This is a terrific comment! Why didn’t you provide all that information in the original post? It was so extremely misleading that my skepticism meter maxed out.

Thank you for providing all the background information with sources. Because your original post asserted journalists were murdered, then mentions Aaron Bushnell without any further context, it suggests that IDF murdered him. I believe I’ve made myself clear in my original comment that this is very misleading. I’ve also pointed out that the linked content from that original post is not adequately sourced.

Now that you have taken the time to provide more details about the story, I understand that this is just a misunderstanding due missing context in the original post.

Like I said, I’m sympathetic towards the cause. Reading back my comments, I don’t believe I “said stupid shit,” am “too much in denial” or am “brainwashed by some zionist indoctrination.” I encourage everybody to have a healthy dose of skepticism but don’t appreciate your hostility and wild accusations.

(I’m interested to learn about that gig to earn money by saying stupid shit, though.)

The links you’ve provided offer no details from credible sources. The only information you’ve provided was Aaron Bushnell, which you only now clarified to be “a separate incident” after being called out.

I don’t doubt that there’s truth in what you’re saying and I sympathize with the cause, but surely you can appreciate how your approach constitutes spreading of misinformation.

I would say it’s deliberately misleading/propaganda; there’s little uncertainty about what happened.

For those of you that may be as confused as I was upon reading this post, Aaron Bushnell set himself on fire outside the front gate of the Embassy of Israel in Washington, D.C.

This really speaks volumes to how little people care about where their food comes from.

The amount of meat, for example, that is just thrown away sickens me. As if it’s not bad enough that we farm animals in deplorable conditions, we kill them so they can be thrown straight into the trash.

Sometimes, when I am reminded of the plague our species is upon this planet, I just can’t care about keeping homo sapiens sapiens from going extinct.

I’m not sure why you’ve chosen to be obtuse and misinterpret my comments. I’ve not said that Chichen Itzá should become a library.

The Vatican and Pisa are actually terrific examples of sites that are not overrun with tour guide and market stand mafias running every tourist scam under the sun.

So that’s it? We concede that this is the acceptable way we as a species best want to present our anthropological heritage? Forgive my comments on how we can strive to do better.

Good grief, this is such a toxic community.

So you decided to not read the article and fabricate your own, fictional version of events?

Video also shows members of the public running up to the man as he was being led away by National Guard personnel, and hitting and yelling at him in the process.

Perhaps you’ve not visited this place, so for an impression: the area itself is very large and open and the site has restricted access with a fairly pricey admission fee.

Voices don’t carry very far in this environment, however the issue is that there are literally hundreds if not close to a thousand vendors literally screaming for attention. My objection is to the authorities who have permitted this kind of presence at a heritage site. Of course locals have taken advantage of the situation, that much is very clear.

Not for me; I don’t endorse violence.

It’s great that we’re enforcing laws that are there to protect our anthropological heritage. It’s not so great that it means this violator is attacked by the locals.

As an aide, I feel like Mexico themselves have quite a ways to go to protect the heritage site. The grounds of Chichen Itzá are absolutely overrun with “tour guides” telling dumbed down or outright fabricated stories and literally hundreds of souvenir stands with obnoxious sellers that don’t shy from any tactic to try to get your attention.

Walking around in that area should be serene, educational and immersive. Instead, it’s like being in a kindergarten, where hordes of salespeople are incessantly calling out to you (“where are you from, sir, where are you from?”), literally throwing cheap Chinese junk in your direction, playing drums and pan flutes or squeezing squeaky toys and gimmicks that are meant to sound like monkeys. It’s a cacophony of cheap garbage and harassment from locals (and nonstop clapping to hear the temple’s acoustic effect) that takes you out of experiencing your surroundings in an inkling of tranquility. In fact, only from specific angles is it even possible to capture a photo of the Temple of Kukulcán without the brightly colored eye sores of a hundred nearly identical souvenir stands visible directly adjacent to it.

Mexico should also take more pride in this site and treat Chichen Itzá with more respect.

I didn’t mean to suggest that it isn’t affecting the ordinary, working class Russian. My observation is that there don’t appear to be any less affluent Russian tourists.

Yes, of course, and I agree; I was only remarking that there’s a demographic that doesn’t appear to be affected by this at all.

I travel a lot, both for work and leisure, and wherever there’s no travel restrictions for Russians, like Thailand, UAE, or Egypt, it’s simply overrun with Russian tourists. And they’re rich, too, with the latest iPhones, Apple Watches and all the other fashion brands.

As much as I’d like to see l say that Russia is feeling the impact of this war, empirically, I can’t say that it seems that way.

What a terrible inconvenience for you.

pyrotechnics likely caused the roof to catch fire

Will we never learn?

I was going to comment on how this tragedy is a reminder of the lessons not learned from The Station, but AP actually links to an article that curates the many repetitions of this kind of incident. This should be required reading for all night club staff.