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A most incredible event has occurred: An American white man gave his life in solidarity with the Palestinians. This was unthinkable 20 years ago. At that time, the words “Palestinian” and “terrorist” went together like “salt and pepper.” I watched the video of the man’s final moments — Senior Airman Aaron Bushnell of the United States Air Force — when he stated:
I am an active-duty member of the United States Air Force, and I will no longer be complicit in genocide. I am about to engage in an extreme act of protest, but compared to what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonizers is not extreme at all. This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal.
Bushnell then poured a flammable liquid from a thermos all over his body, lit himself on fire, and repeatedly shouted “Free Palestine!” until he was unable to speak. The pain which Bushnell felt must have been terrible, even though he cried out very little other than his message. He remained standing until the fire had completely consumed his uniform and his skin had been charred black.
When Bushnell finally collapsed, responding police officers doused the flames with fire extinguishers. One officer kept his gun pointed at Bushnell despite the fact that it was clear that he was was mortally injured. That’s anarcho-tyranny in action. Perhaps the gun-wielding cop thought our Zionist government would give him a medal.
The video is a terrible thing to watch. It becomes even more dreadful when we realize two additional things: that Bushnell’s family will see the video, and that it shows in a more explicit way what has happened to all those US servicemen who have been and are being sent to fight for the organized Jewish community’s control over American society. Bushnell is merely one of hundreds of thousands of such victims.
Ethnonationalist Jews gained control of the levers of power in the United States between 1913 and 1933. Since then, American military policy has served Jewish ends more often than not. The Americans had no business fighting in Europe during the Second World War. The Korean War took place because Jewish Communist sympathizers in the United States helped to make Mao’s revolution possible and because they passed information regarding nuclear weapons to the Soviet Union, thereby altering the balance of power in Asia in a way that made war inevitable. America’s pointless involvement in the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s was pushed by the Jew Madeline Albright, and the endless conflicts in the Middle East since the Persian Gulf War of 1991 have all been wars fought on behalf of Israel. These were all unnecessary losses.
Dead and wounded soldiers are not the only casualties, either. American military contractors, diplomats, civilians, and others have died in these conflicts as well. Some who survived have seen their lives shattered or have suffered life-altering wounds. None of these conflicts have made America safer or more prosperous.
The J-Narrative Strikes Back
Senior Airman Bushnell was involved in cyber operations with the 531st Intelligence Support Squadron. Cyber warfare is being fought continuously to safeguard America’s infrastructure from attack, so Bushnell was actively engaged in defending America. He graduated from Air Force basic training as a top airman. He must have had a secret or top-secret security clearance, indicating that he was a reliable and trustworthy serviceman.
Nonetheless, some have sought to diminish Bushnell. He is said to have been “mentally ill” and a virtue-signaling “woke” snowflake. Mainstream outlets have published stories claiming that Bushnell was raised on a “compound” belonging to a “mysterious and abusive Christian cult.” It has also been said that he was an “anarchist.” Random Twitter/X users have referred to Bushnell as an incel, and disparaged the fact that he was white.
The pro-Israel magazine The Atlantic published an article titled “Stop Glorifying Self-Immolation” two days after Bushnell’s death. Of course, had Bushnell burned himself alive to “strike a blow” against Putin, Iran, or whoever else The Atlantic’s editorial board dislikes, they’d be glorifying self-immolation. The Israeli Defense Forces put a great deal of effort into shaping mainstream media narratives in the United States, so it is likely that Israeli government officials are involved in the efforts to disparage Senior Airman Bushnell.
Aaron Bushnell’s Self-Immolation Represents an Enormous Political Shift
The Vietnam War was probably lost before any American combat troops were sent to the country — specifically, when the Quaker Norman Morrison set himself ablaze at the Pentagon to protest the Vietnam War. Bushnell’s act is thus an important event, and potentially represents an enormous political shift.
It was known in the military — at least among the field-grade officers — that Israel was a burden to America in 2003. Now, more than 20 years later, it is obvious that junior enlisted soldiers, such as Senior Airman Bushnell, are aware of this as well. Bushnell’s act of extreme protest is an event at the margins which indicates a large shift in attitudes at the center.
The response to Bushnell’s death reveals a political shift in the Middle East as well. In protests across the region we see people using Bushnell’s image, and displaying the US flag next to the Palestinian flag. This means that Arabs and other Middle Eastern peoples recognize that white Americans such as Bushnell are a different people from Jews and the Jewish Americans-on-paper in occupied Palestine’s settlements. Bushnell’s self-immolation has unshackled the American flag from Israel’s banner of Remphan.
Furthermore, Bushnell was raised in a strong Christian community and worked at a Christian publishing company before joining the Air Force. The fact that he decided to end his life by opposing Israel shows that the Christian Zionist and Dispensationalist grip on Christ’s American disciples is lessening.
Yankees verses Jews
America’s most important ethnic conflict is between Jews and those Americans who can trace their roots to New England’s early colonists — Yankees — as well as those whites who have grown up in the North among Yankees. It is therefore perhaps not surprising that the first anti-Jewish attitudes arose in England in East Anglia during the reign of King Edward I. Many New Englanders trace their ancestry to East Anglia.
I don’t know if Bushnell’s ancestry goes back to seventeenth-century New England, but he was raised in a Christian community on Cape Cod and his last name is English. His family also displays the “Appeal to Heaven” banner outside their house. It is therefore unsurprising that a genuine professional such as Bushnell who has struck an effective blow against the Israel lobby would be a Massachusetts man.
Bushnell was not a dissident Rightist, of course, and his statements were peppered with liberal devil words such as “apartheid” and “Jim Crow.” These terms were put into the national narrative by politically-active ethnonationalist Jews to demoralize whites. Bushnell, however, has now turned those words back on them.
A Terrible Loss
White advocates should not begin immolating themselves to expose Jewish power. There simply aren’t enough of us for that. Instead, white advocates should rise as high in their careers as possible and shape society in a way that advances the welfare of the American white race. White advocates should also marry and have children. It would have been better if Aaron Bushnell had joined our side, started a family, and lived to be an old man.
Senior Airman Aaron Bushnell of the United States Air Force had a kind face. His eyes radiated warmth and intelligence. The fact that he stood for so long while being horribly burned is a testament to his enormous strength and willpower. While I cannot agree with his choice, I can respect the man for it. He represents the ideal American that the Air Force inculcates in their Airmen through the poem “The Coming American”:
Bring me men to match my mountains,
Bring me men to match my plains,
Men with empires in their purpose,
And new eras in their brains.
Bring me men to match my prairies,
Men to match my inland seas,
Men whose thoughts shall pave a highway
Up to ampler destinies,
Pioneers to cleanse thought’s marshlands,
And to cleanse old error’s fen;
Bring me men to match my mountains —
Bring me men!
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It’s like an Eskimo slitting his wrists to protest the Falun Gong’s persecution by the Chinese government. Truly bizarre.
Bad analogy. The Eskimos are not providing military foreign aid to China.
But the US government is providing $3.8 billion / year to Israel, and considering a further $14 billion lump sum payment to help finance the destruction of Gaza.
Furthermore, the US government is currently bombing Yemen, Iraq and Syria, and enforcing economic sanctions against Syria, Iran, and Russia, to punish those nations for being pro-Palestinian.
If we remain silent, then we appear complicit.
The Jews will try to scapegoat us for their own crimes – WE CAN’T LET THEM.
They will try to blame Evangelical Christianity (“Christian Zionism”), and they will try to blame old-stock White Americans (“settler colonialism”).
But if Evangelical Christianity were powerful enough to control US foreign policy, then “Admiral” “Rachel” Levine wouldn’t be in a position of authority – but “they” is.
