'Freedom to die' is a trojan horse ideology that libertarians in every country trip over. The concept of nominally having a pulse but still being a vegetable (or having other terminal issues) raises the concern in people's mind over when they want others to stop fighting on their behalf and just switch them off. Then they naively call for such protocols to be incorporated institutionally, at which point the hostile institutions weaponise their new freedoms.
Well to be clear I don't hold the sympathetic interpretation as any more likely than pre-emptive quitting in cynical self-interest. Either's possible. And I'm a bad gambler, so watch the truth turn out to be the one about them quitting in anger at being questioned. "You think you hate them enough..."
There's more to this particular part. It stuck out to me too. Could it be that certain employees quit in sympathy protest for the guy that they had almost been forced to kill due to doctor's orders? Quitting in anger because they didn't successfully murder him seems incredibly brazen, but I wouldn't put it past doctors and nurses. It's also possible that they quit in fear, not protest, having been rumbled. They could skedaddle for the horizon and get re-hired by any other hospital, since they all do the same thing and the important thing is to cover for the system.
The other half of the equation is that they will deliberately make you as ill and doomed as possible before declaring you dead. The UK codified this in the Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying Patient, which was supposedly abolished but actually just rebranded:
However, The Daily Telegraph reported that the programme was just rebranded and that its supposed replacement would "perpetuate many of its worst practices, allowing patients to suffer days of dehydration, or to be sedated, leaving them unable to even ask for food or drink."
The reality is this protocol is likely in practice all across the western world, because we saw identical stories from multiple countries suggesting that it is systematic practice for doctors to fabricate Do Not Resuscitate orders, then drug patients with morphine and fentanyl until they are 'deemed dying', then use midazolam to help them on their way. Brenda Downs and Grace Schara are examples in the US, the testimonies by scottish families in their covid inquiry, the Isle of Man care home whistleblower, and others all tell the identical story, even separated by seas and oceans. Midazolam Matt in the UK interviewing a doctor about how best to give covid patients 'a good death' then claiming he'd never heard of Midazolam in parliament was another tell.
They have no compunction about deliberately trying to kill you, donor or not. The funny thing is they seem more likely to try it for what could be perceived as easy targets with nobody on their side, such as junkies (the OP here), retards (Grace Schara) and the elderly (millions during covid). My take away is that if you ever have to be admitted to hospital for some reason, try to make it clear by way of jovial anecdotes that you have lots of psycho relatives who hate doctors and might try to burn down hospitals if they ever had a grudge against one.
Musk tweets "This is illegal" and receives a community note with an FEC source stating that's it's okay for foreign nationals to assist in election campaigns.
I'm hoping everyone here already sees the irrelevance of this statement, but for completion's sake, the Labour party are not some garden variety foreigners. They are the party in government in the UK. That makes any member of them coming over to the US, for the purposes of influencing US policy, a foreign agent, who is required to register. If they go ahead and assist Harris' election campaign while making any statements about not being foreign agents during border clearance, then they're engaged in fraud and criminal election interference.
But for all that the midwits on Twitter who are screaming about 'muh brits', your problem remains homegrown. What's to say the Biden govt just won't just give the all clear to all these Labour commies to assist Kamala on US turf? What LEA is going to get involved? What judge is going to uphold anything? I doubt the Labour party would have made this post without knowledge of a prior invitation.
Openly advertising their attempts to send in agents to influence the election? No fear of arrest? Total trust in the embedded US apparatchiks to assist them...? Not even the British government bothers to pretend America is not a banana republic any more.
One critical component of solution 2 is that it goes hand in hand with exporting the aggrieved mohammedan survivors out of the middle east and into our own neighbourhoods. Asmongoloid's normieshit "IDGAF" opinion quickly becomes "wow I suddenly care a lot and support option 3", pass the collection bucket for Israel, rinse and repeat until WW3.
Anyone who would willingly identify themself as a 'doctor' or 'scientist' in the wake of the pandemic should have the same stigma as if they call themselves a pedophile or niggerfaggot.
edit: this post is not a joke. there is nothing I believe as sincerely as this
The entire game is muh 'waycizm bad', from top to bottom. You've got equal odds hoping for Ghost of Yotei not to be pozzed (ie. hopeless).
