#Social murder

[whatevergreen]

"Unaffordable" food, energy, housing and healthcare is the result of decisions politicians and businesspeople have made knowing full well the consequences. Welfare cuts also have clear and undeniable consequences.

The many victims of this don't just happen to die. It's premeditated murder.

#energy #food #health #welfare #social murder

[theculturedmarxist]

#twitter thread #covid #eugenics #social murder #epidemiology

[convertgrapeling]

Big events in ableism in 2022:- worldwide efforts to sweep the COVID-19 pandemic under the rug whilst another 1.2 million people died, a cost of living crisis that left many disabled people unable to afford basic costs like food and energy bills, further demonstrations of how climate change will endanger disabled people's lives and the continuing impact of an inhumane and murderous welfare system in the UK.

What online ableism discourse chose to focus on in 2022 instead:- arguing with a union cat on Twitter over the right to exploit low-paid workers in companies that were never designed to serve our needs, making excuses for not reading beyond social media and why disabled people working for bomb factories is good actually.

#ableism #social murder #climate change #disability movement #uk politics #global politics #covid-19 #cost of living crisis

[probablyasocialecologist]

The tendency to social murder creates potential problems that governments must manage, since states too are subject to pressures and tendencies arising from capitalism. They find themselves facing the results of social murder, results they are expected to respond to, with their options relatively constrained by the limits placed on them by capitalism. Within that context governments often resort to a specific tactic of governance: depoliticization.

Depoliticization is an attempt by government “to place at one remove the politically contested character of governing,” in the words of the political scientist Peter Burnham. This might be called rule in denial: making decisions without seeming to make decisions, treating consequences as inevitable, and trying to displace authority elsewhere so as to avoid accountability for what occurs.

Burnham’s analysis is helpful for understanding the Biden administration’s pandemic response, in several ways. First, he places depoliticization in a larger theoretical and social context by stressing that governments must manage the potential political consequences of problems that are fairly predictably generated by capitalism.

Depoliticization helps withstand demands for government action by presenting some events as inevitable (as when President Biden said two days after taking office that “there’s nothing we can do to change the trajectory of the pandemic in the next several months”) and others as impossible (as when Press Secretary Jen Psaki scoffed in a December press briefing, “should we just send one [covid test] to every American?”).

Other depoliticization strategies deployed by the Biden administration trade on the abdication of decision-making power, such as delegating decisions to state and local authorities; and rhetorically scapegoating others (the list includes the Supreme Court, the unvaccinated, Republicans, coronavirus variants, and the supposed recalcitrance of the population in the face of largely non-existent mitigation measures).

According to Burnham’s analysis, these tactical choices should be understood in a context of social conflict. Social conflicts are sites of the potential eruption of politics from below. Governments depoliticize in part to retain control over who sets the terms for what is and is not political, and, above all, to prevent the politicization of what are ostensibly routine aspects of life in capitalist society. That kind of politicization always challenges the state, and depoliticization as a tactic is an attempt to defuse that challenge.

#social murder #coronavirus #covid19 #politics

[aquietwhyme]

https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/covid-guidelines-2024-cdc-symptoms-contagious-cdefb6b8?mod=trending_now_news_2

Don't you just love the endless litany of articles from business rags like the WSJ that have proliferated over the past 3+ years with headlines telling us not to worry, that COVID is just like a bad flu! despite almost all evidence being to the contrary? Despite COVID destroying people's immune systems in a manner comparable to HIV, despite the millions (maybe billions?) of people who suffer from long-term complications of varying severity.

Even within the article itself it contradicts the headline, stating as an aside the actual point of the new CDC guidelines, that COVID is most definitely more serious than influenza or RSV, but lying comes so naturally to whichever chucklefuck boot-licking editor who created this headline that they just couldn't resist continuing to downplay the severity of the ongoing pandemic.

I'm so sick of this nonsense, and like the millions of people who have had their health wrecked by COVID that's literal sickness.

#COVID #journalistic malpractice #journalism #capitalism #WSJ #social murder #pandemic

[transparentbeardmentality]

#covid #social murder

[entitledrichpeople]

"Abject poverty" has led a 31-year-old Canadian woman to pursue medically assisted death after a futile search for affordable housing failed to produce an apartment that doesn't exacerbate her illness, according to CTV News.

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Because of the seriousness of her conditions, Denise has spent months searching for a wheelchair-accessible apartment that has cleaner air. Dr. Riina Bray, one of Denise's physicians, told CTV that Denise needs "immediate relocation for her safety."

....

Denise told the outlet that she and her friends have called 10 different agencies in Toronto over the last six months looking for housing that offers reduced chemical and smoke exposure within her price range — a total monthly income of only $1,169, which comes from Ontario's Disability Support Program.

"None of them were able to do anything meaningful in terms of getting me relocated, getting the discretionary emergency, or temporary housing and emergency funds," Denise told the outlet.

This is eugenicist murder.  All of her suffering could be fixed by the government/society, but they’d prefer to see her dead instead.

