euphronius posted:

I don’t think I’ve ever hated a person more lol

https://twitter.com/natesilver538/status/1435607943781576715?s=21

Gio posted:

he’s leaning really hard into his best trumbl impression. hand movements and all.

empty whippet box posted:

mask

Strep Vote posted:

I love when people say, "I don't think I can do this for the next x years"

Well, you don't have to, buddy. Stop swimming and drown if you want no one will stop you.

Also lol at the idea it's downhill from thirty, no wonder everyone is so frantic to die early.

Lastgirl posted:

ya it is, u become old and creepy forever after that point

Crunchy Black posted:

I am exactly 30 and I fully expect most people my age to be irrevocably harmed with chronic heath issues by COVID or "mortally" financially impacted by such or climate change in the next 15 years and if you can't look at the accelerating climactic and societal collapse that's happening...lol

super sweet best pal posted:

Keep your kids out of school until covid shuts the school down.

Strep Vote posted:

I love when people say, "I don't think I can do this for the next x years"

Well, you don't have to, buddy. Stop swimming and drown if you want no one will stop you.

Also lol at the idea it's downhill from thirty, no wonder everyone is so frantic to die early.

Morbus posted:

He's right, god dammit! I'm gonna go live my life! Carpe Diem!!!!

*commutes 40 minutes to work and back to log into a computer at a cubicle instead of from my house*

*eats in a dining room full of assholes instead of getting take out*

*has fulfilling and life-affirming visit with in-laws*

super sweet best pal posted:

Keep your kids out of school until covid shuts the school down.

Gio posted:

bad news schools arent shutting down ever again lol

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LONGVIEW, Wash. (AP) — A recent increase in COVID-19 deaths has overwhelmed a southwest Washington county’s storage capacity, prompting the coroner to ask the commissioners declare an emergency to allow the county to bring in a refrigeration trailer. Cowlitz County commissioners agreed Tuesday to the request to help expand capacity until the new morgue is ready for staff to move into in about a month. The Daily News reports at least eight county residents died due to COVID-19 between Aug. 31 and Sept. 6. Coroner Tim Davidson said the morgue and the county’s funeral homes are maxed out on capacity. All together, the facilities can typically hold 45 bodies and right now have about 65.

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Huey Newton, one of the founding leaders of the Oakland Black Panther Party (BPP), brought death and revolutionary activity together in his analysis of suicide. The BPP organized to unite the Black community against the forces that oppressed them in the United States and the world. Huey Newton's theory of suicide was informed by his experience as a historically enslaved and exploited subject of Black America, as well as the US government's response to Black resistance. As the Panthers organized self-defense initiatives and grassroots "survival" programs, the US government worked in collusion with local police departments to destroy the Party. The FBI's COINTEPRO infiltrated every chapter of the BPP, murdering or imprisoning much of its leadership. To this day, Black Panther members like Mumia Abu Jamal remain in prison while the Black population outside the walls experiences murder every 28 hours by some form of law enforcement. This is the context in which Newton produced a theory of suicide that redefined the experience of death for the purposes of revolutionary change.

[quote]Newton's examination brought him to analyze two forms of suicide: reactionary suicide and revolutionary suicide. Reactionary suicide is most commonly known as the act of killing oneself. The indignities of US capitalism produce severe internal strife. Racism and patriarchy exacerbates class exploitation and tears apart communities. Reactionary suicide peaks during capitalist economic crises and imperialist wars, where economic conditions and trauma are most severe. Huey Newton understood that Black America was a dispossessed community whose wealth, culture, and history were stolen as a result of racist and capitalist exploitation. This historical condition increased the tendency of reactionary suicide in the Black community. Thus, Newton and the BPP leadership organized with the intent of empowering the Black community through collective work. Each concrete medical clinic, free breakfast program, and Panther school were organized to move community to confront the racist, capitalist power structure and embrace revolutionary socialism and communalism. The BPP concluded that only confidence, discipline, and concrete political education could build a powerful movement against the forces that cause reactionary suicide.

“The FBI's COINTEPRO infiltrated every chapter of the BPP, murdering or imprisoning much of its leadership.”

Revolutionary suicide, in contrast, develops out of the recognition that one is a "doomed man" after making the conscious choice to participate in the struggle for self-determination and freedom. Newton's theory of revolutionary suicide placed the utmost importance not on death itself, but how it occurs. US government repression killed many Black Panther Party members in an attempt to weaken the growing spirit of resistance in the Black community. Newton's theory of revolutionary suicide connected suicide and death to the fight for a dignified, collective humanity. The person or movement partaking in revolutionary suicide has chosen to confront death by fighting for liberation. Those who commit revolutionary suicide live on through the concrete fight for freedom, self-determination, socialism and Black Power. In other words, a revolutionary can be killed, but not the revolution

Huey Newton's work on suicide was produced in a period of time where revolutionary upheaval was at a high point in the US. Today, we must find a way to apply theories of suicide and pre-mature death in a way that fights the forces that cause them. The potential of being brutally murdered by US imperialism while we struggle to meet our individual and collective needs creates the perfect conditions for reactionary suicide. The US ruling class exploits feelings of purposelessness, depression, and confusion to manufacture consent to their rule. Death and suicide are two of the most uncomfortable, yet inevitable, consequences of US capitalism. However, as Huey Newton teaches us, to confront the meaning of our mortality in the face of a powerful enemy can give us positive direction in the fight to free ourselves from the chains of this system.

Bruce Hussein Daddy posted:

Today


Yesterday


covidactnow.org

RudeCat posted:

Hell yeah you do

Lacrosse posted:

Oh no I'm 30

Too old to find love
Too old to learn a new skill
Too old to exist

Guess I'll die!

Bruce Hussein Daddy posted:

Today

dew worm posted:

kind of amazed society didn’t collapse after WW1 leading into the Spanish Flu

Lacrosse posted:

In my late 20s I kept reading these lovely dating articles about how men don't want women over 30 because you're an old hag now which contributed to the dread about turning the big three-oh. Now that I'm halfway through my 30s, not only do I not care about that anymore but I'm a lot more confident and generally having a much better time of being 30 than I ever did at 20.

The people who think life is over at 30 are the people who peaked in high school

Zurtilik posted:

How is Miami-Dade not dark red?!

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You are not that important. We will all die. Some sooner than others. After 30 your life is all downhill and you are hurtling towards death the only question is when. So why live the rest of your very short and unimportant existence in constant anguish and fear of something you truly have zero control over?

Good Citizen posted:

my elderly parents, pregnant sister, and her two unvaccinated children are doing something so risky right now they’re definitely gonna catch Covid over the next couple weeks and it suuuuucks to think about

Atrocious Joe posted:

Zurtilik posted:

How is Miami-Dade not dark red?!

Crunchy Black posted:

I am exactly 30 and I fully expect most people my age to be irrevocably harmed with chronic heath issues by COVID or "mortally" financially impacted by such or climate change in the next 15 years and if you can't look at the accelerating climactic and societal collapse that's happening...lol

euphronius posted:

I’ve never felt better in my 40s

I’m privileged tho

Happy Noodle Boy posted:

https://twitter.com/natesilver538/status/1435628983538880517?s=21

is this like the thing where if you keep a combo multiplier the gently caress up does not actually count