And if America’s settler colonial mindset were really strong enough to make US foreign policy support Jewish settler-colonists, then we surely would have also supported our fellow Nordic-Protestant settler-colonists in South Africa – but we didn’t.
No – Jewish supremacism, and only Jewish supremacism, is to blame for the US government’s catastrophically flawed foreign policy. Powerful Jewish organizations such as AIPAC and the ADL, and wealthy Jewish big-donors such as Sheldon Adelson and Haim Shaban, and Jewish media and entertainment moguls, and academics, and government officials such as Secretary of State Blinken, and Attorney General Garland, and Treasury Secretary Yellen, and Secretary of Homeland Security Mayorkas, and Senate Majority Leader Schumer – they are the ones with blood on their hands and we need to make damn sure the world knows it.
We White Nationalists are the ones who first saw the US government for what it has truly become – Z.O.G., the Zionist Occupied Government.
We must make the whole world see the truth – loyalty to ZOG is treason to America.
Those who help are our true brothers.
As Thuletide accurately reported, Aaron Bushnell was an anti-white communist who showed signs of mental illness. “American Patriot” is not a fitting description for Bushnell. And speaking of Bushnell’s family, Bushnell previously wrote that he would be fine with brown people murdering his own family as revenge for colonialism. Bushnell was not heroic or admirable. All this information is on Thuletide’s telegram.
The dead giveaway is that he uses the term colonizers.
Yes, yes, but I’m 100% certain NOT wrt the Third World invaders dispossessing the indigenous Western peoples of our homelands. We need European and Euro-diasporic decolonization!!
Be that as it may, I 100% agree with his final statement, for which he was willing to die a painful death:
“I am an active-duty member of the United States Air Force, and I will no longer be complicit in genocide. I am about to engage in an extreme act of protest, but compared to what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonizers is not extreme at all. This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal. Free Palestine!”
I hope God gives me the grace to have moral and physical courage equal to his.
Was Aaron Bushnell guided by grace when he published the following less than a month ago:
“The Real Jesus™ only looks like a half-decent role model compared to the monstrosity that his followers created. But the seeds of the monstrosity were there from the beginning […] Jesus can [expletive] off.”
Also, he was a big fan of “Black Power” and wanted to eradicate “whiteness,” and he seemed to be driven to act by these ideas. So I would say that he is a less than ideal candidate for WN’s to look up to. It’s sad that his life turned out like it did.
The REAL story (naturally unremarked) is why this POS commie was in our Air Force?! The military needs a very hard cleansing.
So long as such courage is to be deployed for the just cause of preserving YOUR OWN PEOPLE! Tell me: have you ever heard of a Palestinian or foreign Muslim denouncing the Islamic demographic settler-colonialism of the West? Have you ever heard of one of them immolating himself in protest against Arab/Muslim demographic imperialism culturally and increasingly physically destroying white Christian lands? Me neither!
Afraid I cannot agree that this guy was a hero. If he was so enthusiastic to sacrifice his life for something, why not for whites who are robbed, raped and murdered by blacks on a daily basis?
I can’t agree that this guy was a loss, and I think the author is over-exaggerating how much this means in the long run. Maybe I’m a cynic, but it seems like a mix of the mental illness and social media addiction that is common with zoomers.
It was more than that.
A mere social media addict would forget his putative message and start flailing and screaming “help, help!” as soon as the flames reached his skin.
Bushnell, however, faced his end with the same Stoicism as the Protestant martyrs, like Tyndale and Cranmer.
Do we boast of superior wisdom and knowledge? Then let us combine these virtues with his virtues, courage and integrity.
We will need these qualities, because Jewish Supremacists are already trying to tempt the Dissident Right with 30 pieces of Zionist silver, hoping we’ll sell our birthright for a mess of Zionist pottage.
And if he had self-immolated while shouting pro-Israel slogans? Would you still be singing his praises? If his political motivations matter, then we ought to be honest about what he really believed.
I always love the naively hopeful theme behind articles like this, because I too want to believe there’s something worthy of admiration here. I don’t mean this with any level of disrespect. I truly want to see something positive. Otherwise a man died for nothing.
But the simple truth is that a crazy man died for absolutely nothing. A crazy, self hating white man who UNDOUBTEDLY believes that Israel is an illegitimate white, western colonizer of land that belongs to brown people. This man is far less “pro Palestinian” than he is antiwhite, and any antisemitism is only tangential because he perceives them as White.
Everyone reading this article knows that it’s nonsense to think that Jews are White European colonizers. No, they’re a diaspora of a race that has several thousand years of history as nomadic people who go where the money is. That they happened to settle in Europe and America makes them no more White or genuinely Western than the ancestors of African slaves.
This crazy man set himself on fire because he thinks Jews in Israel are no better than Southern Whites during Jim Crow or Americans who detained Japanese during WW2.
Yet, I would wager that he would have blown a gasket if he overheard anyone suggest that Jews are overrepresented in the Media or Academia. His beef isn’t really with people named Goldstein, it is with people of old stock ancestry named Adams, Jefferson, or Smith.
Yeah, I strongly agree.
I will add, that in my opinion, this kind of protest makes about as much sense as a thoughful guy who is against Rape to pull out the video camera and cut off his John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt in protest. Batshït. Crazy. And I don’t know any guys who are actually in favor of actual rape.
I also strongly disagree with the article that the self-immolation of batshït Buddhist monks in protest of the Diem government during the long ramp-up to the Vietnam War had anything to do with ending it. That goes double for copycat Americans.
Also, the immediate cause of the Korean War was that Stalin gave North Korean dictator Kim the greenlight to invade South Korea, where the USA had some very weak occupation troops. And because the USA honored its UN treaty obligations to defend South Korea, the fighting began in earnest and the South Korean peninsula was not lost (barely).
General MacArthur was invading North Korea (and probably would have unified Korea) but Red China intervened with millions of troops, thus changing the war ─ a fact which the Truman Administration and the Press were loath to acknowledge. Instead of finishing the job, SOB Truman fired MacArthur, and his successors fought a now-familiar proxy war where our side never crossed the fifty-yard line.
Stalin was on tenterhooks but his many spies assured him that American nuclear-armed B-29s were never readied or even contemplated. After Stalin died and the rumor was that the newly-inaugurated President Eisenhower did not consider nukes to be off the table, it meant that the NorKs and the Red Chinese got serious about declaring a truce.
I won’t go into the Orwellian reasoning here, but my advice to White Nationalists is to not step into the steaming cowpie of the “Genocide” word. It was coined in 1944 by a certain Trotskyite Polish lawyer of suspect (((ethnicity))) for an important reason, and precision of thought is not that reason.
Also, Hitler noted in Mein Kampf that Zionism wasn’t really about Israel but about the Diaspora. No offense to Palestinians or the unfortunate Napalm Girl from the Vietnam War, but our problem is our OWN subversion and not who fights Israel the hardest or who evokes the most pathos.
And yes, my family tree is from England, Scotland, and Wales ─ entering North America in the 17th and 18th centuries, and calling themselves Christians.
One last jab at Airman Bushnell as prior-service myself. His enlistment was due to expire very soon according to the New York Times. If you have to wear your Air Force uniform, why could you not have at least put on your Class A’s like a White man instead of pretending to be a Chomskyite Warsaw ghetto fighter in your fatigues?
Sorry, he might have had a security clearance ─ but then so did Bradley/Chelsea Manning. These evidently don’t mean much nowadays when even the secure copy machine guys can’t be trusted. At least Lee Harvey Oswald, who probably never did anything more important than make coffee in the Marine Corps, learned how to properly fire a rifle.
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Great comment (as often), but I disagree about “genocide”. That’s exactly what’s being done to whites globally. The only evidential issue involves intentionality: are we being purposefully driven to extinction, or only functionally (ie, as a result of a confluence of policies pursued for non-extinctionary reasons)? I’d say it’s both (but if I had to put a finger on the scale, I’d go with ‘intentional’ at the core, ‘functional’ wrt the outer rings of the genocide forces).
