Bright Lights, Big City
Lifted from the comments, it turns out that Transport For London is advertising assisted suicide. They seem to be giving it quite a push:
Westminster Death Tunnel sponsored by @dignityindying pic.twitter.com/fW0mbtqVRc
— Fleur Elizabeth (@fleurmeston) November 25, 2024
Very on-brand, I’d say. Almost too on-the-nose. I mean, if London’s buses and tube network were suddenly to be plastered with huge posters saying END IT ALL NOW, YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO, it wouldn’t be entirely inexplicable, or entirely dissonant with the customer experience.
It’s perhaps worth noting that Transport For London has a staff training centre, complete with fake station and platform, and “suicide pits,” where employees learn how to manage what are euphemistically referred to as “passengers taken unwell” or “disruptions to the tube service.” Events that occur on average once or twice a week.
In 2019, staff “intervened” in the self-destructive thoughts of 426 customers deemed “visibly in distress,” “up from 252 in the previous year.”
As EmC quips darkly in reply,
Update, via the comments:
The adverts for assisted suicide are now being partially covered, by persons unknown, with posters for a Samaritans helpline.
Consider this an open thread.
Sooo, they’re saying “Instead of jumping on the tracks and disrupting service, why not avail yourself of this lovely clean method”?
As someone who’s experienced the soul-withering properties of attempts to travel in London – and would not care to repeat it – there is, I think, an unhappy irony.
It’s also worth noting that TfL, supported by London’s leftist mayor, Sadiq Khan, has been quite eager to forbid adverts on the tube for foods deemed insufficiently healthy and life-affirming, including artisanal cheeses.
Fame at last.
Well, it wasn’t an entirely inapt comment. If I were of a mind to seriously degrade someone’s mental health and make them feel utterly wretched, urging them to live in London would be a pretty good way to do it.
The adverts for assisted suicide are now being partially covered, by persons unknown, with posters for a Samaritans helpline.
[ Post updated. ]
The adverts for assisted suicide are now being partially covered, by persons unknown, with posters for a Samaritans helpline.
Good people – and sane people – still exist.
To be clear, I don’t at the moment have strong feelings on the subject, in principle, in theory. But the location of the adverts – and their sheer density, dozens of them, one after another – in a place where unhappy people regularly hurl themselves onto the tracks – seems a little, um, tone-deaf.
Watching the video above, the experience of walking down a tunnel in which every wall is plastered with repeated invitations to extinguish yourself does strike me as a bit of a downer. A dark irony.
Subliminal message: “If you have to ride public transit, your life really sucks.”
The tube is bad enough as an occasional visitor, a grim novelty experienced for just a day or two. But as something that has to be endured every day, at rush hour, when it’s at its most unpleasant, I think demoralisation would be difficult to avoid.
A thread on the mentally corrosive effects of so-called “diversity training.”
Oh, and That Thing That Never Happens has… well, you know.
Nearly one a week actually commits? I tried to look up comparable stats for NYC subway system. Of course google and now even Perplexity.ai are shit but it appears that for a system that handles 20% more passengers, their numbers were less than half London’s. That was until there was an “alarming increase” to 27 in 2022. Gee, wonder why suicides are increasing in general? I thought leftism taking over the world was supposed to bring us joy? Wonder how such is playing out in Canada, home of the MAID service.
According to Wikipedia, the number of suicides on the tube network has for decades, when averaged, been around one or two a week.
Is there any connection between this push for assisted suicide and the recent changes to inheritance tax?
Coincidence? Rising promotion of assisted suicide simultaneous with the decline of the NHS and the welfare system.
They seem to be giving it quite a push:
I see what you did there
Not much ‘diversity’ in the kill yourself advertising.
It would definitely help.
[ Wipes bar, whistles nonchalantly. ]
Ever get the feeling gullibility is striven for?
I have often wondered how people can imbibe the most obvious mental poison.
See also.
How did we get from Men on Books to Men on Military?
Government-paid gender transition: two snaps. Actual combat readiness: hated it!
Minefield clearing duty.
It’s one of the things I’ve tried to convey here over the years. It’s not just that a great deal of progressive posturing is absurdly pretentious or factually wrong or logically incoherent, often bizarrely so. It’s that the mindset implied by the posturing is obnoxious and dysfunctional. It’s psychologically disgusting.
How did we get from Men on Books to Men on Military?
First, the guy is Air Force, so “military” is a bit of a stretch anyway, but if he is still in his first 180 days, he can (should) be yeeted for failure to adapt, if past that. “The likelihood that the member is a disruptive or undesirable influence in present or future duty assignments” assuming they have a stack of counseling statements to back it up.
Just needs somebody in the food chain to do it, which may be a tall order in these days of troubled DIE in which we live in.
Are you thinking of this famous cartoon?
A much earlier version of the same cartoon:
Other than honorable discharge.
On it’s way out: DEI
On it’s way in: DIE
Move along, move along. No Islam to see here.
They need to stick Starmer’s face on the suicide posters.
pst314: Well, as plan benefits go it is sort of a one-off…so, you know, Win-Win.
Is it my imagination, or is there a distinct lack of melanin-enhanced diversity in these ads, such that one would expect to be crucial to getting approved for TfL in any other campaign?
Wonder how such is playing out in Canada, home of the MAID service.
Things are ramping up quite nicely thanks.
A paraplegic veteran who has represented this country in the armed forces and at the Paralympics has been trying for five years to get funding to build a wheelchair ramp built for her home. They won’t give her the funding for the ramp but they’ve offered her MAiD instead
JuliaM: well, you would think so, wouldn’t you? And just as remarkably, all of the photos are of people who appear healthy, balanced and rather content…no obvious end-of-my-rope-no-way-out desperation, no staring haunted eyes/spectral visages–just the nice lady next door who’s going to put down that guitar she’s been practicing and and go for the Final Exit. Geeze, folk songs tend to be pretty depressing, but who knew they were that bad?
The shooter, Sidi Mohamed Abdallahi, has now had terrorism and hate crimes added to his charges after authorities found evidence on his phone that he searched for synagogues and Jewish community centers. Also, maybe, that he visited jihad websites but I’m not sure.
As has been pointed out, it would have been inappropriate for the police to say that this was a hate crime until they had admissible evidence of his motives.
More details here.
This from the thread:
Not ironic at all. Feature, not bug, of DEI ‘training’. Creating hostility among the great unwashed is a valuable service to the Ruling class.
I like the phrase “prison onset gender dysphoria”. Going to remember that one.
You’d think the whole ‘Allahu Akhbar’ thing would offer a clue.
According to multiple reports, it was unclear what he yelled.
From the New York Post:
The accompanying video bears that out.
This was made possible by the ‘conservative’ Texas judiciary. It’s why I voted against every Texas Republican judicial candidate in November.
It was not clear to me when I listened on the CWB website, and the initial reports said that multiple people were uncertain what he said. (And the 72 Hour Rule exists because initial reports are so often inaccurate or downright wrong.)
Thus, it seems reasonable for the police to have said nothing until they could ascertain the facts with confidence.
One has to wonder how they got elected in the first place: Did they misrepresent their positions? Did they “evolve in office”?
Those heinous vandals will probably end up in jail.
A bit of both would be my surmise. Haven’t paid much attention to judicial elections in the past. That’s not going to be the case going forward.
Given a smart lawyer, a jury trial could be quite…interesting.
The sailor panel wasn’t SFW and had to be left out.
😁