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2025-05-01 -Great Cultural Revolution

Yale University economics professor sparks outrage by proposing mass suicide and disembowelment of elderly people in Japan to deal with the country's rapidly aging society

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Posted by Besoeker 2025-05-01 12:10|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [169 views ] Top

#1 You must at least be age 50 to qualify.

Posted by Besoeker 2025-05-01 12:50|| 2025-05-01 12:50|| Front Page Top

#2 Remember Jonathon Swift's A Modest Proposal(1729) ironical essay about solving Irish famines and poverty with cannibalism? It's hard to tell just how serious the professor is...

Posted by magpie 2025-05-01 13:44|| 2025-05-01 13:44|| Front Page Top

#3 Crone, Wolf, and Cub

The samurai toddler had beckoned
To Grandma and Daddy (her second).
Then, masterless ronin
All set about bonin'
And rendered the shogunate fecund!
[spurting blood spatters lens]

Posted by Pancho Poodle8452 2025-05-01 14:17|| 2025-05-01 14:17|| Front Page Top

#4 masterless ronin

Probably from the Department of Deportment Department.

Posted by Pancho Poodle8452 2025-05-01 14:23|| 2025-05-01 14:23|| Front Page Top

#5 Classic seppuku involves 2 people (1 w/a sword - see picture). Death is not from suicide...it happens when your head is separated from your neck.

Posted by Bangkok Billy 2025-05-01 15:53|| 2025-05-01 15:53|| Front Page Top

#6 So an expansion of the Canadian Healthcare system program?

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-05-01 16:37|| 2025-05-01 16:37|| Front Page Top

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