Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 533
Ask Me Anything

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1. Scott says:

   May 3, 2023 at 10:07 pm

   First of all, these discussions are enormously interesting and I am thankful that such quality content is provided at Counter-Currents.

   Half of the points I agree with and half I don’t. I’ll just hit a few high points for the fun of it.

   I don’t think it is any mystery that the Supreme Court is either Roman Catholics OR Jews + Minorities.

   The Liberals will always appoint Jewish justices and flavor-of-the month minorities ─ while with the Conservatives, it is always Catholics.

   Why appoint the Catholics, you ask? Legal scholars? B.S. It’s because even Liberal Catholics are always Papists and therefore crypto anti-Abortion, even if during Senate confirmation hearings the Democrats always tried to make not touching Roe vs. Wade THE litmus test.

   Therefore, with new Trump appointments, it was no surprise that Roe was finally overturned in 2020. But it looked like that reversal was ill-timed as a ploy to suck all the oxygen out of the upcoming election debates ─ which would only come at Trump’s expense.

   Then some Saint overdosed on Fentanyl and Speed while resisting arrest and a cop was charged (and convicted) for his “murder” to appease a Summer of Negro rioting ─ with Trump doing nothing but own the Libs on Twitter.

   Back in a post-Roe midterm election in the 1970s, my Government and History teacher was a state legislator and he was able to get every official from both parties except the Governor himself into our intimate little class ─ and one of the big questions always asked (somewhat tediously) was about stuff like Abortion and Mercy Killing.

   The Democrats basically had the same line as the Republicans in that they did not believe in Abortion “except in cases of rape or incest.” Abortion was obviously not too popular with many of their working-class Catholic constituents. Roe vs. Wade gave Democrats a figleaf to hide behind in not having to do any actual legislating against Abortion, including “exceptions in cases of rape or incest.”

   The Republicans now think they have the big win by packing the courts over the years with Papists and finally getting that dreaded Roe reversed, but they are only chasing more dead ends. In Arizona, the recent Governor’s race became reduced to “she will protect Abortion Rights” vs. “she is pro-Life.”

   There are many extreme laws now getting passed in various Red states after Roe which the courts will likely overturn anyway.

   Both parties have been spinning their wheels for fifty years trying either to save Roe or to reverse it. This is so stupid it is hard not to imagine it as being deliberate. This kind of gridlock Democracy has to be more “feature” than “bug.”

   Briefly, about Mercy Killing. I don’t agree with the state helping people die who are just “sad” or too cowardly to commit suicide. But that has never been what assisted suicide or euthanasia was about. Why is it being framed in this way all of a sudden? Did Edward G. Robinson really have anything left to live for in the movie once he learned the truth?

   A shockingly high amount of elderly (usually White) men commit suicide. It is in fact one of the Libtard arguments against the private ownership of firearms. I’ve personally known a lot of older guys who have checked out “with dignity” when the time was right. Surprisingly, shoe laces are almost as common as firearms, and pretty high on the list are small charcoal cookers.

   This kind of elder suicide is usually because they are sick ─ little or nothing can be done about it ─ and the healthcare industry will eat up all of their money after a few months of a grisly terminal illness. In fact, in some states the next of kin can be liable to pay off granddad’s nursing home bill.

   As someone who, after getting run over by a junkie with a driver’s license, has spent a fair amount of time in critical care watching the hands of the clock waiting for the next allowable morphine injection, I can state that the important thing (if this is what you plan to do) is to check out before you can no longer do it yourself.

   If anybody agrees to help you, and they are not also checking out, they will likely get charged with murder. And unless they were coercing you or something, that is not too cool.

   I was never that far gone, but we are obviously talking about incurable patients here whose only purpose left on this Earth is to suffer ignobly. Or nobly, depending of how pious you think suffering is.

   Dr. Kevorkian was a bit of an oddball and I am not going to defend him enthusiastically, but I strongly disagree that he was a ghoul or a charlatan. I used to joke a lot when I was in the basement with the guy in that Metallica video by greeting every doctor visiting there mainly to punch his ticket as: “Dr. Kevorkian, thanks for coming.” If they were old enough to know who he was, the line always got a laugh.

