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Canadian here so bear with me because I don’t fully understand US gun laws (nor do I understand their attachment TO guns).
What I do know is whenever there’s a mass shooting someone will bring up stricter gun control and the Right wing gun lovers shout “my freedom! You can’t take away my right to protect myself!”
Yet we are seeing a U.S. State attempt to criminalize the wearing of medical masks in all public spaces. Something that is quite literally “personal protective tool”. Why doesn’t our freedom to protect ourselves from infection as much as their freedom to carry a gun?
I can’t see any scenario where someone else would be harmed by an N95 - the same is NOT true for any gun. Yet one is being criminalized and the other isn’t.
I sincerely hope we start hearing more people speak out against criminalizing medical masks if for no other reason than the violation of freedom and bodily autonomy. You don’t have to care about Covid to understand that some people need to wear masks.
It is a very sad example of the state of the world when a person can walk into a pharmacy or grocery store with a gun - but not wearing a medical respirator DURING A PANDEMIC
#CovidIsAirborne #CovidIsNotOver #CovidCautious #sarscov2 #maskup #WearAMask #CleanAir #Pandemic #Disability #accessibility #DisabilityRights #N95s #Ableism #CommunityCare #Eugenics #MaskBans
‘A good way of dealing with overpopulation’: Epstein files reveal how the rich fuel climate denialism
https://www.fastcompany.com/91490280/epstein-files-how-ultra-wealthy-peddle-climate-denialism
This:
In the year of the city 2274, the remnants of human civilization live in a sealed city beneath a cluster of geodesic domes, a utopia run by computer. The citizens live a hedonistic lifestyle, but when they turn 30 must enter the "Carrousel", a public ritual that destroys their bodies, under the pretense they would be "Renewed" or reborn.(Logans Run)
and this:
In the year of the city 2274, the colony of human beings on Mars live in a sealed city beneath a cluster of geodesic domes, a utopia run by generative AI. The citizens live a hedonistic lifestyle, but when they turn 30 must enter the "Cloud", a public ritual that destroys their bodies, under the pretense their consciousness would be uploaded to a computer and live forever.#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #Mars #eugenics #LogansRun #ScienceFiction #dystopia
2025 was the deadliest year on record for ICE.
People are dying in the camps.
They’re dying in the streets.
US citizens have been shot and killed.
These are just the deaths we know about.
Then there’s the deaths you won’t hear as much about.
The disabled. The vulnerable. The homeless or anyone labelled “expendable”.
Never forget that fascism and eugenics go hand in hand.
My latest is about Wael Tarabishi, a 30 year old disabled US citizen who relied on his father for full time care.
ICE grabbed Maher when he showed up for his yearly immigration check in.
Wael pleaded for his release. He told ICE he would die without his caregiver.
They didn’t care. Wael died three months later.
His dad never got to say goodbye.
His story deserves to be told.
ICE ensured his last months were filled with unnecessary pain and suffering.
They killed Wael:
https://www.disabledginger.com/p/ice-took-wael-tarabishis-full-time
#uspol #fascism #disability #ableism #eugenics #ice #abolishice #waeltarabishi
In October, ICE grabbed Maher Tarabishi.
He was a 24/7 caregiver for his disabled son Wael.
At the time of Maher’s detention, disability advocates warned that taking away Wael’s caregiver put his life at risk.
Wael died three months later.
ICE caused his death.
They didn’t even get to say goodbye.
My latest:
https://www.disabledginger.com/p/ice-took-wael-tarabishis-full-time
#uspol #ice #abolishice #fascism #disability #ableism #eugenics
RE: https://mastodon.world/@bermaninstitute/116042102578384740
this is bullshit propaganda. #AIslop is never going to be a substitute to a good doctor; but the #EpsteinClass investing in the #AI #ponzi want to create an air of #eugenics inevitability.
don't believe the fascist hype.
we need the folks behind #OperationDeathEaters to reassemble in the #fediverse so they can post their #EpsteinFiles findings.
why?
there is a 2002 diary of a 16 year old that he groomed, used as a human incubator for his “master race”, kidnapped and trafficked her baby, then trafficked the teen to ghouls like Pedo Andrew and christofascist milliardaire, Leon Black.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/jeffrey-epstein-victim-paedophile-snatched-birth-b1269432.html
UK media is all over these files. USA media? not so much.
"...the modern curl-pattern chart indirectly favors looser, more Eurocentric textures, which can reinforce harmful and prejudiced ideas about beauty. By putting straight hair first, literally as type 1, and coily textures last at type 4, it subtly reinforces the idea that the tighter the texture, the further it is from what has been historically labeled as 'ideal' or the 'default.'"
If you want to understand the horrifying future these tech billionaire nazis have in store for humanity, it helps to understand what parts of our "glorious past" as a species they're looking to recreate. This interview with University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign information sciences and media studies professor Anita Say Chan talks a bit about the history of data and eugenics, what it means that guys like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel (along with most of Silicon Valley's movers and shakers) are devout believers in eugenicist philosophies, and how that's reflected in their efforts to reshape society in horrifying, and objectively fascist ways. In terms of our discussion about the uber rich fascists who heavily influence the Trump regime they bought and paid for, I'm mostly including this here to point out that these guys have gone on record in support of a lot of openly fascist shit and for the most part, your media pretends we don't already know these guys are nazis; it's not a secret, it's just not "worth mentioning" when media orgs are fawning over technofascist billionaires destroying our planet and our lives.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/01/eugenics-isnt-dead-its-thriving-in-tech/
Eugenics Isn’t Dead—It’s Thriving in Tech
"Big Tech successors like Musk and PayPal billionaire-turned-arms dealer Peter Thiel have overtly promoted fraudulent race science, with Musk amplifying users on X who argue that people of European descent are biologically superior. In response to another user’s deleted post suggesting that students at historically Black institutions have lower IQs, Musk posted, “It will take an airplane crashing and killing hundreds of people for them to change this crazy policy of DIE”—diversity, equity, and inclusion, misspelled. In 2016, Thiel buddied up to a prominent white nationalist, and, the same year, was said by a Stanford dorm-mate to have complimented South Africa’s “economically sound” system of racial apartheid."
#Fascism #Trump #Musk #PeterThiel #SouthAfrica #Nazis #Eugenics #SiliconValley #BigTech #BigData #Billionaires #Ableism #WhiteNationalism #Dystopia #Eliminationism #Technofascism
Over the past eight or so years, I've been asked on numerous occasions how I could be so certain that Trumpworld and the right wing authoritarian tech billionaires that are funding the movement were literally fascists. The simple answer to that question is because I know where the ideas that motivate them and animate their movement come from. As openly fascistic as the Trump regime's exercise of power has been so far, if you peel back a single layer to look at the people providing the ideological framework for those activities, you almost always find literal nazis.
