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Congolese Man Self-Immolates to Highlight Overlooked Genocide in Congo

Congolese Man Self-Immolates to Highlight Overlooked Genocide in Congo

I’m really glad that Aaron’s self-immolation for Palestine is getting attention, but on November 8th there was also a Congolese man who did the same thing for the genocide happening in the DRC. From what I read in the article above, his fate and identity are unknown but I think his story should be getting equal amount of traction and I haven’t really seen anyone talking about it on Tumblr specifically yet.

I need ya’ll to realize running back to TikTok like nothing fucking happened is exactly what this motherfucker wants. He wants you to run back and to be grateful. He wants you to forget that the Supreme Court has just passed something that indicates they can pursue intense censorship and remove our access to free speech and non-propagandized/monitored spaces whenever they want. He wants you to be so focused on all this that you completely forget that he’s about to pass at least a hundred horrific policies stripping us of our rights as soon as this week. He wants you to stop talking about Palestine who is still in danger and is in desperate need of aid despite the ceasefire. He wants you to turn your attention away from all the people in LA suffering thanks to the fires.

I don’t want to say it’s just an app, because it’s not. I was incredibly sad about losing TikTok yesterday. Many of us had a community that meant a great deal to us torn away suddenly and I am not saying we shouldn’t be upset about that. But I am saying that as much as the Supreme Court has more important things they should be focusing on over banning TikTok we have more important things to do then run back to an app that was obviously used for a publicity stunt by Trump and will inevitably be influenced by him and his fascism.

We’ve been discussing boycotting Instagram, Facebook, Twitter/X, and other Meta platforms due to their connections to Trump and his posse of billionaires. TikTok must be treated the same way so long as the CEO and company is in Trump’s pocket.

VERY SOON

i know that soon i’ll be able to tell you what made me fall in love with you

i’ll be there to show you what i saw

i get to finally explain to you what we are

i know you still love me

i know your masks are on and your walls are up

everytime i see you, my heart stops

everything that reminds me of you makes tears fall even though i’m not sad

i get why you left

it’s overwhelming, i know i feel it now

i didn’t lose myself in you

i was emerged in you to learn you

i will soon get to finish learning you as you relearn me

i’ve grown and i’ve realized

i just hope you did too

because very soon you will come

but you may not like my decision if you are not up for the test

I’m not a baby bat, but I’m not a veteran bat either … I’m like a teenage bat.

i saw a tweet talking about having bad texters as friends is annoying. imo having friends that are bad texters isn’t the problem for me. i don’t really like talking anyways and i stay to myself majority of the time. it’s more the fact that whenever i wanna talk, they don’t or forget to answer but when they wanna talk, i’m always replying.

The short answer is no, not based on what he did.

Pathologizing resistance and protesting in all its forms, including the selfless act of self-immolation in order to communicate an urgent message to save countless innocent lives is a colonial imperialist tool.

Fight any attempt to pathologize Aaron or any activist. They delegitimize Palestinian liberation when they paint us as “mentally ill” as if freedom and liberation are mental diseases!

Rest in peace Aaron.

*Please seek help if you have thoughts of self-harm.

i’m definitely the all-knowing observer

every squad got the