Echoes

Enemy of my enemy is NOT friend

Peoples in the news: the Jews control the media

if you are CO-CHAIR OF THE DSA, a political party that has made palestine its ENTIRE PLATFORM for the past THREE YEARS—yes, i expect you to have knowledge of the stages of the peace process. if you want people to listen to your solutions, i expect you to know what has and has not already been tried, and to know why you would or wouldn't have been happy with the major proposals made at each major step. including at camp david in 2000.

It's has an effect on the kind of Dems your state produces, and my state's Dems are pragmatic, tactical, realistic, and cautious, because that's what it takes to get anywhere in a pink state

For example, emotionally, I genuinely think less of someone who buys into stupid conspiracies about organ donation. I think that morally, if you are unwilling (unwilling, not medically unable) to donate organs, you should not be an organ candidate. I don’t think you should be able to say ‘If I’m dead I want all of my organs to rot, even if they could save lives. But I also want to benefit from other people’s sacrifice.’ Fuck you.

But I do not believe it would be ethical (or practical) to legislate that. I think it would be a horrible ethical violation and medical coercion. I recognize that, even as I’m disgusted by people who would let someone die when saving lives would cost them nothing.

But what I want to highlight is the political bloc who were most effective against the law, and led to its defeat: community healthcare workers who were on the frontlines, whose careers very often were at that intersection of drug abuse and child suffering. 

Their argument wasn’t primarily about the parental rights of the mothers, or about the criminalization of substance use disorders. Instead, it was about what public health policies work in the real world, and what policies cause more harm. They argued these women would be afraid to access resources for harm reduction during pregnancy. This would result in heavier drug usage during pregnancy than if they were able to access harm reduction strategies and resources. There would also be an increase in abandoned infants, babies who are very sick and need immediate medical help. Fear of punishment wouldn’t help anyone. 

From glancing at your post, it looks like you’re in the US. Assuming your friend is also from the US, you absolutely do determine exactly what organs will be donated. Or at least, your next of kin does. In fact, even just registering as an organ donor doesn’t mean anything unless your next of kin is cooperative. When you’re declared dead, someone speaks to your designated family member. The worker would say something like ‘Adrainea registered as an organ donor, they wanted their death to be able to save other lives.’ From there, the person can decline, or agree to organ donation. From there, they are asked, step-by-step, what can be donated. It’s part of obtaining consent. Eyes, skin, heart, it’s step by step. And you can say yes to vital organs, no to eyes, no to skin. It’s all opt-in, not opt-out.

The exact process varies even just state-by-state, but these are the parts that are universal in the United States. It’s possible other countries handle organ donation differently, but I would be a little surprised if there were many places where you could opt to donate, but could only say yes to everything or no to everything.

but no... Magneto got popular, so he had to be cleaned. and how better to purify him than to erase his Judaism?

But even with that aside, there’s just an ironic lack of thought and effort that goes into dismissing anything you dislike (or even anything that’s just kind of … middling quality?) with a single-syllable buzzword, and over-saturating comment sections and online spaces with “slop slop slop” all the time.

“Slop” is also slop. There’s just no “Them” feeding it to you. You are swallowing regurgitated antisemitic memes, and devaluing everything around you, of your own volition.