# \#TheResistance turns to self-harm **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 15, 2018, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theresistance-turns-to-self-harm/821371 "2018-09-15T01:27:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theresistance-turns-to-self-harm/821371/1 "2018-09-15T01:27:51Z")
> [@](#): > > A college professor is facing felony charges after shooting himself on a Nevada campus last month in what police say he claimed was a protest of President Donald Trump, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported. [source](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018/09/14/nevada-professor-shoots-self-trump-protest/1300536002/) I wonder if he’ll get fired, or promoted. Seriously though, what a disappointment he must be to his students. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theresistance-turns-to-self-harm/821371/2 "2018-09-15T02:13:03Z")
> [@HurricaneDitka](#): > > [source](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018/09/14/nevada-professor-shoots-self-trump-protest/1300536002/) > > I wonder if he’ll get fired, or promoted. Seriously though, what a disappointment he must be to his students. Why? Did he refuse to push back the due date for some term papers while he recovered? ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theresistance-turns-to-self-harm/821371/3 "2018-09-15T02:22:02Z")
> [@HurricaneDitka](#): > > [source](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018/09/14/nevada-professor-shoots-self-trump-protest/1300536002/) > > I wonder if he’ll get fired, or promoted. Seriously though, what a disappointment he must be to his students. I read this article and think that this person is probably suffering from a mental illness. But you’re right, it’s funny shit, thanks for posting it! ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theresistance-turns-to-self-harm/821371/4 "2018-09-15T03:10:24Z")
Still, we have to consider what this means. Is this, in itself, the utter collapse of the so-called “Resistance”, or just the first in a series of death spasms? ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theresistance-turns-to-self-harm/821371/5 "2018-09-15T03:22:44Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Still, we have to consider what this means. Is this, in itself, the utter collapse of the so-called “Resistance”, or just the first in a series of death spasms? I don’t know about you guys, but I am now a Trump supporter since some guy shot himself. Also self harm to protest war has been used before. Vietnam had several self immolations. Fasting is a form of self harm to show protest. Self harm to show protest isn’t wrong per se, but the way this guy did it wasn’t really that wise. ---
**Author:** ![Lance\_Turbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lance_turbo/32/6156_2.png) [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theresistance-turns-to-self-harm/821371/6 "2018-09-15T03:54:23Z")
An old man failed at his suicide attempt. LOL! This thread is disgusting. ---
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theresistance-turns-to-self-harm/821371/7 "2018-09-15T04:11:13Z")
> [@Lance\_Turbo](#): > > An old man failed at his suicide attempt. LOL! > > This thread is disgusting. If it was a suicide attempt, it was the most incompetent one ever. He shot himself in the _arm_ (with a .22). This was more of a dumb hunger strike (with a side of felony charges) than a suicide attempt. ---
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theresistance-turns-to-self-harm/821371/8 "2018-09-15T04:12:39Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > I read this article and think that this person is probably suffering from a mental illness. … I have very little doubt he’s suffering from a mental illness. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theresistance-turns-to-self-harm/821371/9 "2018-09-15T04:20:59Z")
> [@HurricaneDitka](#): > > I have very little doubt he’s suffering from a mental illness. #alllefties ammirite? ---
**Author:** ![Lance\_Turbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lance_turbo/32/6156_2.png) [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theresistance-turns-to-self-harm/821371/10 "2018-09-15T04:27:27Z")
> [@HurricaneDitka](#): > > If it was a suicide attempt, it was the most incompetent one ever. He shot himself in the _arm_ (with a .22). This was more of a dumb hunger strike (with a side of felony charges) than a suicide attempt. It was a suicide attempt and incompetent. Therefore it’s hilarious. You have said yourself that you believe he is suffering from mental illness. Please, please, please stop mocking the sick old man for being bad at suicide. It is beyond gross. ---
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theresistance-turns-to-self-harm/821371/11 "2018-09-15T04:32:17Z")
> [@Lance\_Turbo](#): > > It was a suicide attempt and incompetent. Therefore it’s hilarious. > > You have said yourself that you believe he is suffering from mental illness. > > Please, please, please stop mocking the sick old man for being bad at suicide. It is beyond gross. What makes you so certain it was a suicide attempt? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theresistance-turns-to-self-harm/821371/12 "2018-09-15T04:34:30Z")
This just reinforces something I already believed; mentally ill people shouldn’t be able to bring guns into a school. That’s probably not the lesson the OP took away from this. ---
**Author:** ![Lance\_Turbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lance_turbo/32/6156_2.png) [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theresistance-turns-to-self-harm/821371/13 "2018-09-15T04:36:11Z")
> [@HurricaneDitka](#): > > What makes you so certain it was a suicide attempt? A mentally ill old man shot himself after he wrote a suicide note. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theresistance-turns-to-self-harm/821371/14 "2018-09-15T04:36:52Z")
Dear Lord, as if we needed more evidence that the right is absolutely odious now making fun of the mentally ill is apparently funny ---
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theresistance-turns-to-self-harm/821371/15 "2018-09-15T04:37:53Z")
> [@Lance\_Turbo](#): > > An old man shot himself after he wrote a suicide note. You interpreted “for the janitor” as a suicide note? I took it to mean “I’m going to make a mess when I shoot myself in the arm, and have to go to the doctor afterwards instead of stay here and clean up the mess I make, so my apologies, here is $100 for your trouble”. ETA: $100 to clean up some blood, sure. $100 for finding a corpse hardly seems like a living wage. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theresistance-turns-to-self-harm/821371/16 "2018-09-15T04:42:51Z")
Can’t say that I blame him, the despair when Trump turned that hurricane into a plain old storm… ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theresistance-turns-to-self-harm/821371/17 "2018-09-15T04:43:35Z")
This is seriously distasteful, dude. Like, what the fuck? ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theresistance-turns-to-self-harm/821371/18 "2018-09-15T04:51:04Z")
Maybe he needs a few trump supporters to show him how it’s done. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theresistance-turns-to-self-harm/821371/19 "2018-09-15T04:59:56Z")
Maybe he should’ve blown up a federal building, that’s not an entirely unreasonable way to protest Trump is it??? CMC fnord! ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theresistance-turns-to-self-harm/821371/20 "2018-09-15T07:30:56Z")
I have no idea why everybody seems so surprised at the utter lack of class and empathy that posting this the way it was posted demonstrated. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theresistance-turns-to-self-harm/821371.md?page=2)