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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: Bonemaker
Only a leftist would use fossil fuels to protest against their use ..
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posted on
04/24/2022 1:23:05 PM PDT
by
SecondAmendment
(This just proves my latest theory ... LEFTISTS RUIN EVERYTHING !!!)
To: All
I don’t have any sympathy for this only somewhat atypical Boulderite.
However, I do feel sorry for anyone who had to witness his self-immolation. It had to have been very traumatic to see.
If you’re going to suicide, have the freaking decency to do it somewhere out of public view.
62
posted on
04/24/2022 1:23:32 PM PDT
by
Scarlett156
(Me 3 weeks ago: EVERYONE STOP GOING ON TWATTER. *Elon happens* Me: *goes on twatter twice a day*)
To: Bonemaker
One could say he got a little hot under the collar…
63
posted on
04/24/2022 1:23:49 PM PDT
by
NFHale
(The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.She was, indeed, a hottie… Rest in peace, Joanne.)
To: lurk
He should have used electricity. No, solar power.
64
posted on
04/24/2022 1:23:49 PM PDT
by
OrangeHoof
("Rust" may be the first movie where the blooper reel gets more viewings than the actual film.)
To: lurk
“He should have used electricity.”
No, even better, he should have got a small boy to use a magnifying glass, like they do with ants.
65
posted on
04/24/2022 1:23:55 PM PDT
by
decal
(They won't stop, so they'll have to be stopped)
To: Bonemaker
He’s still voting in the midterms.
66
posted on
04/24/2022 1:25:15 PM PDT
by
Oldeconomybuyer
(The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money)
To: Bonemaker
Someone listened to George Carlin’s advice.
67
posted on
04/24/2022 1:27:41 PM PDT
by
Trillian
To: Bonemaker
It was suicide from yet another mentally disturbed democrat.
68
posted on
04/24/2022 1:28:23 PM PDT
by
joma89
(Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
To: Bonemaker
Yes, on Erff Day. No class.
69
posted on
04/24/2022 1:30:15 PM PDT
by
Huskrrrr
(Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
To: No Party Affiliation
It was definitely a suicide. They are not in touch with reality.
70
posted on
04/24/2022 1:30:30 PM PDT
by
Trillian
To: Sarah Barracuda
I like a feel good story of the day Yea, the death of a human being via suicide is such a joyous occasion that it should not only be laughed at but celebrated by all Christians everywhere........
71
posted on
04/24/2022 1:31:11 PM PDT
by
Hot Tabasco
(I'm Jimmy Crack Corn and I don't care)
To: Gene Eric
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posted on
04/24/2022 1:31:39 PM PDT
by
Trillian
To: OrangeHoof
A lithium battery would have burned quicker
To: Pollard
“Propagandized to death”
Put him in another time and circumstance and he’d still have found something reason enough to kill himself. Perhaps it was to protest the Roman Empire or the Nazi Holocaust.
74
posted on
04/24/2022 1:32:50 PM PDT
by
Gen.Blather
(Wait! I said that out loud. Sorry.)
To: A_Former_Democrat; EvilCapitalist
75
posted on
04/24/2022 1:38:19 PM PDT
by
Olog-hai
("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
To: Bonemaker
76
posted on
04/24/2022 1:39:06 PM PDT
by
SgtHooper
(If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
To: BenLurkin
Yes, it is a sad story. Sad that there are self-proclaimed scientists claiming a questionable theory as a fact for ulterior motives knowingly leading so many vulnerable people so far astray that one would do something like this. I don’t think they even feel a twinge guilt. They are probably laughing. The definition of evil.
77
posted on
04/24/2022 1:41:00 PM PDT
by
Hiddigeigei
("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
To: Bonemaker
Anybody got marshmallows?
CC
78
posted on
04/24/2022 1:41:54 PM PDT
by
Celtic Conservative
(My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
To: Bonemaker
He lowered the level of crazy in the world by taking himself out of it.
Other crazies should follow his example.
79
posted on
04/24/2022 1:44:19 PM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(It is better to light a single flame thrower then curse the darkness. A bunch of them is better yet)
To: Bonemaker
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.
This is how popular culture just renders people stupid: he probably got thousands of likes on FB for threating to burn himself in the name of climate change, and encouragement from "Buddhist monks" --
But he never considered and nobody told him that it actually hurts.
A lot.
More than a lot.
Really, really hurts.
And no one stopped him.
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posted on
04/24/2022 1:54:43 PM PDT
by
nicollo
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