Take for example the Trump regime's frequently self-identified "war on woke." On its face, the collection of policies and activities used to wage the "war on woke" so far have been fundamentally Christian Nationalist, white supremacist, patriarchal, and eliminationist in nature. If however you peel back the top surface of this "war" you find three major ideological propagandists driving the entire agenda: specifically Peter Boghossian, Christopher Rufo, and Richard Hanania; whose frankly odious ideas have had a huge influence on the Republican Party, and the Trump administration. These three have waged a war on higher education, diversity, and the very concept of racial or gender equality, that is expressly endorsed by most of the same far right billionaires who paid to make Trump president; including Marc Andressen, Peter Thiel, David Sacks, and Vivek Ramaswamy. So what happens if you peel back another layer of this fascist onion to find out who is funding and promoting guys like Hanania, Rufo, and Boghossian? You find a rich cracker tech bro, and a eugenicist running a recently rebranded foundation that supports white supremacists, promotes scientific racism, and was literally founded by Nazis. No, really:
Trump’s War on ‘Woke’ and DEI: Incubated by a Nazi Eugenics Foundation
"The ‘war on woke’ did not suddenly appear. It is an idea deeply rooted in a form of scientific racism that has been laundered into the mainstream over decades by the Pioneer Fund and right-wing activists connected with this group.
This nexus of ties to Pioneer Fund entities and ideology throws new light on how the Trump administration’s attacks on DEI are the fruit of a broader white supremacist endeavour inspired by Nazi-aligned ideology.
It also suggests that the increasing normalisation of the Nazi salute by Elon Musk, Steve Bannon, and others is not an accident either – but a signal; one we would do well not to ignore."
Unfortunately this article is a long read, and it's easy to get bogged down in the idea that the problem here is the "ancient" history of the Human Diversity Foundation/Pioneer Diveristy fund, but if you keep reading the author is very clear that the politics and priorities of the foundation, haven't changed much in the modern era.
"But last year, Hope Not Hate revealed that a network of white supremacist activists was secretly rehabilitating the Pioneer Fund under the new Human Diversity Foundation brand identity.
The aim has been to normalise the Pioneer Fund’s Nazi-aligned scientific racism in the mainstream through the notion of open debate and ‘free’ inquiry. Scientific racism has been rebranded as the story of ‘human biodiversity’.
The key funder supporting this initiative was revealed to be American technology entrepreneur Andrew Conru, who donated $1.3 million to the HDF. Around the same time, Conru was also funding the most influential conservative voices attacking DEI and ‘critical race theory’ – Christopher Rufo, Peter Boghossian, and Richard Hanania.
HDF’s magazine, Aporia, was founded by British far-right activist Matthew Frost. Conru’s donation provided him with a 15% stake in the group. It has defended Richard Lynn’s pseudoscientific racism, published an interview with Nazi sympathiser Jared Taylor, and in 2024 claimed that racial stereotypes are “reasonably accurate”.
Hope Not Hate’s undercover reporting recorded far-right activists associated with the HDF calling for “remigration” – the ‘mass removal of ethnic minorities’.
Kirkegaard is the long-time editor of the Pioneer Fund-backed eugenics journal Mankind Quarterly, a founding board member of which was Nazi eugenicist Otmar von Verscheur – who taught and mentored Josef Mengele, the notorious Nazi SS officer known as the ‘Angel of Death’ for performing medical experiments at Auschwitz.
In 2023, both Kirkegaard and Frost attended a notorious neo-Nazi gathering known as the “Scandza Forum” in Estonia, hosted by Scandinavian neo-Nazi Fróði Midjord. The conference was that year renamed ‘Guide to Kulchur’ after a book by Nazi sympathiser and Holocaust supporter Ezra Pound.
Kirkegaard inherited the assets of the Pioneer Fund from its former long-time president Richard Lynn before he died in July 2023."
#Fascism #Trump #Nazis #WarOnWoke #Eugenics #Rufo #Hanania #Boghossian #HDF #PioneerFund #Kirkegaard #Conru #Broligarchs #GOP #Thiel #DEI
Do you remember that shadowy network of white supremacist "race science" and eugenics revivalists running a rebranded Pioneer Fund that we talked about being behind the ideologues fueling Trump's "War on Woke" back in late April? Well noted "enlightened centrist" dipshit intellectual Steven Pinker just turned up on a podcast for the (now renamed to) Human Diversity Foundation's magazine Aporia, and to the surprise of no one who has been paying attention to Pinker's career for any length of time, cited Douglas Murray and helped normalize garbage pro-"scientific racism" propaganda.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jun/07/harvard-steven-pinker-aporia-podcast
Harvard author Steven Pinker appears on podcast linked to scientific racism
"During the podcast, Pinker expressed agreement with claims made by Charles Murray, the author of The Bell Curve, a prominent figure in the “human biodiversity” movement that seeks to promote race-based theories of intelligence, and like Pinker a one-time participant in a human biodiversity email list convened by Steve Sailer.
When Carl cited “evidence collected by sociologists like Charles Murray suggesting that part of the family breakdown in some communities in America seems to be attributable to the state taking over the traditional function of the father”, Pinker responded: “I think that is a problem.” He added: “It is a huge class-differentiated phenomenon, as Murray and others write it out.”
Reporting last October in the Guardian revealed that Aporia operates within a broader network of groups and individuals seeking to mainstream racial pseudoscience.
The initiative had been secretly funded by US tech entrepreneur Andrew Conru until he was contacted for comment on the reporting, and Aporia’s editors are connected to far-right extremists, including Erik Ahrens, whom German authorities have designated a “rightwing extremist” posing an “extremely high” danger.
The investigation also found that Aporia was owned by the Human Diversity Foundation, a Wyoming LLC founded in 2022 by Emil Kirkegaard, a Danish self-described eugenicist and race scientist who has spent years attempting to access genetic datasets, and maintaining publishing platforms including OpenPsych and Mankind Quarterly that serve a network of race-science researchers."
As one of Pinker's many longtime critics in left wing discourse, part of the reason I'm sharing this story is a giant middle finger to all the "Very Serious People TM" in our society who kept insisting it was unreasonable to say that vapid fraud was promoting a foundationally colonialist, white supremacist view of society, human development, and the world at large; we told you folks he was basically Niall Ferguson for "centrists" and this is absolutely where Pinker's career was always headed. Yet another celebrity intellectual who barfs up platitudes about the status quo that affluent white Americans love, turns out to be not just "asking questions" but the full blown cracker supremacist scholars on the left warned you he was. Maybe the gatekeepers of our larger discourse should stop showering praise on folks who kiss the ruling class's asses if they also think Charles Murray had some valid ideas worth exploring? Who can say.
The other reason I'm sharing this story however, is that The Guardian, one of the few outlets who actually covered the international network of race science activists behind the Human Diversity Foundation and the US techbro nazi who was funding the project at the time, is kind of minimizing how odious and career-ending what Pinker just did should be. Formerly named the Pioneer fund, the organization behind this podcast was originally founded to spread Nazi ideology in America for the actual Third Reich, and the folks running it now are literally hardcore neo-nazis and white supremacists who actively promote bunk "race science," eugenicist ideology, and argue for the mass expulsion of nonwhite people from the Imperial Core. This isn't like the dumber Cuomo brother having Steve Bannon on his show to disseminate Trump's lies, this is a lot more like letting Andrew Anglin interview you for a Daily Stormer podcast. In a Pig Empire that wasn't already drunk on fascist ideology, this should absolutely be career-ending for Steven Pinker; whether it will be in the really real world we live in where lots of nazis are still welcome and celebrated in our public discourse, is a lot harder to predict.