Of course, if we want to get literal but in the popular sense of the term, whereby “genocide” is understood as a policy of mass murder of a discrete people (eg, Turks/Armenians, Nazis/Jews, Hutus/Tutsis) or class (Stalin/kulaks, Pol Pot/Cambodian educated, bourgeois elements), then, no, whites are not (yet) being “genocided”. But if we wish to get technical and utilize the term in the fullness that its Jewish originator, Rafael Lemkin, intended, whereby depriving a people of the modalities necessary to its preservation also is constitutive of “genocide”, then, yes, whites are the victims of genocide, albeit in “slow motion”, and with their own gullibility, lack of intergenerational concern, and allied character defects substantially to blame (which in no way is meant to diminish the malign intentions and role of our racial enemies, let alone to exculpate or forgive them).
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Thanks. I might be getting too pedantic here but one of the reasons that I find the word Genocide to be cringe is because the you-know-whos control the narrative shamelessly and will move the goalposts accordingly.
All the dumb Negress had to do to get fired as Harvard President was to express some mild skepticism that the protest chant “From the River to the Sea” was a call for Genocide.
It is Genocide if one of the chosenites loses a fingernail in a conflict. Even without anti-Semitic bona fides, you cannot even criticize a Jew/Zionist/Communist without having commited the mortal sin. It is a perfect example of Orwellian Thoughtcrime.
We need to come up with our own term to describe our plight, somehting that evokes not ridicule and laughter like “White Replacement” but fear and horror instead.
By the way of fear and horror, Rockwell got a predictable response protesting with placards that said “Gas the Jews.” In follow-up interviews on mass-media, he said that he did not want to gas all the Jews, but that he would have no mercy for traitors and would be honored to personally pull the switch. Of course we could never say anything like that ─ it would be labelled terrorism by the system and dealt with accordingly.
But if we really want a term for Genocide when OUR ox is gored, I think that we need to come up with a better proprietary buzzword than “Genocide” to convey this plight to others, and especially to ourselves. Maybe Counter-Currents could have a contest.
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Fair points, but I’m not sure how to proceed. We know the “equation”:
Replacement + cancellation = extinction
Demographic warfare via immigration invasions, plus 1) the moral embrasure of “diversity” as some kind of necessary and even positive good; 2) the elimination of anti-miscegenation laws and public sentiments; 3) increasing erasure of white culture; 4) the cancellation of (ie, economic, and sometimes physical, terrorism against) dissenting voices, leads inevitably to shrinking white numbers, diminishing white racial power, and ultimately, white enslavement and/or extinction.
These parallel lines of attack, even if not yet involving physical murder, do constitute the intentional and systematic removal of the conditions necessary for white perpetuity: ie, genocide.
The mental associations may be ‘cringe’, but that doesn’t obviate the physical reality.
“We need to come up with our own term to describe our plight, somehting that evokes not ridicule and laughter like “White Replacement” but fear and horror instead.”
Scott – I’ve heard the term “White erasure”, back when I used to listen to No White Guilt (Jason Kohne). Would that term fit the bill?
It’s useful as a political weapon, in the Machiavellian sense. It’s a fracture line on the left, the golem turning against its masters. He was not one of us, so it’s free points. I doubt it will have any impact. When I confront Jews with it, they insist he was “mentally ill.” Lol, yeah, in the way all leftists are! When I bring it up to bona fide leftists, they act bewildered like they haven’t heard of it. I notice this a lot in the people I have daily concourse with. If I bring up something connected with oligarchic power, such as the epstein affair, people will just act like they haven’t heard of it and give me perplexed looks. It’s cognitive distortion.
Very well put. I’ve been saying related things for a long time. The explosion of anti-Zionism around the world has NOTHING to do with criticizing Jews for supporting (and in many cases – Marx, Freud, Trotsky, Boas, Friedan, Marcuse, Adorno, Heschel, Sartre, Derrida, etc – actually theorizing) every modern trend, cause and/or policy over the past century that has weakened white genetic interests and the survival prospects of the West. It is 99.9% the product of Islamic immigrant-colonizers lashing out at a tribal enemy, and white leftist race-cucks (Bushnell) plus non-Muslim but also antiwhite POC venting against what they erroneously perceive to be a white imperialist power oppressing fellow POC (the remaining .1% of anti-Zionist protestors are based Far Rightists). Bushnell was right to protest the Gaza genocide, at least abstractly (ie, Israeli behavior in Gaza really is evil from a Christian “just war” standpoint), but pragmatically, he should have focused his protest on how Jewish power is eradicating white civilization, and left the global Islamic and Arab multitudes to do the protesting on behalf of their brutalized religious and tribal brethren.
Sartre was not a Jew, but an ordinary Frenchman, with partially German ancestry.
Aaron Bushnell died a fool. And it’s disappointing to see the misguided fawning over him by some right-wing people.
Bushnell: “I hate white people with every fiber of my being. Abolish whiteness. There is no such thing as a white victim; whites get what they deserve. And zionism is bad because it’s white supremacist.”
Some dissident right commentators, bowing and clapping like seals with tears in their eyes: “Oh, my dear beautiful white brother Bushnell, your powerful words and stoic bravery represent the American ideal.”
Are some people so desperate for heroes that they have to stoop to holding up communist mental cases like this? To gloss over Bushnell’s hatred for white people and the fact that this hatred led him to kill himself is insulting and dishonest.
I think you hit the nail on the head. I only wish one of the Israeli security spooks would have went and asked him why he committed this wanton act of anti-Semitism, with Bushnell’s screams going from “free Palestine!” to “I am not an anti-Semite!” His world view has more to do with being anti-white than being pro-Palestine. In a similar vein, I often find many of the pro-Palestinian sentiment on the dissident right to be, for lack of other words, completely disingenuous. Being pro-Palestine on the dissident right has more to do with a disdain for Jews/Israel than for actually caring about Palestine.
I think we, the royal we that is, should be careful of baseless hate and unadulterated spite. Look at where it has landed Jews. Jews are so butthurt about their great-grandfather not being allowed to join the WASP country club back in the day that they decided it’d be a great idea to join up with the blacks, Muslims, you name it against whitey. At this point a Jew could successfully turn tables on a WASP club charging black youths for trespassing and defecating on the #2 green by having the Jew judge ruling that the club must pay the black youths for fertilizing their green and with compounded interest from the time the infraction occurred. Well, the golem always attacks its master. And unfortunately, for Jews, crying anti-Semitism isn’t going to help. I’m not the biggest fan of Palestinians but almost 2 percent of Gazans have been killed in the war. That’s a lot of dead dying BIPOCs that white liberal Jews love so much. I think Jews could pilpul their way out of genocide accusations if the number was under 1%. Over 1% is going to be a tough one. On that note, I think that is one of the reasons Jews don’t like white nationalists or white people in general for that matter is that they see themselves in white people. White people are the mirror for Jews. Your typical liberal Jew will wax poetic about how the dastardly white man killed all the Indians but subconsciously, deep within the chitinous strata of deception and self-deception that masks the true reality your typical liberal Jew knows that there is almost a perfect analogy with what happened to the white man and the Indians back in the day in the ol’ USA and what is currently going on to the Jew/Israeli and the Palestinians in Israel.
In a similar vein, I often find many of the pro-Palestinian sentiment on the dissident right to be, for lack of other words, completely disingenuous. Being pro-Palestine on the dissident right has more to do with a disdain for Jews/Israel than for actually caring about Palestine.
Yes, that is often the case, which is disappointing.
With us having no control even in our own homes, maybe it is better for our mental health to try to sympathize with what the Palestinian people are losing.
