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago

I can only use one sentence to comment this: when the imposters are sus

[–] olivebranch@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

r/politics mods are horrific. In the mod log (at the bottom of the screen) you can see they delete posts just because of different opinions.

[–] What_Religion_R_They@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A screenshot someone posted to r/TheDeprogram

[–] SummerIsTooWarm@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

~~To be fair, that post in particular seems to have been locked because it is a repost. This post is older and has quite a bit of engagement. While a quick search in the popular subs reveals that this story seems to be surpressed there, it is not true for r/TheDeprogram. Even if that sub has some problems, this story is none of them.~~

The screenshot was posted to r/TheDeprogram, it wasn't taken there, I'm dumb.

[–] What_Religion_R_They@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That post is locked because it's on r/pics. r/TheDeprogram is an ML sub, the screenshot I posted was someone calling out r/pics.

[–] SummerIsTooWarm@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh, I misunderstood. I thougth that the pic was from the deprogram sub. Thats why I went there and looked it up, because it would be very surprising to see that su censoring something like this.

Edit: It even says r/pics on the top of the screenshot, either I'm blind or I already forgot the layout of stormfront (or both)

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

What story?