Polenko’s last words were…

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Okay, okay, sorry.

A tourist fell more than 170 feet to her death when she stumbled while taking a selfie from a clifftop viewing platform, the latest in a string of such incidents.

39-year-old Inessa Polenko plunged from the panoramic Gagry viewing point in Abkhazia, a breakaway region of Georgia as she tried to take a photo of herself.

Polenko, who was a beautician and a keen Instagram user, climbed over a barrier to reach the clifftop viewing point which overlooks the Black Sea. However, as she climbed over the barrier to take a selfie, Polenko stumbled and fell onto a beach below, according to eyewitnesses.

Not to be callous (I guess it’s too late for that) but isn’t this and the above-linked tragic incidents the very definition of “culling the herd”?


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    She wanted to be popular, and men are to blame

    No… She wanted to be popular on social media, because of the dirty bullshit tactics that social media networks use to keep people addicted, online, and posting.

    “The Patriarchy” is not “men”. The apparatus is called that because it’s grown over a long period of our society being ruled primarily by men, that’s all. It’s a structure that victimises men as well as women.

    I’m open to calling it something else, but I don’t have a better name.

    Edit: Aw, snowflakes can’t handle the idea they might share their sex with horrible people, so they lash out impotently at people who can articulate the problem. When a bunch of people downvote me I question my beliefs, and upon reflection I am convinced I’ve said nothing wrong or objectionable. So I guess in response to all of you - especially the troglodytes I’ve already blocked - neener neener nibble my wiener

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      “The Patriarchy” is not “men”. The apparatus is called that because it’s grown over a long period of our society being ruled primarily by men, that’s all. It’s a structure that victimises men as well as women.

      Then frankly needlessly gendering the issue turns away would-be supporters with those that don’t understand your coded language.

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        It’s not my language, but it’s also not needlessly gendered. Unless you’re gonna contend that society in general hasn’t historically been run by men? Since that is the direct and exact reason it is called the thing it is.

        And if the name of a thing is enough reason for you to turn on your fellow man, then your support isn’t anything more than “would-be” regardless.

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        An inability to comprehend basic concepts like cause and effect, combined with a towering arrogance that assures you that you’ve thought this through and haven’t missed anything. Bravo 🤡 I’d engage further, but you aren’t worth even this much of my time.

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          Keep blaming “patriarchy” for a thing that the entire arrangement of the economy gets you will only blind you to effective change. Do better. Stop being so pathetically narrow sighted.