• KeithD@lemmy.nz
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    Given how much she wanted kids, that isn’t actually an appropriate picture on the left of the scale.

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    I’m kinda irritated by how people say she hassnt been convicted yet when someone’s states she killed her kids despite pressing evidence but however throw the word postpartum disorder around like it wasn’t just the defence strategy of her lawyer.

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    I like kids, and value getting to be a grandpa for a boy from four to ten (then he became a basketball star and didn’t visit much).

    But I feel sorry for the alphas and betas. In fact, I feel sorry for zoomers, who I’ve watched grow up. And millennials got a raw deal too.

    We don’t know which catastrophic existential risk is going to manifest, as we’re working on several. But one is, and the aftermath is going to be an ordeal.

    Needless to say, I’m anti-natalist. I think bringing new life into the world right now is a disservice to them.

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      Sooooo… you get to have kids. Live a comfy life, while everything goes to shit. But yonger generations should go “quietly into the dark”?

      You know this comes across really rude and entitled, right?

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    22 hours ago

    I like them enough not to eat them and rape them (this is so fucked up why are we joking about this) so I’d say 9

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    I’d say i’m 3-4, i can tolerate kids but i find them annoying.

    I have a daughter and step daughter and while both were calm and sweet when they were younger the teen disease seems to have changed one of them and the other one is on her way.

    Step daughter turned 15 a few months ago and for the past 2 years i’d say she’s becoming a bigger foul-mouthed asshole than i thought possible and daughter will turn 10 in a few months and i’m just waiting for the outbursts to start.

    Kids don’t deserve to be raped or murdered but they are ungrateful assholes that think money grows on trees.

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      Im not sure how to say this but if your daughters grown up to be “ungrateful assholes” that is partially on you. Not all of it. Try to get it through how is your financial situation is. A 15 year old can understand way more than we give them credit for. If they think you are in the same team, they will look things from your perspective more. Saying how you grown up is not something they can relate to, they didn’t experienced that personaly.

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        Yes, and they were an ungrateful asshole who thought money grew on trees. Now they are an ungrateful asshole who thought parenting would be all puppies and rainbows.

        • Eternal192@anarchist.nexus
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          If you must know i spent 4 years without power or running water 1991-1995 due to a war.

          My father never really contributed to the household before or after the war and 1997 my parents separated.

          After my mother remarried she and my stepdad were taking loans left and right until everything went to shit and we didn’t have food, running water or power.

          While everything is stable now my childhood wasn’t “puppies and rainbows”.

          So have your presumptions if it makes you feel better about yourself.

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            I didnt need to know. You had a tough life, like most people… boo hoo. What i did know, was you said “Kids don’t deserve to be raped or murdered but they are ungrateful assholes that think money grows on trees,” and that statement alone makes you a shitbag.

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            Yeah, and that doesn’t give you a license for being a dickhead.

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    Hmm, prolly a 3-4, I greatly dislike children, I don’t want them near me. I don’t want them fucking dead, I just don’t want goblins near me

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      She had a severe case of postpartum psychoses and killed her kids. Went to trial and was found not guilty by every juror except a woman hating wife beater even though he admitted to having reasonable doubt, which lead to a mistrail.

      It’s a very shitty meme that makes fun of a woman’s tragedy.

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        A woman’s tragedy? The fuck? She strangled her three children to death. I don’t give a shit what circumstances led to it. The tragedy is the kids who were murdered and everyone who knew and loved them.

        It’s terrible that she couldn’t get the help she needed. That doesn’t make her the victim.

        • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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          It’s terrible that she couldn’t get the help she needed.

          Yeah, funny thing about that: per the Wikipedia article on the case, there were no fewer than three attempts at inpatient care for her, one discharged her, one she refused and the third she checked herself out of.

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          If you had a heart attack while driving and so got into an accident and your children in the car were killed but you survived, are you a victim?

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            21 hours ago

            If you were having a heart attack and deliberately accelerated and aimed your car at a group of people on the sidewalk, then you are both the victim of a heart attack and a murderer.
            Mental illness should affect where you are incarcerated and the type of treatment you get, but it doesn’t mean that you get a free pass.
            The US’s handling of incarcerated people, especially the mentally ill, is gross and malicious, but this is the choice that the voters have made. That desperately needs to be fixed, but setting a murderer free is not helping.

            Also, it’s really grotesque that stealing to feed your children, or sneaking across borders to give them a better life is worthy of jail time if you aren’t white, but if you are white then premeditated murder of your own children makes you a hero.

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              No. That’s entirely not the point. If you have a heart attack and so your body forces you to fall unconscious and so you get in an accident and kill your children, are you guilty? Obviously you need medical attention and cannot be allowed to drive while there is any significant chance that you might do it again.
              Nobody is suggesting that this woman should be set free - she needs to be in a secure mental treatment facility until she is safe to be in society - and possibly that will never happen.
              This has nothing to do with those other issues or skin color. It is about mental health, women’s support and post partum care.
              If you can’t wrap your head around the mental illness cause part because you have no empathy or ability to understand things you haven’t experienced, maybe think about how one’s mind can be altered with drugs/alchohol, or how hypnotism can make people do complex weird things. Our brains are a very complex chemical system and can get out of whack causing surprising results. Post partum mental illness is much more common than most people believe because of the stigma and covering it up. It needs a lot more understanding and accommodation - that recognition and support would help avoid such tragedies as this case. Your inability to understand and empathize will only make things worse.

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                Yeah, but she was fucking conscius, reasoned, premeditated and planned everything. I’d love to have a mental illness like that if it actually existed…

                • KeithD@lemmy.nz
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                  Premeditated and planned? Not particularly, from what I saw of the trial.

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              She had a medical condition that caused it. Just because you’ve never had such a condition doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. The world is bigger than your experience. If you can imagine yourself having a heart attack forcing your body to stop driving and kill your kids, why can’t you imagine yourself with a mental illness that forces you to do terrible things?

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                I didn’t know a medical condition can cause you to wait till your husband is out of the house to kill your 3 children

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                  Yeaaa, like, the level of premeditation and reasoning is incompatible with a mental illness like that.

                  But hey, she’s a woman, and women can’t be bad nor commit any crimes, they’re always victims and men are always criminals, yk, totally common sense.

                  I’d love to see the reactions if she were a male and not a female.

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                  Well, apparently that’s what a jury overwhelmingly found. So it seems many people can fathom such a medical condition.

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        Jesus Christ, I read the wikipedia page and this meme is fucking awful. What a fucked up thing to joke about

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        you are listening to misinformation, the woman in the juror went on a SJW crusade to get her freed, because they felt “Woman needs to be not the same as men”

        • KeithD@lemmy.nz
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          Definitely killed her kids. Allegedly insane enough to not be able to be found guilty (which would still wind up with her locked up). And it was the state’s burden to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that she was sane enough to be found guilty. That’s what the jury needed to deliberate and come to a consensus on, but didn’t quite.

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          She admitted to it, the question is whether she is criminally responsible or if her postpartum psychosis constitutes mitigating circumstances.

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            She may have lied when she ‘admitted it’. She hasn’t been found guilty in a court of law. It’s still only ‘allegedly’.

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              She admitted it in court.

              Not being found guilty for it doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.

              If you’re at a carnival where one of the games is throwing axes at a board. And somehow a child suddenly teleported in front of the board after throwing the axe, you might not be guilty for it. But you still killed the kid.

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              Lmao, why wouldn’t anyone admit something that will destroy their life?

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      I hope everyone else here just lets you keep it that way.

      Please don’t inform this person and make their life materially worse for knowing thanks.