#Fascism #RaceScience #StevenPinker #Aporia #HumanDiversityFoundation #PioneerFund #Nazis #Media #DouglasMurray #WhiteSupremacy #Eugenics
many deaths at Auschwitz-Birkenau* were caused by MEDICAL NEGLECT. fascist scientific ideology is based on #eugenics. nazi doctors would create pandemics by letting infections of tuberculosis, dysentery, malaria, “take their course” across the camps:
https://www.auschwitz.org/en/history/camp-hospitals/sicknesses-and-epidemics/
The United States already have concentration camps. some are called #prisons:
#COVID19
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10375228/
#HumanExperimentation
https://www.texastribune.org/2017/07/05/my-grandfather-was-death-row-doctor-he-tested-psychedelic-drugs-texas-/
#OrganHarvesting
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/18/us/organs-removed-deceased-alabama-inmates/index.html
1. Economists from the physiocrats (18th century) onward promised society freedom from material deprivation and hard physical labor in exchange for submitting to an economic arrangement of society
2. In a country like the US, material deprivation and hard physical labor have been significantly reduced since then:
- Though too many clearly still suffer too much, a large proportion of people live free from fear of starvation or lack of shelter
- The US has deindustralized, meaning hard physical labor is not the reality for a lot of people. For a lot of people labor is emotional or symbolic (“knowledge work”)
- In other words, for lots of people the economic promise has been fulfilled
- It is not coincidental that “Gas Town”’s announcement post mentioned Towers of Hanoi, an undergraduate CS student homework problem that for most students requires thinking hard. It’s designed to encourage a kind of “eureka” moment where recursion as a computer programming technique becomes more clear. GT claims to fulfill the promise of not having to think hard like this anymore: the LLMs will do that thinking for you
- It is not coincidental that Gas Town is described as being very expensive. Economic power in the form of asset accumulation is what earns you freedom in this way of conceiving things. If you want the freedom from having to think hard, you’d better accumulate assets
- Since the promise is greater collective freedom, endeavoring to accumulate assets is, in this view, a collective good
- This differs from effective altruism and other “do good by doing well” conceptions. Rather, the very mechanism of economics produces collective wealth, so the story goes, which means the more active one is as an economic agent, the more collective good one produces (“wealth” and “good” being conflated)
- Accumulation of assets is the scorecard, so to speak, of such enhanced economic activity, and the individual reward can then be freedom from having to think hard
- Lotka’s maximum power principle (supposedly) dictates that those entities that transform the most power into useful organization are most fit from an evolutionary standpoint
- Ernst Juenger’s notion of “total mobilization” brings this principle to politics/political economy/geopolitics: those nations that “totally” mobilize their national resources are the ones that will dominate geopolitically
- See, for instance, the RAND Corporation’s Commission on the National Defense Strategy: “The Commission finds that the U.S. military lacks both the capabilities and the capacity required to be confident it can deter and prevail in combat. It needs to do a better job of incorporating new technology at scale; field more and higher-capability platforms, software, and munitions; and deploy innovative operational concepts to employ them together better.” (emphasis mine). In summary: the US is about to be outcompeted (lacks fitness); in response, it should go big (“at scale”, “more”) in an organized way (“deploy innovative operational concepts”, “employ them together better”)
- The rhetoric around LLM-based AI includes similar language, exemplified in the GT post: burn through as much infrastructural resources as possible to produce organized outputs “at scale”, while avoiding having human beings think too hard to produce those outputs, an indication that the power was burned to produce useful organization
- LLM-based AI plays a prominent role in US federal government strategy, particularly military strategy, with language about dominance serving to justify its use
- It is not coincidental that Gas Town uses many orders of magnitude more resources to solve the Towers of Hanoi problem (“Burn All The Gas” Town). This rhetoric dovetails perfectly with the “total mobilization” concept
@GhostOnTheHalfShell it’s worse than that… going back to the roots of #Zionism (after Herzl essentially):
European Zionist colonization of #Palestine was built on explicit racial hierarchies and #eugenics. Arthur Ruppin (Zionism’s dirty little secret), director of the #Palestine Office and architect of Zionist settlement from 1908, promoted pseudoscientific race theories claiming original Jews were non-Semitic “Aryans” who had been corrupted by intermarriage with “inferior” Semitic peoples. Ruppin applied eugenic selection to all Jews - Eastern European, North African, Yemenite, and Ethiopian etc - “admitting” into the “Altneuland” only those deemed racially fit “human material” while rejecting those he classified as degenerate.
The colonization of Palestine was meant for him before the holocaust as a home for racially pure Jews. Sephardic Jews like Herzl were already too assimilated and impure. In fact his racial theories - developed through collaboration with #Nazi racial theorists and later were quoted in Nazi propaganda justifying the Nuremberg Laws - classified Herzl’s nose as “Assyrian-Bukharan” and categorized other Ashkenazi Jews with racialized classifications including “Ashkenazi-Negroid.” In Palestine this biological racism became institutionalized through settlement policies that systematically discriminated against Jews deemed racially inferior. He was the mentor of Zionist leaders like Ben Gurion, and if you know anything about Golda Meir, you’d know she wasn’t too far off from Rupin’s eugenicist swamp both in her views of Arabs and Muslims as well as Arab Jews. Zionism in this context is highly racialized.
Must add that all changed after the #Holocaust, when the Zionist movement found itself with six million fewer European Jews and turned to North African and Middle Eastern Jewish communities to supply the labor and population needed for the colonization of Palestine.
See for example this and many more articles and book by Bloom and others
https://www.haaretz.com/2009-10-08/ty-article/the-makings-of-history-revisiting-arthur-ruppin/0000017f-dc90-db5a-a57f-dcfae53c0000
In October, ICE grabbed Maher Tarabishi.
He was a 24/7 caregiver for his severely disabled son Wael.
At the time of Maher’s detention, disability advocates warned that taking away Wael’s caregiver put his life at risk.
I wrote about Wael and how our caregivers are an extension of us.
Without them we can’t do basic activities of daily living.
Wael died on Friday at age 30.
He didn’t even get to say goodbye to his father.
ICE caused his death & unnecessary suffering.
Now they’re refusing to allow Maher to attend the funeral.
Absolute ghouls.
#uspol #fascism #eugenics #disability #abolishice #immigration
Does everyone have tons of family members dying of cancer, or is that just a fascist #USA eugenics thing?
RE: https://scicomm.xyz/@HelenBranswell/115929786807742426
mass murderer appointed to subvert public health with #eugenics is asked if mass murdering is a public health for the mass murdering regime that coup’ed itself into power.
