At least one of the search warrants for Thursday’s raid seen by the Guardian authorized the FBI to confiscate dozens of items from the raided homes – including laptops, cellphones, “Defend the Atlanta Forest” stickers and posters and personal journals.
So, like, no bombs? No guns? Not even knives? How about nunchaku?
Not really seeing why these bastard cops had to do SWAT style raids. Unless, of course, they’re terrorists…
Love that they still do this with all their enemies. The left is simultaneously the most dangerous, and also comprised of effeminate weaklings. Biden is both an evil super genius, and a befuddled geezer. So refreshing to know they've at least remained consistent in one thing; being dumb asses.
Right out of Umberto Eco’s list of defining points of fascism.
The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.
Like I suggested- they’re terrorists. People may not like it when I call them terrorists, but what else can you call them when they spend so much time using violence and intimidation to cause fear amongst the populace?
Even if they had guns, it’s a constitutional right. I’ve never understood the obsession with reporting when guns are found. Around 45% of US households have a gun, does that mean that 45% of Americans are criminals in the eyes of the law?! Actually probably.
After failing to make a significant dent in the problem over the last decade, state and federal lawmakers across the U.S. are making housing a priority in 2024 and throwing the kitchen sink at the issue — including proposals to enact eviction protections, institute zoning reforms, cap annual rent increases and dedicate tens of billions of dollars toward building more housing.
They haven’t done anything for decades…
But we should believe them now in the run up to an election that after the next election they’ll really do something.
They’ve been saying the same thing as far back as I can remember, but as soon as their elected they go back to ignoring it.
We need to get the Republicans and neoliberals out of office if we want actual progress. Neither of them will actually fix this shit, because the people donating them money don’t want it fixed.
The most we’ll get is billions to real estate moguls to subsidize them building high end housing that doesn’t address the issue.
NYC finally did something in 2019 about the predatory renting practices, such as having the tenant pay the exorbitant broker fees (typically 2x or more of monthly rent, which is around $2600-3000/month), this was now the landlord’s responsibility… Then in 2022 they repealed it.
Let’s not stop there. Get big corporations out of the legislature. End Citizen’s United.
If the poor folk could organize, pool money together, and spend time lobbying, we might have a chance. We suck at organizing, we’re too short on cash just trying to stay afloat, and we’ve no time to be spending lobbying, either.
None of these fuckers have. I remember watching Jeff Sessions up there talking about how God wants him to put refugee children in cages and it just clicked in my head. The man has never once cared for a child in his life. Oh sure he provided the sperm, he used tax dollars to hire the nannies, but the actual effort of being a parent he has not performed.
You never see any of these people struggling with a car seat, or telling a story about being late cause their kid threw up, or having to leave work to go see their kids school play.
Firstly, fuck the Express and fuck that site in particular, turned my phone’s screen into Times Square.
While the article doesn’t mention their 2016 voting, I’d love to see a Venn diagram of those who had the means and bought property in the EU, and those who had voted to leave. I suspect they’d not be far off a circle.
I feel genuinely sorry for the outliers (edit: assumed outliers) who believed in the EU’s ideals and wanted property for whatever reason - work, family, whatever - and are getting horsed by the Blue Passport Gang.
Anecdotally, a good friend of mine has British parents who moved to northern France, voted to leave, and are now shocked that new and harsher rules could possibly apply to them. The most frustrating part is that they’re absolutely blind to the prospect that they might just have pissed on their own chips. It’s genuinely saddening to see people put two and two together, and come up with “someone else’s fault”.
Lives in France, votes to leave the EU, fuck sake, these Brexit dummies make me ashamed to be English. Thanks for fucking over the rest of the country with your stupidity!
I genuinely can’t understand it, like I can’t even come up with a single plausible way these people could think this way. How could you live in France, in the EU, intend to continue to live there because you obviously like it, and think that your home country needs to do something different?
As somebody else pointed out above; “British exceptionalism”.
I was living in Britain at the time of the Leave vote and the vast majority of the Leave “arguments” were anchored in some way or other on the idea that Britons and Britain would get special treatment because of being who they are (remember the whole “German car manufacturers will make sure we have a good deal to keep access to the UK market” argument?).
Also I’m from a very touristic country and it’s pretty easy to notice the feeling of superiority of lots of Britons when they come here, especially old people.