For those with Christian heritage, it should be easy to be appalled at the levelling of the Christian hospitals. Ancient churches seem to be the first of the buildings to be targeted, maybe because the Israeli strategists thought was Anglo or European Christians don’t have as much solidarity as Muslims do.
For me I actually sympathized more with other groups as I have grown older and as I learned more about the beauty of European culture. I can remember on one Manifest Destiny podcast (way back back around 2015 or 16) there was a (white) guest on from Hawaii who discussed the plight of the indigenous people losing their lands there to the incoming large farmers. Like most of the podcasters at the time, he was a young fellow. He said he could sympathize because that is what is now happening to white people. When I was that young it was quite hard for me to sympathize because the narrative was that this was white guilt and complicity; I bridled against that. White dispossession and anti-white antagonism was not so apparent in the mid 1980s.
With so much being lost by the Palestinians it is now easy for me to sympathize with them. I also have to admit I can see how most Jews don’t sympathize with Palestinians. All Jewish sympathy shown to outsider groups kind of rings hollow now though.
There’s TONS of Leftists in my neck of the woods i would love to see emulate this guy
It would also be good when some (or even all) politicians do the same.
I agree with the comment above saying if he had been shouting pro Israel words, would you still honor his courage to burn himself? Seeing as it is well known this guy was a hard core Leftist. Would we honor the courage of any brave act in itself, regardless if we agree with the motivation
Because we can’t honor the motivation of this guy. And I agree with the comment it is like an Eskimo caring about two out groups. The fact the USA is aiding Israel is by the by. The USA is the dominant global superpower and is aiding dozens of countries. Yes they give Israel more than the rest but is the suggestion here that Israel wouldn’t be killing Palestinians if they had no u.s aid?
As critical as I am of Israel I’m wise enough not to suggest Israel is incapable of creating a high tech army and using it to kill gazans. I don’t think this is a good argument. I think Israel is capable of building a military at least big and modern and capable enough to shoot unarmed civilians. I think the U.S. aid multiplies the scale, but not the impetus for these campaigns. I also believe all things being equal a Jewish state would be more advanced than an Arab Muslim one, as while the super clever Jews stuff is a bit of a hoax, they are still probably smarter than Palestinians (whose average IQ is below 100)
So no, I don’t accept that argument. Furthermore, why would a White man feel his life is so worthless he can take it himself in protest of racial aliens having a conflict 1000s of miles away?
Clearly the guy felt his existence was worthless. He had lots of guilt about being white. He said lots of nutty libtard things.
You can be right, but for the wrong reasons. And I believe if you’re right for the wrong reasons then that might be OK for 1 or 2 issues but then long term it’ll become a hindrance. TERFs and trannies for example. The terfs are right about the trannies, but for the wrong reasons, and if the terfs were to ‘win’ the tranny debate then long term it’d just lead to more trannies, as the terfs accept feminism and accept trans ideology (but not for kids and not in their changing rooms. They don’t oppose transsexualism in itself). Also if you support feminism then you support masculinizing the female : taking her out of her feminine roles and putting her in masculine ones like work and so on. Feminists are also against things like traditional female clothing and like to , e.g., wear a suit like a man (think Patti Smith album cover Horses.)
Bushell was right about Israel but for the wrong reasons. “Israel is a white colonialist state and its really white supremacist America who is behind it” is an ice, ice cold take, and if I’m finding myself onside with someone saying that then I’m in the wrong place.
However, this act does show the depth of public opposition to the gaza slaughter, and will serve to undermine the foundations of ZOG.
Very solid comment. “Right for the wrong reasons.” Absolutely. I’m almost certain I would have hated Bushnell had I known him (though I admire his commitment and courage, because commitment and courage are virtues; recall Samuel Johnson’s comment about honoring the courage of a swashbuckling highwayman even though we condemn robbery). 100-1 says Bushnell was “taking a knee” in honor of BLM and St. Floyd during the failed Bolshevik/POC Revolution of 2020.
The author is usually on point. This time however, he misses the mark.
As mentioned above, Thuletide has thoroughly documented Mr. Bushnell’s libtard bonafides. He was a detestable character, at least according to his posting history.
I’m skeptical of whether he even cared about Israel/Palestine, or whether that just happened to be the “current thing” used as his excuse to brisket himself. I get the feeling that had it been 2020 when he decided to become the human torch, he would’ve done it screaming BLM or “Justice for George Floyd” etc.
The Aaron Bushnell’s of the world import the Jose Ibarra’s of the world to rape and murder the Laken Riley’s of the world.
Indeed, the Bushnell types would gleefully throw the Author in prison for the rest of his life over having the wrong political views.
Fuck that guy. I wouldn’t piss on him if he were on fire.
He may have been self-hating and riddled with White guilt, and had a poor grasp of the aesthetic aspects of suicide but he maneuvered his airframe to the enemy’s embassy and fired an effective propaganda blow which has given hundreds of millioms of people around the world pause for thought. He made no direct criticism of anyone other than the ‘ruling class’ and Israel. Imagine if that happened every week for two months.
Excellent point!
Say what you want about Bushnell’s character and ideology, but, as a former Army officer and Viet Nam vet who “served” in a war that I knew had nothing to do with my country’s legitimate self-defense, I must say that my reaction to Bushnell’s deed was respect. The stoicism and symbolism were stark. I do not believe he was stupid or mentally ill or driven by petty ego. Deracinated, deluded? Yes. Nontheless he consciously decided the terms of his own death and carried out his decsion with resolve and physical stamina. This I admire. His final act deserves to stand alone, apart from his skewed motivations. What he did was a colossal fuck-you to the lefty generals and political weasels who do the bidding of their overlords with total desregard for the lives of young White men.
“As a Viet nam vet”… quote by Pilgrim’s Progress
I think the author Morris van de camp, is ex army, and if not certainly is a military historian with a lot of knowledge and contacts within the armed forces.
I’m pretty sure I’ve also seen ex serviceman David Zsutty give similar remarks.
All 3 of these are either ex army or involved in military. All 3 seem to share the analysis that Bushells act is to be respected as a win in this culture war.
I disagree and I think the main reason these 3 are putting respect on Bushell’s name is because he was in the armed forces. People who’ve been in the army have a bond to their fellow servicemen that says put your life in their hands and theirs in yours. Military people don’t tend to ostracise other military people, as that undermines that bond of trust they need.
The first thing I have to say to that is that there’s combat military people then there’s military pen pushers. These are two very different things. Bushell as far as i can glean was some kind of computer anti hacker or something. He didn’t fly F-16s, put it that way.
The bond of trust between military comrades should foremost be among front line combatants. The military pen pushers are essentially civil servants. Bushell couldve done his job on civvy Street.
Therefore I’d argue people like bushell from the get go shouldn’t be treated by the real combat vets as the same kinds of brothers in arms. Yes, you need a united front from the support from behind the lines, but we can’t pretend thst it’s the same as going in to combat.
In fact relatively few military serviceman actually do see combat.
Beyond that I’d suggest that bushels military service seems to be blinding these 3 ex servicemen to the reality which is that while Bushell was correct this time, the same driving force behind what made him do this would’ve made him topple a state of General Lee or burn a police precinct in the Summer of Love 2020.
I’d also argue that this self immolation act isn’t as big in Normiedom as it was on the far right. In fact, we seem to be the only people discussing it. I haven’t seen this on mainstream news or media at all, and given it was now over a week ago it seems the Current News Cycle beast has already moved on. Its not like the Tibetan monk who self immolated and was immortalised to a generation on the cover of rage against the machine self titled debut album.
Ask our selves : what is bushell hadn’t had a link to the army? Would we be more critical of him? How about the fact his military (certainly his combat ) record is tenuous?
