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US airman dies after setting himself on fire outside Israeli embassy
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I wish he had another choice. We failed him by not being organized enough to welcome him as a comrade. Instead he chose to do the only thing he could. I admire his courage, but it's a damn shame we lost someone willing to die for Palestinians.
We've failed him, we've failed the Palestinians, we've failed our immigrants and refugees, we've failed our LGBTQ+ people and people of color, we've failed our poor. The story of America is a story of one failure after another.
And I say "America" even though this is world news, because he was American.
Sometimes I have this thought that feels like a realization that it was never even about "the people" or "freedom" to begin with.
It was about creating an in-group and implementing a caste system under the deceptive guise of democracy. What it's never actually been is democratic or free.