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Pictured: Climate activist, 50, who died after lighting himself ablaze in front of the Supreme Court on Earth Day wrote '4/22/2022' and a fire emoji in a Facebook post from 2020
Daily Mail ^ | 04/24/2022 | Adam Manno and Matt McNulty

Posted on 04/24/2022 12:39:17 PM PDT by Bonemaker

A climate activist who died after setting himself on fire in front of the Supreme Court on Earth Day is a buddhist who hinted at his future self-immolation with a fire emoji under a Facebook post from 2020.

Wynn Bruce, 50, of Boulder, Colorado, lit himself on fire on the court's plaza at around 6.30pm Friday.

He suffered critical burns and was pronounced dead at a local hospital on Saturday.

On October 30, 2020, he shared a link to an online class on climate change offered by edX, a free online course platform created by Harvard and MIT.

Last April, he went back and commented: '4-1-1 4/22/2022,' along with a fire emoji.

Surveillance footage of the immediate aftermath of the fire show police officers as they attempt to calm Bruce, who can be heard screaming in the background.

Police are still investigating a motive, but a Buddhist priest from Boulder took to Twitter to clarify that Bruce's death was not a suicide, but a 'deeply fearless act of compassion.'

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Humor; Local News; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: boulder; bruce; buddhism; climatechange; climatechangehoax; colorado; democrat; earthday; envirowackos; fire; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; immolation; leninsbirthday; panicporn; scoldilocks; selfimmolation; suicide; wynnbruce
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To: A_Former_Democrat

A lot of stuff happened fur sure.


101 posted on 04/24/2022 5:15:58 PM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: Bonemaker
A climate activist who died after setting himself on fire in front of the Supreme Court on Earth Day is a buddhist who hinted at his future self-immolation with a fire emoji under a Facebook post from 2020.

And So What!?!?!

102 posted on 04/24/2022 5:26:26 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: Hot Tabasco
They want to kill you, and you think you deserve it?

They aren't human.

103 posted on 04/24/2022 5:27:10 PM PDT by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: srmanuel

Judging from some of the videos I think he underestimated how much it was gonna hurt.

At least in some instances being stupid does hurt but it was a short lived epiphany.


104 posted on 04/24/2022 5:37:32 PM PDT by Delta 21 (It started as a virus, and mutated into an IQ test.)
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To: Bonemaker

One Less “climate activist.” What’s not to like?


105 posted on 04/24/2022 5:45:27 PM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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To: Bonemaker

He was clearly mentally ill.


106 posted on 04/24/2022 5:50:50 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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To: from occupied ga

👍


107 posted on 04/24/2022 6:21:47 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Bonemaker

I actually LOL’d at his wailing. All the pain and suffering he endured on Earth Day is incomparable to what he has in store for him for all eternity. Good riddance.


108 posted on 04/24/2022 6:58:40 PM PDT by DCBryan1 (Delete FB, TWTR, GOOGL, AMZN, YHOO, Gmail/chrome. Use Gab, Brave + DDG, VPN, Freerepublic )
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To: muir_redwoods

“He was clearly mentally ill”.

Not anymore.....


109 posted on 04/24/2022 7:38:08 PM PDT by isthisnickcool (1218 - NEVER FORGET!)
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To: Bonemaker

To Global warming incendiaries.. I have a couple gallons of that nasty “hydrocarbon fuel” (aka Fossil Fuel) that I will give you in a pinch to ensure your immolation.


110 posted on 04/24/2022 7:56:27 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Use cash as much as possible, avoid cashless businesses)
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