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    Braver than all the other troops combined.

    Guess the Gaza genocide woke them up to the psychic horror of being a storm trooper and suddenly realizing they were on the side of the baddies.

    I definitely wish they’d done something that didn’t result in their death though I understand the appeal to a non-Marxist when all the shouting in the world doesn’t make a difference to a government determined to help carry out a genocide and you don’t have tools for understanding why and it just seems like madness.

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      I imagine there was extreme anxiety, depression, and/or other mental trauma or illness in conjuncture with this that drove them over the edge. This country literally can drive anyone with a conscious insane if they actually see the truth of it. It’s tragic.

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          And given they’d apparently posted at least one anarchist-leaning thing, they perhaps imagined this action would drive others to action instead of the boring and less flashy work of coalition building, protests, slow class education, etc. Don’t get me wrong, if one is depressed enough to die anyways and can’t be convinced otherwise, going out this way is a bit better than shooting yourself in a dark room and certainly takes more courage though it is an act of despair and one born not of hope or genuinely revolutionary activism but desperation, pain, hopelessness, frustration, a sense of powerlessness in the face of a great horror.