Would the #CDC's principal deputy director view it as a public health loss for the US if the country loses its #measles elimination status? "Not really," Dr. Ralph Abraham said at a press conference today. https://www.statnews.com/2026/01/20/cdc-measles-briefing-lost-elimination-status-cost-of-doing-business/
Aliya Rahman told ICE she was disabled
She told them she was on her way to a doctor appt
They broke her window, cut her seatbelt & dragged her away like an animal
She was headed to the Traumatic Brain Injury Center when they grabbed her.
She was denied access to a doctor & tossed in detention where she lost consciousness
This was a few blocks from where Renee Good was murdered and only days after that killing took place
https://abcnews.go.com/US/live-updates/minneapolis-ice-shooting-live-updates/?id=129124338
#uspol #abolishice #disability #eugenics #fascism #minnesota #reneenicolegood
A woman in Minnesota was trying to get to a doctors appointment when she drove down a street where an ICE protest was occurring.
Masked thugs swarmed her vehicle demanding she move
They then smash her windows, break her seatbelt and drag her out
You can hear this woman yell “I’m disabled and trying to get to a doctor up there that’s why I didn’t move”.
This is horrifying.
How many of these videos do people need to see before they realize this is not going to stop?
#abolishice #uspol #disability #ableism #eugenics #minnesota
Dr Oz just announced that the regime will withhold Medicaid funding to the entire state of Minnesota.
This decision will kill people.
They’re going to force the most vulnerable to suffer to score political points.
There are other ways to address alleged fraud that don’t involve leaving the disabled, poor and marginalized without healthcare.
#uspol #fascism #medicaid #eugenics #ableism #healthcare #DrOz #minnesota
#RFKJr Scales Back the Number of #Vaccines Recommended for #Children
Federal health officials now recommend that children be routinely inoculated against 11 #diseases, not 17, citing standards in other wealthy nations.
#PublicHealth #HealthCare #science #medicine #Trump #ConspiracyTheories #disinformation #law #policy #regulations #insurance #HealthInsurance #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #SocialCleansing #eugenics
https://apnews.com/article/childhood-vaccine-schedule-trump-rfk-hhs-9b8df9e2767c1261aaac4e2331e77fa3?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2026-01-05-Breaking+News
Today in Labor History January 1, 1934: A "Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring" went into effect in Nazi Germany. The Eugenics research that Hitler used to justify torture and genocide was inspired by similar research from the U.S. The American eugenics movement originated in the 1880s, from the biological determinist ideas of Francis Galton. He believed that selective breeding could improve the human race and allow them to direct their own evolution. The U.S. eugenics movement was heavily funded by the Carnegie Institution, Rockefeller Foundation and the Harriman railroad fortune. Biologist Charles B. Davenport founded the Eugenics Record Office (ERO) in 1911. The ERO trained field workers, who they sent to study people in mental hospitals and orphanages across the U.S. Davenport and others began to lobby for solutions to the problem of the "unfit." They lobbied for immigration restrictions and sterilization. Some even promoted the idea of extermination, well before Hitler became known for it. Some well-known eugenicists of the early 20th century included Alexander Graham Bell, Luther Burbank and Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger. The eugenics movement tended to target the poor, people with disabilities and mental illness, and communities of color as “unfit” for society. Their solutions included forced sterilization, which continued in the U.S. until as recently as 2010. From 1997-2010, California performed nonconsensual sterilizations on roughly 1,400 women prisoners. From 1929-1973, North Carolina sterilized the third highest number of people in the United States, roughly 7,600 people, predominantly African American women.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #eugenics #sterilization #sexism #ableism #racism #nazis #facism #hitler #genocide #classism #francisgalton #carnegie #rockefeller #margaretsanger
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Eugenics poster at the exhibition Wonders of Life in Berlin in 1935 showing demographic projections under the assumption of higher fertility of the "inferior" (Minderwertige) relative to the "superior" (Höherwertige). By Bundesarchiv, Bild 102-16748 / Georg Pahl / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=106181930
Interview: Tech Capitalism's "human extinctionist preferences".
"They Don’t Care About Humans. Literally". It's the capitalist idea that "human beings do not matter in & of ourselves. In this worldview, we matter for the sake of value, rather than value mattering for the sake of us."
~Émile Torres
https://jacobin.com/2025/11/musk-thiel-altman-ai-tescrealism
"Even if billions perish in the coming climate catastrophe... we shouldn’t be too concerned".
#USPol #Europol #TESCREAL #broligarchy #racism #WhiteSupremacy #eugenics .
“We’ve🚨dropped the price of the infertility drugs to make lots of Trump babies, I’m hoping by the midterms."
-Dr Oz, CMS admin
Many of us have become desensitized to this kind of commentary -but not Black women.🚨This admin will stop at nothing to ensure the pol dominance of White people in this C.
By💔eliminating fed soc safety nets, gutting MDCD,⬆️barriers to mat HC.... -admin is creating the perfect storm to control who's able to have children.
#Eugenics #Racism #USPol
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2025/12/29/trump-accounts-infertility-drugs-white-families-babies/87734740007/
Report of forced sterilization of Israeli detainees
https://www.tiktok.com/@nurse_lana01/video/7564017096271744269
#Israel #Eugenics #Dragnet #Palestinians #Sterilized #Eugenics #Torture #Starvation #Fascism
#Eugenics: "removing ASL interpreters denies deaf & hard-of-hearing Americans the ability to fully participate in civic life." The sentence that I've edited begins "Advocates have argued." I've deleted those words b/c the consequences of the removal (further disabling from civic life those w/ disabilities) are facts. There's no other side to the "argument" other than cruelty, criminality (it defies the American with Disabilities Act), & #fascism.
https://www.salon.com/2025/12/13/disability-advocates-push-back-as-white-house-limits-asl-access/
More than 250 people, including #children from 9 area elementary, middle & high schools, are in #quarantine — some for the second time since the #outbreak began in October. Most of the state’s new cases stemmed from exposures at Way of Truth Church in Inman. Church leaders have been “very helpful,” said state epidemiologist Dr. Linda Bell.
#measles #SouthCarolina #PublicHealth #HealthCare #vaccines #science #medicine #Trump #RFKJr #ConspiracyTheories #disinformation #SocialCleansing #eugenics
#ThrowbackThursday 2022.
I miss Dad very much 😢 ❤️ He's been gone for over 2 years now.
I remember this day well. It was an excellent family bonding day. We had a nice dinner after a short walk together. 3 months after this photo was taken, Dad had to go to ER for a leg muscles issue. He was infected with covid by unmasked hospital staff. It happened shortly after our eugenics government removed public masking mandates. Dad ended up dying from covid related cardiac arrest, the following Summer.
I have never forgiven the #BCgovernment or #unmasked #hospital staff for killing my Dad. We had him fully protected with home #caregiving for years. It took less than 2 days in hospital for him to get #covid.
Please #WearAMask. Please don't let my Dad & others who died from getting covid from unmasked people, to be forgotten. It could be you or your family members, next. Covid doesn't care if you believe in it or not - it will end up wrecking your life, one way or another.
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Dad seated at a table, wearing a gray Puma sweatshirt, smiles while holding a spoon over a plate of food. Mom stands behind him with her hands on his shoulders. The plate contains mashed potatoes, turkey, cranberry sauce, and broccoli.
