JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
Some times Charlie was in the trees.
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JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
6hr ago
But it is a bit of gerrymandering to create an interesting stat, I'd agree.
It was quite literally a trivia question.
Criminal, if true.
Assuming @ArjinFerman is referring to the same story I am, the sequence of events went something like this. Mrs. Bennet discusses MAID with her Dr. and an assessment is performed but she ultimately decides that she doesn't want to go through with it and submits a request for in-patient hospice care. Mrs. Bennet subsequently takes a turn for the worse and falls into a coma at which point the Dr. "reassessed" her and then euthanized her on the basis of that reassessment. The Bennet family reportedly tried to take the doctor to court but never got anywhere because it had all been done legally and above-board.
You're appealing to "rules" and "processes" and "dignity" when a good chunk of my post is about how there is evidence that the rules and processes are not being followed while the medical establishment actively lobbies for their removal.
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
7hr ago
Both have stringent rules (terminal, suffering with no chance of improvement, voluntary and well considered, review committee affirms), so I'm not too worried about a healthcare system running quick and cheap cost optimization...
Except as I noted in the subsequent links, the medical establishment is actively lobbying to do loosen those rules, and the DHHS is actively investigating Network for Hope for stripping patients for parts.
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
7hr ago
The "ghoulish proposal" is in this case is doing away with the Dead Donor Rule and expanding MAID explicitly as a means of increasing access to donor organs.
I think you citing /r/atheism kind of proves my point. /r/atheism was always an explicitly progressive subreddit. It's whole reason for being was to be a place for members of the liberal striver class vent their spleens and organize against the religious right.
As I recall it /r/atheism was one of, if not the, primary attack vectors through which the woke gained access to the wider nerd/gamer sphere.
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
16hr ago
Popping the filter bubble and the sanctity of life.
This Tuesday I was presented with a piece of Trivia that brought me up short.
More people are killed each year by doctors in Canada than are killed by guns in the US.
My initial reaction was to quite literally exclaim "bullshit!" but having looked into it, there does appear to be a case. According to the Sixth Annual Report on Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada (which is currently the most recent report available) Canadian doctors euthanized 16,499 individuals in 2024, an increase of 7.5% over the 15,343 euthanized in 2023. Meanwhile The Trace a website maintained by the Gun Control advocacy organization Everytown USA maintains that there were 14,651 instances of Homicide by Gunshot in 2025. While this number does not include self-inflicted gunshots (IE Suicides) it does include an estimated 1,200 cases where the shooting was likely justified (IE suspects being shot by police or by would-be victims) and at least 2 instances of execution by firing squad.
Upon review of those numbers and their associated trend-lines where instances of euthanasia in Canada have increased with each consecutive year since it was legalized, while homicide in the US has been trending downward for the last 5 years from a Pandemic-era peak it actually seems likely to me that more people are killed by doctors in Canada than are killed by guns in the US. Not "per capita" but by raw quantity (16 thousand people and change versus 14 thousand and change).
Considering the above in the context of another story that came across my feed a couple weeks ago. A Ghoulish Proposal Gets a Prestige Endorsement, it seems to me that there is a concerted effort on the part of certain factions to commodify and devalue Human life. See this story from the New York Times last year Organ Donors are too Rare we Need a New Definition of Death. I expect the media to assure me that that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy announcing that the Network for Hope (an organ procurement non-profit serving Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio) having had their certification revoked on the basis of credible claims that many donors were not legally dead at the time their organs were harvested is completely unrelated.
On a slightly different track, back when Harris was running for president there was this "ridiculous claim" that the Left wanted to legalize Abortion up to the moment of crowning, but just this Monday, Massachusetts became the 10th state in the union to do just that.
As in my prior "Popping filter bubbles" posts I don't feel like any of these things really warrant a post on their own, but when taken together they illustrate a trend, and I find myself lacking the vocabulary to describe my growing sense of unease with where this one seems to be going.
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
1d ago
And who was that article written by?
