• Billiam@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I’m gonna guess a pro-Israel or pro-Palestine remark, and the guy chose a place he knew lots of press were gonna be.

    (edit: Mediaite is reporting he was calling NYU a mob front and was throwing out flyers.)

    The article doesn’t make it clear- did he die, or was he extinguished quickly enough?

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        7 months ago

        Well, right-wing protests tend to involve guns and not self-immolation, and it’s not likely for anyone not-right wing to protest Trump finally facing some consequences for his crime, so a statement on the middle east seemed most probable to me.

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          Oh I know, I just mean why would someone assume Palestine is the issue when it’s outside of Trump’s trial? Hardly a key Trump issue. I assumed it was a protest in support of Trump until I saw your comment on this post

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            7 months ago

            Yeah, of all the things to set yourself on fire over “NYU is a front for the mob” is not the first thing I’d think of…

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            7 months ago

            Looks like it was mostly unrelated to Trump, he likely chose to do it outside the courthouse because there were more people and news cameras paying attention there.