"First do no harm." - literally the Hippocratic oath, which doctors used to swear by.
Though, much like how Google no longer swears by "Don't be evil," here's the extremely meme-worthy, botched modern version where they justify doing harm, because they're "highly educated" experts, lol: https://archive.is/A9trr
Shall we call it the hypocritical oath, instead?
And here is another example, like the OP, of the inevitable consequences of that change: https://archive.is/r4pdm
If that's the case I'm thinking of, it's... Genuinely disturbing.
The "after" images are fairly NSFW. Fair warning.
She did more than just blind herself, that's for sure.
This world is sick.
I know we can debate what happened in Moscow until we’re blue in the face, but it’s fairly arguable that even Russia is currently facing this… Issue, with all the migrants from the Muslim countries of Central Asia. Especially Tajiks like the ones who very likely carried out Crocus…
Import a bunch of angry, “post-colonial” Muslims from poor shithole countries, with a grudge..? You’re gonna import problems with them…
So yeah, this is happening pretty much everywhere, except for, I dunno, Argentina, Uruguay and Chile, perhaps. And they’ve got their own crazy neighborhood to deal with…
But for the rest of the “developed” world? Yeah, immigrants from “certain” cultures really are piling on fast.
I guess there’s a difference between bathing on the ghats vs actually going in the water properly (having been to Varanasi and done that - I admittedly didn’t see many of them actually going beyond the very edge)…
But also, there’s over a billion of them. If you’re from some middle class family in Delhi, say, which is pretty much desert, you’ve very likely never spent much time near the water…
And wealthier families rely on servants to do things like teaching their children to swim (hypothetically), so… It’s not that surprising, to me.
When I was over there, I very, very rarely saw the locals go in the rivers. That was, unsurprisingly, mostly tourists like me and my friends…
But beyond that, all Australian kids take swimming lessons. They’re mandatory. So we all learn to swim. Which is logical in a country where 80% of us live on the coast. And where freestyle (Australian crawl) was arguably “invented”…
As a result, when you get migrant families that don’t have the same experience, this is gonna happen…
All of which is to say, perhaps putting “Can you swim to save your own life?” on citizenship tests is arguably not that unreasonable…
It won’t happen of course, but it’s not that… Outlandish.
Same with Aus. Same with UK. Same with Sweden. Same with other "Western" "democracies"...
It's a recurring theme, I'm afraid.
Australia has this. There's about 1.5 million of them, which is... ~5% of our total population.
In theory they are "temporary", but the vast, vast majority stay for 5 years or more, get permanent residency, or don't, but still buy real estate anyway, because you don't even have to be a resident to do that...
Even if they were temporary, as they claim, it still completely fucks up our entire housing market, and completely fucks over both wages and entry-level jobs (because they're competing with us natives for both).
It's a fucking disaster. Both the backpackers, and, more significantly, the international student population. A complete fucking Ponzi scheme, which pretty much every "native" Australia knows is fucked, but the media will never talk about...
A week ago, two generations (father and grandfather) of an Indian migrant family drowned in a hotel pool on the Gold Coast, because they didn't fucking know how to swim, yet were still around the pool anyway, and they jumped in to save their two year old daughter.
That's at least the fourth time in the last year that a group of Indians has drowned, here, because they do not know how to swim. Yet we're importing more and more of them.
Apparently 50% of our population, now, is second-generation at most. That's totally fucking insane.
So yeah, never, ever trust that these things will be "temporary", or that they will leave after the work, whatever it may supposedly be, is done...
There seems to be two of them doing that, here, though...
If you mean me as the one who is responding, anyway.
But yeah, funny how neither of them ever came back with an answer, lol...
Afrancistan..? That both sounds like Afghanistan (obviously), and includes a reference to the innumerate African migrants that have, uhh, "moved in" there the last few decades, and contributed to this whole sitch...
So why does she “deserve” it then..?
She’s not got a particularly great body, she doesn’t have a history with Marvel - what has she possibly done to “deserve” the role..?
The most notable thing she has made the news for recently is unapologetically shilling for the Israeli government. That is why it is relevant, here.
Her “Jewishness” is secondary. Jonathan Glazer is also Jewish, but he spoke out against what Israel is doing, and got promptly skewered by the press. That is the difference here…
You can be a Jew in Hollywood without shilling for Netanyahu at the same time. You just might get shit-canned for it...
Holy shit the “suggestions” YouTube gives me after that are… Something else.
I’m not logged in, but I’m on phone so no VPN, but… Wow. That’s a side of YouTube I don’t tend to seek out, lol…
Much “kinky”, many wow.
Jews get to be “white” when it suits them, would be my counterpoint.
Robert Downey, ScarJo, Jennifer Connelly, Joaquin Phoenix, to name but a very small selection. So your point is moot.
33,000 terrorists, half of whom were women and children? Indiscriminately starving and bombing them to death, and deliberately slaughtering aid workers?
Don’t make me laugh. If anyone should be considered “terrorists”, after six months of this shit, it’s the government of the country you hold so dear.
Because it's Hollywood, which tends to preserve a significant portion of its "best roles" for Jews. That's not a conspiracy theory, it's a fact, borne out by the fact that Jews in Hollywood are massively overrepresented at almost all levels.
Why is that relevant? Because in this case, this woman specifically supports Bibi's government, visits Israel on the reg, and is supportive of the current Gaza ethnic cleansing campaign...