(The funny bit its that I ended up in England after years in The Netherlands, so ended up with Northern European standards and hence was less than impressed by Britain by the time I got there in 2006)
Anyways, all this to say that it’s absolutelly believable that lots, maybe even most, of those older people who lived abroad after retiring (so never really integrated in the local society, as people actually working there would) did genuinelly believe the idea that Britons would get special treatment. I mean, here in Portugal they’re not especially well integrated but especially the stories from the Costas in Spain is of pretty much self-contained Little-England communities, english-speaking and with their own stores and everything, all filled with British retirees most of whom never go into the trouble of learning even the most basic Spanish.
PS: Just to add that some Remainer arguments were also of the British Exceptionalist kind. Specifically the whole idea of “We should stay in the EU and change it from the inside” also reeks of “we know best” and “the EU will change to accomodate us”.
That’s fair, thanks for your well thought out comment. I imagine most Europeans knowing your language can create a feeling of superiority.
The brexit arguments were pretty broad as well in terms of what the EU would do for us, so I suppose there may have been a pipe dream of maintaining the right to travel and remain. Ugh I don’t think I will ever not be angry about the outcome.
I always felt it was more of a “big country which was once an empire” problem.
Even my tiny Portugal has some level of “celebrating the greatness of the country” on account of what was done by people there 5 centuries ago (i.e. during the time of the Discoveries) and Britain’s “Glory Days” are closer in time, were even bigger and, maybe more importantly, unlike in my country were that kind of stuff is out of fashion because the Fascists were heavy users of it, there are frequent celebrations of past glories some way or another in British media and there is often a nationalistic slant in the reporting of international news (mainly of Britain being portrayed as more important and listenned to abroad than it actually is if you look at the coverage of the same news in other countries).
It’s understandable when you’ve spent your life seeing international news being reported always with a slant that makes Britain seem important (which it isn’t anymore than other similar-sized countries, and often looks kinda desperatelly trying to ride in the coat-tails of America, the real important ones) and were the Imperial past is constantly remembered (nowadays, mainly with films and TV series), one ends up believing “we’re special” and that was easilly weaponized by the Leave campaign and is still weaponized by the Tories.
Most Brexiter arguments wouldn’t at all be believable for those with a realistic and informed view about Britain’s position in the World, the view of Britain abroad and the balance of power between the rest of the EU and the UK.
some Remainer arguments were also of the British Exceptionalist kind. Specifically the whole idea of “We should stay in the EU and change it from the inside” also reeks of “we know best” and “the EU will change to accomodate us”.
To be fair, while it comes across as snotty arrogance, the idea of negotiating with the other member states to steer the Union in your favour is a power and responsibility of every member state.
The British relationship with the rest of the EU was, at least by the time I moved to Britain (so, 2006), adversarial (win-loose) rather than cooperative (win-win), the latter being more common in the rest of Europe, especially smaller nations.
Also keep in mind that this was following Cammeron’s demands for Britain to be allowed to limit Free Movement from the rest of the EU into Britain but not the other way around (i.e. Britons still kept that right, just stopped reciprocating it) “or else we’ll have a Referendum on leaving the EU”, which was what triggered the Leave Referendum, so “We should stay in the EU and change it from the inside” back then as justification to Remain rather than Leave sure sounded a lot like suggesting that the objective of priviledged treatment for Britons over the rest should be better pursued inside the EU.
It certainly didn’t came across as an appeal to it being better to carry on cooperating for the common good that to leave, which would be the kind of thing more likely to sway, say the Dutch or the Portuguese.
I suspect you might be confusing a local cultural artifact you see all around you in British Modern Culture with a general way of behaving in Europe: everybody is selfish to some point, but from the countries in Europe I lived in, Britain was the one were selfishness and adversarial approaches (you have to win, otherwise that mean you lose) were the most common and accepted. IMHO, Britain is in this in the middle between Continental Europe and the US.
Malt vinegar sours beefy quickly in open air, to the point that even after a single lunch rush at a chip shop, the bins reek of urine-like rotting vinegar… So, there’s that tidbit of trivia.
English exceptionalism is a disease that ails British society. People are shocked that the French etc. would apply reciprocal rules on Brits although in their minds it’s perfectly legitimate to apply harsh immigration policies to people wanting to come to the UK. They genuinely don’t understand it, and it’s tragic in a way.
