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[-] match@pawb.social 21 points 14 hours ago

they're really just spitballing genocide huh

[-] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 39 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

We're going straight to eugenics in under a month? Jesus fuck.

ETA: Also, you chucklefucks, I already got fixed years ago because of the horrific state of affairs in the world. I find it morally reprehensible to bring children into this world given what we know about climate change alone. Political shifts are just icing.

[-] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 65 points 19 hours ago
[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 18 hours ago

They could start with Trump and Musk.

[-] baggins@beehaw.org 8 points 13 hours ago

Too late, the bastards have already bred.

[-] ImWaitingForRetcons@lemm.ee 52 points 19 hours ago

Ah, the White Nationalism to Eugenics to Nazism pipeline is alive and well, it seems.

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 21 points 18 hours ago

Less of a pipeline and more of... a fetid pool of shit

[-] Spitzspot@lemmings.world 35 points 19 hours ago

"Abstract - The first negative eugenic measure passed by the Hitler regime in July 1933 was the forced sterilization law, which primarily targeted neuropsychiatric patients with "feeble mindedness,” schizophrenia, and epilepsy. Also included were Huntington’s chorea, bipolar disorder, and alcoholism, along with other congenital defects." - https://academic.oup.com/book/40410/chapter-abstract/347295636

[-] Australis13@fedia.io 25 points 18 hours ago
[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 26 points 18 hours ago

But then who’ll vote them back in based on vague promises to fix the price of eggs and absolutely no track record of helping ordinary people?

Unless…

[-] HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 4 points 9 hours ago

Unless

Exactly.

[-] megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 33 points 19 hours ago

They’re just so eager to pull their masks off, like. Like, there is only so much algorithm manipulation can do to obscure observable reality from their audience.

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 5 points 18 hours ago

They tried to rig the game but you can't fake influence

[-] megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Or fake social security checks going through when some idiot breaks the COBOL code that runs federal payments system.

[-] FoxyFerengi@lemm.ee 20 points 18 hours ago

I wonder how far they would walk that comment back when they learn how common high intelligence is among people who are neurodivergent.

The real reason they said high IQ probably lies in the fact that it's an incredibly biased test, with Black and Hispanic students performing worse compared to White and Asian students

[-] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

And technically having an IQ that's 2 or more standard deviations outside the norm makes you neurodivergent, by some definitions of the word. That means everyone who can get into Mensa can be considered neurodivergent by definition.

[-] jarfil@beehaw.org 4 points 12 hours ago

Heh, that's a good take on Mensa. IQ tests at the higher difficulty questions, add some aspect of "lateral thinking" to spot a pattern, which is another way of saying "thinking out of the box", or a type of neurodivergence.

[-] adespoton@lemmy.ca 22 points 19 hours ago

How long until the return of phrenology?

[-] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 19 hours ago

At this rate?

Probably next Tuesday.

[-] adespoton@lemmy.ca 12 points 18 hours ago

Not the type of speed run I was hoping for :-/

[-] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 17 hours ago

Destroy the USA any% run

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

First you need the baseball bat phase ... where they beat each other over the head to produce enough bumps so that the phrenologists can analyze them.

[-] zurohki@aussie.zone 5 points 15 hours ago

No, altering the personality by adding bumps is retrophrenology.

[-] ShadowRam@fedia.io 13 points 18 hours ago

“Pay smart people to have more kids, disincentivize stupid people from having kids."

Why?

Dingledorf assumes smart people breed smart kids and stupid people breed stupid kids?

Title of article should be "Stupid Person makes Stupid Assumptions"

[-] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 17 hours ago

More like "known nazi repeats ancient nazi talking points about eugenics"

[-] jarfil@beehaw.org 3 points 12 hours ago

assumes smart people breed smart kids and stupid people breed stupid kids

From a "nature + nurture" point of view in a primitive world, it can be argued that people who strike the combo, are "more likely" to both pass on their own genetic predisposition, and be "more prepared" to raise their kids up to a similar standard.

In a modern world though, I'd still rather have professional teachers take care of the nurture part, and shut up about nature at least until someone can unequivocally point to the "smartness genes"... at which point I'd ask for a GMO cat with a 200 IQ, yay!

[-] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 9 points 16 hours ago

"Low IQ Person Requests Sterilisation"

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 10 points 18 hours ago

We'll start with whoever's behind the resolute desk

[-] baggins@beehaw.org 2 points 13 hours ago

Look at the article, scroll down about half way and look at Carlson's face (I know that's a painful thought but just humour me) then tell me you didn't burst out laughing.

[-] Sidyctism2@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 hours ago

Isnt that his neutral facial expression?

[-] jared@mander.xyz 6 points 19 hours ago
[-] petrescatraian@libranet.de 2 points 15 hours ago

How do they have the courage to say this? Them and their biggest supporters will be the first on the list

this post was submitted on 12 Feb 2025
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