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2018-04-15 Home Front: Culture Wars

'I apologize for the mess': Jogger finds scorched remains of prominent gay rights activist and lawyer, 60, who set himself on fire in a Brooklyn park in a protest over fossil fuels and left cops a note to say sorry and identify himself

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Posted by Anomalous Sources 2018-04-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 So he protested carbon-based fuels by becoming a carbon-based fuel? Where is the logic in that?
Spock graphic added per your excellent comment PM

Posted by Percy McCoy4369 2018-04-15 00:23|| 2018-04-15 00:23|| Front Page Top

#2 Shoulda used briquettes. Less CO2 that way.

Posted by gorb 2018-04-15 00:48|| 2018-04-15 00:48|| Front Page Top

#3 Mr. Buckel believes these are 'fossil fuels' - I think there may be some doubt as to how oil & gas develop & form. I don't think it's entirely attributable to dead dinosaurs & trees, but have at it.

Plus - there's more to this story; you don't just up and self righteously self-immolate for no reason - jilted lover / financial problems seem like more likely reasons.

Posted by Raj 2018-04-15 06:07|| 2018-04-15 06:07|| Front Page Top

#4 I hope this becomes a custom.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-04-15 06:25|| 2018-04-15 06:25|| Front Page Top

#5 g(r)om, that's fine as long as they stick to non-burnable locations. Don't want these wackadoodles starting any forest fires do we?

Posted by AlanC 2018-04-15 08:12|| 2018-04-15 08:12|| Front Page Top

#6 If only more eliminatists would voluntarily follow the same path. Lead by example!

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-04-15 08:20|| 2018-04-15 08:20|| Front Page Top

#7 #5 Yep

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-04-15 08:59|| 2018-04-15 08:59|| Front Page Top

#8 Another case of Spontaneous Dip$hit Combustion.
Just ask anyone who's ever worked around a manure pile, they catch fire easily.

Posted by ed in texas 2018-04-15 10:40|| 2018-04-15 10:40|| Front Page Top

#9 He wants Western Civilization to cut its own throat by deindustrializing, which would result in Western Civilization being cut-down-to-size by its rivals like China.

Meanwhile, at Hacker News:

Weibo to ban gay, violent content from platform .

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2018-04-15 11:48|| 2018-04-15 11:48|| Front Page Top

#10 In the same way that Orwell said that pacifists were objectively pro-fascist, the deindustrialization fetishists are objectively pro-communist-party, wanting to transfer the country's sovereignity to the primary foreign ally and patron of the Khmer Rouge back in the day.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2018-04-15 11:50|| 2018-04-15 11:50|| Front Page Top

#11 Um, anyone know what Bill Joy is up to these days?

Posted by M. Murcek 2018-04-15 15:13|| 2018-04-15 15:13|| Front Page Top

#12 I think Homer was on a different path there:

Posted by Frank G 2018-04-15 15:16|| 2018-04-15 15:16|| Front Page Top

#13 What do you say to a gay environmentalist lawyer who immolates himself for his cause?

Well done!

Posted by badanov 2018-04-15 19:12|| http://www.chriscovert.net 2018-04-15 19:12|| Front Page Top

#14 My name is David Buckel and I just killed myself by fire as a protest suicide.’

Hiiii David.

Posted by swksvolFF 2018-04-15 19:39|| 2018-04-15 19:39|| Front Page Top

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