The disabled were one of the first groups targeted by the Nazis because they knew people wouldn’t fight for us.
They knew that most people see the disabled as an expendable, so it’s easy to commit atrocities against us.
They called us “useless eaters” and threw us away
Trump using the R slur is not a mistake. It’s not a slip up. It’s not him just being a cranky old man.
He’s testing the waters.
He’s trying to see what he can get away with.
He’s furthering a eugenicist agenda.
https://www.disabledginger.com/p/the-r-slur-must-never-be-normalized
Posting this again because I see people on Mastodon daily who really need to read this.
The Sinister History of the Word "Moron," Explained
It's much more than just a casual insult.
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/the-sinister-history-of-the-word-moron-explained #Language #Ableism #Eugenics
Last week Trump called Tim Walz the ‘R slur’.
He then doubled down on it, and now his base have begun harassing the entire Walz family.
Memes are circulating on socials encouraging people to drive past their house and yell it at them.
I’ve been personally called that word more than 1,000 times in the last seven days.
We can’t allow this to happen. The disability community has fought far too hard for far too long to remove that word from the public vernacular.
This is ableism at it’s most ugly, and ableism feeds eugenics and eugenics feeds fascism.
Help us fight back. We are not expendable.
https://www.disabledginger.com/p/the-r-slur-must-never-be-normalized
#uspol #trump #walz #fascism #discrimination #ableism #eugenics #chronicillness #disabilityjustice
I no longer have any primary care doctor because #Aroga health clinic refuses to mask up for in person appointments. They ditched me as a patient without notice. I just found out from my orthotist on the phone. I am so angry.
Fuck these people👇
https://www.aroga.com/
#Covid #PlagueSpreaders #BCpoli #PublicHealth #HealthCare #Medical #FailureToProtect #Eugenics
"This deliberate undermining of public health is framed as part of a dangerous, eugenicist worldview shared by influential figures and right-wing ideologues. It operates on a survival of the fittest premise, where a 'culling' of the weak is acceptable."
~ Danielle Moodie
#Trump #RFKJr #CDC #vaccines #measles #hepatitisB #infants #children #healthcare #eugenics
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https://daniellemoodie.substack.com/p/the-pro-death-march-how-the-ultra
The anti-vax movement has completely captured the CDC now under Trump-RFKJr, and the health of Americans, especially of infants and children, is being seriously jeopardized. Reports re: this:
Roberto Valadéz
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/the-political-contagion-threatening
Robert B. Hubbell
https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/kennedys-cdc-antivax-panel-votes
Mother Jones
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/12/rfk-jr-hepatitis-b-cdc-panel-end/
#Trump #RFKJr #CDC #vaccines #measles #hepatitisB #infants #children #healthcare #eugenics
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Without naming them directly, the document says the #US should be “cultivating resistance” across #Europe by supporting political parties that fight against #immigration & promote [white] #nationalism. That describes several #FarRight populist parties like #ReformUK in Britain and the… #AfD in #Germany, which has been classified as an #extremist party by German intelligence services.
#Trump #geopolitics #racism #WhiteSupremacy #GreatReplacementTheory #fascism #MasterRace #Nazis #eugenics
…In a section called “Promoting European Greatness,” the document offers a searing critique of the #US’ closest #allies.
It warns that #Europe is on a path to becoming “unrecognizable” because of #immigration policies that it claims are undermining the national identities of European countries. And it says that the policy of the US should be to help Europe “correct its current trajectory” over the…next several decades.
#Trump #WhiteSupremacy #GreatReplacementTheory #fascism #Nazis #eugenics
“We want Europe to remain European, to regain its civilizational self-confidence & to abandon its failed focus on regulatory suffocation,” the 33-page document says.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025-National-Security-Strategy.pdf
#Trump has made no secret of his disdain for the political leadership in #Europe, & he has repeatedly pressured those leaders to bend to his will on funding for #NATO, #trade & #tariffs.
#US #geopolitics #racism #WhiteSupremacy #GreatReplacementTheory #fascism #discrimination #MasterRace #Nazis #eugenics
#JDVance issued a broad critique of Europe’s mainstream political parties in a speech in Munich in February & urged them to end the isolation of #FarRight parties….
But the document released overnight is the clearest statement yet of how #Trump wants his “America First” [more like #WhiteChristianHeteroCisMaleSupremacy] #ForeignPolicy to be a clarion call for other #nationalist politicians to overhaul their political systems.
#US #WhiteSupremacy #GreatReplacementTheory #fascism #Nazis #eugenics
It echoes some of the language of the #GreatReplacementTheory, a nationalist #ConspiracyTheory embraced by some of his top aides that warns of a deliberate effort to replace white people with nonwhite immigrants.
The document accuses the #EU & other “transnational bodies” of undermining liberty & sovereignty, censoring free speech & trampling on basic principles of “democracy” to suppress political opposition. [projection much?]
“The growing influence of patriotic [fascist] European parties indeed gives cause for great optimism,” the document says. “Our goal should be to help #Europe correct its current trajectory.”
Within hours of its release, the document was already provoking sharp retorts from across Europe.
#Trump #US #geopolitics #racism #WhiteSupremacy #GreatReplacementTheory #MaliciousPracticesAct #fascism #discrimination #MasterRace #Nazis #eugenics
… “It’s a frontal attack on the European Union,” said #BrandoBenifei, an Italian member of the European Parliament who chairs the delegation for relations with the #UnitedStates. He called the document “totally unacceptable,” full of “extreme, shocking phrases,” & said some of its statements amounted to direct calls for #ElectionInterference.
#Trump #US #Europe #geopolitics #racism #WhiteSupremacy #GreatReplacementTheory #fascism #discrimination #MasterRace #Nazis #eugenics
…The #Trump admin’s approach to #Europe, as described in the strategy document, was in stark contrast to the way it said it would treat some countries in other parts of the world.
A section of the document titled “The Middle East: Shift Burdens, Build Peace”argues that while the #US should “continue to encourage”the countries in the region to combat radicalism, it should not overly meddle in their internal concerns.
#geopolitics #WhiteSupremacy #GreatReplacementTheory #fascism #Nazis #eugenics
The #Trump admin said on Friday that #Europe was facing the “stark prospect of civilizational erasure” & pledged that the #UnitedStates would support like-minded “patriotic” parties across the continent to prevent a future in which “certain #NATO members will become majority non-European.”
The #racist assessment of Europe’s future was released overnight as part of an update to the US’ #NationalSecurityStrategy….
#US #geopolitics #WhiteSupremacy #GreatReplacementTheory #fascism #Nazis #eugenics
#Trump Administration Says #Europe Faces ‘Civilizational Erasure’
America’s goal should be “to help Europe correct its current trajectory,” the administration said in its new #NationalSecurityStrategy.
#US #geopolitics #racism #WhiteSupremacy #GreatReplacementTheory #MaliciousPracticesAct #fascism #discrimination #MasterRace #Nazis #eugenics
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/world/europe/trump-europe.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
There’s a reason I keep tagging #HealthyIfYoureWealthy, #SocialCleansing & #eugenics on #ACIP posts.
