#rest in peace aaron bushnell

[jaylaraye47]

i need help

for those that don't know me (or follow me) i am a teenage girl named Sam and i would love to do more for Palestine, Congo, Yemen, Lebanon and everyone else. Although sadly i don't have much freedom to make huge actions as i am still in school and that takes up a lot. And neither me nor my family have much money right now. Our country is experiencing horrible econimic trouble and everyhting is expensive these days. Therefor i can sadly not dont much, nor am i allowed to. If anyone knows anything that i can do, such as contributing to online organizations, signing pentuitions, or anything else, then please;

reblog with links or ideas to what i and others can do

send me this information privaetly incase tumblr tries to hide it

or whatever else you atr able to do

Everything helps and please let me know if theres anything i can do for this cause.

[confusedcupidshuffling]

Rest in peace Aaron Bushnell.

@cricken_ on tiktok (posted 6 days ago as of 3/3/24)

[sorryiwasasleep]

I’ve only finally now been able to view the original Aaron Bushnell video and I find the most horrifying and tragic part of the entire video (because the rest is the final act of a BRAVE man) is the fact that even after his heroic sacrifice and total collapse to the ground, as they were using a fire extinguisher on his dead body, a cop (or security or whoever the fuck this man is) still has his gun drawn and pointed at Bushnell’s corpse (which just in turn made me reflect on how this has probably been occurring in Palestine itself from the IDF. How many of the dead have extra bullet wounds from post-mortem because even when they went down their oppressor didn’t stop?) ACAB and Free Palestine.

Rest In Peace Aaron Bushnell

[Alt text: an image from the last few seconds of the Aaron Bushnell sacrifice video. a man has a gun drawn and is pointing in the direction of the circle of flames Bushnell created around himself, where out of image Aaron Bushnell's body lay as another man fire extinguishers his body.]

[femme-enby]

Idk I just think it’s incredibly easy to recognize that it ain’t for white folks at the very least, and to just say “rest in peace.”

Like call me crazy, but also maybe we don’t need to take something from a movement that is still getting ridiculed and use it for someone of a whole other race in a whole other situation.

[primrosing]

i’ve been thinking about it for awhile and i can’t keep posting like normal while a genocide is happening in real time. i’ll either post about palestine or nothing.

the government is actually so deeply evil and corrupt there’s nothing left to do but destroy the whole thing. i can’t vote for genocide fucking joe but there’s no world in which any usamerican presidential candidate is not fucking evil to their core. to think that less than 80 years ago the Holocaust was happening, and it was supposed to be “never again.” joe fucking biden was born before the end of WWII but he’s still a fucking zionist nazi piece of shit.

people are truly suffering beyond our wildest imagination every second of the day. i hope every israeli piece of shit rots in hell and i hope every fucking imperialist politician that is complicit and participant to genocide, not just in palenstine either, explodes and dies.

i KNOW that palenstine will be free. PALENSTINE WILL BE FREE!!!!!!! these atrocities will be ended and the perpetrators will get their due.

[baby-girl-aaron-dessner]

Today, U.S. Air Force serviceman, Aaron Bushnell, 25, set himself on fire in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington:

"I will no longer be complicit in genocide.”

His last words were “Free Palestine”.

[nando161mando]

"Free Palestine (Aaron Bushnell)" (EN: English)

[luzclarita57]

"I will no longer be complicit in genocide. FREE PALESTINE!"

-Aaron Bushnell

Despite the government refusing to say it, i will. This is undoubtedly a form of protest. His words and efforts will not be minced or downplayed. Aaron Bushnell was walking down in broad daylight towards an Isr*ali embassy is Washington DC, live streaming himself on Twitch, and doused himself in lighter fluid screaming the words "I will not contribute to genocide. FREE PALESTINE!" As he set himself on fire.

Aaron self emulated as a form of protest. We have reached the self immolation stage of the protest of the ongoing genocide of Palestine. Self immolation is one of the ultimate forms of protests. And it signals a desperate need to listen to what is currently happening. And as much as our government is trying to downplay Aaron's actions as a form of protest, we the people know exactly why he did what he did.

A brave political act was done here, and it certainly isn't the first one. The media will not erase that.

[dreamfaerye]

[tea-stained]

Honestly, the Aaron Bushnell situation is... Unbelievable. And I mean, the way he was just, burning there. And I don't mean the death itself.

I mean the sheer determination and willpower.

I know what fire feels like on the skin. The pain.

That reaction was borderline inhuman. The dedication is horrifying.

These sounds, of how he was coherent until the very end. That's what scares me. What must've he known to have the drive to sound like... This.

Now, normally, when you burn to death, you would convulse in pain, letting out incoherent, terrible, almost inhuman screams, because it's just this fucking painful.

But that's not the case here. That's... Not what happened.

The way he handled it is haunting. The way he felt the pain of all the victims, men, women, non-binary people, children, all dying torturous deaths, living lives of pain in Palestine more than his own, is just so, so, much more than anything I've ever seen.

This is more than any eldritch horror, more than any body horror, psychological horror, more than anything.

This screams louder than any words as to what is happening in Palestine.

