While this is excellent satire, it's obviously not real. The actual story is far, far darker. The source of this image:
http://www.tunisia-live.net/2012/01/12/one-year-after-the-uprisings-tunisians-still-self-immolating/
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"self-immolation" is when people set themselves on fire, often in protest. Yes, conditions are so bad that people willingly set themselves on fire. Kinda makes your problems a little less significant, doesn't it?
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It was started by a man named Bouazizi:
"Bouazizi was like the hundreds of desperate, downtrodden young men in hardscrabble Sidi Bouzid. Bouazizi earned an income from selling vegetables, work that he'd had for seven years.
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On Dec. 17 his livelihood was threatened when a policewoman confiscated his unlicensed vegetable cart and its goods. Not satisfied with accepting the 10-dinar ($7) fine that Bouazizi tried to pay, the policewoman allegedly slapped the scrawny young man, spat in his face and insulted his dead father.
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Humiliated and dejected, Bouazizi, the breadwinner for his family of eight, went to the provincial headquarters, hoping to complain to local municipality officials, but they refused to see him. At 11:30 a.m., less than an hour after the confrontation with the policewoman and without telling his family, Bouazizi returned to the elegant double-storey white building with arched azure shutters, poured fuel over himself and set himself on fire."
http://ti.me/16Zvmyo
The man who did this is resposible for the Arabic Spring; an event that triggered multiple revolutions in 2010. After he did this a revolution in Tunisia broke out which blew over to Egypt (Twice), Libya and Yemen (twice). This also escalated to Syria, a country that is currently still at war.
http://www.tunisia-live.net/2012/01/12/one-year-after-the-uprisings-tunisians-still-self-immolating/
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"self-immolation" is when people set themselves on fire, often in protest. Yes, conditions are so bad that people willingly set themselves on fire. Kinda makes your problems a little less significant, doesn't it?
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It was started by a man named Bouazizi:
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On Dec. 17 his livelihood was threatened when a policewoman confiscated his unlicensed vegetable cart and its goods. Not satisfied with accepting the 10-dinar ($7) fine that Bouazizi tried to pay, the policewoman allegedly slapped the scrawny young man, spat in his face and insulted his dead father.
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Humiliated and dejected, Bouazizi, the breadwinner for his family of eight, went to the provincial headquarters, hoping to complain to local municipality officials, but they refused to see him. At 11:30 a.m., less than an hour after the confrontation with the policewoman and without telling his family, Bouazizi returned to the elegant double-storey white building with arched azure shutters, poured fuel over himself and set himself on fire."
http://ti.me/16Zvmyo