People are responding about recency bias commanding women's preferences, but I think that's wrong. Men want a New Thing to be excited about just as much as women, they just no longer have it because the entertainment industry has stopped providing it - in the case of Hollywood they've stopped entirely and in gaming, almost entirely.
'Men=Mars, Women=Venus' is just the surface level takeaway from this. I think what it shows is the danger of ceding ground in the culture war because of some perception that the medium is beneath you. Subversives don't see any medium as beneath their attention for propaganda insertion. Yet on the right you sometimes get the kind of ideological advice which emphasises real world pragmatism at the expense of any pursuit of the imagination.
Books? stick with non-fiction, educate yourself or get some self-improvement done
Games? those are toys bro, how old are you
movies? shit will rot your brain, maybe watch an oldie now and then
We should celebrate the possibilities of fiction and imaginative pursuits or else this is what we get.
In the end we get this landscape where it's seen as entirely acceptable that men have no option if they want to indulge their imagination, except to watch propagandistic slop for women and children or else delve 60 years into the past. Most men, out of convenience, are not going to do that, so they opt for the slop - because everyone wants to be told a story sooner or later - and if something is merely 50% propaganda rather than 100%, they end up swallowing it down and celebrating the fact that they weren't totally poisoned just now. I think that contributes massively to how the overton window shifts. Concepts of honour, heroism, justice, loyalty, tradition, etc. are a completely forgotten currency, because we're left with no modern vector to hear about them. Incidentally I think this is also how Ghost of Tsushima slipped under the radar and won praise from men despite shitting all over those values, because 'slashy samurai man cool' and 'well you gotta play something'.
'You gotta play/read/watch something' is true and it's always going to win as an impulse, over sentiments like 'why aren't you lifting weights and learning about crop rotation in preparation for the ethnostate, brother?'
I generally let them breeze by me without caring too much about anime openings since they don't cater to my tastes, but if you like rock/punk then I have a soft spot for the opening of Uchouten Kazoku (or full version ). Seems like it would be fun to drum.
If there weren't enough reasons to be sceptical of enriching R*, the min specs for this clearly older game are actually higher than those for RDR2. To hell with this needless spec bloat.
As someone points out in the replies, the right hand pic is from 2018 so it's dumb and misleading to stick the game titles on the pics as if there was a shift. The reality is that Ghost of Tsushima was an incredibly feminist-contaminated game and Sucker Punch has been a virtue signalling, "Look at our women!"-type studio for a long time.
Reminder that Ubisoft Creative Director Palle Hoffstein was involved in trying to dox Mombot.
That's some old GG lore. I already had boycotted Ubisoft for about 7 years prior to that. This company has always been absolute fucking cancer.
I wouldn't have a clue, but my gut says no - hardcore has more of a lineage with NYC, with bands like Agnostic Front. I looked up Evergreen Terrace and they're pretty similar despite being generations apart.
Now someone not into metal might listen to those and think whatever... it's loud and they're shouting, it's metal. Not really though. Metal Archives usually has your back in figuring out what a band is.
The first time I really chewed over this phenomenon is when I heard it said of Tony Blair, from politicians who knew him, that he was somebody who could convince himself of anything. When you combine this with a manipulative personality who selectively - even if unconsciously - picks the truths he wants to believe and pass on to others, you get a master manipulator.
Also on the offchance that you really will benefit from instructions on how to wipe your own arse:
trace this thread back up to its parent comment from ger111. there you will find a link to an image hosted on catbox. it's a giant nosed, allleged jew holding a plushie with no giant nose. I fixed the plushie for accuracy, as I facetiously said in the original link.
Now if you CAN'T see that link, you have confirmed for yourself that something is blocking you from seeing catbox links. congratulations in that case of having confirmed you needlessly removed my dumb little link twice now. now fuck off. btw don't you dare remove that link too pretending that it's non-working. obviously everybody else in this comment chain can see it.
