…shudder…

Surprising to see the NYT reporting on this, since they’ve usually been on board with such crushing.

https://archive.is/O2L99

Here’s one report that mentions some of his statements:

https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/palm-springs-explosion-motive-revealed-guy-edward-bartkuss-manifesto-chilling-audio-recording-emerge-101747539865219.html

You are arguing that most people enjoy life, and those who predict that others’ lives will be full of suffering tend to projecting their own feelings onto those as yet unborn. The antinatalist might argue that, though historically this may have been the case, the circumstances are now different: climate change or the likelihood of nuclear war (for example) is sure to bring suffering hitherto unknown to us, for everyone in the coming generations. The debate would then be about (1) how certain this future suffering is, (2) whether there’s a type of suffering that makes any life not worth living (or whether the value of life even relates to what suffering it contains), and (3) how much suffering, or what kind of suffering, we can best predict for these future people. We can have these debates, but I don’t think it’s obvious that the reasoning of someone who disagrees with you must be “pants-on-head level”. These are serious questions that intelligent people can consider, and the antinatalist position is a serious position that you don’t have to be an idiot to arrive at.

Stories of young women being taken to Al Fayed’s office circulated in the company at the time. But it was only after the billionaire’s death in 2023 at the age of 94 that the full scale of his abuse of women came to light. He is alleged to have sexually assaulted hundreds of women.

The UK is good at this. Somehow it’s impossible to investigate what everyone knows about a powerful person until just after they die, when the evidence suddenly turns up.

Now now, there’s no need to be extreme. Keep the letter polite, and show a little good will by agreeing to everything the fascists propose.

That wasn’t the bomber’s objection to it. He didn’t like people being born “without consent”, and the IVF clinic was a cause of people being born (of course without consent, since you must be born before you can consent to anything). There are legitimate philosophical debates about the morality of having children, but blowing things up is not usually part of the debate.

There were people all the way up the masts and all over the rigging, which made this accident worse.

The masts were too tall for the bridge so it seems they didn’t intend to go towards the bridge, but the ship apparently lost power and drifted backwards under it.

The difference in values is fine. The bombing clinics, less so.

It’s a respectable philosophical position with serious arguments. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with advocating it. Bombing for the cause is a different matter.

I have kids (some grown up) and sometimes spontaneously have this worry myself, just from looking at the news, especially the climate destruction and the persecution of LGBTQ+ people since none of my kids fit the “straight white cis men only” template of the right. When I was young I was quite clear that I didn’t want to have kids in a society that was destroying its planet. But adult decisions can be more complex and life went a different way.

Arguing that people should consider not having kids because of the state of the climate, cost of living, state of society, overpopulation, or whatever, is fine as long as it is done respectfully of other people’s freedom to decide. But evidently that was not bombing guy’s approach.

People existing who didn’t consent must be all people, so I guess he was just angry that people exist and saw the IVF clinic as something that helps make people exist. I can kind of see the logic, though he seems to have answered his own question about stupid.

It doesn’t look so bad until you notice that there were people all the way up the masts. It’s a really big ship so you don’t notice them at first.

And threatening to invade, crush and/or annex all your neighbours.

So it went from “I’ve done 200 deals” to “there’s no way we have time to even talk about 150 deals,” and his supporters are fine with this lying incompetence.

Oh well. Gotta keep changing those tariffs so businesses can’t make any plans.

Before anyone gets their hopes up, these Republicans’ objection is that Trump isn’t being mean enough.

They don’t care.