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  • DancingBear@midwest.socialtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Did anyone else not even know who Charlie Kirk was!?
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    6 months ago

    I knew there were memes of him with a distorted face, but I still don’t know why. Apparently his views on some topics are fairly racist, sexist, homophobic, in general I think…

    but I guess he did support free speech which apparently the people who really loved him do not.

    I probably agree with the dude on one or two issues but I’m pretty sure he was just another grifter for the republicans. No one deserves to die on the internet like that I guess, he did say some people had to die for second amendment freedoms though I have no clue

  • DancingBear@midwest.socialtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•If you were born with a disease that made you blind, complete loss of hearing by 20, have seizures, require a feeding tube, colostomy bag, wheelchair and have sleep apnea. Would you want to live?
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    8 months ago

    Yes, I think I would want to live.

    I don’t think we can truly empathize with how strong our will to live is.

    Also, I think questions like these tend to cause us to dehumanize folks with disabilities. (Edit: correction, I don’t think it’s the question that dehumanizes folks with disabilities, I think it is the thoughtless answer given by folks that tends to dehumanize)

    Folks with disabilities absolutely can contribute to society. The most obvious example is Stephen Hawking. He could only move his eyeballs or something ridiculous like that, although I believe he did start off fully functional and slowly lost control of his muscles over time.

    There’s the issue of ‘being a burden’ in family or caretakers, which is more an issue of health care in our society (USA here). It is not the fault of the disabled person that they need health care.

    We are all a drain on society. No one lives in a vacuum.

    No one is self sustaining, no one lives without the help from society without which we would all most likely die in a few weeks if not sooner.

    Folks with disabilities are humans. It’s society’s job to take care of all humans. Period.

    “If I died and went to heaven, I would sell my soul to the devil just for the chance to come back and stub my toe….” —— paraphrase from a line in a poem by Tim Seibles.

  • DancingBear@midwest.socialtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What’s it like to have a high IQ?
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    11 months ago

    The details of my life are quite inconsequential, but since you asked…

    Very well, where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink, he would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Some times he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy, the sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical, summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we’d make meat helmets. When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds, pretty standard really. At the age of 12 I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen, a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum, it’s breathtaking, I suggest you try it.