These celebrities truly do enjoy sniffing their own farts.
“I’m the GOAT, y’all, and I know it.”
No, no you’re not. Fuck off back to the ghetto, scum.
No way I could sit through the entirety of this bullshit…
So they’re both Canadian then? My (admittedly ignorant) impression is that it is fairly easy for Canadians to move to the US, fairly indefinitely, provided they have no criminal record, etc..?
Somewhat like how it is for Australia and New Zealand.
At least, that seems to have been the case for (at least most of) the many Canuck celebs I know of…
It’s also partly because, to my knowledge, municipal waste collection just… Doesn’t exist. And there’s no, for example, urban garbage bins/trash cans.
People just dump shit on the side of the road, and then burn it. On the open-windowed trains, it’s just thrown out the window…
In Darjeeling (so relatively less poor, at least historically), when you walked around the town squares, you would have piles of trash smouldering away off to the side, and everything vaguely smelled of it. It was… Unpleasant.
Varanasi and Old Delhi were the worst I saw, however. At least 10 times worse than Darjeeling, Jaipur or even Agra (where the Taj is)…
Having been there, if you go to the Northeast, it’s not really like that. Especially areas of just forest and farmland.
Mind you, I had to travel several hours east by train from where I was staying, already in the East (West Bengal) to see that, so you do have a point…
In general though, the further you get from Delhi, the less the overdevelopment is a thing.
Rajasthan (which you see in, for example, Octopussy) really wasn’t that bad…
Swedes would like a word… /s
But also, other Scandis do genuinely seem to see Danes as more… Swarthy, and they do have somewhat of a point, lol.
Not that “swarthy” means much, in reality, but nonetheless…
I discovered recently that the (Highland) Scots nickname for Anglos (🤢) and even some Lowlanders is Sassenachs, i.e. Saxons, so there is that…
Interestingly, there’s a “Judge John Deed” episode that covers this quite nicely (not sure of the title) where a boy needs to have an organ replacement from an animal, and refuses it on the grounds of being a vegan, but his parents want to force him to take the transplant against his will. Won’t spoil it except to say that it gets ethically… Messy.
But the fact that we’ve gone from that to actively discussing whether parents should be able to consent to actually killing their child (because that’s what it comes down to, in the end) is quite frightening, imho…
I don’t agree, actually. I can see the argument for withdrawing continuing care to keep a person artificially alive (e.g. the Terri Schiavo case, or the Boy in the Bubble), but I do not agree with the parents or state deciding to euthanize an individual, who is cognizant (and again, that’s an important consideration), against their will…
That’s murder. Or, if you like, “justified homicide”. That’s where I draw the line, personally. YMMV, and that’s fine, but it scares me a bit that we’ve gone from Terri Schiavo to this level of discussion, in twenty years…
To answer my own question there, Darwin is apparently roughly 9% Abo or Abo-heritage, whereas Alice is a smidge over 20%:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Springs
21.2% of the population is enough to turn it into a dysfunction shithole. "Impressive", in a sense.
Wait, did not the aboriginal already allow this for children, haha
I mean, to be facetious, we know they're not above diddling their kiddies, and I do believe honour killings were a thing in Abo communities, historically, but...
More seriously, it largely comes down to it being a unicameral territory, with a relatively small population (and therefore a small parliament), where it is relatively easier to get controversial legislation across (the US equivalent is DC. The British equivalent is maybe Wales). The only trouble was/is that the Federal government had the power to overrule said legislation, which is what they did:
The Abos, in this case, had very little to do with it, apart from I suppose being the historical reason why the NT is still a territory rather than a state.
Darwin, though (where the political power is) is extremely different to say, Alice Springs, or even Arnhem Land, which is where we generally hear about the kiddy-diddling and such. I'm not even sure Abos are a plurality in Darwin...
It's more, in this case, about the fact that children, by definition, cannot consent. This is also why "gender affirming care" for minors is inherently immoral.
