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Someone called it "soft eugenics" and that makes the most sense to me. It's probably too much bad press and effort to do the old school active eugenics of preventing undesirable peoples from reproducing. So instead you remove health and safety services so "nature" will take care of them. While you simultaneously make it "easier" for the others to reproduce by handing out benefits and preventing birth control.

I'm sure that makes sense to the "utilitarian" crowd or whatever they are called, that believe that the goal of humanity's survival against whatever hypothetical future scenario they think of justifies any means today. Well, except to those who paid attention in biology and know that diversity is actually our best strategy to do just that.

They need you to be sick, stupid, and scared.

A healthy, broadly educated population, which feels safe and secure, is incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative and authoritarian ideologies.

They want to track all of that ... but tracking police officers that abuse authority or get terminated for various unsavory reasons ... apparently too hard.

Since wards are liabilities, there is no business case for retaining them in their present, ambulatory form. Therefore, the most profitable disposition for this dubious form of capital is to convert them into biodiesel, which can help power the Muni buses.

Okay, just kidding. This is the sort of naive Randian thinking which appeals instantly to a geek like me, but of course has nothing to do with real life. The trouble with the biodiesel solution is that no one would want to live in a city whose public transportation was fueled, even just partly, by the distilled remains of its late underclass.

However, it helps us describe the problem we are trying to solve. Our goal, in short, is a humane alternative to genocide. That is: the ideal solution achieves the same result as mass murder (the removal of undesirable elements from society), but without any of the moral stigma. Perfection cannot be achieved on both these counts, but we can get closer than most might think.

https://newrepublic.com/article/183971/jd-vance-weird-terrifying-techno-authoritarian-ideas

Jokes on them! I've been "disabled" my whole life.

Whatever work they get out of me will be about as productive as having an elephant try to do needlepoint.

It does seem like they want to thin the herd.

I suspect a lot of Republicans saw that whites would be a minority by 2035 and when ape shit.

They are deporting anyone they can get their hands on and failing that are prepared to let a disease or two run rampant in certain races.

However, the second disease portion of my theory falls short due to the fact that MAGA itself is antivax. If bird flu was secretly raging through the US, these dumb fuckers would be pushing Ivermectin. Whatever eugenics plot they have cooked up will hit the republican political base right between the eyes.

258m. Mark my words, that is the number they intend to eliminate. That's the issue when they make up stuff about saving 75% of Americans from fentanyl. They end up saying the quiet part out loud.

They know they can't just stick droves of people in concentration camps and execute them fast enough before the public catches wind of it.

Why do the hard work when disease, famine, and violent resistance can do it for you? Put the people in concentration camps, kickstart disease, "free" them, and let it run wild.

On the surface? It saves those who voted for Trump and some of their children. Easy sell.

But it would allow the survivors who held power to seize wealth that doesn't exist today. Monopolies are one thing - this is about returning to feudal society. Except instead of the king providing "protection" from invading forces, the king "protects" you from "invading forces." Work, so we can have supplies, or the neighboring corpo state will get you.

It would give these oligarchs the power to define their own genetic lines, their own personal "perfect" human, their independent ability to participate in any vice they wish.

And it will all seem "natural." Before we know it, the US is shattered, like the collapse of the Soviet Union, just slower and people don't really know about it until they have to go through checkpoints to cross state lines. How the fuck will they enforce that with our enormous land area? They didn't think that far ahead they never do. They probably think they can keep the US together before any of that happens.

OOP is a tremendous disability justice educator, find her at https://www.disabledginger.com/ and on Mastodon at https://zeroes.ca/@broadwaybabyto

https://sh.itjust.works/post/37344846

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/may/04/maga-soft-eugenics

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Beginning of the Eugenics Wars, or Great Wars, first came to light in Star Trek TOS S01E22.