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2025-05-02 -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

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A Yale University professor has sparked outrage by suggesting the only way to deal with Japan's rapidly aging population is a mass suicide and disembowelment.

Yusuke Narita, an assistant professor of economics at Yale, defended his views in a New York Times

...which still proudly claims Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
profile this weekend after he made the remarks on a streaming news program in 2021.

'I feel like the only solution is pretty clear,' he said at the time. 'In the end, isn't it mass suicide and mass 'seppuku' of the elderly?'
Good idea. You go first.

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#1
Given CRAZY IDIOTS like this example of the Ivy league, only supports cutting all Taxpayers Funding.

Posted by NN2N1 2025-05-02 05:01|| 2025-05-02 05:01|| Front Page Top

#2 Depopulation is more than an idle concept.

Posted by Besoeker 2025-05-02 07:10|| 2025-05-02 07:10|| Front Page Top

#3 ....and its occurring already without any help from the intelligentsia. The same group of people who are trying to reduce sunlight while still promoting solar power alternatives.

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-05-02 07:26|| 2025-05-02 07:26|| Front Page Top

#4 In Japan with its heavy reliance on machine augmentation of services for long term care, the same results could probably be achieved by adding an algorithm.

Posted by Lord Garth 2025-05-02 08:12|| 2025-05-02 08:12|| Front Page Top

#5 The left just loves killing off people, don't they?

Posted by DarthVader 2025-05-02 10:51|| 2025-05-02 10:51|| Front Page Top

#6 New: President Trump Revoking Harvard's Tax-Exempt Status

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-05-02 11:32|| 2025-05-02 11:32|| Front Page Top

#7 Her son the professor's morosity
Oppressed her. "Impious monstrosity!
Such social decline!
Hush! No offspring of mine
Is too lazy to even ubasute!"

Posted by Pancho Poodle8452 2025-05-02 18:28|| 2025-05-02 18:28|| Front Page Top

#8 Soylent Sushi is people!

Posted by Anomalous Sources 2025-05-02 23:03|| 2025-05-02 23:03|| Front Page Top

#9 Cheerful "Phrase of the Day" video veers off into covid cant at the end. Some might say it hasn't aged well.

Posted by Pancho Poodle8452 2025-05-02 23:32|| 2025-05-02 23:32|| Front Page Top

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