How much suffering there is, not to feel pain of one's very own body.

And people calling him insane, mentally ill, fucked up? That's plain disgusting, this ignorance towards suffering. This ignorance towards what's going on.

Is this an attempt at distancing oneself from the genocide? "oh, he just was insane", as in "i don't understand"? Simply turning a blind eye towards everything? Towards this death, more gruesome, more brutal, more heartbreaking than if he were to simply scream in pain?

What a beautiful person he was, to feel this much pain of others, not to even react to his own.

Free Palestine. Never stop talking. Never let people forget innocent humans whose pain is beyond imaginable. Every single one had a name, a future. These are not just statistics.

Free Palestine.

[jaylaraye47]

would anyone like to see my essay on Aaron Bushnell that i am presenting in front of my school?

[milfygerard]

An acquaintance of Aarons spoke out with details about her online life, including confirming that aaron went by both aaron and lily, and used he/she pronouns. I'm really glad that someone he knew (even if they didnt know it was discourse) spoke out on this with more details. We son't know much about her identity past this, and im frankly not comfortable discussing his identity when we have so few details from lily herself.

I am still uncomfortable with the posts that were dissecting his online presence for clues, something aaron/lily never asked for and never expounded on. I was especially angry at the part that implied the armys lack of insurance support for bottom surgery couldve been a catalyst point for anything, considering how blunt and intentionally direct aaron was about the goal of his self immolation. I sympathize with those who saw glimpses of themselves and wanted to talk about it, but there is a time, a place, and a tone that must be considered especially on such a public platform.

We will never know more about lily. The horrors he was forced to commit and the action she flet she had to take means we'll never get to know who lily couldve been. This is true also of every palestinian citizen killed by israel, especially the children who had experienced only a few years of life before being cruelly taken from the world. That was Aarons final message, that for every tragic death like hers, theres tenfold happening in palestine at this moment and it will only worsen unless we take notice and force it to stop.

free palestine. free gaza. permanent ceasefire now.

[melandrops]

"My hope is that by next Monday we will have a ceasefire" says President Biden, as if this is not his fault. As if the weight of thousands of Palestinian lives do not rest squarely on his shoulders. As if he wasn't directly responsible for arming the IDF in their plight to eradicate an entire civilization. As if tens of thousands of people are not dead because of his own complicity. As if America hasn't vetoed the call for a ceasefire multiple times. Thousands upon thousands of people have been working towards peace, trying to pitch in with anything they have to help the Palestinians in crisis. Children have died. Queer people have died. Innocents have died. 29,000 dead, 70,000 injured, 1.7 million displaced from their home. And Biden has the gall to say "my hope," as if this couldn't have ended months ago if only he had the moral guts to call off his dogs in Israel. He's a coward, a war mongering idiot and worse.

It's my hope that a ceasefire is achieved as soon as possible. If and when it happens, it will be in spite of Biden. Not because of him. Do not forget the people who called themselves allies of Israel. You won't be able to trust them, not ever again.

[justgotabolished]

RIP Aaron Bushnell 🍉🇵🇸🕊❤️‍🩹

May Aaron Bushnell rest in peace. He is our hero and we shouldn't let his sacrifice for Palestine be into waste. Hamas is our hero too and they are very respectful people to Palestinian supporters. ❤️‍🩹🕊🇵🇸🍉

[radiodont]

i want to preface this by saying that what aaron bushnell did was incredibly selfless and brave. he recognized the harm that america was doing and was so upset by it that he took his own life in protest; i hope that wherever he is, he's found rest and peace. he knew the power he had as an active duty airman, knew that he couldn't stay complicit, and used his status as a societally respected person to make a stand against genocide.

i'm glad it got people talking about palestine and the injustice-- but there's still an immense sense of unfairness to it all. almost 30,000 palestinian people murdered, 70,000 wounded, and 7,000 still missing. they don't get individual vigils; they're lumped together as martyrs. their families don't get reached out to, there is no list of names. the shock, fear, and revulsion people feel watching the videos of aaron's death coming out right now should be the same way they feel about every single palestinian martyr. aaron said it best himself, in the lead-up to his suicide:

"I am about to engage in an extreme act of protest. But compared to what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonizers, it’s not extreme at all. This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal.”

he did an exceptionally good and brave thing, and i sincerely wish he hadn't needed to. i wish it not just for him, but for every man, woman, and child murdered in palestine, for everyone who lacks a home to go back to. every parentless child, every childless parent, and every piece of art and culture that has been destroyed. every media outlet focusing on his life is missing the point; his last act was to call attention to a genocide. look to where he pointed.

[thebusylilbee]

imagine if people reacted to Antigone the way they reacted to Aaron Bushnell... "wow sorry but she was clearly just mentally ill and no one should be taught about her and this character should never be praised or read lest impressionable 17 year old infants get the idea that sacrificing yourself for your principles, for something greater than you, can sometimes be necessary. that's just TOXIC !!" like how did these people even survive high school ? like how do you even go through an entire human life without being aware that some people die for causes that are worth it to them and others and most of us do actually owe a lot of our rights and liberties to people like them ? fucking unbelievable