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April 15, 2018 by V the K

An LGBT Activist burned himself to death to protest Global Warmies. Now, that’s showing commitment!

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Filed Under: Coalition of the Oppressed, Decent Democrats

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  1. Hanover says

    April 15, 2018 at 1:06 pm - April 15, 2018

    I seriously doubt that any of his now former clients would have been the type of people to understand the irony of his demise.

    I am assuming that no one heard his final shrieks.

    Sad.

    I guess when business is slow it’s time to go.

  2. Steven says

    April 15, 2018 at 1:09 pm - April 15, 2018

    I thought the kid doing the “animal trap challenge” was the stupidest SOB in the world. I was wrong.

  3. TnnsNe1 says

    April 15, 2018 at 2:11 pm - April 15, 2018

    The carbon footprint of a body doused in gasoline is pretty big. This is why so many Progressives are anti-gun. They look to the instability of their social circle and assume that instability applies to the rest of the culture.

  4. KCRob says

    April 15, 2018 at 2:32 pm - April 15, 2018

    Darwin Award nominee.

  5. K says

    April 15, 2018 at 2:34 pm - April 15, 2018

    From NY Daily News: “I am David Buckel and I just killed myself by fire as a protest suicide,” read a hand-written suicide note left near the blackened circle of burned grass. “I apologize to you for the mess.”

    His positions and his decision aside, his last words have my profound respect.

  6. Steve says

    April 15, 2018 at 3:03 pm - April 15, 2018

    All his ex boyfriends said they were washing their hair at the time it happened.

    OT:
    Gay news silent when male nurse in Lewistown Maine got beheaded by somali moslem.

    What does it cover that is more important to gays in the US? A gay hairdresser getting electricity restored.

    http://www.washingtonblade.com/2018/04/10/electricity-restored-gay-puerto-rico-hairdressers-hurricane-ravaged-home/

  7. V the K says

    April 15, 2018 at 3:16 pm - April 15, 2018

    So, what evidence did he have against Hillary Clinton?

  8. Ted Bunker (Charging Rhino) says

    April 15, 2018 at 4:50 pm - April 15, 2018

    Like’s like Breakfast; the Chicken is concerned, but the Hog is committed.

  9. Frank says

    April 15, 2018 at 5:54 pm - April 15, 2018

    He was also the lead attorney in Brandon v. County of Richardson. This was a landmark case in which he successfully brought murdered transgender man Brandon Teena to justice.

    RIP

  10. James says

    April 15, 2018 at 7:14 pm - April 15, 2018

    Well that’s one way of feeling the burn!

  11. Stephen Ippolito says

    April 15, 2018 at 7:25 pm - April 15, 2018

    I have known a few people who have “offed” themselves – though in ways less public and for reasons less attention-seeking than this chap.

    One group of these poor souls, the most sympathetic, were those suffering from clinical depression through a chemical imbalance in the brain and/or as a result of some painful chronic illness or long-term unemployment from which they saw no possibility of release and caused them to despair. While very sad, there is a logic to putting an end to one’s pain when one feels it is unlikely to ever cease.

    The other group are like this chap – wanting to make a public gesture or strike at others through their loss. It’s always a waste. It is the way of life: political allies, workmates, friends and acquaintances simply move on and the memory of the suicide recedes until it is all but forgotten. A wasted effort and a waste of a life.

    Nothing will change in a policy sense by this man’s action (government is an impersonal beast and does not feel pain or regret). Only this man’s parents or siblings or those very few that loved him deeply will feel anything at all.

  12. Blair Ivey says

    April 15, 2018 at 9:37 pm - April 15, 2018

    @ KCRob:

    I’d say that’s a winner, but I believe the Darwin Award goes to people who expect to survive their stupidity.

  13. TADFORD2 says

    April 16, 2018 at 3:07 am - April 16, 2018

    If the people they quoted in the article were true believers and friends, they wouldn’t be so devestated by his loss. They would praise it and celebrate it, which from his note, is for what he hoped. It sickens me that anyone, regardless of why or how stupidly ridiculous it might be would make light of a man killing himself. To take his idealistic fervor so far speaks to his mental instability, which, regardless of how you feel about him as an idealist and a human being, makes the whole thing very sad. We have an epidemic of delusion and mental illness in this country. Things like this man’s suicide, Parkland, and any other number of atrocities are only going to become more prevalent until we do something about making mental illness an important issue. I don’t believe in anything this man stood for, but his suicide does nothing but make me feel sadness, pity, and sympathy for him, his friends, and family. I have been through such a loss, in the form of a parent. It’s an unfathomable situation.

  14. RSG says

    April 16, 2018 at 4:10 am - April 16, 2018

    One group of these poor souls, the most sympathetic, were those suffering from clinical depression […]

    The other group are like this chap – wanting to make a public gesture or strike at others through their loss.

