All right, I think we've spliced into the mainframe and hopefully I don't experience the technical issues that I've been having.

So for us to y'all, welcome to Colonial Outcast. My name is Greg Stoker.

I'm joined by co-host Mark Wayne and returning military consultant.

I think we can call you that by now, man. Travis, former field grade West Point officer. So we usually record a

military breakdown segment on Mondays after the weekend, but since the Rafa invasion has stalled

for the moment and there have been no new developments, we're going to talk about something military

adjacent. So 24 hours ago, it's currently Monday, February 26th, 24 hours ago,

Aaron Bushnell, a 25-year-old United States airmen, self-immolated in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C.,

in protest against the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

And since then, this story and the footage has gone viral with audiences on all sides of the issue.

Now, with many of the pro-Palestine side,

seeing this as an extreme, disturbing, invalid act of protest,

and those against immediately blaming two things.

One, mental illness and two, online social media indoctrination.

And we're going to watch clips and news articles that touch on all these things.

Yeah, we saw this coming, though, didn't we?

We must acknowledge that this protest tactic has long established and has been seen before during the Vietnam War

at the start of the Arab Spring in Tunisia

against the Chinese occupation of Tibet. In fact, as of May 2002, 160 monks, nuns, and ordinary

people have self-immolated in Tibet since 2009. This practice exists in various folkloric traditions and

legendariums. So within the context of activism, they're framing this

self-immolation as a product of indoctrination and a mental health issue is, in my opinion,

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