I’m trapped here, too! While I’m not happy about the situation, I’m incredibly excited to see all of my old history teachers get shit on when Texans find out that:
While we CAN split into 5 states, we CANNOT form our own country without repercussions. The concept of Texas returning to its own country is not in any constitution nor agreement. While there is an agreement that we can become multiple states, it’s redundant when compared to Article IV, Section 3 of the US freaking Constitution.
We’re not the only state that was once it’s own country. Hell, Hawaii was not only its own sovereign nation, it was a fucking kingdom. Other than being the biggest, dumbest, and drunkest, no part of our previous classification before joining the Union is special considering that Vermont was its own country 40% longer than we were.
As long as we’re dispelling ignorant Texas myths, no we’re not the only state who can fly their flag at the same height as the US flag. Literally any state can. They’re called flag codes and they’re insanely easy to find and read. You’ll find that most self-avowed “patriots” tend to breach the most flag codes.
There’s no such thing as “Texas pride” anymore. It’s all been replaced with ignorance and disrespect. The last time we got drunk and punched our landlord in the face, we spent 10 years boisterously bragging about how cool it is to be dirty and homeless while quietly crying to our northern neighbor and begging them to bring us in off the streets. And while we told everyone that one of things that made us so cool was how hard we shit our pants when we defeated Mexico got abandoned by Mexico like a parent too disappointed in their child to even argue anymore, we got so desperate for a new mommy or daddy that we considered going home with anyone who made the mistake of looking at us while walking by:
But even while coming to prize independence, Texas found itself weak and bankrupt, newly menaced by a Mexico that never recognized her right to exist. With historical repercussions that can only be guessed at today, the country’s leaders seriously considered taking Texas into the British Empire.
So, to our future Piss Baby in Chief, I dare you to try. My city alone has a shocking number of military bases and I’m sure any one of them can easily get foreign-leader-killing drones in the air within seconds of having a new enemy holding US troops hostage.
I’m excited for the wannabe domestic terrorists in West Texas to realize that sparsely vegetated and habituated scrubland is a drone operator’s ISR wet dream to thwack pickup convoys, and have a public come-to-Jesus moment before decrying this pointless dick measuring contest. Any kind armed rebellion without near total collapse of the federal government, is a fantasy
It’s starting to feel a bit like the biggest problems (climate, billionaires, guns, inequality) in the world will need such huge changes to the status quo, that something massive will have to happen to initiate it.
Words and anger? Definitely. Support/action? Very likely no.
It’s the same problem AQA & ISIS have: you are powerless against the drone without MADPADs, and you aren’t getting those - maybe not even with proxy state support. How does the ‘Trump Train’ achieve anything beyond banditry-level terrorism, against an air power with PGMs?
You don’t even need drones. Insurgents aren’t particularly technical, and tend to use unsecured communications that are easily pinpointed for a precision HIMARS or smart artillery strike. Ask the Russians how it went for them. They lost thousands in Ukraine because soldiers used cellphones to call home to Mama - calls processed through Ukrainian cellular towers.
Tell that to the $43 I have to my name and the hundreds of dollars/many hours needed to go to obtain a diagnosis on my current health crisis. I don’t know how I’m going to pay for all that, upcoming rent, and eat for the next few weeks… I’m spending money I don’t have, to get by, and I have no available credit to use because I can’t build credit without getting a secured card, which I can’t even save $200 for because I’ve been struggling to make up for over a decade of making around $20k/year while living in a large city. I can’t even keep the one shitty car I own on the road doing all of the work on it myself. I get around in a car I’m borrowing from my parents, which they can’t really afford to let me borrow because they’re in crippling debt themselves. And no, I don’t spend on frivolous things. I don’t drink anything but water and one coffee a day, which I make at home. All my meals are cheap, mostly rice/frozen veggie stir-fry’s. My only option for escape is to become a vagabond and hope my undiagnosed heart issues don’t kill me, if my diagnosed issues don’t first, without meds.
But, I’m wasting my words. You have enough privilege that you can’t fathom a world in which things are just simply unfeasible. Good for you.
I’m not sitting around waiting on others. I’m diligently working to improve my situation with the limited resources I have. My limited resources don’t afford me the luxury to pick my entire life up and move. That was the point of my post, in case you missed it, you willfully ignorant twat.
I’m not assuming anything. I replied to what you said with a fairly detailed explanation of why it’s impossible for me to move my life at this time. You seem to be having a hard time accepting that some people don’t have the same privileges as you.
