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Description: Passive suicidality is endured by 1 in 10 adults, yet remains understudied. Ideation-to-action theories in suicidology offer explanatory reach: a capacity to understand phenomenologies of suicidal ideation, and to examine questions of why certain individuals are afflicted with a desire for death. Critical suicidology implicates oppressive societal hierarchies and cultural scripts in undermining human worth intra-psychically. The internalization of these systemic, “intrapolitical,” drivers of hopelessness may represent a key pathway to suicidal ideation. We fine-tuned theoretically grounded pretrained BERT models to detect expressions of perceived burdensomeness, thwarted belongingness, self-hatred, and loneliness among r/SuicideWatch post authors. Embracing a radically reflexive methodology, which highlights and interrogates investigator subjectivity amid the act of knowledge creation, thematic analysis isolated potential collective and within-person psychopolitical determinants of suicidality.