While we can all say these people are nuts, we’re not listening to their advice, that’s great, but this “official” federal advisory committee’s guidelines are how #HealthInsurance determines what #vaccines they cover & what you have to pay out-of-pocket.
Meaning #poor families won’t be able to #afford to choose differently than what these incompetent ConsiracyTheorist #AntiVaxxers have chosen.
This kind of #policy making — the #ACIP childhood #vaccine schedule, combined with not extending #ACA subsidies, adding #WorkRequirements to #SNAP / #FoodStamps & #Medicaid — all coming simultaneously in 2026 — is going to be an assault upon the #poor people of the #UnitedStates all while we are in a #Kshaped #economy with the #WealthGap ever widening.
#PublicHealth #science #medicine #Trump #RFKJr #disinformation #law #regulations #insurance #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #SocialCleansing #eugenics
🤬🤬🤬
#CDC panel makes most sweeping revision to child vaccine schedule under #RFKJr
The panel voted to eliminate a long-standing recommendation for every newborn to receive a #hepatitisB shot, excluding those born to mothers testing negative.
#PublicHealth #HealthCare #science #medicine #vaccines #Trump #AntiVax #ACIP #ConspiracyTheories #disinformation #law #policy #regulations #insurance #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #SocialCleansing #eugenics
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/12/05/acip-childhood-immunization-schedule-hepatitis-b/
The Advisory Committee on #Immunization Practices [#ACIP] approved the change despite fierce objections from #medical groups who said the recommendation had proved a successful #PublicHealth strategy, nearly eradicating the dangerous #virus among #US #children.
#PublicHealth #HealthCare #science #medicine #vaccines #Trump #RFKJr #AntiVax #ACIP #ConspiracyTheories #disinformation #law #policy #regulations #insurance #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #SocialCleansing #eugenics
https://apnews.com/article/vaccines-babies-hepatitis-b-10f8db54beb38c5cd39a94f8a3657752?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-12-05-Breaking+News
#RFKJr advisers weigh dropping #hepatitisB #vaccine recommendation for most #US #children.
#ACIP has proposed only infants born to mothers who test positive for #hepB would be recommended to get the vaccine. For all other newborns, the decision when or if to vaccinate should be left to parents, in consultation with their #healthcare provider, it said.
#Vaccines #PublicHealth #science #medicine #Trump #ConspiracyTheories #disinformation #law #policy #insurance #eugenics
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/kennedys-vaccine-advisers-weigh-hepatitis-b-vaccine-timing-consequential-policy-2025-12-04/
#ACIP managed to postpone voting until tomorrow (Friday) morning, because they can’t figure out what they are voting on. Seriously. These are the people advising the population of the #UnitedStates on #vaccinations.
From their “discussion”, they’re probably going to not recommend vaccinating infants for #HepB. Idiots.
#Vaccines #PublicHealth #HealthCare #science #medicine #Trump #RFKJr #ConspiracyTheories #disinformation #law #policy #regulations #insurance #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #eugenics
Once again the idiots that #RFKJr handpicked for #ACIP are confused about what exactly they’re voting on.
This seems to happen every time they convene.
So they’re trying to postpone their vote like last time, but they’re having trouble even doing that.
Pathetic.
No one listen to these incompetent fools. Please.
#Vaccines #PublicHealth #HealthCare #science #medicine #Trump #ConspiracyTheories #disinformation #law #policy #regulations #insurance #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #eugenics
Not only are🚨Americans sicker & dying younger than before Trump's 2nd T began, ppl in other Cs *were recipients of #USAID -adversely affected.
The impact of the destruction of USAID:🚨wide-ranging. Field report from one of India's poorest sts, where foreign aid funded "TB champions" who educate/asst TB patients. W/o their help,💔advocates expect a 36% increase in cases & 68% rise in #deaths from #TB.
Global #disease spread!
#Eugenics #GOPDeathCult #Health #Protest #USPol
https://prospect.org/2025/12/04/losing-indias-guardian-angels-usaid-tb/
#BillCassidy voted to confirm #RFKJr as “health” secretary earlier this year after getting a promise from Kennedy to not push his #AntiVax agenda. Either the brain worm ate the memory of the promise, or RFKJr was full of shit as usual.
Now let’s see if Cassidy does anything about it…
#PublicHealth #HealthCare #science #medicine #Trump #ConspiracyTheories #disinformation #law #policy #regulations #insurance #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #SocialCleansing #eugenics
Apparently Sen #BillCassidy has finally had enough of #RFKJr’s #AntiVax nonsense.
Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, a liver doctor who’s been outspoken in support of the birth dose of the #hepatitisB #vaccine, posted to X the agenda of the cmte, known as the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices [#ACIP].
#PublicHealth #HealthCare #science #medicine #Trump #ConspiracyTheories #disinformation #law #policy #regulations #insurance #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #SocialCleansing #eugenics
#BillCassidy noted one of the presenters scheduled for Friday is a trial attorney who’s worked with #RFKJr to sue #vaccine makers.
“He is presenting as if an expert on #childhood #vaccines,” Cassidy wrote. “The #ACIP is totally discredited. They are not protecting children.”
#PublicHealth #HealthCare #science #medicine #Trump #RFKJr #ConspiracyTheories #disinformation #law #policy #regulations #insurance #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #SocialCleansing #eugenics
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Cassidy post: Aaron Siri is a trial attorney who makes his living suing vaccine manufacturers. He is presenting as if an expert on childhood vaccines. The ACIP is totally discredited. They are not protecting children.
A dozen former #FDA commissioners condemn plan to tighten #vaccine approvals
In a New England Journal of Medicine article, the former FDA commissioners wrote they were “deeply concerned” by the top vaccine regulator’s approach to raising the bar for approvals.
#PublicHealth #HealthCare #science #medicine #Trump #RFKJr #ConspiracyTheories #disinformation #law #policy #regulations #insurance #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #SocialCleansing #eugenics
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2517497
#RFKJr replaces chair of controversial #vaccine advisory panel
The chair of #ACIP, himself a well-known vaccine critic, will be moving to an official role within the #HHS, the agency announced Monday.
HHS announced #MartinKulldorff was appointed to be chief “science” officer for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning & Evaluation (#ASPE).
#PublicHealth #science #medicine #Trump #ConspiracyTheories #disinformation #law #policy #insurance #eugenics
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5628322-martin-kulldorff-kennedy-hhs-appointment/
Federal #vaccine advisers selected by “Health” Secy #RFKJr are planning to vote on ending the practice of vaccinating all newborns for #hepatitisB & to examine whether shots on the #childhood #immunization schedule are behind the rise of allergies & autoimmune disorders [they’re not], the newly appointed chair of the group told WaPo.
#PublicHealth #science #medicine #Trump #disinformation #law #policy #insurance #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #SocialCleansing #eugenics
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/12/02/acip-hepatitis-b-childhood-immunization-schedule/
“In addition to cancer,⚡️a growing body of research has shown that vaccines can reduce the risk of developing dementia and heart conditions.