We, as a society, have determined that those below a certain age cannot (legally) consent to certain life-changing things, and I would argue that death is the most definitive of those.
Besides, even leaving aside the issue of childhood more broadly, an infant generally cannot even verbalise, let alone conceptualise the concept of their own mortality, so this becomes really, really fishy...
Unless we want to redefine euthanasia as eugenics, which this is much closer to, by that definition...
That's the thing, at what point does it go from "voluntary" euthanasia to state-sanctioned murder (e.g Zyklon B in the Nazi extermination camps)? Generally the line for that is drawn at consent, so if we're dealing with children who cannot legally consent (and unlike with say, dementia, cannot have consented earlier in life), then that opens a whole other can of worms...
See, what I find odd is that the supposed "majority" of voters in the Low Countries support laws like this, hence it tends to attract broad political support.
I don't really understand that, in countries with 10 Million+ each (you wouldn't see that in Au/NZ, but I suppose you do in Canada), but it's almost like... They don't seem to view human life as having the same "value", I suppose.
Obviously the ultimate result of such views is genocide, but we're not quite there yet.
But yeah, discussing issues like this with Germanics (Dutch, Flemish, Swiss, less so actual Germans, for obvious reasons) is... Interesting. There's a big "gap" there, and I'm not quite sure why...
One thing I realised recently by spending time there, is that many of these continental European countries take the idea of being a (theoretically, if not borne out at all in reality) "flat society", with supposed "full equality". Hence being extremely early adopters of gay marriage, and "trans rights" (Belgium seems exceptionally obsessed with the latter, for reasons I do not understand), and, in many cases, adopting Soviet-block apartments for all, even at the cost of levelling their historic, "vernacular" architecture (looking at you, Sweden, Norway and Finland)...
Which seems to be at least part of the reason they hate England (less so the other "Home Nations") so much - that idea, and everything that comes with it, just doesn't to jive with Brits, despite the efforts of Labour and the Guardianistas, lol.
If I had to sum up what the end result of the "flat society". model is, at least in the Nordics, I would say... Beige. Everything just ends up beige.
Depending on how you look at it, the worst is probably their fellow Low Country, Belgium (in spite of the whole Catholicism thing)...
They've been doing it for longer, and their "scope" for euthanizing the mentally ill is considerably more broad. Plus I think they are higher on raw numbers, for that category...
However I believe the Dutch are the first to allow this for children, i.e. those who cannot consent to other things, but apparently can consent to state-sanctioned murder..?
Where you guys in Canuckistan differ seems to be in the breadth of where this is being applied, e.g. for "financial distress", etc.
It does strike me as fairly terrifying that we have gone from "in the case of terminal illness, in a few jurisdictions, in limited cases" (the Northern Territory in Australia, Jack Kevorkian, the Terri Schiavo case), to this becoming so widespread that it is a media trope, now, and there are whole TV series and movies based around it, and that you have bipartisan support for such extreme laws, everywhere from Canada to the Pays-Bas. It's insane.
Makes you wonder - if we're at this point now, where are we going to be on this issue (and abortion, and "gay rights") in another 20 years? Are we unironically headed for Futurama-style suicide booths? Because hell, at the rate we're trending, that doesn't feel all that far off, sadly...
It's also interesting as someone with a disease that would make me eligible for this (way into the future, but not as far into the future as for most people), that my voice is... Ignored as an "inconvenience"? Generally people with terminal/chronic/neurodegenerative diseases only seem to be listened to when we support euthanasia (or when we are "special", like Steven Hawking or Neil Daniher), never when we are against it.
As Stella Young said like a decade ago, before she died, that seems a little bit backwards and fucked up.
Lefties firebombed churches in Aus (specifically Victoria, as always) and Canada, too, to protest whatever bullshit cause du jour, from "sexual abuse" to the supposed "mass graves" in Canada that were conveniently never found...
And celebrities plus media figures justified and largely even glorified it, which tells you all you need to know, really, about where the West is headed...