When we say he was in cyber security, what does that actually mean to practice? Did he personally participate in any kind of defense of US cyber systems ? Or did he make tea and coffee most of his days for higher rank people?
These uncomfortable questions need asked.
I agree. Bushnell was a white-masochist and an Antifa freak. Torching himself is the kind of freaky thing they like to do. They all suffer from a liberal death-wish.
Greta Thunberg is also pro-HAMAS and anti-Israel. Would it make her a white nationalist hero too, even when she will burn herself, or better freeze in the “non-existing” frost?
Greta Thunberg is an white-masochist, not a white-nationalist. Those are opposites.
She may be a leftwing loony, but she would never set herself on fire. She’s not that crazy. And she’s against global warming, not for it.
Aaron Bushnell died courageously and a martyr, but he was an enemy. His reddit has been archived and I highly recommend that the author have a look. His self-immolation was the logical conclusion of his own anti-white views. He was not a patriot; he was an anti-white, pro-antifa anarchist and I am glad that he is dead. I hope that the flames hurt.
He hated Israel because in his mind it was a nationalistic, patriotic white country that oppresses ‘indigenous’ browns. Has hatred of Jews so overwhelmed our senses that we now cheer on those that seek to destroy us?
Wow, I had only seen excerpts from other Bushnell posts that Thuletide shared. That screenshot reveals a lot. Bushnell was bonkers alright! And he sounds angry and extremely high-strung. That was one sick puppy, and he can KMWA.
You ask, “Has hatred of Jews so overwhelmed our senses that we now cheer on those that seek to destroy us?”
I’m reminded of recent comments from a couple of prominent nationalists which basically welcomed the idea of the demographic replacement of White people if the (brown) replacements were more anti-zionist. And this was coming from normally pro-white activists. It’s “white genocide to own the zionists!” Absolute madness, in my opinion.
I think Bushnell was obviously mentally ill. The Gazans are killing the Israelis, not the other way around. He is confusing the chicken and egg.
Great article from Morris decamp. He remains a top writer at counter currents!
Not really. On 10-7-23 some Hamas terrorists massacred around 1000 Jews (or maybe fewer, depending on how much of the hype was Jewish propaganda; certainly some Israelis were butchered). Since then, the IDF has waged war in a way so callous of Palestinian civilian lives (let alone livelihoods: virtually the whole physical built environment of Gaza has been ‘rubbled’) that nearly 25,000 Gazans (at last count) have been killed. Moreover, Israel is systematically destroying Gazan agriculture as well as infrastructure, basically rendering the area uninhabitable by the (much poorer) Gazans, who lack the funds to easily rebuild and replace what has been destroyed. You’ve got to feel for these people, even if they’re not OUR people. Imagine losing 95-99% of all your already relatively meager possessions, and being forced to sleep on the ground or at best in a tiny pitched tent, not knowing how to obtain food or water. I would be devastated if I just lost my extensive library, and even if I maintained all my other possessions and investments.
Wise remarks. What does your extensive library consist of? I too am a book hoarder.
DarkPlato,
Not counting ebooks, of which I have countless, I have around 2300 books (about 200 of those are bound, xeroxed copies of out of print academic books, along with a few of library-borrowed books that never came out in affordable paperbacks and are/were horrendously expensive). About 500 are from my parents, most of which are works of scholarship or literature, and thus worth keeping (but also at least 50 National Geographic coffee table-types that my mom liked, and that I will sell off after her death).
I have around 400-500 books of fiction; most are serious literature, though I also own all the Agatha Christie novels (little paperbacks all purchased in the early/mid-70s), and three volumes of LOTR, one volume Complete Sherlock Holmes, one volume Gormenghast trilogy, and a few other genre classics (like the one volume Barnes & Noble complete Lovecraft stories; though perhaps he has now ascended from genre to ‘canonical’ status). From my mother, I have about 100 classic novels and short story collections in French, as well as a few dozen of Simenon’s Det. Maigret novels, most in French. Maybe 30-40 mostly dated business/investing/economy books from my dad (I also own two dozen or more of such books myself). Some health, diet, fitness, rehab books. A few big works no one now reads except specialists, like the two volume White House memoirs of Henry Kissinger (I wonder if these books from the 70s or 80s have become worth something since he died …).
The bulk of my library – maybe 1700-1800? – consists of academic scholarship, much of it acquired via university press sales, online remainder sites, and decades of trolling bookstore (remember those?) sale tables, including about 30-40 used books acquired from Powell’s Books on my two trips to Portland (also, many excellent ‘leftovers’ from my extensive educational years, plus classic works of philosophy and history from my parents).
For fun, I’ll give you a flavor of my eclectic reading (or at least of what I own). A teetering stack on my large Scandinavian executive desk at the moment consists of (ascending from bottom):
Cook, A History of Narrative Film
Blackmore, Consciousness : An Introduction
eds. Adams et al, The Oxford Handbook of Theology and Modern European Thought
McClelland, A History of Western Political Thought
Hannaford, Race: The History of an Idea in the West
Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
Barone, Our Country: The Shaping of America from Roosevelt to Reagan
Dupre, The Enlightenment & the Intellectual Foundations of Modern Culture
Kenny, A New History of Western Philosophy (complete 1 vol paperback)
Cox, The Court and the Constitution
eds. Strauss + Cropsey, History of Political Philosophy
Kurzweil, The Age of Spiritual Machines
Sterelny, Griffiths, Sex and Death: Introduction to Philosophy of Biology
Matthews, Mind: Key Concepts in Philosophy
A stack on the other side has:
Marks, Why I am Not a Scientist: Anthropology and Modern Knowledge
Rahman, Islam
Roy, Globalized Islam
Josey, The Philosophy of Nationalism
Boorstin, The Discoverers
Johnson, A History of the American People
Morris, Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict 1881-2001
Wheatcroft, Infidels: A History of the Conflict Between Christendom and Islam
Kitto, The Greeks
Carr, What is History?
Russell, Wisdom of the West
A lot of history and intellectual history is on my desk at the moment. In another part of just this room I have a bunch of political economy going back to my grad school days.
On the shelves above my desk I have (this is a fraction of what’s up there; just scanning randomly):
2 vols Spengler, The Decline of the West
Solomon, In the Spirit of Hegel
Gay, Freud – A Life for Our Time
all 9 vols of Copleston’s History of Philosophy
Popper, 2vols The Open Society and Its Enemies
Flew, God and Philosophy
Machiavelli, The Prince and The Discourses
ed. Barnes, Early Greek Philosophy
Kant, Lectures on Philosophical Theology
Auerbach, Mimesis
Wilson, Tolstoy
ed. Paret, Makers of Modern Strategy
Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces
Rustow, Freedom and Domination
Craig, Germany 1866-1945
Kaufmann, Critique of Religion and Philosophy
Riley, The General Will Before Rousseau
Pelikan, Jesus Through the Centuries
Montaigne, Essays (abr.)
Frazer, The New Golden Bough (abr.)
ed. Richardson, Early Christian Fathers
Aron, Clausewitz -Philosopher of War
H+M, The Bell Curve
Niven, John C. Calhoun and the Price of Union
Carlson, Family Questions
Lewy, The Cause That Failed
Bacque, Other Losses
Watson, The Modern Mind
Glock, What is Analytic Philosophy?
Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Leftism Revisited
Beyond books, my “library” also contains hundreds of old learned periodicals. This is where I might be guilty of “hoarding”. I have over 700 issues of the New York Review of Books; over 400 of Chronicles; about 250 of First Things; all of AR’s print run; 100 or more of Instauration, and assorted back journals of, inter alia, Modern Age; the Journal of Libertarian Studies; Telos; and The Occidental Quarterly.