Here are the common vaccines experts recommend:”
This excellent article refutes #RFKJr’s anti-vaccine sentiment & most of his #HHS quacks’ recommendations.
#Vaccines truly save lives, in many ways. Read:
#Health #FDA #CDC #TrumpRegime #Eugenics #Protest #USPol
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/11/29/vaccines-chronic-disease-prevent-cancer/
Francis Galton, pioneering figure of the eugenics movement, believed that good research practice should consist in “gathering as many facts as possible without any theory or general principle that might prejudice a neutral and objective view of these facts” (Jackson et al., 2005). Karl Pearson, statistician and fellow purveyor of eugenicist methods, approached research with a similar ethos: “theorizing about the material basis of heredity or the precise physiological or causal significance of observational results, Pearson argues, will do nothing but damage the progress of the science” (Pence, 2011). In collaborative work with Pearson, Weldon emphasised the superiority of data-driven methods which were capable of delivering truths about nature “without introducing any theory” (Weldon, 1895).From The Immortal Science of ML: Machine Learning & the Theory-Free Ideal.
I've lost the reference, but I suspect it was Meredith Whittaker who's written and spoken about the big data turn at Google, where it was understood that having and collecting massive datasets allowed them to eschew model-building.
The core idea being critiqued here is that there's a kind of scientific view from nowhere: a theory-free, value-free, model-free, bias-free way of observing the world that will lead to Truth; and that it's the task of the scientist to approximate this view from nowhere as well as possible.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #science #DataScience #ScientificObjectivity #eugenics #ViewFromNowhere
The present perspective outlines how epistemically baseless and ethically pernicious paradigms are recycled back into the scientific literature via machine learning (ML) and explores connections between these two dimensions of failure. We hold up the renewed emergence of physiognomic methods, facilitated by ML, as a case study in the harmful repercussions of ML-laundered junk science. A summary and analysis of several such studies is delivered, with attention to the means by which unsound research lends itself to social harms. We explore some of the many factors contributing to poor practice in applied ML. In conclusion, we offer resources for research best practices to developers and practitioners.From The reanimation of pseudoscience in machine learning and its ethical repercussions here: https://www.cell.com/patterns/fulltext/S2666-3899(24)00160-0. It's open access.
In other words ML--which includes generative AI--is smuggling long-disgraced pseudoscientific ideas back into "respectable" science, and rejuvenating the harms such ideas cause.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #MachineLearning #ML #AIEthics #science #pseudoscience #JunkScience #eugenics #physiognomy
Dr. #RalphAbraham’s views on many issues align with those of “Health” Secy #RFKJr. He has endorsed avoiding #Tylenol in pregnancy except “when absolutely necessary” because of a debunked link to #autism. He has also backed ending routine #immunization for #hepatitisB at birth & removing from #vaccines ingredients like aluminum salts, which are added to enhance the immune response.
#PublicHealth #Health #science #medicine #policy #law #Trump #ConspiracyTheories #disinformation #eugenics #USpol
Dr. #RalphAbraham was appointed as #Louisiana’s surgeon general in 2024.
At the #CDC, Abraham will be the highest ranked official with a medical degree. The agency does not have a permanent director & the acting director, Jim O’Neill, is a former biotech exec.
As a top #health official, Abraham halted the state health dept’s mass #vaccination campaigns.
#CDC #HHS #PublicHealth #Health #vaccines #science #medicine #policy #law #Trump #RFKJr #ConspiracyTheories #disinformation #eugenics
"A Louisiana health ofcl🚨who ordered his health dep to stop promoting mass vaccinations this past winter during a surge in influenza cases has been tapped to serve as the new #2 leader at the #CDC.
Abraham *LA’s SG: hired to be: princ dep dir at the CDC, acc to a SPOX for the #HHS *confirmed the appt *not clear when he starts.
“Vaccination🚨against any disease should remain a personal choice."
#RFKJr #AntiVaxxers #Vaccines #Health #GOPDeathCult #Eugenics #Protest #USPol
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/11/25/cdc-new-deputy-vaccine-ralph-abraham/
Paging #BillCassidy
#CDC Quietly Appoints Doctor Critical of #Vaccines as Second in Command
During the #Covid19 #pandemic, Dr. Ralph Lee Abraham promoted #discredited treatments like ivermectin &, as Louisiana’s surgeon general, HALTED the state’s mass #vaccination campaign.
#PublicHealth #Health #science #medicine #policy #law #Trump #RFKJr #ConspiracyTheories #disinformation #eugenics #SocialCleansing #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/health/cdc-ralph-lee-abraham-vaccines.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Eugenics, ableism [SENSITIVE CONTENT]
A former “friend” told me he cared for me & wanted me to have everything I needed… but that it was time I realize I’m a net negative in society.
He referenced my “free surgeries”, countless ER trips & how the system was artificially extending my life.
He said he had given this a lot of thought, but that he realized he was sick and tired of his taxes supporting people who can’t contribute economically.
That wanting me to have good care was hypocritical since he doesn’t support handouts on “principle”
He said sorry. He said he knew he was being hurtful. But he felt I lacked the ability to understand where he & people like him were coming from
That it doesn’t matter what I contributed in the past or what I contribute in the future, no one has a “right” to be a drain on others
He said that people like me are the reason people like him can’t get ahead.
That he never consented to providing hand outs to disabled or poor people.
That he doesn’t feel his tax dollars should be spent this way.
Shocked and hurt, I asked if he felt I should just die?
He said of course not, but that was his emotions and love for me getting in the way of common sense.
That while he would never advocate killing others, we shouldn’t have our lives “artificially extended”
He felt that by providing healthcare and/or the bare minimum in social supports, society is going against nature.
It’s prolonging the lives of those who would have died at any other point in our history.
“Survival of the fittest”
But here’s the thing, that’s not what survival of the fittest means. It’s not what it ever meant.
Survival of the fittest refers to those with the capacity to adapt.
Not those who are the strongest or the most healthy.
My friend can’t adapt. The only way he can survive is by punching down on others.
Any perceived failings in his own life are the direct fault of someone less fortunate than him.
That’s not “fit”…
It’s denial.
Disabled people like me have an incredible ability to adapt
I’ve had to overcome so much in my life, including trying to survive nearly 6 years of a global pandemic where most of society has opted to leave me by the wayside.
I’m a fighter. We all are.
This is ableism at its most ugly. This is a person who’s embraced eugenics whole heartedly and yet somehow manages to convince themselves they’re noble and “strong”.
He firmly believes he’s better than someone like me, despite having lost his moral compass ages ago
We can and must be better than this. We must call out this behaviour whenever it happens, because it causes untold amounts of damage.
We all have worth. We all have value. No one is expendable.
As soon as we allow people to debate the worth of other’s within society, we’ve lost.
We must work together to ensure our most vulnerable are taken care of, because in doing so we build a safer and more inclusive society for everyone.
This conversation inspired me to write an article about why we undervalue the lives of disabled people.
My “friend” may have been unique in his bluntness, but many people think this way.
