After I saw the tweets - I googled. The top result was all I needed to see.
More googling...
A Newsweek Inc Deputy Editor's compensation ranges from $79,311 to $100,874,
This is necropolitic realism.
Libs pretend that they're okay seeing homeless people in tents and encampments around public places, but they're not. For many people, encounters with severely mentally ill people as described are really distressing.
If you were to ask anyone what they would rather see happen to the person,
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The homeless person will get the help and support they need to get back on their feet.
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We kill the homeless person.
I believe, despite how doomer everyone here is, that people would generally choose the first one.
However, anyone with half a brain in America has figured out that things aren't getting better. These support systems don't exist and won't exist. Society has absolutely failed them.
This is necropolitic realism. It's easier to imagine killing homeless people than any alternative.
Libs pretend that they’re okay seeing homeless people in tents and encampments around public places, but they’re not.
Neither am I. Probably for different reasons tho.
We kill the homeless person.
A few weeks ago I wrote that libs have invented the "smart" third position of making being homeless illegal, forcing the homeless far away. But this is maybe the first such public event and lots of libs are already slowly moving in this position. Quite scary. I guess everything is happening at an accelerated rate.
libs have invented the “smart” third position of making being homeless illegal
Not an invention. The law, in its majesty, forbids poor and rich alike from sleeping under bridges.
Capitalist realismed their way into murdering homeless people instead of helping them. Scratching their head with confusion while they say, "Well, we took all the money away from social services to fund the homeless-murder program. How are there still more homeless?"
I give it 10 years before we have Euthanasia for All, and healthcare still more expensive than ever
The homeless should have the choice to select their favorite mode of euthanasia!
The homeless should have access to the euthanasia of their choice
Already do, in Canada!
https://apnews.com/article/covid-science-health-toronto-7c631558a457188d2bd2b5cfd360a867
Alan Nichols had a history of depression and other medical issues, but none were life-threatening. When the 61-year-old Canadian was hospitalized in June 2019 over fears he might be suicidal, he asked his brother to “bust him out” as soon as possible.
Within a month, Nichols submitted a request to be euthanized and he was killed, despite concerns raised by his family and a nurse practitioner.
His application for euthanasia listed only one health condition as the reason for his request to die: hearing loss.
Nichols’ family reported the case to police and health authorities, arguing that he lacked the capacity to understand the process and was not suffering unbearably — among the requirements for euthanasia. They say he was not taking needed medication, wasn’t using the cochlear implant that helped him hear, and that hospital staffers improperly helped him request euthanasia.
Apparently the new T4 Aktion programme has resulted in a wonderful increase in the volume of fresh organs for the transplant business.
So one of the main examples of necropolitic realism would be the widespread acceptance of the mass deaths of immigrants at the US-Mexico border or in the Mediterranean? Or is that already too hands-on in amounts of state violence?
Involuntary commitment to a state hospital where they can receive treatment. But nooo...we don't have state hospitals any more because in the 70s the libs sued them out of existence.
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terrorize the entire car, especially women, especially Asians
Fascists try not to use women or "model minorities" as scabs in their anti-poor, anti-BIPOC genocides challenge level = impossible
Batya I'm willing to consider your argument if I can stand on your neck for 15 minutes
That's really interesting Batya but before I engage with you in the marketplace of ideas, I just need to show you this really cool wall I found
no its just being racist and trying to create a division between black people and asian people
Especially Asians
Keep our peoples name out of your mouth fascist. Pretending to care about anti-asian hate crimes only so you can smear another minority is just your playbook about the Uyghurs. We're fucking on to you.
Pretty sure the average shark has more empathy for their prey than whatever the fuck is being displayed here
Quint...
"The deputy opinion editors of Newsweek come cruisin' at very first light. So we formed ourselves into tight groups. Y'know, it's... kinda like ol' squares in a battle like, uh, you see in a calendar, like the Battle of Waterloo, and the idea was, a deputy opinion editor of Newsweek comes to the nearest man and that man, he'd start poundin' and hollerin' and screamin', and sometimes the deputy opinion editor of Newsweek would go away... Sometimes she wouldn't go away."
"Sometimes that deputy opinion editor of Newsweek, she looks right into ya. Right into your eyes. Y'know the thing about a deputy opinion editor of Newsweek, she's got... lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eyes. When she comes at ya, doesn't seem to be livin'... until she bites ya. And those black eyes roll over white, and then... oh, then you hear that terrible high-pitch screamin', the subway floor turns red, and spite of all the poundin' and the hollerin', they all come in and they... rip you to pieces."