And why is that relevant? Because, much though I'm not a huge fan of Hamas, I'm also not a fan of giving blank cheques/carte blanche to regimes to carry out what is almost indisputably ethnic cleansing and mass murder, to such an extent that we haven't seen outside Syria in more than a decade.
So yeah, "hero" my arse... That's why her "heritage" is relevant.
Why does she "deserve" the role..? Because she's Jewish, and shilled for Israel..? That seems to be your implication. How is she in any way a "hero", lol?
We also have this chick (Britt Robertson, of Tomorrowland and such): https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1429380/
Who is like dime store Brie Larson. Seems like a nicer, more stable individual, however.
I guess Brie has a nicer face, but otherwise they're remarkably similar, tbh...
Apparently she's Quebecker (changed her name, which I had no idea about until a short time ago), with French as her first language and all...
Which explains both the decent tits, and, you might argue, the umm... "personality" lol...
Interesting that she chose an Anglicized Swedish stage name, though (in Sweden, Larsson is pretty damn common)...
Renmark is a small country town in the middle of nowhere (as is Berri, where the “presenter” supposedly worked) which makes this extra fucking weird…
Hiding something like this, in what is probably the only public high school in town, would be extremely difficult…
Everyone knows everyone, as it were. So I wouldn’t be all that surprised, depending on how cucked the locals are, whether those responsible faced some sort of personal “consequences” for this…
Then again, this is Australia, so… I won’t get my hopes up.
Apparently she’s half-Israeli (but of course) and is very much on board with what has been happening over there lately, after October 7, so… Yeah.
That might be at least a “partial” explanation for that casting choice…
If there’s anyone’s tits that would appeal to me in a goddamn Fast and Furious movie (out of the remaining cast who are still alive, even), it wouldn’t be fucking Brie Larson, lol…
I guess that might appeal to some fans. But certainly not me.
Like, yeah, I guess she’s not hideous, but she’s so unlikeable, and at some point, that just becomes too much of a turnoff, imho…
Also not a huge fan of her acting “style”, such that it is.
The Mexico example, let's say...
Unfortunately, culturally, Mexico and England are about as far apart as... Chalk and cheese. So I don't really see that happening.
Or like, in any major Commonwealth country. We're just way too spineless, unfortunately...
We… have that here too. It’s absolutely everywhere in rural areas, and you sometimes see it in the suburbs/city, too…
Is that not normal? Seems pretty normal to me.
Admittedly I don’t recall seeing it so often in Sweden, but I did come across it even there/the other Nordics a couple of times.
But yeah, in Aus, that’s… Entirely normal.
It’s generally where I get my eggs and apples from (aside from what I grow), because I would rather my neighborhood get the dollarydoos than some store…
That’s always been the norm, over here, pre “war on cash”, and all that…
This is a bit “whatabout-y” given that we’re mostly talking physical manufacturing and production-type jobs here…
Those have very little to do with the internet, and almost everything to do with supply chains, globalization and most importantly wages and working conditions…
That “trend” predates the mainstream internet by a few decades at least…
Yeah, even I went in to a Whole Foods in downtown LA, when I was there...
I honestly didn't think much of it. We have dime-a-dozen equivalents here, but they're usually independently owned, or part of a small chain...
Admittedly Coles and Woolworths (where most people do their grocery shopping) are basically Walmart, but...
If, hypothetically, Atlassian or some similar Australian "tech company" bought out one of these chains, I honestly doubt I would ever shop there again.
Maybe it's easier to boycott these places (for example Woolworths, over their decision to refuse to sell any Australia Day merch), here, just because we have more options, in general..? I wouldn't have thought that, given the Coles/Woolies duopoly, but I guess... Everything's relative.
Then again the UK allegedly has like 5 of these major chains, stratified by class (i.e. so that a Waitrose shopper never mixes with Asda/Tesco types). I'm kind of glad that I don't live in a country that does that, beyond pricing, tbh, lol...
Not to sound all elitist or whatever, but who the fuck buys their fresh groceries at Amazon in the first place…
Look, I know Amazon is fucking huge, and ubiquitous, especially in the US, but if I lived there, and had any other option, imma choose that.
This evil, dystopian surveillance-state shit just rams that point home.
I will never use a store like this. Ever. Even if it becomes the only option to buy from corporate. I would rather fucking grow the shit with my own bare hands, and raise the animals as needed, than ever submit myself to something like that.
Similarly, the government can tear my petrol, entirely manual car from my cold, dead hands. And my cash. And my physical credit cards and physical ID.
I will not budge on any of those things.
I implore others, if you can, to follow suit where possible. We’re sleepwalking into a complete dystopia, the more we acquiesce to all this shit…
It’s actually the same as Canada in much of Western Europe. There was an example posted the other day, here, of a girl in the Netherlands doing the same, and there was one in Belgium only a few months ago, so…
Protestant Europe, plus a couple of Catholic countries, is pretty much the same as Canada on this…
This has already happened: https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/health-headlines/free-plastic-surgery-for-bullied-teen-stirs-controversy-1.899484
In that case, a girl who had a (fairly minor) face deformity got it corrected with free plastic surgery... That was in 2012.
There's other similar examples, but searching for them by keywords mostly brings up cases of people who've shot, burned, or had their face bitten off, and that's... Too much internet for my morning, tbh. Once you see those photos, they never fully leave your mind. I do not recommend.