   (Memo to self: getting admitted to a Level I trauma center is good, but try not to find one that is also a teaching hospital.)

   Unfortunately, the U.S. legal system has very little provision for mercy death. Euthanasia is illegal in all fifty states, while ten have some form of assisted suicide. Catholics are strongly against this in principle and they even fussed to Hitler about it. They believe that to purify the spirit the flesh must be annulled. This means that the only way to commit suicide without burning in the everlasting pit is to starve to death. No thanks, Padre.

   Yet this is essentially what happens in hospice care when the patient has made a living will or doesn’t have an open-ended health plan. And if you are in severe pain while you are dehydrating on the vine, well, it’s tough cookies because the Angels of Mercy are going to start getting very stingy with the morphine in order to dissuade any rumors about having sped up the DNR process once the ticker finally does quit.

   Now that pain-management opiates are more scary than a Sarin gas enema, I can only imagine.

   Sure, I would not want to be euthanized unless I were institutionalized and incurable, but I can attest that even in an almost unconscious state, you do intensely feel pain.

   Of course, involuntary euthanasia is something that would have to be decided by trusted family and a panel of medical experts and not by some rogue doctor who needs some bed space in the Happy Home. It would have to be heavily-supervised and regulated ─ just like everything else.

   And yes, Libertarians, the gubbamint already does regulate many of these things like who can even practice medicine in the first place. This does not guarantee that you will get a good doctor, for sure, but it is highly necessary.

   In any case, my opinion is that the Catholics were right to complain about euthanasia in some German state hospitals. And Hitler was right to end the practice, at least for the duration of the war. It is one of those things that would need to be very judiciously applied because it is easy to get wrong.

   I don’t want to whine only about the Catholics; the Fourth Great Awakening Evangelicals are just as bad, but in a different way. At least the latter are strong on the Death Penalty.

   At best ─ I think Christianity can avoid hindering a WN Movement. I think White people do have the right to be Christians if they want to be.

   At worst ─ Christians are the problem manifest in full measure, the ones happiest to wield the Kosher thought cleaver and to stamp out any kind of authentic progress. The idea that the most “traditional” and even backward sects are some kind of bulwark or salvation for the current predicament of the White race is to me ludicrous. That is the pitiful path that brought us here.

   Fun Fact (or maybe not). William R. Simonson, the murdered technocrat played by the debonair Joseph Cotton with the “furnished” flat in Soylent Green, was loosely based on Idaho food-processing billionaire J.R. Simplot (1909-2008), the inventor of various freeze-drying techniques and McDonald’s frozen French fries. Simplot was a colorful cowboy who made a bundle selling stuff like powdered eggs and potato flakes to the military during World War II.

   A year before his death, Simplot severely spilt the Tater Tots on his mobility scooter in Glendale, Arizona to attend a holiday game. The police had to call in the scoops.

   🙂

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2. pterodactylbeakhat says:

   May 13, 2023 at 6:18 pm

   It seems to me that a primary difference between those who are categorized as “right” wing -vs- those who are categorized as “left” wing is the extent to which they feel that a person’s environment determines that person’s behavior/personality/choices. In other words, although I don’t think people are always aware of the things that they are insinuating when they are talking about this, the left are skeptical about free will (and moral responsibility) and the right are not.
   Therefore, it seems that if there were a way to be both an ethno-nationalist AND a free will/moral responsibility skeptic we might be part of the way towards getting a more racially conscious leftist.
   [I’m still working this out but I think one way to do this would be to include genetics in the category of “environment.” We then might be able to argue against being subjected to large swaths of people who are less morally responsible for there actions. That wouldn’t convince leftists who are totally unwilling to consider that genetics are important, but there’s still an open question of being a free will/moral responsibility skeptic and an ethno-nationalist for other reasons.]

   I myself am somewhat of a free will skeptic and also an ethno-nationalist.
   I haven’t fully fleshed out this view but I don’t think there is anything contradictory about being both.

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