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Feb 27 17 tweets 3 min read Read on X
So it appears the Reddit account of the guy who lit himself on fire has been located.

I've looked at it.

It's a deluge of anti-American hatred, gloating over dead soldiers, rampant antisemitism.

This was not a serviceman. This was a plant.
He was an anti-West anarchist who regularly imbibed extremist manure on a daily basis.

If you mentally profiled him, your profile was most likely almost entirely correct.
He was a tankie who regularly supported foreign dictatorships, cheered terrorist acts, and made sickening, dark comments.
USAF needs to dishonorably discharge whoever screened him.

This was a colossal failure of vetting.
It appears Bushnell would seek out KIA reports of American soldiers to mock them.
I did not want to give this out, because he was extremely disturbed and is best left forgotten or used as a psych case study:

His username on Reddit is acebush1
A user from the Destiny reddit community originally identified Bushnell's handle after seeing similarities between his Twitch account and the Reddit account in question.
Bushnell did not light himself on fire because he "had no choice".

He did it to inspire others to violence, as you will see by his postings.

He was not an activist, he was a radicalized hardcore ideologue and a bigot.
Aaron Bushnell posted his video before he killed himself to the Patreon he had set up for people to subscribe to his extremist views.

In other words, he commercialized his suicide.

He also hand-picked various anarchist "news" outlets to give it to beforehand.
Aaron not only knew that committing public suicide, especially in the way he did it, would encourage more suicides:

He frequently talked about the concept of "contagion", hoping more would emulate him into committing violent, anarchist acts and self-harm.
This was not a "noble act" by a guiltless person.

This was a premeditated and carefully choreographed attempt to radicalize and encourage people to hurt themselves in service of a deadly ideology and movement.
As someone who has multiple members of my family who have served, what Bushnell did was a disgrace to the uniform of the highest order.

He did not join the USAF to serve his country or his people.
No, what Aaron Bushnell did was abuse the authority and prestige given to him by USAF as a recruit, to try and mainstream violent, domestic terrorist views.

It is no different than a pedophile grooming a child, or a rapist who threatens the job of his secretary.
On the day three American soldiers were killed in Jordan by Iranian-backed groups, Bushnell posted to the "All Cops Are Bastards" or "ACAB" subreddit, several mocking responses celebrating their deaths.
Bushnell's antisemitism was grotesque.

On an almost hourly basis, he would praise Hamas and similarly aligned terrorist groups.

He repeatedly said there were no Israeli civilians because they were all "colonizers", and that they "deserved" Oct 7, 2023.
He repeatedly excused or endorsed the atrocities committed by Hamas, calling them "acts of resistance" against a "colonial power".

Standard cookie cutter "progressive" zealot stuff you can find taught in universities these days.
The Washington Post already has their expose out on Bushnell.

More will follow.

As more and more of his internet presence is uncovered, I'm sure we will find worse and worse things.

So many red flags that should have been acted upon.

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Feb 27
Now that I've had some sleep, I'm looking at Bushnell's Reddit account even further.

And what do you know: he spent an exceedingly large amount of time on October 7th, 2023, celebrating the event.
Bushnell was an extremist anarchist who frequently would wait until military KIA reports dropped so he could post them on the "ACAB" subreddit and laugh about them.
Aaron's glee at seeing these KIA reports was so over the top, that the other posters in the "All Cops Are Bastards" subreddit he posted them on, began questioning why he was posting them and why moderators weren't stepping in.
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Jan 12
I'm done holding back my tongue:

You are an anti-American terrorist sitting in the halls of the congress of the United States.

You're a spoiled, rotten piece of refuse who only has citizenship because your parents couldn't fuck over in Gaza without being jailed by Hamas.
You're a Palestinian anchor baby who doesn't realize how badly your family must have *hated* your beloved Gaza to have had to come here to spend all of their time shouting about how great it is.

I'm sick of you, you don't belong in congress, you belong on a watchlist.
There is not a terrorist on this planet you haven't defended.

Why? Because you ARE one.

I think there needs to be federal probes into your finances, AS A START.
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Aug 14, 2023
Change parties if you want to pull this crap, but don't pretend.
It's really just incredible from my perspective as a conservative who has been voting for Dems to see this.

This is an explicit appeal to Trump voters, people who would shoot this man dead given half a chance.
It's actually infuriating to see.

I left the party, he's coddling it.

I care about America, he's pandering to domestic terrorists and QAnoners.
Read 5 tweets
Apr 1, 2023
The difference between Bill and Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump is that when faced with investigations, they literally cooperated.

Trump has repeatedly insisted he is immune from them.

You know who insists they're immune from oversight? Tyrants and criminals.
Any comparisons between Trump and the Clintons falls utterly flat because the man believes he's a king.

The Clintons quite literally took it on the jaw. Fatass refuses to break a nail.
Nearly 40 years of investigations into the Clintons and jack shit to show for it.

Yeah, Bill fucked Lewinsky and lied to congress and it was bad.

But you know what he did? He actually *appeared before congress and investigators*.
Read 5 tweets
Apr 1, 2023
We are one of, if not the, only country in the world that doesn't (until now) prosecute high level politicians.

This was a massive oversight of the Founders and it has led to incalculable damage to the country, the increase in corruption and expansion of centralized power.
The Founders were so used to the heads of monarchic government oppressing the citizenry that they couldn't and didn't fathom the heads of an *elected* government doing the same and using that loophole to cement its own power.
Expanding executive power to the point of shielding the executive simply because they are or were an executive is the recipe for dictatorship and monarchy.

The Founders left the door open to create the very thing they hated the most.
Read 6 tweets
Apr 1, 2023
There's a decent chance Musk takes Russian money in defiance of sanctions to pump up his "Twitter Blue" when people don't end up paying.

Some evidence this is occurring tonight. Massive amount of bots being created to impersonate high profile accounts.
I have been tracking immense botnets being created in anticipation of legacy checkmarks going away.

They're not being subtle.

Hundreds of accounts are being impersonated.
Trolls and foreign agents are making and purchasing these accounts en masse.

You ever buy bulk trading cards? This is that, but for Twitter.
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