jemdew

the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world

[Professor Charles Xavier @PezeshkiCharles]

@avidseries It's a great example of psychopathic manipulation. I write it up here:
https://t.co/lO09WetSYh

[Militant Libertarian @MilLibertarian]

@avidseries Volunteered in soup kitchen in 90s. Expected huge line of skinny needy people. I expected mandatory small portions and I wanted to fight the system by overserving.

Actually- all you can eat, but we threw most of the food away after 4 hours.

I stopped handing cash to bums.

[Serf @TheRoyalSerf]

When I was younger I believed I'd live in a beautiful world with beautiful people who loved beautiful things

[surfacefacts @surfacefacts]

@JimMcMurtry01 lol... really? Sheshatshit, by the seashore? or..

[pagliacci the hated 🌝 @Slatzism]

The romanticization of downies is very weird to me.

“Oh they’re so happy!” Yeah because they have an IQ of 34.

People see little clips of the higher-functioning minority being cute online and then feel entitled to massively underestimate the amount of mental, social, financial, and medical resources it takes to raise them.

This isn’t helped by the fact that the parents of profoundly disabled kids often try and offset the (very valid) guilt, disappointment, and burnout they feel by frantically pretending like their lives are great because farming praise for being “good people” and righteously dunking on parents who don’t want that for themselves are the only coping mechanisms they have.

A profoundly disabled child is not a houseplant or kitten, and it isn’t a responsibility that ever ends. The vast majority of downies are not capable of obtaining even a mild degree of independence.

You will be taking care of them until the day you die (and spend the last moments of your life worrying about who will take care of them when you’re gone).

Imagine being 80 years old and still having to heat up nuggets for your 45 year old child, remind them to wash, tell them when to go to bed, etc…

Imagine not being able to do literally anything without having to consider whether or not your downie labubu can join.

Imagine never having grandchildren, or never being able to see your child go to college or get married. Fundamental experiences many look forward to, gone.

It’s not like the cute little clips in the vast majority of cases.

And this is all especially true if you have a male downie because once they hit puberty and adulthood, you now have all of the urges of a horny man trapped in the mind and body of someone with a no impulse control and superhuman retard strength.

It’s all fun and games until your 300 pound adult son who has the intellectual capacity of a turnip whips his junk out in a Walmart and starts rubbing it on the My Little Pony display (I witnessed this once, absolutely horrifying scenes).

All I’m saying is… If you want to be a downie parent - awesome. I wish you the best. I am sure there are plenty of profoundly disabled kids waiting to be adopted and you can put your money where your mouth is anytime.

But I do not blame anyone who does not want that life for themselves and, crucially, recognizes they would not be good parents in that situation.

At the very least, I respect the fact that they’re being honest, which seems to be something most people can’t do when it comes to the disabled.

[jemdew @jem_dew]

@TheRoyalSerf how did he get the machine to agitate with the lid open

[David Demarke @DemarkeDavid]

@TheBabylonBee I’ll take the orange if somebody will remove all the red for me.

Also, candy companies, please stop replacing lime with green apple, it’s garbage!

[wokeandwoofing @wokeandwoofing]

So, a Drag Queen, a Communist, and an Antisemite walk into a bar.

And the Green Party's monthly meeting begins.

[jemdew @jem_dew]

@Orlandoejack @FowlesMurphy @SkepticalWaves those aren't small towns

[jemdew @jem_dew]

@FowlesMurphy @SkepticalWaves welcome to the last 40 years at least...also when the hell was it "dull but pleasant"?
How long have you lived there/when did you leave lol
It's been a city for at least 25 years

[jemdew @jem_dew]

@Brad9037124905 @OtisMyman985897 @CigsMake native

[Wally Wa @wallydollarlive]

@Vickcantmiss Remember kids would get snatched up into the white van because he had candy?
This is that, but with a food truck. Fat ass about to be PORKED 😭😭😭

[Abby Libby @abbythelibb_]

I like to think I'm multi-love lingual and can accept love in any language (and also give it in any language). But in reality, I'm good at coming up with reasons why love expressed in any language wasn't real or why the person would be made uncomfortable by my expression.

[jemdew @jem_dew]

@TristinHopper I know people who started doing it in "solidarity" pre-gay-marriage

[Dan @arronaarrdvarrk]

@ElfwickDraws Time travelling transexuals in top shop, sounds like a shite Russ meyer film .

[Daniel Friedman @DanFriedman81]

The US lethal injection procedure involves the administration of three drugs: A sedative to make you fall asleep, a muscle relaxant that keeps you from moving or twitching, and then potassium chloride, which destroys the heart, causing a quick death.

If the potassium chloride does not work properly the muscle relaxant paralyzes the respiratory muscles, causing you to die either of asphyxia or of a heart attack brought on by struggling to breathe as the respiratory muscles enter paralysis. When a condemned inmate dies from the muscle relaxant rather than the potassium, it is considered a botched execution.

However, the Canadian MAID euthanasia procedure involves only the administration of the first two lethal injection drugs -- dying of asphyxia due to respiratory muscle paralysis is the intended result of the protocol.

The US has performed lethal injections on fewer than 150 condemned killers since 2020. Canada has euthanized as many as 80,000 people in the same period.

[Gem @_____Gem]

I don’t care.

I actually do not care. At all. Like Muslims didn’t about the man who rammed a car into a crowd before stabbing as many people as he could.

So, I repeat, I do not care.

Couldn’t give a shit.

[planefag @planefag]

@BENZOTOOIE

[jemdew @jem_dew]

@JohnDoe44296010 @RealEmirHan most women can't

[jemdew @jem_dew]

@preta_6 just old-lady arms-she's like 60