I called you a twat because you’re talking to someone you know next to nothing about and assuming I’m sitting around waiting on other people to fix my problems for me. What an incredibly insulting thing to say to a stranger. I have lived a very difficult life so far and I’ve worked extremely hard for everything I have. I’ve spent many years working 60+ hour weeks in a physically and mentally demanding profession, with little material wealth to show for it. Not because I haven’t been trying hard enough. My industry is highly unregulated and, despite my role being a very niche technical profession, most of us are heavily exploited until we’ve been in the game for 1 or 2 decades. This is true for many industries in the US.
You refuse to accept a reality that you’re fortunate enough to have no experience with. That’s willful ignorance. Insulting and talking down to people that have all too much experience with it makes you a twat.
No, you were definitely assuming I suggested it was easy.
That’s why your entire argument is built around how you think it’s too hard.
You resorted to personal insults because you know I have a point and can’t argue against it without them.
I see it all the time when I call out people’s greed and entitlement. Nobody wants to acknowledge their contribution to the problem or how they can take steps to improve their situation.
You’d rather wait for other people to solve your problems for you and attack anyone who suggests solving them yourself.
I’m not sure where you’re getting that. Maybe you don’t understand the point I’ve been trying to get across. I’m not saying it’s hard for me, I’m saying it’s impossible (and extremely impractical) due to current circumstances in my life. Allow me to spell it out for you further, since you still can’t seem to find footing to step down from your high horse:
I am in the middle of working towards obtaining a diagnosis on a potentially life-threatening/life-altering condition. If I were to move to another state right now, I would have to find new insurance, which I cannot currently afford, then restart the whole diagnostic process with a new doctor, which would be more money I don’t have and would waste all of the time and money I’ve already put in with the current doctor.
I’m poor because, even though I make a modest, yet relatively decent living these days, I’m still financially recovering from over a decade of making around $20k/year while living in a major city. This is an extremely difficult thing to do. Most of that time was spent working 60 - 80 hour weeks to the point that I had no social life or energy for anything outside of doing some basic hygiene, eating the one meal a day that I could afford, sleeping, and waking up the next day to do it all again. I didn’t have parents that could subsidize the beginning phase of my life. I had to build it all myself and, since you don’t seem to understand this, it is far more expensive to be poor in the US than it is to be middle/upper class.
All of this has molded me into a very resourceful and self-reliant person, which gives me the ability to get by on very little. Yet, I’m still struggling to reach something akin to financial stability because of the greed and entitlement of people who have wealth in this country, and the resulting defunct systems we live with. I am doing everything within my power, including taking online courses I may not be able to afford, to slog through it all and maybe improve my situation in the future. I’m very fortunate that I’m making some progress and don’t have kids to finance. It could always be worse.
Further, I’m an independent contractor and I’m currently in contracts with two different companies that require me to live nearby. I could break these contracts, but that wouldn’t serve me in terms of the longevity/health of my career. Nor would that reflect on the kind of man I try to be.
Even further, I just started a two year lease that I was very fortunate to get with my shitty/lack of credit. I’m not going to break that.
Should I keep going?
Here’s another point for your dense mind to mull over: What does it cost you to try to understand any of this? Is your worldview so narrow, so fragile, that you can’t accept a reality that a stranger is telling you they’re living? Think on that. What ever conclusion you come to, what does that mean for your worldview? You’re essentially telling me that I don’t know how to live well with my circumstances, that you know better, despite your clear lack of understanding of many of the hardships people face. This tells me you haven’t lived through many hardships in your life. You’re pretending to be the arbiter of truth on a subject you’re simply not qualified to have an opinion on. If truth matters to you at all, you need to be able to examine your understanding of things, in entirety, and find the gaps in your knowledge on the subject. That will never be possible as long as you are coming to conclusions without ever attempting to understand the subject matter along the way. That’s willful ignorance. And your arrogance in conveying that ignorance is extremely off-putting to the people you try to talk down to, who have actually lived through the things you feel you understand better than them. Fuck off with all of that. Be better.
No way I’m reading all of that when everything you’ve said up to this point has been easily debunked by things I’ve said before.
It’s clear to us all you will never acknowledge your entitlement or the concept of supply and demand.
You think you are above market forces, but your position in life does not reflect that. You will sit around waiting for people to solve your problems because you don’t take the initiative to solve them yourself.
