Those went up within a week or so of his inauguration. Saw lots of them posted online. It was part of the chain of GOP congresscritters taking credit for the work, despite completely voting against it.
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I mean, I kind of believe the people who believe weâre entering into an age of pandemics (over and above our national leadership), but with these chucklefucks in charge, far more people will die from any coming pandemic.
I guess when we say âitâs all projectionâ we really do mean ALL!
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I wonder what magic they think cooking classes will do for a type 1 diabetic. Or is this just modern woo-flavored eugenics? Sigh, itâs fucking eugenics, isnât it.
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Yes. Although I always understood eugenics to be about breeding a âperfectâ or desired âtypeâ.
This is more like poverticide?
But when all the poor people who cannot afford to adopt orthorexic eating habits* have been removed, who is going to (insert list of manual jobs robots and AI are decades or centuries from mastering safely) for them? I mean, apart from maintaining infrastructure they depend on (roads, power grids, water supplies, etc.) how do they think a supply chain actually works to get things they consume to them?
(* Which are not really very effective at best and utterly ineffective agains some diseases, period.)
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Thatâs interesting. Iâd never thought of it that way actually. To me âeugenicsâ applied outside of one session of selective mating requires removing the unwanted humans who carry the âbad genesâ that make the wrong type.
Scaled up it is harder to keep the wrong people from breeding and accidentally getting their genes in people who look otherwise like the right kind (right color/height/college degree etc) so the needful action is, of course, killing off those people who donât look quite right while force breeding the ones who do!
The fact that people still think like this and the words donât choke them to death is a shame. But I donât think eugenics has ever been broached solely as âseeking the best traits to breed withâ because thatâs just normal sexual selection. On the whole people are actually really good at this naturally too (look how many of us there are really and how we dominate the world).
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Maybe RFKJr thinks he can get them all in the trunk of his car. I mean, theyâre only birds, arenât they? How big can they be?
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Yep, no matter how itâs spun, eugenics is always, at the end of the day, about race and class, and ensuring the ârightâ people âbreedââŚ
Yeah, itâs all fucking gross, even with the best spin on it. We need to finally, once and for all, put a stake through the heart of race as a concept and especially eugenics. Itâs amazing that the Holocaust did not destroy that shit entirely. It fucking should have, but here we are.
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And that shit has always failed.
Indigenous/First Nations people and Black people still exist, despite this countryâs persistent covert (and often overt) efforts to eradicate us over the last 4 centuries.
The poor do not just âcrawl off to die quietlyâ; they become desperate and sooner or later they revolt - often violently, when they are left no other options.
I know you know this as a historian, I know that I am preaching to the choir⌠but it must be reiterated;
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Good; we have a doctor shortage. Of course, some of them may have to relocate to remote areas that are desperately under served.
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The holocaust made people realize eugenics ends up sickeningly cruel, but I think until we also kill the underlying idea that some prople are more deserving of life than others, it will keep returning as the logical consequence of that. 
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Yep, itâs true⌠these ideas have done a shit load of damage to billions of human beings and it STILL is doing so now. But⌠people persist and fight against it, those in power who wield these ideas. Itâs both awful that people have to do this, and a testament to peopleâs resilience⌠Maybe one day, weâll kill these stupid, genocidal ideas and move forward, but we still havenât, though I dare say less people believe in it? At least I hope soâŚ
Anywayz, here is Sisko as Benny Russell, reminding us that that truth of our shared humanity is real⌠you canât kill an idea. Thatâs ancient fucking knowledge.
Agreed.
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Also until we destroy the hubris that allows men to think they can program a perfect world by seeding just the right genes into it.
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âits ratings invariably and demonstrably favor nominees put forth by Democratic administrations.â
I mean, if the Republican administrations would stop nominating unqualified fuckwits, that might happen lessâŚ
[Edit] That was a knee-jerk reaction to the wording, so I thought Iâd get a more balanced look at things. From a quick google search and a couple of separate pages on Ballotpedia:
During his first term in office, the ABA rated 264 of Trumpâs nominees; 187 were rated âwell-qualified,â 67 were rated âqualified,â and 10 were rated ânot qualified.â
During his four years in office, the ABA offered ratings for 245 of President Joe Bidenâs (D) nominees. The ABA rated 207 of those nominees well qualified, 35 nominees qualified, and three nominees as qualified and well qualified.
So, not even all that large a difference, really. But I wonder just how unqualified those 10 wereâŚ
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Iâve often thought about writing a short story about a group of people with the same ideology / religion / political outlook being able to populate their own planet and set up their own utopia. Within a generation or two, their descendants would form factions / think differently.
This âpuristâ ideology will never work. Why donât people get that?
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Itâs like theyâve never met a teenager.
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