I learned that a few years ago when I clicked an r/politics link. But Newsweek also has lib op-eds to draw people in. The right sidebar is reactionary central. It always has some "vs" pair of articles that's exactly what you'd find at The Onion...
We shouldn't hunt the poor for sport
vs.
Yes, we should
um, take SEVERAL seats sweatie, murdering the homeless is a WORKERS RIGHTS issue.
You mean you want to raise unemployment by destroying good Homeless Exterminator jobs?
Whatever mask was left on twitter has been completely obliterated and now it's just a more polite /pol/.
a more polite /pol/
I never thought of it that way but that's accurate. Next year it could another /pol/ if Elon goes mask off more. And I suspect he will.
It disturbs the hell out of me. I have sincerely never been more disgusted and horrified by the general reaction to a public story, and I can't even directly pinpoint why.
The terror that would be necessary to drive this rot and evil out of our society might honestly make nuclear war seem kind.
:doomjak:
when it comes to America, fascism's most strident defenders will be the shitheads who were warning about the dangers of russian disnfo campaigns 7 years ago
I think it's neat they put a blue checkmark on sociopaths tho!
I originally put "working class" in quotes but I changed it just before I posted. 100k is not working class in North Dakota and if that's where she lived - I would have kept the quotes.
But what exactly is working class in NYC is very hard to define because everything is so insanely expensive.
Just to be clear, the lady in the post is working class regardless of where she lives. She works for a living, is not part of the bourgeoisie
Over the past few days I have seen a lot of takes that make me want to do vigilante justice. Not the murdering homeless people kind.
I saw a tweet that pointed out something I entirely missed. Vigilantes typically go after people who committed crimes whether or not the law says the actions were crimes. I think there's been a decided shift in the media's portrayal of attacks on the homeless. The media uses words like "vigilante" for murders like this.
The Death Wish fantasy murder used to be done to remove the criminals from the streets. But the 2023 version of the fantasy is simply murdering the homeless because you feel like it.
i think that gives way too much credit to the stated aims of the 80s vigilante fantasy. compare the real case of Bernie Goetz, who used an illegal firearm to murder 4 black men who were supposedly robbing him on the New York subway. He was a documented racist, but he became a folk hero, because he did what thousands of middle class whites felt they could not: he cleaned up the social refuse
I lived in NYC when Goetz committed those murders. A lot of people were disgusted and revolted by him. Both locally and nationally.
I could be wrong. It's impossible to know. I was a different person. I was a liberal. And it's not only is it a different era in time. Technology has changed everything. The net was a non-entity so everyone's world - including my own - was smaller.
Like anybody unaware - I consumed a lot of propaganda then without knowing it. My hunch is that if the net and social media had existed then - people who supported Goetz would be ridiculed and humiliated. Of course some Death Wish fantasists were liberals. But I doubt they'd voice those opinions in public.
There's been a huge lurch to the right in the decades since. Going more and more mask off has become more acceptable. I won't be surprised if some right-wing turd on the NYT staff (or guest columnist) writes a not-so-veiled op-ed with the gist being "people have a right to feel safe in public" and the text basically intimates that the death of a homeless person isn't that big a deal.
Also - if the murderer is smart - he'll set up a Gofundme and let right-wing media outlets know about. I bet he could easily raise a 100,000 (if not more) within the next few weeks.
Giving money and aid to murderer was wholly unacceptable in the 1980s. But it sure okay now to a huge percentage of Americans.
2 week old account
seriously, what is it with you guys and jews? it's like a speech impediment, you have to mention them in every sentence.
Okay, then in that case it is NOT a human right for a toothless inbred to shout insults at me for being Jewish without me decking 'em.
Oh? Too far? Good, now you know how I feel about attacking homeless people.
It's okay when you do a little Aktion T4, as long as you're just doing it to feed your kids.
It's sickening. and. exhausting? like spiritually exhausting? Something like that? Like a scraping out and barrening of hte soul? That people will blame the weakest and most needful and most vulnerable and imperiled people in society, hte people who have no agency or power what so ever, for the things that the mighty do.
Everytime - they make excuses he has a rap sheet and still walking so that means modern day lynching is cool.
So instead of fixing the problem, let's close them and throw the patients out on the street, creating the modern homelessness crisis as we know it. Great idea ACLU!