What the FUCK are you talking about? You can see it with your OWN FUCKING EYES or else FIX YOUR FUCKING INTERNET. I've also spelt out what it is in plain words in a previous post - it's my having drawn a big nose on ger111's plushie pic in MSpaint, now get the fuck out of my inbox and stop interrogating me you insufferable cunt
It's not metal, it's hardcore and metalcore, no matter how anyone presents the story including the bands or promoters themselves. Even the Simp Rock Palace framed this as 'Four Hardcore Bands Exit'. They might be the biggest hardcore band in the world, but I wouldn't know because I only know metal and they're not a metal band.
The distinction is important because the scenes are very different. 'Hardcore' doesn't mean 'really really hardcore brutal metal' or anything like that, it means hardcore punk. 'Metalcore' means hardcore punk with metal elements. The difference is reflected in the fans. In contrast to metal, where you get a vast plurality of mostly down to earth people, of all ages, for -core bands you get a bunch of commie faggots, mostly. Either very young ones or leftist crusties living in the past, still imagining themselves as college students in Che shirts. The type who probably also still love Rage Against the Machine and think they're subversive.
So with that said, it's BIZARRE that a fest like this would book Rittenhouse. This is the organiser's statement:
The Antihero Podcast, shared a statement on Instagram announcing the lineup change: “We have been silent. But we are prepping. The liberal mob attempted to destroy Shell Shock. But we will not allow it. This is now about more than a concert. This is a war of ideology.”
The liberal mob? The fans of the bands you booked ARE a liberal mob lmao. It could be one of the hen's tooth right wing punks, setting out to try and reclaim some ideological ground in the scene, or it could be some kind of based organiser deliberately sabotaging things, by doing something he accurately predicted several bands would throw a fit in response to.
So the way this is being reported now, as a kind of 'look how unpopular Rittenhouse is among metallers' story, is fantasy and probably damage control. A bunch of faggot lefty bands in a faggot lefty scene somehow (perhaps as part of a clever trap) found themselves on the same bill as a guy who shot antifa child molesters. And they removed themselves in support of trannifa. It's a non-story or a funny one, but it isn't about metal in the slightest.
amish reposted it right there above you, same file and link. don't worry about it at this stage
I think it's great as is. I welcome the info overload and accept that I can't give an equal amount of attention to each link. Anything I don't get to read which might have interested me, that's my failing of discernment or dedication.
I sympathise with those who are worried that we're losing good discussion points in the overload... but isn't that just life itself.
I call bullshit since I also checked my phone and typed in the url manually. I also just checked a second browser I never use on my phone which makes a total of 5 browsers across 2 devices it all worked on. If you're having a problem with catbox as a site you should also have a problem with the guy I'm replying to, well?
Let the record show the only time I've had a post removed in 3+ years was for drawing a big nose on a plushie in mspaint. You people really are your own worst enemy.
This is organised damage control. I skimmed /v/ a little the other day and the lefty complaints about 'American puritans' (ie. conservatives) were too uniform for this deflection to be coincidence, about mistranslating the word 'puritan'.
Absolutely nobody believes the censorship of Japanese content is coming from conservatives. The shonen jump guy is mixing in his experiences from 30 years ago and in the next breath Yuji Horii mentions Type A/Type B bodies and says 'who's complaining about this? I don't know'. Yet the defence is somehow AkShUlY tHeY mEaNt CoNsErVaTiVeS.
Very useful summary. I like Matt from what little I've heard of him in the post-Tenet interviews, seems more principled and less retarded than some of the rest of the conserva-sphere, but this video on SIDS was the first vid I've ever seen from her and it's clear from both the topic of the video and bits like 9m45s that she is not YT friendly.
I suspect these parts cut to the root of the issue and are the final-straw factors behind the reported pay disputes discussed further up:
He is running a dissident political channel that is heavily reliant on a captured, censored, hostile media platform. She's more based, is less connected to his audience and could take or leave the show. Intriguingly, that SIDS video is the last example of her content which isn't a livestream.
Seems less about money than it was about patience - he'd lost patience with a lesser contributing partner, she'd lost patience with tailoring her contributions to a censored show, so any pay dispute is just a cloaked opportunity for them both to announce their exhausted patience.