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The march to Nazism takes another step

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

But idea of offering feral populations financial incentives for voluntary sterilization is completely taboo.

What the hell does 'feral' mean? Does he think there are actually feral people in the USA in any double-digit quantity in this day and age? Seems insane.

Anyway, Project Prevention already exists to pay meth addicts to voluntarily sterilize themselves (reversably). That's actually a good cause, because the children of meth addicts have serious disabilities that cost taxpayers millions of dollars and cause a painful and unpleasant life -- much better that that child be born to somebody else. We don't need this lunatic saying insane shit about feral children and mass sterilization.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

So…the cabinet?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

We need another and many more Luigis

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

“Interesting moral universe we live in where abortion is celebrated, but the notion of giving smart people incentives or cash to start families is so far out of Overton window no sitting politician of either party would dare advocate it,”

Has he never heard of the Child Tax Credit?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

I think he's literally talking about making a credit that's contingent on a certain IQ test score, or something along those lines. He seems to be a straight-up, unabashed eugenicist.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Where's those 2nd amendment lovers?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago

More proof that their alarmism about declining birth rates is bullshit

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Intelligence isn't genetic. Its determined by large set of environmental factors as well as societal ones

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (18 children)

I don't know about intelligence, but it's well-known that IQ results are partially heritable genetically. (Yes, even when controlling for environment one is raised in.) Did you actually research this or did you make that up because it sounded nice?

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's genetic and environmental (I'd argue that societal is a subset of environment - the society you live in is part of your environment).

IQ is far from a perfect measure for intelligence, but it has a high degree of inheritability - up to 80%.

However

As soon as malnutrition comes into play, IQ is automatically severely diminished. Add in all the other environmental factors too, and - it turns out we do have a lot more we can do to increase peoples intelligence, before resorting to eugenics.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (16 children)

I mean, the validity of IQ tests in general should be questioned when the largest variability in scoring is if you've previously studied for an IQ test followed by what language you speak.

Philosophically I don't really think there's a uniform agreement on what exactly defines general intellect, or if that general intellect even matters considering were a species that relies on specialization.

As far as heritability, I imagine that would be a horribly difficult topic to actually get enough research to rule out variables like socioeconomics and cultural differences. I mean I doubt there's that many twin studies to establish the efficacy any particular theory.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Eugenics..

Don’t be suprised if they add gas chambers to RFK’s wellness farms.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The original nazis got eugenics from the US. That's why there were so many sympathizers prior to Pearl Harbor. They faded into the background after WWII got going, but they never went away.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Eugenics was fairly popular worldwide until Hitler, US included.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Evil AND stupid. There goes all your future voters.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

He's not talking about giving everyone an IQ test. He's talking about black people... That's why he suggests incentives to participate being Air Jordans. Hes making racial stereotypes and insinuating that it's easy to tell which people are "low-IQ".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Then who would vote for them?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah! Musk, JD Vance and Trump have had enough kids!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So he doesn't want a future generation of Republican voters?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So I know you're joking but I want to make the point so there's no mistake from you or anyone scrolling by in what this guy means.

He means black people. Like the whole of this statement is targeted at black people in the US. Dude is a hard-r neonazi.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Let a nazi into a bar. He brings his friends. And it becomes a nazi bar.

That's free speech absolution In a nutshell. This is what it leads to.

The right to debate the merits for eugenics, genocide, ethnocide, and just straight up murder of those people I dont like, has turned into this, the rise of another Nazi Regime in all but name.

The sad thing is they aren't even the first. The argument can be made about a number of Regimes big and small, Russia and El Salvador for example. and they got to where they were long before Trump was back in the WH

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

So that would be most of the administration then

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yet the idea of publicly funded contraception and sex education is verbotten

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nice of you to use their native German so they'd understand.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Ich sehe, was du da gemacht hast

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

They did this in India in the 70s! Forced the poors to get snipped

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