Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]

I remarked the previous time this Telegraph article came up that I don’t believe Professor Anna Smajdor (who is a philosopher and not a physician) was sincerely endorsing the idea of whole-body gestational donation (WBGD). The key line in the Telegraph article is this:

Prof Smajdor argues that there is no moral difference in such circumstances between organ donation and surrogacy.

This makes it seem to me like Smajdor is really just trying to comment on the ethics of organ donation by imagining something obviously horrifying that would follow from what she considers to be the same rationale. Indeed, Smajdor’s article as written (which you can download here — I will note that I have only read it in part) concludes with this passage:

What I put forward here can be viewed as a thought experiment on one hand. But if we regard WBGD as being clearly outrageous, this suggests we have some uncomfortable questions to answer about the future of cadaveric organ donation. On the other hand, if WBGD is viewed as a straightforward means of facilitating safer reproduction, and avoiding the moral problems of surrogacy, we should be ready to embrace it as a logical and beneficial extension of activities that we already treat as being morally unproblematic.

…So I dunno, it just bothers me that we’d be taking a headline in the fucking Telegraph at face value.

The article itself seems to be saying that this “defense boost” was something Denmark was already planning on doing, and Trump’s remark really just coincidentally came just before they actually signed off on it. The Danish defense minister, Troels Lund Poulsen, called the timing an “irony of fate”.

The article describes the boost as encompassing the following:

1. Two new inspection ships.
2. Two new long-range drones.
3. Two new dog sled teams.
4. Increased staffing at Arctic Command.
5. Upgrades to a civilian airport to be able to handle supersonic fighter jets.

It’s worth noting that the Arctic Command carries out a lot of tasks other than just defense per se, and as SoyViking pointed out, Danish military buildup in Greenland is largely due to anti-Russian paranoia rather than anything to do with Seppoland.

A “small invasion” of Mexico, Canada as the 51st state is a “great idea”, controlling Greenland is an “absolute necessity”, and he also wants the Panama Canal to return to US control to boot. Is our big wet boy trying to, like, speedrun expansionism?

Holy Hell, who could’ve possibly seen this coming!

It makes my blood boil. I can practically feel the drool of capitalist ghouls salivating at the thought of forcing a third world war — they can barely conceal their glee about their own profits and the preservation of their dictatorship through words about a “deteriorating security situation” even though they brought that “deterioration” upon themselves.

And now, it seems, the capitalist ghouls will convince people that risks are more real than they are, by building bunkers, and mailing pamphlets, and putting aircraft carriers in our harbors, and tripling the number of American military bases in Norway, and doing military exercises in the middle of dense urban centers, et cetera et cetera et cetera. The people of Europe generally trust their governments still, so they would see all of these things happening around them and assume that it must be for “a good reason”, right? Because it would be an awful lot of effort to just be “theater”, right?

Thus when the people are trusting of their own government, they are easily scared; and when the naïve are terrified, they’re more willing to accept this sort of absolute nonsense, the idea of a “preemptive strike” in this case, which will surely trigger or bring us within inches of a third world war.

“For the sake of security” — Give me a break!

I’ve tried to look into what the Rome Statute says about non-cooperation, and historical cases of this happening, and it really would seem like the Statute’s “mechanism” against non-cooperation is just a complete dead-end. So states “obligated” to respect arrest warrants can just ignore their obligations and nothing will happen to them whatsoever. Sasuga.

This is such a fucking scam, Jesus Christ. No wonder my immediate response to this news was “That was a lot sooner than I expected!” — no, it’s still gonna be a long time yet before the Brits and Seps will actually concede their rule of Diego Garcia in any meaningful way. This agreement is as good as toilet paper.

I wonder when Lalit is gonna make a statement about this agreement.

It isn’t like American elections are in any way real or the government of the United States gives a fuck about the people who live there.

Pfft! Obviously elections in the USA are legitimate. After all, every single US state and electoral district is situated entirely on land that the USA legally annexed, right?

Hell yeah

K-On!

John Kirby’s just trying to figure out whether or not he’s become a real boy yet.

It is now only a few days until my laptop gets a new charger, which means that it is now only a few days until I install Linux Mint for realsies for the first time and go absolutely got dang crazy customizing it into the most absolutely horrendous and ridiculous mix of 2000s nostalgia and weeb shit and communism and eclectic personal creativity and whatever else that I can think of. It’s going to be glorious.

Container housing? What is this, Nunavut? Haw haw haw haw!

“…also every 39 minutes they stab your balls”

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Adolf Hitler? Socialist.

Franklin Roosevelt? Socialist.

Joseph Stalin? Dare I say, he was a downright pinko!

The entirety of WWII was just leftist infighting over Trotskyist revisionism. Just a big ol’ non-binary fuss over intercontinental ballistic tweets. Wake up, sheeple!

I bet this person drinks skim milk too lmao

Beautifully said my friend

I just want a picture of a got dang hot dog

“Boot brain” as in a fondness for licking boots due to a lifetime of propaganda…?

On the left it says something like “Soviet authority will only last two weeks!” and then on the right it says “15 YEARS - the USSR is finally established on the path to socialism”

It isn’t really cursive Cyrillic so much as just italic Cyrillic. I struggled with reading italics for a good while too, but eventually you get the hang of it.

Edit: Oh and the heads on the left are labeled “monarchist”, “cadet”, “eser”, and “menshevik”.