Evil

Forced Morality

Chill Evil, Lying Liars

In so many areas of life, as in that video from the 1980s I linked below, we used to have a level of freedom that people who did not live through those times quite literally cannot even imagine. When you tell them about it they deny it was real and claim it only happened in movies. That’s how far-removed we are from human flourishing now.

We’ve all descended disgustingly into slave morality and have no will it seems nor desire to transcend as we once did. We used to have so much more, be so much better. Now we click and drool and laugh at anyone who says anything else is possible.

Airfare Refunded

Chill Evil, War

Probably a Russian Pantsir-S1 AA system with the 57E6 missile did this. Most likely, it was tuned for a smaller target so it exploded far away enough from the plane that it didn’t immediately bring it down, but damaged it significantly with shrapnel1. If it’d been the missiles from the S-300/S-400s the plane would’ve broken apart mid-air due to the far larger warhead even if the detonation was distant.

We really need to evict Russia from Ukraine and prevent WWIII. It’s not too late. Soon it will be, but it’s not now.

There’s no way to know exactly how damaged the avionics systems and flight controls were, but not sure why the pilot put it down like this as they obviously had some control.

Why was the landing gear extended? I think the procedure if you’re not sure you’re going to make a runway is only try to put the gear down at the last moment as if you have to land on a non-runway it’s more survivable. It might’ve just run out of fuel (tanks pierced by shrapnel) is why the nose-down like that at the end.

Still, though, it got hit by a damn missile. Hard to criticize without knowing more details.

  1. The missile fired was tuned to take down a drone, not an airliner.

A Wash

Chill Evil, War

Insanity. There are dozens of thousands of Russians dying a month, and for what? So they can rape women and steal washing machines? The ones who survive, that is.

Chaser

Chill Clowns, Evil

I’m with Natalia. If someone grabbed my kid in public, I’d stab them in the throat and twist. And then stab them a few more times to make sure they couldn’t get up to chase me. I don’t care about their mental problems or why they’re doing it. I’m gonna live and they’re not. Simple equation.

The lefties and libs really do believe that everyone should just let the delirious vagrants and “unhoused” have some free assault, as a treat. It’s not exaggeration; it’s completely real and absolutely batshit crazy. And people wonder why mass transit ridership is falling. It’s no mystery at all, though.

Wave All the Meat

Chill Evil, Video, Video (other), War

Open-field disorganized assault with no vehicular support. Alrighty then. What a colossal waste of people and purpose.

Former

Chill Clowns, Evil

Reddit is removing links to Luigi Mangione’s manifesto.

I mean, yeah? Reddit has been censoring anything even mildly critical of the health care industry, much less actual links to a manifesto. And no, I don’t mean them tossing anything celebrating Brian Thompson’s death. Even just, “Maybe we should reform this mess” often gets deleted and the user banned.

Reddit has gone full corpo (not surprisingly now that it is a publicly-traded company).

Ants

Chill Evil, Lying Liars

Noah Smith really, really does not understand how health insurance works or that insurance is a tug-of-war between providers and insurers. He sees insurers as a blameless mediators caught between costs and providers, principally because they do not make much obvious profit. In reality, they are a source of inflationary pressure in a continual arms race between how much money required insurance drives up de facto costs, how much providers attempt to grab, and how much they are bilked and can bilk.

It’s a multi-layered fraud combined with financial conflict and beset with huge inflationary pressures, mostly caused by insurance itself.

In other words, they are all villains and none are blameless. I’d say providers and insurance companies are about 40/40 villain, with other 20% being various other health care parasites.

The entire US medical system is a scam and insurance companies are no less evil and no less crooked than any other component.

Immuno Destructo

Chill Amusing, Evil

So, Covidians really do believe that Covid destroys your immune system?

LOL.

(All viruses that cause illness have temporary immunosuppresive effects, including SARS-CoV-2. Only those like HIV destroy or permanently weaken your immune system in 99.99% of humans. I don’t believe there is any coronavirus that has any significant long-term immunosuppresive effect as that is simply not their modus operandi.)

Only Capitalist-Approved Messages

Chill Clowns, Evil

The Reddit mods have spent absolutely vast amounts of time and effort removing anything that portrayed UHC or capitalism in a negative light. They were fake-justifying this censorship with “not glorifying violence,” but it had zero to do with that in actuality. This crackdown was of course in service of being and remaining advertiser-friendly since Reddit is a capitalist enterprise and advertising-driven.

It’s an unenviable task, in many ways. Reddit mods are not paid, yet they must act as subservient thralls to the whims of forces that demand their fawning servility. At the same time, they must pretend they are suppressing valid dissent for the good of the community. Neither are things that I could or would do.

The fact is that in the US that nearly everyone knows someone who was killed by UHC or a similar organization denying them healthcare. That’s where the anger comes from. That’s why people (including me) are celebrating the death of the sociopath CEO.

And try as it might, Reddit will not be able to keep that hidden.