A huge portion of my life’s reading has been, to be honest, the Wall Street Journal (and news periodicals, like The Economist), as well as various learned and/or at least intelligent prowhite sites, CC preeminent among them. Also, most of my fiction reading has come from the local library, for reasons of expense as well as increasingly limited storage.
What do you read?
Wowzers, and I thought I had a book hoarding problem! I read much of the same stuff, of course, but I suppose I read a lot of scientific nonfiction compared to you, that being the main difference. I have kind of a STEM background. I like fantasy/sci-fi in fiction. I see you mentioned Gormenghast—I didn’t care for the first book of that so much—but have you ever read Worm Ouroboros by ER Edison? That might be my favorite after Tolkien, who is unapproachable in my pantheon. History, I’m reading the English histories by Dan jones right now, very interesting. Barbarians of the Steppes by Harl as well. Reading Macaulay’s essays right now. Addison. Also a lot of poetry and epic poems of the past, mythology. I have a child like mind.
One thing I particularly envy is that collection of old Instauration! Remember I tried to buy you a CC membership, but you never accepted or received it? Why I wonder? Where do you live, broadly speaking? What’s your academic background?
Gay, Freud
Gay Freud sounds very nice. :))
The golems that they have created are starting to turn against their makers. This is more evidence for why diversity is bad for the military, not just racial, but ideological diversity as well. I’m talking mainly about his leftist views, which he expressed before his suicide. Why would a white conservative, who cares about the U.S., enlist in the military? Not only would you have to put up with hostile blacks and other non-whites, but you would have to put up with white people who have different values than yours. How can an organization like the military properly function when it’s a madhouse? Is it any wonder that they can’t get enough white recruits? At least there will be fewer whites to die in these useless wars.
You’re right, except that we desperately need whites – rightwing or at least conservative whites – in the military and law enforcement. This nationalist meme encouraging whites not to enlist will, if widely heeded, have terrible long term consequences, further putting our already weakened and oppressed people at the mercy of our enemies.
The woke leftist universities need to be destroyed. But necessary institutions like the military need to be taken back.
Great piece. I find the reaction to his death a great litmus test, to see of fellow WNs really “get it”. He was white, he gave his life in protest of the exact kind we need, against the exact enemy that needs to be protested the most. That’s good enough for me. So what if he called the Zionists colonizers… they are!
I agree. The responses where Bushnell’s actions are derided seem to be mostly by folks locked into the ‘conservative’ mindset where ‘liberal’ more important than ‘White’.
I don’t think that Aaron Bushnell, blessed be his name, would appreciate you positively associating his personhood with “whiteness.” Saint Bushnell himself made clear in numerous anarcho communist forum posts that he believed that, “whiteness needs to be abolished and trying to appease people who choose to identify their personhood with whiteness is an endlessly losing battle.”
I’m sure that, in terms of personal behavior as well as ethical intention, Bushnell was not a bad person (as is, eg, the typical black street criminal or white/Jewish antifa terrorist). But he was still an ideological POS, an enemy of whites and white preservation as well as my own conservative values. I wish more like him would similarly self-eliminate.
Bushell was a stopped clock who happened happened be right at one certain time of day.
Take what we can from this event, but be under no illusion about what drove him to it.
In other words: take the same energy and inspiration from Bushell’s immolation and apply it to the next Current Thing In The News Cycle once Gaza is no longer the issue du jour and you’ll find that person would be taking a knee for Saint G. Floyd PBUH or wearing a pussy hat and demanding the White House be blown up, or tearing down a historical white person statue, or whatever else.
In that sense I’d praise the ACT and not the MAN.
Embarrassing article. I respect the author, but the viewpoint that this guy is some sort of patriot, is odd. He was a libtard, and he killed himself for arabs!
Yes, and I mean no disrespect to the author, but I kept wondering if we were being trolled. It would be one thing to offer qualified recognition of the nerve needed to carry out such an act, while acknowledging the anti-white motivations that drove Bushnell, but instead the author sounds like he’s ready to put Bushnell on Mount Rushmore and maybe create a few national holidays in honor of the man he calls the “American ideal.” It’s so over-the-top. Before telling us about Bushnell’s warm eyes, the author concedes that Bushnell may have forgivably “peppered” his writing with terms such as “Jim Crow” from time to time… you know, no biggie. Turns out Bushnell was obsessed with “eliminating whiteness” and had quite a history of published comments excusing real and hypothetical violence committed by brown people against white people. I’d say that’s more than a little “peppering.”
How does an article miss the mark so badly?
This mans suicide was merely just a continuation of a historic meta-narrative presented to Whites under Liberalism in an anti-White, hegemonic, regime. That psychologically damages White peoples, from the moment they are able to comprehend language.
Now; am I glad that Bushnell is dead? Absolutely. He was a Leftist, and therefore an anti-White bastard who endorsed doctrines, systems of belief, cultural attitudes and policies that harm White life. He was of no benefit. Good riddance.
The only thing we can take from this, and seek to admire in Leftism, is that because of its comprehensive systems of occupation and domination, it can engender this level of fervency in its adherents they are willing to self immolate, for people who fundamentally hate their very existence.
What would happen if there were systems and beliefs in place that led to the BETTERMENT and flourishing of White life, as opposed this wretched existence, where we must apologise for our very presence and be made small in the face of the holy “other”.
This is what Liberalism offers the average White person, male suicide ( which Noel Ignatiev said White men should do by the way ) – and female miscegenation. Both end results in the destruction of the White individual.
Fittingly he was an “ex-Christian”. Liberal, Leftist, Christian. Same thing. They all stem from the same seed that blossoms into this poison fruit- but fittingly he emulated the “messiah” he rejected, and followed Jesus in ritualistic suicide, for, in his mind, the betterment of the world.
So sad – excellent comment until the ignorant ending. If Bushnell had tried to deliver food to Gaza, he would have been acting in a Christlike spirit. This was mere performative politics, albeit of a type so courageous as to represent mental disturbance. Christianity exalts martyrdom for Christ, and death in self-defensive battle. It never condones suicide, except under the most extreme duress (eg, to avoid giving battle plans to an enemy in the event of capture, assuming your side of the battle is the just one).
Christianity is not leftism plus God. Leftism is not Christianity minus God. Thinking this way is our enemies’ supreme victory.
The author is right about ethnocentric Jews controlling US foreign policy, to benefit their race at our expense. However, I don’t agree with his claim that Aaron Bushnell is some kind of hero. Nor was Norman Morrison, who did the same in 1965, in front of his 11-month old daughter. He’s another lunatic, and a total sucker.
Setting yourself on fire in front of the Israeli embassy is a foolish way to protest anything. It achieves nothing, and is counter-productive. There were better ways for Bushnell to protest, such as refusing orders and facing a court-martial. This only proves that he was just another White masochist, with a typical liberal death-wish. Except for Morrison in 1965 and that Buddhist monk in Saigon in 1963, the anti-war protestors of the 1960’s didn’t set themselves on fire. They weren’t that crazy. They used other, more effective methods, and had fun doing it.
I agree that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, with the USA as its full accomplice. That is beyond dispute. We can see it daily on TV, despite the censorship. Israel and its apologists exploit the 1200 dead resulting from the Hamas raid on Oct 7 (& the phony atrocity stories) as a pretext to do what they were intending to do anyway – that is, to ethnically cleanse Gaza of all Arabs and to steal their land. They certainly don’t care about the 1200 dead – they want more. And Israel is pushing out the Arabs from the West Bank also.
Anything that hurts jewish power is pro-White in the long run.
Whether Bushnell intended to or not, he’s make things much harder for the jews who rule over Whites and distort our national character.
It doesn’t matter that he spouted liberal and lefty tropes.
He’s not ‘our guy’ but he’s not the real enemy, either.
As Vauquelin pointed out earlier, the responses to Bushnell’s actions are a good litmus test to see how much ‘conservatism’ is just another version of White self-loathing and subjection to jewish morality.
