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01-17-2023, 10:22 AM
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See, that's what I love about Chicago.
After they initially subdued him, these two chaps were courteous enough to drag the guy out of the intersection and onto the sidewalk before continuing the beat-down, so as not to impede traffic.
You don't see that kind of good ole' fashioned community-mindedness very often anymore.
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01-18-2023, 09:01 AM
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I laughed out loud at work at this. Climate related...
https://twitter.com/_maxgranger/stat...50397359538176
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01-18-2023, 04:16 PM
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CA government provides **** healthcare--so much so--it encourages its citizens to commit suicide "for the common good." Then it takes their organs, "for the common good."
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01-18-2023, 06:57 PM
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01-18-2023, 08:58 PM
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Eugenics does not rely upon the consent of those being exterminated. It presupposes that a superior entity objectively judges who is fit and who should be sterilized or eliminated in order to reduce the burden on society and improve the health and virility of the species as a whole.
In practice, outside of very small (and typically homogenous) groups, the role of this objective entity has historically tended to be filled by the state. Since the population of Canada is neither small nor homogeneous, it stands to reason that the same rules should apply to it.
Don't get me wrong, I can understand how you would perceive the state being the sole arbiter of who may live and who must die as a dystopian scenario.
But I am assuming that this is because of "the state," and not because of the overall ethic of wanting to improve the health and fitness of the population, and to spare the terminally ill of the burden of being forced to live in agony.
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01-18-2023, 10:01 PM
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Eugenics does not rely upon the consent of those being exterminated. It presupposes that a superior entity objectively judges who is fit and who should be sterilized or eliminated in order to reduce the burden on society and improve the health and virility of the species as a whole.
I’m all for helping the terminally ill and suffering end their torment. Encouraging folks to off themselves for my benefit seems a little sketchy.
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01-19-2023, 11:28 AM
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You never get to be the superior entity. Neither do I. That's one of the challenges of any sort of organized society. Above a certain size, there develops a need for some form of government. This inherently results in some degree of handoff of decision-making power from the individual to the state.
In the specific case of selective extermination being employed in order to sanitize the population, this must happen. There will always be some who, despite their life having no actual value (or, often, a negative value) to society, place a sentimental value upon it which would preclude their voluntary extermination. Thus, the need for a third party to make objective decisions.
Right now, we can see an example of this in action, as blue states are rushing to make access to abortions free, provide transportation to those seeking abortions who cannot afford to travel, and in general to educate the public, and especially those in low-income and ethnic minority areas, about how to gain access to abortion services.
In the US, roughly 39% of all viable black pregnancies are aborted, as opposed to 12% of non-Hispanic white pregnancies. 49% of all abortions are performed on women living below the Federal poverty level ($21,720 for a family of 3 in 2020), and a whopping 74% in total for those living below 2x the Federal poverty level. Nearly 80% of those women who have an abortion have only a high school education or less.
Abortion, therefore, is a form of eugenics. It limits the growth of the non-white population, and also selectively targets the poor and the uneducated, who are most likely to produce offspring who also remain in poverty and achieve low educational attainment, thus exerting a parasitic effect on the society in which they live, both from and economic and a criminal perspective.
This is one of the very few positive and productive things which leftist government tends to achieve. We see it here in the US, in Canadia, and in left-leaning European nations as well. All of these governments are working towards the goal of improving society by exterminating the poor, the uneducated, and the non-white. And best of all, they are doing it in such a way that the targeted populations actually praise them for it.
In the specific case of selective extermination being employed in order to sanitize the population, this must happen. There will always be some who, despite their life having no actual value (or, often, a negative value) to society, place a sentimental value upon it which would preclude their voluntary extermination. Thus, the need for a third party to make objective decisions.
Right now, we can see an example of this in action, as blue states are rushing to make access to abortions free, provide transportation to those seeking abortions who cannot afford to travel, and in general to educate the public, and especially those in low-income and ethnic minority areas, about how to gain access to abortion services.
