When you scramble this many ghouls to check every single detail of a person's life history, you can make even the most well-adjusted person seem like a complete fringe lunatic. This is a concerted effort to make this guy seem as deranged as possible, just a wild crazy man, or a poor victim of online radicalization, depending on what tone you want for your think piece.
You can turn the ultimate protest into a cautionary tale about the seductive rhetoric of the violent online left or a mental health awareness month-style unheard cry for help.
I was looking at his reddit account yesterday and the posts of the reddit account match the information of the article. Maybe the intent of the article is to smear him. I don't think that him being an anarchist or previously a radical christian devalues his action.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/02/26/israeli-embassy-airman-fire-death-gaza/
https://archive.ph/flTlpHis username on twitch was lillyanarkitty when he streamed himself self-immolating. It was found that he had previously changed the name from "acebush1" using twitch moderator tools. I tried to use the tool and it said I had to buy a subscription. I'm posting the link anyway. If you have a subscription, you can see it. https://twitch-tools.lolarchiver.com/username_changelog?name=lillyanarkitty
The username acebush1 matches his real name. Aaron BUSHnell. AceBUSH1
On instagram, the account for acebush1 has 0 photos, 28 friends, and says "Aaron Bushnell" on the profile page. https://www.instagram.com/acebush1/
On soundcloud, an account called acebush1 uploaded a single audio track 10 years ago. It says like: Hi I'm aaron bushnell welcome to my podcast. https://soundcloud.com/acebush1
Based on all of that information. I believe that this was his reddit account. https://old.reddit.com/user/acebush1/
acebush1 posted in many anarchist subreddits, posted in airforce subreddits, etc.
2-3 years ago he posted about being a radical christian, which aligns with the headline of the article.
He posted about hating Marxist-Leninists a few times.
He has many posts in the airforce subreddit telling people that airforce members should be able to use their airforce healthcare for gender affirming care, ie gender transitioning. Some people on hexbear and twitter were suggesting that he might be interested in transitioning based on the username lillyanarkitty. I don't know.
He has many posts on different fantasy series subreddits, such as LoTR. I'm mentioning this because the WAPO article also says that he loved LOTR.
He also had posts saying that he had read anarchist literature, so he probably didn't become an anarchist from reading memes.Is the washington post article trying to smear him? maybe. probably yes.
Was Aaron Bushnel an anarchist? based on his twitch username that he streamed himself being named "lillyanarkitty" and his alleged reddit account. I would say he was an anarchist.
Does this devalue his message at all? No. He is correct about Gaza.
edit / It looks like reddit has deleted all his posts or shadowbanned him or something. You can still see the posts on the profile but if you click "permalink" on any of his comments, it says deleted.
It took three cowards to dare squeak up and voice their worthless thoughts about a hero
Hollow ass ghouls
i hope all three of them one day grow to possess 1/10 of the conviction and class this man had, or barring that i just hope their necks grow longer.
His social media post about 'what would you do if x' kept me up last night. it was a lonng, long night of reassessing my own convictions and finding myself lacking
Israel-Gaza war
It seems that the WaPo has been infiltrated by hamas. Should we send a predator drone to its headquarters?
Holy fucking shit.
You're telling me that a person who opposes genocide... Has a political perspective that opposes genocide?
Its so fucking bizarre to see the bylines get longer and longer as the content gets more and more formulaic.
What is this? Author, Editor, and Commissar?
Straight up demons
All publicity is good publicity. I would say an article like this is better than his action just immediately being memory holed.
But also yes fuck these journalists trying to smear him.
Hasbra funds can afford at least 3
Look these authors up on muckrack. You'll see the different syndications along with the syndicate author.
I think they are setting it up to attack from the left as a mentally ill person and from the right as someone gone too woke. That's my guess.
distant sound of liberals everywhere breying like literal jackasses and seal clapping
Biden is safe for another news cycle!
Gotta break your nephews and nieces into the industry somehow.
Getting that Rachel Corrie treatment liberal edition.
These make work programs are getting out of hand.
Post the link. I want to read about him.
Aaron Mate is the most vindicated man on Earth
They finally admit it. He spent years interviewing people and investigating the source of the chemical attacks and they just tweeted it out