You haven’t debunked a single thing I’ve said, you’ve just repeatedly doubled down on the baseless claim that you know how I should live my life better than I do. You won’t read it because you feel your position is threatened… That’s because your logic is as fragile as your child-like ego. I kinda feel sorry for you. Goodbye little willfully ignorant twat boy. Enjoy your undeserved privilege.
I’m an instacart driver and at least a few times a week I get the wrong driveway but then figure it out very quickly. This shit goes through my mind every single time.
That’s just the country I live in. I pulled into the wrong driveway and I instantly wonder idly if this is going to lead to my fucking death.
ok but where? I don’t think about this where I used to live in the US, but last summer we were in rural north carolina and I did a three point turn off someones driveway and I was not relaxed
I delivered pizzas for 3 different pizzarias and flowers also… I know the statistics show more delivery drivers run into trouble than cops get shot, but I think thats down to numbers- when I was slinging pies there were easily 5 pizza places with 5-6 drivers each on trip after trip all day 7 days a week and I would guess 10 cops on duty mostly sitting on their ass in a cop car busting white high school kids for weed at bullshit traffic stops… anyway yeah I hear you, but I think this is VERY tightly linked with the area you deliver in. my white bread ass area never not once made me feel the sliiiightest bit afraid
Okay, sure, but have you ever even considered uparmoring your car and mounting an automatic weapon to it? It’s like people never even played Car Wars. With some armor and a SAW they could have practiced their rights, and with a .50 they probably could have cut his house in half.
I mean, gas costs will go up with the additional weight and you need additional crew members to serve the weapons, but that’s the price of freedom.
Alternatively, you could try delivering the groceries by trebuchet from the back of a flatbed truck, but the automatic weapon thing is less likely to result in them cancelling the tip.
Bro, I hate to go all American but if i could drive some twisted metal shit I would in a fucking hearbeat. And I probably wouldn’t kill that many people. Most would deserve it. Pinky promise.
My wife works in a public library, so there are going to inevitably be bedbug issues. That’s why they keep bringing a specially-trained dog in to sniff out bedbugs where they can be exterminated.
My point is, maybe we can train dogs to root these fuckers out.
Wow whole bunch of old man takes about computers and not a single one about public schools being systematically defunded, dismantled, and squeezed in every way possible.
I worked as a teacher for a while until quite recently.
99% of public discourse on education, is based on the (traumatic or positive) individual experiences of people who went to school years if not decades ago, not people who actually know much about what they're talking about.
But what about the LGBT agenda that’s replacing math and reading education where children learn how to vote Democrat instead of learning how to read or multiply? /S
Sounds about right. I really do make an effort but when I am helping my kids with the New Math I am mentally screaming “why did they change this!?”. I do like the sightword system however. So yeah if I am getting a bit annoyed there are probably parents who are getting less annoyed and other parents getting very annoyed. Bell Curve.
when I am helping my kids with the New Math I am mentally screaming “why did they change this!?”.
I’m not sure exactly what you mean, but if you’re anything like many of the parents I’ve heard complain about modern math curriculums, you were probably taught that there’s a correct way to do every math problem and if you aren’t doing it that way then you’re doing it wrong. What modern curriculums do is teach children that there are multiple ways to get to the correct answer, so they can choose the methodology that is easiest for them to understand. Because not everyone’s brain works in the same way, and the old style of teaching sets up barriers for some students.
I got poor math grades when I was a teen because I didn’t always do the problems the way the teacher wanted us to do them, even though I got the right answers. I had come up with my own process. I scored almost perfect on the math SAT and ended up in computer science. Now, when my kids ask for help with their math homework, I see that they’re learning a bunch of different ways to do the problems. Not all of them are intuitive to me, but some of them are basically what I figured out on my own. I think it’s great.
I hope the sight word system isn’t another one of those programs to get phonics out of schools, because the last name something like that turned up under a different name it didn’t work out so well.
… because my purchasing power is much lower than two years ago and my wages aren’t remotely keeping up with profiteering inflation? Because I have to be very careful around Christmas to not overspend and I get to explain to the kids why there’s only a few presents under the tree? They’ll be okay with it, but as a person who has children to take care of it, it’s crushing to go backwards year to year in what you’re able to provide? Because a 3/4 full shopping cart today (not much meat) was $179 today? And we have a fixed rate mortgage! I can’t envision the pressures people who are renting or trying to buy a home right now are going through. Anyone saying “it’s all good out there!” can get fucked.