The last time we saw large-scale public ransacking of churches? Mao's "Great Leap Forward". Which is also the main precedent for our trend of statue-toppling, which has also become ubiquitous across the West...
Makes you think.
To my knowledge, it's entirely the former, not the latter...
Hence the whole "secret meeting with coloured smoke to indicate choice" thing...
It's funny, because Iran is just about the only place I know of that deals with homosexuality by paying for gender "affirmation" surgery. It's a huge thing there. Which the left doesn't seem to know how to... Parse.
So the ambassador had better watch out on the streets of Tehran, lest they get snatched and come back... "Batting for the other team", lol.
Oh Iran. The Muslim theocracy that forcibly sterilises its own people and makes the degenerates even MORE degenerate...
Xerxes II would be rolling in his grave.
To quote Wikipedia (how bad do you have to be when even Wikipedia recognises something is off) :
Child euthanasia is a form of euthanasia that is applied to children who are gravely ill or have significant birth defects. In 2005, the Netherlands became the first country since the end of Nazi Germany to decriminalize euthanasia for infants with hopeless prognosis and intractable pain.
"Liberalism", the ultimate destination.
Slippery slope? Try more like a greasy cliff.
/s, or do you actually believe that..?? The downvotes suggest that the majority here... Wouldn't agree.
I enjoyed Hamer's "Lust for a Vampire" (with Yutte Stensgaard), even if it is rather corny...
And a few of those other late 60s/early 70s Hamer Dracula sequels are pretty decent.
There's also "Doctor Jekyll and Sister Hyde" if you want an, umm... Different take on that story.
"The Reptile" from 1966 is also kind of iconic..? Not necessarily sure if it "good", though.
For a slightly more classic aesthetic, "Nosferatu" the original silent film, and Fritz Lang's "M" from 1931 are both really, really creepy...
This is written from the opposite perspective/"side", but it details much of the same smug condescension from said "elites":
It also, more importantly, details how said elites want to forcibly censor social media platforms in response, because we're all too stupid to be allowed to think for ourselves, apparently...
Much like what Starmer is bringing in, in the UK, as well. Though that process had already begun under the so-called "Conservatives" there, of course...
Having just been encountering (online. I’m not there obviously) and reading about fuckery in NRW and the Palatinate, this is at least something, I guess…
Oh and of course dumb shit in Berlin. But it is Berlin, so that’s kind of a given.
Meanwhile in Aus it really feels like we have lost the plot. Everyone keeps saying “everything is fine”, but it doesn’t feel fine, and I’m definitely not alone in thinking that.
But GDP go up, so all’s good, yeah? /s
Interesting point there - I kind of wonder how that fits into general nihilism and broader just not really giving a shit.
Because I can say from anecdotal experience that after I was diagnosed with a chronic illness, and subsequently got some money saved up, I essentially went on a partying bender for a few months…
Not so much drugs (never really been a fan, either) outside of tobacco products, but heavy drinking, gambling, partying all night, lots of casual sex, etc. And obviously the financial cost that came with that (which I am still paying off!)…
Because I just… Didn’t give a shit, for a while there. Nothing “long term” felt like it really mattered.
Not quite the same, obviously, but I wonder how it fits into the slippery slope thing that you speak of.
My liver (and credit score) thanks me that benders like that were only temporary adventures, at the very least…
I’m also not so skeptical of situations like this occurring.
I’ve regularly met randos in hostels and been convinced to go clubbing with them that night, occasionally with the intention of something sexual (with the women, obviously. I don’t think I’ve ever had a gay male try to get me to go with them), with no prior knowledge. Occasionally that has landed me in some less than ideal places, overseas. So I would honestly believe it.
The only outlier for me is, as you point out, that they weren’t upfront about their proclivities. But who knows, honestly…
This is… Truly pathetic to watch.
I guess at least it, umm… Fights like a woman.
Chucks tantrums like a (little) girl, too.
Have to at least give it that much…