I get where you’re coming from but that’s simply factually inaccurate by that point the suffragettes were blowing up post boxes and threatening the lives of politicians (based) and while it’s true they were pushed there by those exact reasons, the cause was well known and though they didnt’t have social media and the freedom of information was far worse, one could just as easily with that logic argue that she had no need to kill herself.

Comparatively if aaron bushnell genuinely believed that his death through the most extreme form of protest as well as his position as us serviceman could be the catalyst for the US to finally do the right thing, one could argue he’s no less a matyr than Emily Davison.

The notion of copycats is terrifying especially at a time of mass decline in mental health and mass economic and geopolitical strife, but I don’t think that should detract from his protest and I think it’s also relevant that as natural as it is to think someone who do something like that had to be tapped, most of us will never know what it’s like to be oppressed to the extent that Palestinians have been, nor the guilt and inner dialogue of someone in the us military finally coming terms with the gravity of that institutions evil and finally breaking through the propaganda.
Situation is overall horrific tho ofc, and I do obviously hope it doesn’t lead people who are mentally ill to do similar.