Did Bushnell’s blazing suicide really hurt Jewish power? I don’t think so. I think they just laugh at it, as they are laughing about the genocide in Gaza.
What would hurt Jewish power would be a total victory for Russia in Ukraine. That would severely discredit the US Deep State, which is run by Jews.
I think that any time the jews have to respond and explain themselves, they’re exposed to rejection or ridicule. As for ‘the Deep State’, it’s been turned into a boogeyman versus part of an analytical framework. Russia is a liberal multi-racial, multi-ethnic state. It’s victory in Ukraine would be a victory of one kind of liberalism over another.
The jews are not laughing at the problems they’re are having as a result of their domination of politics and the economy. Actually, they’re quite concerned. Which is why they’ve felt obliged to respond to Bushnell’s action.
If they really felt confident, they’d ignore him.
Hamburger Today wrote:
>> Anything that hurts jewish power is pro-White in the long run. <<
Perhaps so, but Jewish power is notoriously difficult to define. The seat of it, however, is the Diaspora, especially in the United States.
I’m an old Fashioned Isolationist. I find it outrageous from an American nationalist perspective alone that Neocons and other traitors have engineered government subsidies of billions of dollars in foreign aid for “shïtty little countries” like Israel and to encourage others to play nice with them. In the end, I don’t think this is our concern. I really don’t care what happens to either of them. Our own house is definitely not in order.
I might even argue that the focusing, or at least the obsessing, on Israel is a distraction to any resolution of the Jewish Question.
And while I don’t think that the JQ is the only factor relevant to the fate of the Occident and the USA, I do think it is essential to resolve for White interests.
>> Whether Bushnell intended to or not, he’s made things much harder for the jews who rule over Whites and distort our national character. <<
Maybe. I don’t really disagree with this. The “optics” is bad for the you-know-whos and the matter underscores the difficulty they have in keeping their Brown golems on the Reservation.
There may be some opportunities for our propaganda here, but I think the damage done is unmeasured, and the benefit made for White Nationalism is hugely overstated.
>> It doesn’t matter that he spouted liberal and lefty tropes. <<
I think it very much does matter. While I would like to have an all-White Kumbayah as Mr. Goad has mentioned before, the fact is that POLITICS is all about friend-enemy distinctions and the relation to Power ─ and this guy was a declared enemy of “Whiteness” and to Whites. You admit below that he is NOT “our guy.”
>> He’s not ‘our guy’ but he’s not the real enemy, either. <<
As much as I despise these Leftist twinks, I agree with you that he is not the “real enemy.”
This thing of his self-immolation is not a net positive in any way as far as I’m concerned, and any harm to real enemies is hugely overstated.
>> As Vauquelin pointed out earlier, the responses to Bushnell’s actions are a good litmus test to see how much ‘conservatism’ is just another version of White self-loathing and subjection to jewish morality. <<
Well maybe. But I am not a Conservative (nor a Christian) and I agree with the American Nazi Party Commander George Lincoln Rockwell that Conservativism is basically “trying to conserve what is already gone.” GLR coherently explained almost sixty years ago why Conservatism was (and is) politically sterile.
Until Antifa hijacked the term Progressive, that is exactly what I called myself politically. I still use the Left-Right spectrum because it is fairly straighforward for me. Leftists want Change (for its own sake) and radical Egalitarianism, and Rightists (vaguely) want Authority and Order.
I consider myself on the hard-Right but I absolutely want progress, modernity, technololgy, reason, critical-thinking, dialog, the end to class warfare, etc., and I am not in the least impressed by any kind of Bluestockings or Gay Christcucks like Anglin and Fuentes.
In the end, I can respect Leftists who are willing to talk with me critically like adults ─ but not batshït crazy crusaders like Mr. Bushnell or screeching Antifa protesting, for example, a David Irving historian get-together at a coffee shop and slashing the patron’s tires (true story).
Airman Bushnell may have been less harmful to White Nationalism than somebody like Brenton Tarrant, who cleared out the New Zealand mosque in a totally unacceptable way, but that ain’t saying much. Not much at all.
In the end these losers are very, very dumb and probably just crazy. No, I do NOT admire self-flagellants, and if for no other reason than because they are too stupid to realize that they do not command the Truth or anything close. They are gravely misguided at best and likely without any real virtue, wearing “oppression” on their sleeves like a case of an unlanced boil. Yes, this latest event is another White tragedy among many.
In any case, these people are CERTAINLY not heroes, and they have likely hurt us, some more so than others. This is NOT redemptive nor any kind of nobility that can be respected by White people.
I agree that there is a “litmus test” going on here of sorts, and that it is important to discuss it openly and frankly. I do not have all the answers.
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Forget Airman Bushnell.
Scott: March 2, 2024, quoting Hamburger Today:
>> Anything that hurts jewish power is pro-White in the long run. <<
Perhaps so, but Jewish power is notoriously difficult to define.
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Dr. Dalton defines it well, here, An Interview With Thomas Dalton | National Vanguard and here, The Primacy of Anti-Semitism | National Vanguard, and in most of his 30-plus scholarly, Jew centric books found here, Thomas Dalton – Cosmotheism (cosmotheistchurch.org)
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Our own house is definitely not in order… [F]ocusing, or at least the obsessing, on Israel is a distraction to any resolution of the Jewish Question.
And while I don’t think that the JQ is the only factor relevant to the fate of the Occident and the USA, I do think it is essential to resolve for White interests. [Bushnell] is not the “real enemy.”…
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Right, right, right! Forget nutcase Bushnell.
The ongoing, widespread demonstrations against Israel for her massacres of Palestinians in the Semite v. Semite conflict are not the concern of racially conscious Whites.
It can’t be said enough that those demonstrations are misdirected and should be against Jewry for that tribe’s stranglehold on the news and entertainment industry, the political process, Madison Avenue, Wall Street and other levers of Jewish supremacy. Fact!
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… I am not a Conservative (nor a Christian) and I agree with the American Nazi Party Commander George Lincoln Rockwell that Conservativism is basically “trying to conserve what is already gone.” GLR coherently explained almost sixty years ago why Conservatism was (and is) politically sterile.
I am not in the least impressed by any kind of Bluestockings or Gay Christcucks like Anglin and Fuentes….
I do not have all the answers…
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Maybe not all of the answers, Scott, but you’ve hit on most of the correct answers to the Jewish Question. I apologize for butchering your comment. I had to look up bluestocking but agree with everything you wrote above.
I feel for the Gazans, but I don’t respect whites who waste efforts over any aspect of Middle East politics. If Bushnell had gone down to the border and set himself on fire to protest Biden’s treasonous race replacement policy, then he would have been something of a hero. But only something. Had he instead stood on a street corner handing out It’s Ok To Be White flyers, he would have been a true hero. We don’t need acts of flamboyance, or even faux-martyrdom (real martyrs don’t seek our martyrdom; they merely accept it when it finds them rather than renounce their principles). We need people in the nitty-gritty trenches of life, living for our race, enduring in the cause of our people.
The comments above rigorously and intelligently refute Bushnell as a dissident right role model. I only wonder at the author’s statement that New England “Yankees” are the Jews upmost opponents. The Puritans who settled Massachusetts and the rest of NE were seemingly the most Old Testament leaning of Christian sects. Also, living a few miles from the Community of Jesus in Orleans, MA, I routinely hear of its cult-like nature. I wonder how much research went into this article?
He’s not a role model for us as white nationalists, but I was thinking that in fact he Christ-like died for our sins. Much of the world, particularly the Muslim and Arab world, is going to be very angry at Americans for what we are enabling in Gaza. Aaron Bushnell’s action is one powerful symbol we can point to and say, “not all of us agree with this!” And it was only a young white man who had the valor to do this.