#disability #ableism #housing #accessible housing #shelter #eugenics #suicide #medically assisted suicide #social murder

[kaninchenzero]

hey so, yes, the government of texas is in the process of murdering a whole lot of people who work outside for a living by making it illegal for any local government to mandate rest and water breaks for any workers

the laws they found so objectionable were, to be sure, wholly inadequate to the task of protecting the health and life of people who do outside work

we're talking like "you have to give people doing road work ten minutes of rest and water every four hours worked" while high school athletic associations are saying five minutes shade rest water every fifteen minutes of activity and have cold water immersion facilities available

people were absolutely going to die but it was too complicated and burdensome on employers to have to implement different rest policies at different worksites so even the cowardly, only slightly less murderous local mandates had to go

anyway elections here are rigged and always have been and even then every election is much closer than you'd think from how these motherfuckers behave so like

uh

hashtag notalltexans?

i keep having intrusive thoughts about structure fires and greg abbott screaming "more blood! i have to keep my hands wet! more blood!"

#uspol #txpol #white supremacy #social murder

[ziggy-solarecreator]

one of them was my dad, who fell for this shitstain's lies

#fuck trump #covid #covid death #social murder

[thebloodlinestopswithme]

The eugenics movement is trending

Also: Barf 🤮

#Dead serious #People are engaging in eugenics and don't even realize it #They also are ignorant and arrogant to what the world was and can be like without regulations and public health #Corporations and politicians would love the chance to shrug off even more responsibility #Every person for themselves does not make a functioning society #It also leaves the vulnerable to die and suffer #It's vile #Misanthrope #Misanthropy #Social murder #Covid-19 #Covid

[liminalweirdo]

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Twitter user CBCPitchbot: Why is Canada systemically murdering disabled people? CBC News doesn’t investigate.

Twitter user LindaSepp: Canada has fast-tracked Track 2 #MAiD for disabled people while perpetuating systemic accessibility barriers & deep legislated poverty, giving the illusion that MAiD2 is a choice while people are denied the means or supports needed to live.

#SocialMurder #disability #eugenics

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#canada #eugenics #covid #disability #ableism #social murder #human rights #canada loves eugenics

[theculturedmarxist]

Regarding the current state of the covid epidemic, and the evolutionary pressures coming to bear on the virus(es?) due to public health decisions on the part of the Biden Administration (et al).

The conclusion:

Taleb defines a “ruin problem” as “one where outcomes of risks have a non-zero probability of resulting in unrecoverable losses.” I suppose it would be possible for some to consider a million people dead from Covid not ruinous — after all, we can always breed more — but taking such risks repeatedly sounds like a very bad idea, especiallly since we’re taking that risk “at the systemic and collective level.”

If the papers I have presented are correct, the Biden Adminstration’s policy of mass infection has brought us to the brink of ruin. Vaccine escape is the direct result of the Administration’s mass infection policy. GM [a comment contributor known to the authors of NC and knowledgeable on health matters] writes:

[N]ever before has such a virus received the opportunity to replicate so fast and so much. We’re talking several orders of magnitude more replication than usual. And these are the results.

In the worst case scenario, the health care system is right back where it was in Spring 2020, with no working vaccines. Moreover, it will be overwhelmed not merely with Covid cases — remember “flattening the curve”? Good times! — but with all sorts of new infections brought about by Covid’s immune dysregulation abilities, as is happening in the UK now.

Even worse, the subvariants with demonstrated immune escape capabilities (BQ/XBB) are peaking and becoming dominant during the Christmas and New Year’s holiday period. Worse than that, the Southwest Airlines debacle has meant that there have been entire families, nationwide, staying 24/7 in airports, which are Covid hotspots, for days. Worse than that, opening up China will — probably already has — expose us to whatever variants have been brewing in immunocompromised Covid patients in that country.

Can’t anyone here play this game? “The pandemic is over.” No, it’s very not. It’s deja vu all over again! How many times do we have to repeat? Maybe try something new? Before it’s really too late?

#covid 19 #covid pandemic #biden administration #covid virus #public health #covid subvariants #social murder #sozialer mord #immunocompromised #pandemic #pandemic response

[socialmurder]

"When one individual inflicts bodily injury upon another such that death results, we call the deed manslaughter; when the assailant knew in advance that the injury would be fatal, we call his deed murder. But when society places hundreds of proletarians in such a position that they inevitably meet a too early and an unnatural death, one which is quite as much a death by violence as that by the sword or bullet; when it deprives thousands of the necessaries of life, places them under conditions in which they cannot live – forces them, through the strong arm of the law, to remain in such conditions until that death ensues which is the inevitable consequence – knows that these thousands of victims must perish, and yet permits these conditions to remain, its deed is murder just as surely as the deed of the single individual; disguised, malicious murder, murder against which none can defend himself, which does not seem what it is, because no man sees the murderer, because the death of the victim seems a natural one, since the offence is more one of omission than of commission. But murder it remains."

-Friedrich Engels. The Condition of the Working-Class in England.

#social murder #engels my baby #marxist criminology

[onlyhurtforaminute]

SOCIAL MURDER-POSSESSION

#SOCIAL MURDER #DEATH METAL #HEAVY METAL #METAL #SLASHER #2024 ALBUM #Youtube

[aquietwhyme]

#social murder

[intersectionalpraxis]

Trevonte Helton, a 29 year old Black man, "was found hanging from a tree at High Shoal Falls in North Georgia." This man was murdered, and their quick eagerness to call this an "isolated" incident is just horrifying.

#feminist #social justice #feminism #current events #current news #atlanta #georgia #antiblackracism #racism #dehumanizing language #global news #world news #united states #palestinian liberation #black liberation #black lives matter #hate crime tw #hate crime #tw murder