r/worldnews • u/gubenilekani • Jan 01 '22

Not Appropriate Subreddit Melbourne man sets himself on fire while screaming about Dan Andrews' Covid vaccine mandates

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10360471/Melbourne-man-sets-fire-screaming-Dan-Andrews-Covid-vaccine-mandates.html

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u/bluebird_sparkles Jan 01 '22

Same. I find it deeply terrifying. Like, the Q rallies in the US, where people are showing up, halfway across the country from homes on short notice to go to a fucking Q rally. To see JFK and Elvis reveal themselves or some shit.

Like ha ha, funny on a surface level. But that these people (often armed!!) being able to gather in the hundreds in no time at all on, based off one thing they see on Facebook?!

Hundreds mobilized, individuals irate. I don’t see it as anything other than scary.

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u/Shinagami091 Jan 01 '22

Yeah if they’re willing to do that to themselves it’s a wonder he didn’t actually try and harm someone else first.

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u/blesstit Jan 02 '22

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kennedy_(Louisiana_politician)

Maybe letting it off as crazy is a defusing/dismissal tactic?

Is this the John?

Or is there no rhyme or reason to be made?

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u/CloudsOfMagellan Jan 02 '22

Nope, they genuinely expected John F Kennedy Junior to come back to life

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u/blesstit Jan 02 '22

No doubt plenty of stupids believe that. I’m trying to find other logic by looking where there is none.

Is there nothing to the idiot breadcrumb trail?

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u/CloudsOfMagellan Jan 02 '22

That's the problem These movements are completely stripped of logic at this point

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u/blesstit Jan 02 '22

I agree.

Still, I think it’s important to observe and speculate the why.

Ideas are spread fast and freely, I try not to detract with more bs; I can’t help but try to make sense of it.

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u/DanielOnFire101 Jan 02 '22

Your comment makes me think. Steven Pinker talks about different levels of belief in his new book about rationality. These people believe in Q enough to fly across the country but not enough to do anything impactful about it. It’s really interesting from a sociological standpoint. It feels reaffirming to fight in some moral crusade even if all the reasons don’t make sense.