Yeah, that was weird. The Yankees completely folded to the Jews a century or more ago. The Jews themselves certainly see their main American competitors (besides the obvious ideological white nationalists) as exurban, small town, and rural white Americans in the South and Midwest – the base of the Trump campaign. Jews certainly don’t worry about Old Guard New England Protestants like the late Pres. George and Barbara Bush!
What is the logical opposite of Israel worship/pandering to Jews? Is it Palestinian worship and pandering to brown/black people? NO. The logical opposite is NOT Israel worship. Every single anti-zionist act is not necessarily a win for white people.
Cheering on anything and everything that is anti-Israel can lead white advocates to some awkward and even self-defeating positions. We see examples of this expressed on this page, and I say this with respect for all those who have contributed to the discussion. In the last year I’ve also seen a few normally pro-white advocates suggest that perhaps the demographic replacement of whites by brown people wouldn’t be so bad after all if those brown people ended up being more pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel. Essentially, we have some pro-white activists proposing “white genocide to own the zionists!”
For nationalists, confronting the issue of jewish influence is necessary, but it isn’t sufficient. “How much would zionists hate this” shouldn’t be the only or even primary metric when deciding on a particular course of action. It may be that many actions that would benefit whites are things that zionists would dislike, but the actions wouldn’t necessarily be good for whites because they are bad for zionists.
This is my first time visiting this site… and the last one. I can’t believe the author praises a mental case like this bushnell anti-White idiot and blames his stupid death on the ever-malignant jews. Bye Bye
All world wars, from Napoleonic to the current one, which is taking place in Ukraine and the Middle East and is preparing to spread to East Asia, were provoked, incited or brought to the maximum level of violence not by Jews, but by the British Empire.
Bye
during the Second World War
And during the First World War too. Then the Americans fought AGAINST their German brothers, and FOR their British enemies.
My first reaction upon reading the post but not the comments:
MvdCamp is an indefatigable and interesting writer who always offers many keen observations, and this post was no exception. But in this case, he misjudges the true character of his subject: Bushnell (whom I bet was related to the 19th century New England theologian Horace Bushnell) was a classic postmodern white man, a race-cuck who possessed many of the qualities (moral rectitude, courage for a cause, dedication and toughness) that once made our race globally predominant, but which are now routinely, as here, warped and then turned to racially destructive ends. While it’s true that some good may come of this act in terms of lessening Arab/Islamic hatred for white Americans, overall it’s just another, if extreme, example of whites taking the side of other tribes instead of our own (we’re being genocided, too, albeit in mostly non-violent, and thus more psychologically insidious, ways).
Bushnell was probably a good man (understood by me in a transcendent Christian sense), but he was not really an American patriot. He was one of those leftist, “social justice” whites who, however, truly drank their own ideological “Kool-Aid” (unlike Jews and nonwhites who are mostly in the social justice racket for their own tribal warfare ends).
So I cannot agree that this suicide was a “terrible loss”. Or, more accurately, the loss in question was the mental one of deracination that must have occurred over many years prior to this act of heroic but needless and finally meaningless race-cuckery.
The comments here paint a picture that this guy was a bit of a loose cannon, had absorbed a lot of anti-white ideas and probably felt aligned to non-whites, that ‘non-whites are my friends against whites who have not been supportive enough to me.’
That may true, but I don’t think you can attribute everything to self-hating anti-white leftism in this case. Leftism and anti-whiteism were this individual’s pathways to something that happens to be real, which is- people really are moved by these scenes from Gaza.
The term genocide is being used seriously to describe these events. We have our own feelings about that, but it seems inevitable some will be pushed into some kind of serious response and it’s going to take different forms.
Going on the past record, this will also probably mean waves of terrorism against the West by these sand apes because Jews have gripped our politicians by the very hairs on their head to do whatever they want and nobody cares about any consequences like that.
Aaron Bushnell was a sworn enemy of White Nationalists and of any positive white identity. Aaron Bushnell would have celebrated the demise of any pro-white activist or even Trump supporters whom he deemed complicit in “white supremacy” and brown genocide. The suggestion that I or any other self-respecting white person ought to look at pictures of little Aaron Bushnell’s ugly mole face with any kind of admiration is revolting to me.
I will NOT take a knee for the sick rat traitor Aaron Bushnell. Aaron Bushnell was an enemy and died a detestable fool.
Now tell us how you really feel. Just kidding. As I mentioned somewhere above, had I known Bushnell, I’m sure I would have hated him, too.
At least 99% of antiwhites are evil, and this apart from their race-treason. I’ve spent my whole adult life in ideological ‘blue’ to ‘extreme dark blue’ cities of the US, sometimes as a visible Republican apparatchik and/or conservative (among other activities, I made a lot of public appearances back in the mid-90s as a speaker/debater on behalf of CA Props 187 (anti-illegal alien welfare) and 209 (anti-affirmative action)). I know this. Nonwhites use social “justice” lies as a way to morally disarm more innately virtuous whites. This propaganda is a psychological weapon which is uniquely effective against us. Antifa whites, in turn, are mostly mentally disturbed and/or evil sadists. Under the Nazis, they would have been camp guards; under the Soviets, secret police and torturers; and under our anarcho-tyrannical regime, they pose as “antiracists”. But the same sociopathological mentality is present in all cases.
That said, however, I have encountered at least a few sincere white antiracists, the true “bleeding hearts”, individuals who, maddeningly, are personally very decent acting but terribly politically misguided. I wouldn’t want to exaggerate the number of this type, but it’s not negligible. Given how Bushnell died, it’s possible he was of this type. If he had been a typical antifa sadist, he would have been a mass shooter or arsonist. But to sacrifice oneself for a cause in this manner does demonstrate at least some nobility of character. Not saying the world isn’t better off without him, only that the real tragedy was his susceptibility to racial “guilt-trip-ist” brainwashing. His final act did no harm to anyone.
So at the end of the day a young communist man who never saw actual combat and hardly had any life experience still pointlessly died because of Israel.
I’m pretty sure suicide is haram…
A futile and histrionic suicide that will accomplish precisely nothing other than condemning his family to lifetimes of unrelenting sorrow. He’s neither a patriot nor a hero. Just another impulsive, selfish jerk.
Again….his pathetic and horrifying suicide will change nothing. It will accomplish nothing. It was for nothing. Tel Aviv, Washington DC, Hamas and Tehran don’t give two shits about this barbecue sandwich.
A month from now he’ll be forgotten, a trivial footnote in an endless conflict between two warring tribes of Sand People.
The author, unfortunately, has missed several points here. First and the foremost, the Israel-Palestine is hardly a white or black issue; it’s rather complex. I indeed understand you dislike the Jewish power so you dislike Israel as well. However, not being in favour of Israel doesn’t mean you must be pro-Palestinians or pro-Arabs. You can dislike both and yes, they are not mutually exclusive. My second point is that the existence of Israel further showcased how savages and backwards those Arab countries are. Israel is surrounded by so many hostile nations and it is a small country that was established 76 years ago.Nevertheless, it is far more advanced and far more wealthier than almost all of middle eastern countries, with the exception of the UAE and Qatar. It can prove a lot.
Also, I don’t know what you mean when you said ‘pro-Israel magazine said self-immolation should not be glorified.’ Do you think it should be glorified? He did not attack anyone indeed, but what he has done has profound impact on people in America and the world. How do you know if some morons will follow his action in the future? There is no way to justify this, never. And such immoral act should never be justified.
Schallum Noakh!
Bushnell did what he did because he hates White people and due to being a dumb leftist believes Jews in Israel are just another type of White people. He’s not our guy.
“So at the end of the day a young communist man who never saw actual combat and hardly had any life experience still pointlessly died because of Israel.” -outclassed
Absolutely brutal and brilliant.
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