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Russian journalist immolates herself in public

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    #32
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users Posts: 23,761 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    IAMAMORON wrote: »
    Stop waffling please. No one will be anymore free just because that woman had a death wish.

    People who set themselves on fire have severe mental issues.

    If that poor woman was sane she would have continued to work as a journalist and highlight injustice.

    True.

    Poisoning or falling from balconies is the normal way to go in Russia.


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    #33
    Daragh1980
    Closed Accounts Posts: 118 ✭✭Daragh1980


    Her life is ruined.


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    #34
    Zebra3
    Registered Users Posts: 13,896 ✭✭✭✭Zebra3


    Gatling wrote: »
    You think other governments don't,


    you can't be that naive,

    I'd say some do, but few on the scale of the NSA's law breaking.

    Anyway, keep up your propaganda.


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    #35
    B.A._Baracus
    Registered Users Posts: 11,196 ✭✭✭✭B.A._Baracus


    Everything about it is dramatic and visible. Outside in a public place, daytime with lots of people passing, setting herself on fire (not shot or drowning) she wanted her death to be talked about.

    But these are the actions of a woman who had mental issues and decided to end it all. Forget the whole anti Putin thing. This is not the death of a sane and rational person who was protesting for something.


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    #36
    Gatling
    Registered Users Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    Zebra3 wrote: »
    I'd say some do, but few on the scale of the NSA's law breaking.
    .

    Like Russia , China , north korea ,iran ,Syria .most of eastern Europe

    But murica did, yeah we know for the 10,000th time it's been repeated
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    #37
    Stevie Abundant Tenseness
    Posts: 13,688 ✭✭✭✭ Stevie Abundant Tenseness


    Plenty of perfectly sane people do insane things for causes they believe in.


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    #38
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    I can’t even bear burning my finger off the hob. HOW does somebody do that to themselves?


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    #39
    rapul
    Registered Users Posts: 1,038 ✭✭✭rapul


    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »
    I can’t even bear burning my finger off the hob. HOW does somebody do that to themselves?

    Cocaines a hell of a drug!


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    #40
    Biker79
    Closed Accounts Posts: 794 ✭✭✭Biker79


    The vietnamese monk who lit himself on fire (with gasoline ) and sat there...not a bother on him.

    Still cant get my head around it.


    https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/the-burning-monk-1963/


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    #41
    rapul
    Registered Users Posts: 1,038 ✭✭✭rapul


    Biker79 wrote: »
    The vietnamese monk who lit himself on fire (with gasoline ) and sat there...not a bother on him.

    Still cant get my head around it.


    https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/the-burning-monk-1963/

    To be fair he was more than likely not in his body, meditation

    Made for a good Rage album cover though!


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    #42
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 39,893 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    rapul wrote: »
    To be fair he was more than likely not in his body, meditation

    Made for a good Rage album cover though!
    "OMG look at the monk about to light himself on fire! Hey stop, you'll kill yourself!"
    "F*** you, I won't do what you tell me!"


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    #43
    BattleCorp
    Registered Users Posts: 11,789 ✭✭✭✭BattleCorp


    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »
    I can’t even bear burning my finger off the hob. HOW does somebody do that to themselves?
    Biker79 wrote: »
    The vietnamese monk who lit himself on fire (with gasoline ) and sat there...not a bother on him.

    Still cant get my head around it.


    https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/the-burning-monk-1963/

    Initially you'd feel incredible pain but once the nerves in the skin are burned, you won't feel too much pain after that.


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    #44
    RandomName2
    Registered Users Posts: 5,570 ✭✭✭RandomName2


    Gatling wrote: »
    Holy crap that's horrific .


    The sooner or later putin is removed the better ,he has countless journalists deaths on his hands ,no wonder trump ideologises him ,he's a cancer

    Rip to the victim

    It's not as simple as that.

    Putin is a gangster, but the worst thing he has done is rob Russia of potential stability in his wake. This is made all the worse by the fact that it's totally unnecessary (he is genuinely very popular there).

    If Putin was removed with no transition in place it could collapse to the ways it was in the mid 90s - a very dark and desperate time for the country where the average life expectancy plummeted, people had no hope for the future, the economy was terrible, and Russia looked like it was imploding.


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    #45
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    BattleCorp wrote: »
    Initially you'd feel incredible pain but once the nerves in the skin are burned, you won't feel too much pain after that.

    I feel reassured. Think I’ll go ahead with my self-immolation as planned now. :pac:


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    #46
    Biker79
    Closed Accounts Posts: 794 ✭✭✭Biker79


    BattleCorp wrote: »
    Initially you'd feel incredible pain but once the nerves in the skin are burned, you won't feel too much pain after that.

    Hmm....not very reassuring TBH.

    But you're probably right.


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