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
1d ago
despite somehow having been arrested 9 times prior in a span of 34 months for various violent offenses
The frustrating thing to me is that people like you are try to use this as justification to for tearing down core western ideals like "equality before the law" rather than recognize it as evidence that decline is a choice and that we (as a society) could effectively solve violent crime through the simple expediency of arresting violent criminals and keeping them in jail.
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
1d ago
I agree, he looks like 80s Ed Sheeran.
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
1d ago
If feel like "touted the virtues" is overstating things but it is a fun movie that I had recently rewatched and had been considering posting about as an interesting culture war time capsule.
The plot revolves around rich-preppies colluding with university president Jessica Walter, playing an ersatz Hillary Clinton, to drive "the normies" off campus. Part of their plan is to explicitly de-normalize normie behavior like guys asking girls out, so that the university can claim that they are responding to legitimate complaints rather than engaging in illegal discrimination.
The whole "rape culture" thing was satire back in the 90 but now it has fallen victim to Muggeridge's Law.
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
1d ago
Don't try to "both sides" me here, I'm not buying it. Los Angeles and San Francisco are both effectivly "One-party states" and we can see what that party's rule has wrought.
I also note that you still haven't answered my question
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
1d ago
Twitter I will grant you, but my impression is that Reddit and WordPress were always explicitly Left-Wing/Blue-Tribe spaces (the right were all on Blogspot and substack) meanwhile YouTube had remained neutral/vaguely-libertarian until 2020 when they started cracking down on "misinformation" and footage of a "mostly peaceful" nature.
Given the mix of Constitutionalism and Christian Dominionism that motivated both MLK and John Brown I feel like both of their movements read more as "far-right" than "proto-woke".
To invoke God while claiming that people ought to be judged by the content of their character rather than racial or class traits is to explicitly reject intersectionalism and pretty much everything the modern secular left stands for.
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
1d ago
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
1d ago
I was trying to keep it easy, but if you prefer we could look at hull losses.
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
1d ago
You need an actual alternative to academia though
Do we? What critical function do you believe that academia is filling?
I don't think it's the "superweapon" that you seem to think it is due to a combination of "3." and @The_Nybbler's observation about dance training. Most people you meet on the street do not have the sort of precision control over their bodies that she is demonstrating in that video, and when you see it, it stands out. You see a similar phenomenon with competitive athletes.
She has the physical training and talent to not only do a standing front-flip but make it look effortless. Most women don't.
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
1d ago
Ok, imagine that I had said "converting all the matter in the universe to computronium" then.
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
1d ago
you'd get into too many arguments about what constitutes an accident.
I don't see why, call it every incident where one vehicle made contact with another outside of normal operations like towing or refueling.
No i will not allow you exclude non fatal traffic accidents from your sample.
Now you may complain that this unfairly lumps fender-benders in with mass casualty events, but that is my point. An accidental collision in a car tends to be a lot more forgiving than an accidental collision in aviation.
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
2d ago
What exactly do you think the difference between minimal and maximal entropy is?
When in doubt go over the top, that's how Dad did it, that's how America does it, and it has been working out pretty well so far.
We got the marketplace of ideas back.
I was not aware that we had lost it.
If you want something less abstract, there is now a general consensus among serious people that demographic performance differentials (whether or not they are genetic or environmental in origin) are real. The idea that all measured gaps are artifacts of testing bias or an unjust economic system did not withstand public scrutiny.
This is just the intersectionalists being forced to retreat from "the bailey" to "the motte". Yes "the blues" have suffered some setbacks and are currently backpedaling, but there is still a ways to go before we can reasonably claim victory.
What you don't seem to grasp is that we don't have to theorize about what sort of state or policies "American Blues" would enact if given free rein, we can just look at what they've done in the places where they have free rein.
No it very manifestly is not.
We are watching mainstream Democrats pivot from "Don't be ridiculous that would never happen." to "Yes it's happening and that's a good thing." in the space of an election cycle.
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