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What a ghoulish take

• paganel 3y ago
  The ghoulish take are the 110,000 deaths of despair recorded in the US between February 2021 and February of 2022. The ghoulish take is this 19-year old kid from Chicago [2], definitely not a billionaire's son, saying how most of his friends and male acquaintances are usually gone by the age of 21. [1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rising-physical-pain-is-linked-to-more-deaths-of-despair1/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rising-physical-p... [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycOUwMJmTVM&t=134s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycOUwMJmTVM&t=134s
  • cycrutchfield 3y ago
    Any other non sequiturs you would like to add?
    • paganel 3y ago
      You saying that there’s no connection between a bunch of rich capitalists throwing away 250k a piece to go sit in a tube and the socio-economic disaster now hitting America head-on is part of the problem. In pure HN spirit, that of problem-solving, I don’t see a reasonably quick solution to this, on account of that repressive nature of the current socio-economic regime that I mentioned earlier. And nice privileged use of a Latinism, I’ll give you that.
      • cycrutchfield 3y ago
        Are you suggesting that addiction, depression, and lack of opportunities are somehow not present in whatever alternative communist utopia you apparently have in mind? Celebrating a Pakistani billionaire’s death because of the existence of poverty in America is not surprising for a tankie. Pretty on-brand in terms of ghoulishness and level of logic.