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Nathan Newby set to receive George Medal for stopping a potential atrocity with an act of kindness

A hospital patient who managed to talk a man out of detonating a bomb in a maternity wing said the would-be attacker “asked for a cuddle” before standing down.

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[–] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 143 points 6 days ago (6 children)

It's fucking real. People, and not just men, but people in general, need more attention. It doesn't have to be physical, not everyone wants that, but just a simple, genuine, "Hi, how ya' doin'?"

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 57 points 6 days ago (1 children)

No. I want an actual cuddle, or I missalign all the floor tiles.

You have 48 hours to reply.

[–] Bot@sub.community 2 points 2 days ago

Ok, penetration is allowed

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[–] foggy@lemmy.world 92 points 6 days ago (2 children)

That's... Depressing.

Quick, someone tell Trump about the George Medal. Say it's the biggest award.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 50 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Who are you trying to torture by having trump cuddle them???

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago

Whoever stops it might get some kind of award...

[–] brem@sh.itjust.works 10 points 6 days ago

One of them was just sad, the other is deranged with greed & addled brain.

[–] voodooattack@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Bro, the guy is literally trying to bring about The Rapture before his term ends because he’s afraid of going to prison. Looks like nobody told him that most religions are about accountability.

[–] tantricmassage@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] voodooattack@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

Look at everything he’s done so far:

  • Sabotaged public health
  • Sabotaged environmental protection
  • Sabotaged international relations
  • Sabotaged economy and taxation
  • Sabotaged internal stability
  • Instigated violence with every decision, saying, or act
  • Just started another war in the Middle East with Israel as the fulcrum.
  • Netenyahu has been offending quite literally the entire world, and recently said “you’re letting the bad guys win” to the EU when they are reluctant to join the war. Not that exact citation but here’s a random one I just found with a quick search: https://en.haberler.com/netanyahu-explaining-why-we-struck-iran-we-are-the-19618702/

Does this seem irrational to you? Well, it’s not if you put on your detective hat and consider them religious nuts trying to bring about the apocalypse by fulfilling the requirements themselves.

Jewish end times:

Christianity: There are multiple passages in the Bible, both Old and New Testaments, which speak of a time of terrible tribulation such as has never been known, a time of natural and human-made disasters on an awesome scale. Jesus said that at the time of his coming, "There will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever will be. And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect's sake, those days will be shortened." [Matt 24:21–22]

Islam: (Sunni and Shia versions differ on some details, because Shia belief centres on “The Mehdi” character)

  1. A huge black cloud of smoke (dukhan) will cover the earth.[note 3]
  2. Three sinkings of the earth, one in the East.[note 3]
  3. One sinking of the earth in the West.[note 3]
  4. One sinking of the earth in Arabia.[note 3]
  5. The false messiah—anti-Christ, Masih ad-Dajjal—shall appear with great powers as a one-eyed man with his right eye blind and deformed like a grape. Although believers will not be deceived, he will claim to be God, to hold the keys to heaven and hell, and will lead many astray.[82] In reality, his heaven is hell, and his hell is heaven. The Dajjal will be followed by seventy thousand Jews of Isfahan wearing Persian shawls.[note 4]
  6. The return of Isa (Jesus), from the fourth sky, to kill Dajjal.[83]
  7. Ya'jooj and Ma'jooj (Gog and Magog), a Japhetic tribe of vicious beings who had been imprisoned by Dhul-Qarnayn, will break out. They will ravage the earth, drink all the water of Lake Tiberias, and kill all believers in their way. Isa, Imam Al-Mahdi, and the believers with them will go to the top of a mountain and pray for the destruction of Gog and Magog. God eventually will send disease and worms to wipe them out.[note 5][84]
  8. The sun will rise from the West.[85][86][87]
  9. The Dabbat al-ard, or Beast of the Earth, will come out of the ground to talk to people.[note 6]
  10. The second blow of the trumpet will be sounded, the dead will return to life, and a fire will come out of Yemen that shall gather all to Mahshar Al Qiy'amah (The Gathering for Judgment).[88]

Now look at these as allegories. How would a group of zealots interpret them?

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Well, I've talked two mentally ill neighbors out of stabbing each other before, had to physically get between the both of them, when they both had knives... but that takes the cake as far as conflct de-escalation goes.

This is the guy you want training the police.

Not ex-IDF mercs, as is shockingly common.

[–] nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz 26 points 6 days ago (1 children)

There was a Grey's Anatomy episode about this

[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 14 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Which one died in that episode?

[–] nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz 12 points 6 days ago

A bunch of extras and a guest star. I think, it's been a while.

[–] LincolnsDogFido@lemmy.zip 6 points 6 days ago

Dr. Gray Anatomy but they brought him back in a later episode by explaining that it was actually his twin brother that died in the explosion.

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 11 points 6 days ago

So that's all I have to do?

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 4 points 6 days ago (3 children)

So, we need state-run, free brothels.

That's the solution to mass shootings?

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago (2 children)

It sounds more like the guy just needed care. State run brothels might make the situation worse.

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[–] PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Please no. I don't trust my or any government not to resort to prison/forced labor for these tgings.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 1 points 4 days ago

No no no. You misunderstand. I'm saying we fill the brothels with comfort men -- make it a requirement that they must have a history of being a cop or have other fascist illness.

Give free brothel stamps to all the other poor white fascists as customers.

This is the solution to the US fascism problem.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I think we need to not worry about how effective it might be but just implement it and see. Its to important. Also we can fund it with money taken from the military budget. We need to literally make love and not war.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 points 5 days ago

We need to literally make love and not war.

There's a NOFX song about exactly this!

[–] answersplease77@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

no he needs the psychiatric ward

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago

He needs what psych wards should be, not necessarily what they are. At the moment he would've benefited from one though. Psych wards are currently often a traumatic experience designed to keep you alive and not hurting anyone and to ideally set you up with resources at the end.

As they currently stand, a person who is isolated, struggling, and feeling suicidal or homicidal in that mental space going to a psych ward is likely to go in, spend a few days calming down in an isolating and uncomfortable experience, and be returned to the life that led them there. Situations like these are ultimately different from mental health crises that can be solved or have their start pharmaceutically or with medical intervention, which is where modern psych wards excel. This needs to be seen as much more similar to a suicide attempt in nature in order to stop situations like it before they happen

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