In the US, roughly 39% of all viable black pregnancies are aborted, as opposed to 12% of non-Hispanic white pregnancies. 49% of all abortions are performed on women living below the Federal poverty level ($21,720 for a family of 3 in 2020), and a whopping 74% in total for those living below 2x the Federal poverty level. Nearly 80% of those women who have an abortion have only a high school education or less.
Abortion, therefore, is a form of eugenics. It limits the growth of the non-white population, and also selectively targets the poor and the uneducated, who are most likely to produce offspring who also remain in poverty and achieve low educational attainment, thus exerting a parasitic effect on the society in which they live, both from and economic and a criminal perspective.
This is one of the very few positive and productive things which leftist government tends to achieve. We see it here in the US, in Canadia, and in left-leaning European nations as well. All of these governments are working towards the goal of improving society by exterminating the poor, the uneducated, and the non-white. And best of all, they are doing it in such a way that the targeted populations actually praise them for it.
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01-19-2023, 11:33 AM
You never get to be the superior entity. Neither do I. That's one of the challenges of any sort of organized society. Above a certain size, there develops a need for some form of government. This inherently results in some degree of handoff of decision-making power from the individual to the state.
In the specific case of selective extermination being employed in order to sanitize the population, this must happen. There will always be some who, despite their life having no actual value (or, often, a negative value) to society, place a sentimental value upon it which would preclude their voluntary extermination. Thus, the need for a third party to make objective decisions.
Right now, we can see an example of this in action, as blue states are rushing to make access to abortions free, provide transportation to those seeking abortions who cannot afford to travel, and in general to educate the public, and especially those in low-income and ethnic minority areas, about how to gain access to abortion services.
In the US, roughly 39% of all viable black pregnancies are aborted, as opposed to 12% of non-Hispanic white pregnancies. 49% of all abortions are performed on women living below the Federal poverty level ($21,720 for a family of 3 in 2020), and a whopping 74% in total for those living below 2x the Federal poverty level. Nearly 80% of those women who have an abortion have only a high school education or less.
Abortion, therefore, is a form of eugenics. It limits the growth of the non-white population, and also selectively targets the poor and the uneducated, who are most likely to produce offspring who also remain in poverty and achieve low educational attainment, thus exerting a parasitic effect on the society in which they live, both from and economic and a criminal perspective.
This is one of the very few positive and productive things which leftist government tends to achieve. We see it here in the US, in Canadia, and in left-leaning European nations as well. All of these governments are working towards the goal of improving society by exterminating the poor, the uneducated, and the non-white. And best of all, they are doing it in such a way that the targeted populations actually praise them for it.
In the specific case of selective extermination being employed in order to sanitize the population, this must happen. There will always be some who, despite their life having no actual value (or, often, a negative value) to society, place a sentimental value upon it which would preclude their voluntary extermination. Thus, the need for a third party to make objective decisions.
Right now, we can see an example of this in action, as blue states are rushing to make access to abortions free, provide transportation to those seeking abortions who cannot afford to travel, and in general to educate the public, and especially those in low-income and ethnic minority areas, about how to gain access to abortion services.
In the US, roughly 39% of all viable black pregnancies are aborted, as opposed to 12% of non-Hispanic white pregnancies. 49% of all abortions are performed on women living below the Federal poverty level ($21,720 for a family of 3 in 2020), and a whopping 74% in total for those living below 2x the Federal poverty level. Nearly 80% of those women who have an abortion have only a high school education or less.
Abortion, therefore, is a form of eugenics. It limits the growth of the non-white population, and also selectively targets the poor and the uneducated, who are most likely to produce offspring who also remain in poverty and achieve low educational attainment, thus exerting a parasitic effect on the society in which they live, both from and economic and a criminal perspective.
This is one of the very few positive and productive things which leftist government tends to achieve. We see it here in the US, in Canadia, and in left-leaning European nations as well. All of these governments are working towards the goal of improving society by exterminating the poor, the uneducated, and the non-white. And best of all, they are doing it in such a way that the targeted populations actually praise them for it.
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