No kids to take care of, but my fridge just went out today. This spoiled most of the food in the fridge as I can’t pick up a new one until tomorrow, and the of a new fridge and restocking my fridge pretty much cancels Xmas gifts for the family. I feel bad every year because they get my wife and I all kinds of cool stuff and it seems like every year I’m stuck telling them, “Maybe I’ll be less broke next year” Not quite the same, I know, but it still makes me feel aweful…
Meanwhile the owner of my company just bought a 5th wheel camper trailer and hitch for his truck in June because he felt like going camping, and is having a 6 bedroom house built for his son on his ranch because his sons wife is having a baby.
This isn’t probably what you want to hear right now, but I’ve been much happier giving homemade gifts to family and friends. I found a couple of things people really enjoy that I make and they all look forward to it every year. For me, it’s pork jerky. That might not work for you because you need a dehydrator but I can post the recipe if you want. It’s a lot of work so no one ever makes it, but when they receive it for Christmas they know I put a lot of time and love in and I really think that’s what Christmas should be about. It’s really cheap… Mostly two or three large pork loins covers my entire Christmas list.
Other family members have started to do the same. My brother makes really good homemade caramel popcorn. My sister made some rum infusion to give out. Another sister even one time even made Dominoes somehow with resin.
If you are able to find time and energy to spread your love for your family and friends Christmas is a lot of fun.
This is a great idea! But I will have to go with something other than meat. A fair amount of my wife’s side of the family is vegetarian. I’m also not that great at cooking lol one of my thoughts this year was to do some of my stencil spraypaints on canvas, as I have a huge stock of canvases and spray paint I never used when I stopped doing it years ago. I just wish I had more time to create some stencils.
It’s from 1986 and not insulated well. Between that and my wife keeping the thermostat and mordor temp, and opening the fridge for long periods of time not knowing it wasn’t working, it turned into a hotbox.
We hit $200 very easily just buying household essentials, it seems like. Heaven help us if we need paper towels, toilet paper, contact solution, the ‘cheap’ shampoo and conditioner, plus a few cleaning supplies all at the same time. $200 comes at you fast on those shopping days.
Dang, I was just thinking about how my mom got a raise years ago when I was still a kid and it practically changed our life. All of a sudden we were eating out more. All of a sudden we had nicer things. All of a sudden my mom wasn’t stressed anymore.
It’s sad to see how people are now experiencing the opposite of that. It’s sad they’re experiencing that when, in absolute terms, we are more productive than ever.
Greed really is the worst thing we face as a species in the modern age. It’s a shame so many people are gung-ho about supporting it.
The disparity in wealth needs to shrink instead of grow. Otherwise, these problems will only get worse over time.
Hold on, nobody tell me; I’m going to use my psychic gifts to ascertain the political leanings of this election interfering clerk.
Mmmmmmmmmmhmmmmmmm…it’s coming to me….I’m starting to see it more clearly….it starts with an……”R”? Yes….its “Repopulate”? Wait, no it’s “Republican”. It says the clerk who manipulated votes is a Republican.
I’m sure you’re all as surprised as me at this crazy turn of events.
I’m convinced that the reason they say the election was stolen is because Republicans actually did rig the election, and trump still lost. So, if Republicans rigged the election and still lost, then they think Democrats must have done something to “steal” the election.
It was a Hamas ambulance… The dozen kids at killed in the area? Hamas. The hospitals we bombed? Believe it or not, Hamas. We’re the victims here - look at the number of Palestinian kids Hamas combatants we’ve been forced to kill in a transparently genocidal land-grab self-defence.
I think you mean “what if the men and women think men and women should be referred to by different pronouns”. Can’t use “they” any more, remember.
But everyone is free to think whatever they want, so long as they don’t go around telling other people how to live their lives when it’s not hurting anyone.
Plus the benefit that her actual death was in her sleep.
My grandma wasn't skydiving, but she also died in her sleep, which was great. Was well the days before, then went to bed and never woke up. Much prefered to how grandpa slowly died of cancer while also having Alzheimers. That wasn't fun for anyone. Never waking up is certainly one of the best deaths one can have.
I didn't have to go through it directly. I was a child and my grandma didn't let me see my grandfather in his past months. It apparently was really bad and she wanted me to keep the memory of how he was when he was well. Heck, while the older family members got to visit, she basically took over the care on her own. She shouldered this burden of him losing himself so nobody else had to and continued on another decade afterwards. She was quite the strong woman.
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