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MAGA’s era of ‘soft eugenics’: let the weak get sick, help the clever breed
(www.theguardian.com)
But it isn't the clever. It's the rich and uncaring.
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Also fuck off with the "soft eugenics".
Eugenics is eugenics.
There's nothing soft about letting people suffer and die from conditions rich people can get treatment for.
If they kill all the poor people, who will serve them?
They're not known for their long-term thinking
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I guess it's supposed to distinguish from biomechanical eugenics where we modify chromosomes and whatnot
Uh, I don't think so... I think when people say "eugenics", they think of Nazis and concentration camps, "undesirables" and "the Final Solution", not CRISPR.
I think the "soft" is literally just there to soften the impact of the word "eugenics". There's nothing "soft" about this.
Eugenics (/juːˈdʒɛnɪks/ yoo-JEN-iks; from Ancient Greek εύ̃ (eû) 'good, well' and -γενής (genḗs) 'born, come into being, growing/grown')[1] is a set of largely discredited beliefs and practices that aim to improve the genetic quality of a human population.[2][3][4] Historically, eugenicists have attempted to alter the frequency of various human phenotypes by inhibiting the fertility of those considered inferior, or promoting that of those considered superior.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics
It's literally what they are doing.
What?!? Soft rock is still rock; like hard rock is still rock. The two are the same!
It's the rich and uncaring and white. This is a white supremacist program. The headline is problematic.
They're not helping the clever breed. They're letting rich parasites breed.
This, they are literally anti intellectual
A lot of magas are poor. It's quite sad when you think about it.
Rich white parasites. There is a strong white supremacist strain in this eugenicist outlook.
And yet Clarence "Uncle Tom" Thomas is still benefitting at everyone's expense. For now the only color that matters is green. That parasitic power structure of rich leeches gets fucked and the low IQ run of the mill racists will be easy to weed out.
They're not just saying weak as physically or poor, they're saying weak as in having empathy. They're saying if you're not a full on greed like trump, bezos, epstien, theil, bannon, stone, etc., you're weak. You're not a brutal POS? You're not one of them.
They're building the cyberpunk dystopia the authors warned us against but "cool, sunglasses and cyborg arms"
Should clarify "clever" here. They mean anyone who can get ahead by any means. That means exploiting, cheating, nepotism, etc.
They're going to let their voters die
They don't need them anymore. Every future election will be fixed.
For now, they need our labor.
RFKJR is a goddamn nutcase, always has been...with the Kennedy’s…how could you not be? The whole American love affair with the Kennedy’s has always given me pause. They did some great things for the plebs, but they were narcissistic and primarily concerned with their public image, and they did some awful things to people in their private lives…I suspect that Frank Miller used them as a model for the Roark’s in his “Sin City”.
But this would wipe out almost every Maga.
Because clearly Trump has good genes.
Elon Musk too.
Measles and other diseases will have quite an effect on the new right.
Clever and republikkkan are not synonymous...
Is this really all just to avoid paying taxes? Jfc
What the.. I thought this was a funny joke when I was like 11. Do these people all have brain damage or something? Is naziism a genetic thing that you just get?
How could you possibly think it's a good idea after being literally face to face with rfkj? You be in a place after him, and you need medical care. You can probably SMELL where he's been.
So, soft eugenics for people that want to be like them... Uhhhhhhhh, sure go right ahead, but do it like.... Way the fuck over there, and no, we don't want your nasty ass blankets. Burn that shit.
back then rfk jr, was busy getting freaky with carcasses to obtain his worm masters.
Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with these people? I mean, we could just push further with research and find a way to cure diabetes or disabilities instead of just “letting people die.” It’s madness, and I genuinely believe there is something clinically wrong with these people. But because they are in power, no one is holding them accountable.