    These are not mutually exclusive. Though some friends and associates may make him out to be analogous to the Buddhist monks who died of self-immolation during the Vietnam War and, more recently, during the Tibetan crackdowns by the Chinese, in reality he’s no martyr and no hero. He’s not drawing attention to anyone or anything other than himself, and in quite an obnoxious way given his passions. I’ve always said that if you are truly concerned about the environment and your ‘carbon footprint’, then the quickest and most responsible way to permanently reduce that is to jump off the nearest high cliff so that the animal kingdom can dispose of your remains. Don’t leave a vehicle behind for someone else to deal with and don’t leave a mess for someone else to clean up. Apologizing for it in advance doesn’t make it better for those who have to cope with it.

    Suicide is an inherently selfish act. The reasons for doing so may be valid; and as a friend who unsuccessfully attempted suicide not once but twice liked to say, it can also be a form of self-defense. Still, very few people who are of both sound mind and body follow through with the act and statistically, males who do so want to in a quick and efficient manner. Self-immolation doesn’t seem to me to fit either of those categories. As such, I have to conclude he was a deluded drama queen who couldn’t go quietly into the good night but aimed for one last blaze of glory that received the coverage it did primarily owing to his weekend timing.

  15. Hanover says

    April 16, 2018 at 5:15 am - April 16, 2018

    You’re painting this with too broad of a brush, Tadford. Remember that the leftists will kill and sacrifice anyone in order to further their agenda. This is no different.

  16. Sean L says

    April 16, 2018 at 7:17 am - April 16, 2018

    I will grant him this: at least he did not throw himself into traffic and turn some poor soul into his unwilling murderer, and possibly cause the injury and death of others. I pity him, that he thought this act was the only way to give his life closure or significance, and his family has my deepest sympathies.

  17. Rex says

    April 16, 2018 at 11:47 am - April 16, 2018

    Flaming queen….. Too soon? Actually I do feel sorry for anyone this deluded and/or depressed, or ideologically possessed and their loved ones.

  18. Draybee says

    April 16, 2018 at 3:12 pm - April 16, 2018

    May God grant him eternal rest.

    P.S. There’s blood on your hands, Al Gore.

  19. Professor Hale says

    April 16, 2018 at 3:40 pm - April 16, 2018

    If you count the guy who burned to death in Trump tower, this is the second one whour died to make a political statement.

  20. Sandra says

    April 17, 2018 at 1:35 am - April 17, 2018

    It is the ultimate step in Leftist virtue signaling. “Look at me I am special! “ all the while the end result (carbon mess) is exactly what he was protesting against. Totally typical just on a more final scale than the usual Leftist BS.

  21. RGB says

    April 17, 2018 at 1:30 pm - April 17, 2018

    #3 – “They look to the instability of their social circle and assume that instability applies to the rest of the culture.”

    Yes, bingo.

  22. RGB says

    April 17, 2018 at 1:48 pm - April 17, 2018

    This is sad, though I’m just glad he did not choose to take others with him, against their will.

    When we, as humans, get to the edge where we feel like there is nothing we can do to make a change in the world around us, suicide is not the answer. Perhaps the best thing to do is walk away from your deeply-felt cares about serious matters in the world and let someone else who can handle it take the baton. I am saying this as a person who had to give up frustration and adopt a more zero-fuques attitude, cos I rather not give a crap than kill myself over it, literally or emotionally (as in getting high blood pressure, OD’ing on drugs, etc).

    Sometimes, you just have to walk away from the problems of the world. Not everyone can handle it. Then, eventually, you just learn that life has many problems, no matter what era you live in. This doesn’t mean you throw trash into the streets and consume energy wastefully… just that you cannot take on the fight if the fight itself kills you.

  23. Jay Dee says

    April 17, 2018 at 7:14 pm - April 17, 2018

    He didn’t use a gun so who cares . Now if he had committed gun violence then his demise would have meant something .

  24. RSG says

    April 18, 2018 at 9:48 am - April 18, 2018

    If you count the guy who burned to death in Trump tower, this is the second one whour [sic] died to make a political statement.

    The fire in the apartment in Trump Tower on April 7th was caused by overloaded power strips–apparently daisy-chained together–and thus ruled accidental:

    https://ny.curbed.com/platform/amp/2018/4/17/17246426/trump-tower-fire-nyc-cause-april-2018

  25. Ted B. (Charging Rhino) says

    April 18, 2018 at 12:59 pm - April 18, 2018

    Daisy-chains are dangerous? Who knew…?

    Oh, not THAT kind of daisy-chain. **sad-face**

  26. James says

    April 21, 2018 at 11:34 pm - April 21, 2018

    I take back my burn comment at @ 10. It was sort of insensitive. I feel bad that this guy did this to himself.

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