They vote for it. They support it. We deserve better:
https://www.disabledginger.com/p/why-do-we-undervalue-the-lives-of
Under #Trump & #RFKJr., The #CDC promotes false #vaccines - #autism link it once discredited
The CDC’s website now says #health authorities ignored evidence of a potential connection between vaccines & autism, despite dozens of studies showing no link.
#science #medicine #PublicHealth #policy #ConspiracyTheories #disinformation #eugenics #SocialCleansing #USpol
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/11/20/cdc-vaccines-autism-website-change/
The #CDC has repudiated its past insistence that #vaccines do not cause #autism after decades of fighting #misinformation linking the 2, blindsiding career staff & delighting #AntiVax activists.
The agency’s website on vaccines & autism, updated Wednesday, now makes several #false claims about a connection, echoing longtime rhetoric from “Health” Secy #RFKJr, who has a lengthy history of disparaging vaccines & linking them to autism.
The current #CDC page falsely says that studies supporting a link between #vaccines & #autism “have been ignored by health authorities.”
It falsely states: “The claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism.”
#science #medicine #PublicHealth #policy #Trump #RFKJr #ConspiracyTheories #disinformation #eugenics #SocialCleansing #USpol
The false claim that #vaccines cause #autism can be traced to a 1998 article that has since been retracted, but it has persisted for decades in #AntiVax messaging that has repeatedly come up in conversations at pediatricians’ offices. The connection has been repeatedly disproved through dozens of studies examining hundreds of thousands of children around the world.
#science #medicine #PublicHealth #policy #Trump #RFKJr #ConspiracyTheories #disinformation #eugenics #SocialCleansing #USpol
“My question is, how language that misrepresents decades of research ended up on a #CDC website,” said #DebraHoury, the CDC’s former chief medical officer who also resigned in August. “#PublicHealth communication must be accurate, evidence-based & free from political distortion. Anything less erodes trust & puts lives at risk.”
#science #medicine #policy #Trump #RFKJr #ConspiracyTheories #disinformation #eugenics #SocialCleansing #USpol
…Scientists still at the #CDC told The Post they were shocked as word spread about the apparent endorsement of a long-debunked claim. “We just saw it, & everyone is freaking out,” said one scientist.
#RFKJr’s past promotion of a link between #vaccines & #autism emerged as a key concern of some Republican senators ahead of his confirmation to be the nation’s top #health ofcl.
#science #medicine #PublicHealth #policy #Trump #ConspiracyTheories #disinformation #eugenics #SocialCleansing #USpol
Sen. #BillCassidy (R-Louisiana), a #physician who chairs the #Senate #Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee, decided to set aside his misgivings & support #RFKJr after receiving a range of commitments, which he detailed in a Feb. 4 speech on the Senate floor. They INCLUDED that the “#CDC will not remove statements on their website pointing out that #vaccines do not cause #autism.”
#science #medicine #PublicHealth #policy #Trump #ConspiracyTheories #disinformation #eugenics #USpol
He’s comparing healthcare to home insurance.
Saying the “healthy” should be rewarded.
This is eugenics. They’re going to price disabled people out of the market.
Disability can happen to anyone.
You know how a hurricane can destroy your home no matter how many “safeguards” you had?
That’s chronic illness.
It’s the hurricane. $2k won’t cut it.
#uspol #fascism #eugenics #disability #aca #obamacare #ableism
A top #RFKJr ally rallied anti-#vaccine activists over the wknd with an exhortation to stay strong in the face of attacks by the govt, media & mainstream #medical figures.
“God is an anti-vaxxer, & he needs you to speak up,” said Del Bigtree, a fmr top RFKJr political adviser & head of the #antivax group Informed Consent Action Network. He urged the #HHS secy’s supporters to press their fight at a weekend-long celebration of their newfound Washington influence.
…#RFKJr himself did not attend the event, but his wife, the actor #CherylHines, received loud applause at a dinner Saturday night & headlined a roster of *luminaries* of what supporters call the “medical freedom” movement: Florida’s top #health ofcl who recently said the state would move to end most #school #vaccine mandates, along with an array of *physicians* & activists who have been discredited by mainstream #medicine.
People are fucking crazy
‘God is an anti-vaxxer’: Inside the conference celebrating #RFKJr.’s rise
Eliminating the #childhood #vaccine schedule is among the goals for [formerly] fringe activists who now claim Washington power.
#law #science #medicine #health #ConspiracyTheories #eugenics #Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/11/10/rfk-anti-vaccine-mandates-health-freedom/
Agree:🚨”The cruelty” is 2 reinforcing phenomena:
—The broligarchs, racists & eugenicists want poor ppl to die. It’s white man terror expressed as #sadism.
—Trump is in narcissistic collapse over #Epstein
The “policy” is to inflict so much pain that we submit to dictatorship.”
-J Stewartson
“The president - “I'm going out to play golf.'🚨One thing that is so shocking to me is that they're appealing to the SC for the right to cut off food from ppl…”
-Sen Schiff
#Fascism #Racism #Eugenics #USPol
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Musk to get a one trillion dollar pay package.
The man who almost single handedly caused the death of 600,000 people will become even richer
He’s killed children & the most vulnerable
He dismantled one of the most successful aid programs in the world
He bought an election & installed a fascist
This is why we must abolish the billionaire class
More people have died in ICE custody in last 9 months than in the entire prior 4 years.
We hear of a few, but most barely make the news.
Cases like Randall Alberto Gamboa Esquivel.
He was in perfect health when ICE detained him.
He disappeared in June & by August was in a vegetative state.
ICE deported him anyways.
They literally put a man who was at death’s door on a plane to Costa Rica.
Doctors there found he had encephalopathy, rhabdomyolysis and the inability to eat on his own.
What happened to him in ICE custody to cause this?
He died a few weeks after deportation:
ICE enforcement may be a mass disabling event.
Disease is rampant in the camps.
Disabled people report having their medical needs ignored and their conditions drastically worsened.
The indiscriminate use of chemical weapons and violence causes harm.
Abolish ICE.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/04/randall-alberto-gamboa-esquivel-ice-family
When you become disabled there’s a few things you notice right away:
Ableism is everywhere.
People will abandon you. Even those you were certain would stick by you.
Just because something is illegal or against human rights code doesn’t mean it’s not happening ALL the time
Accessibility is not what it should be.
People will blame you for your disabilities. It won’t matter what you do or how hard you try, you won’t be “good enough”
All the misconceptions you had about disabled people were wrong.
That’s really the crux of it.
Disability is a minority group you can join anytime.
Most people will experience disability in their lifetime
Yet discriminating against us is not only common it’s socially acceptable.
Most people don’t realize how misguided they are until it happens to them
Many of us living with chronic illness had the same preconceived notions about disabled people until we became disabled ourselves
We thought it wasn’t “that bad”.
We believed we would be the exception
Many of us became advocates because the realization that we were so horribly wrong shook us to our core.
If we had that much ableism to work through, then so does everyone else.
That’s why we need strong allies.
We need people who will say disabled lives matter.
We need to shift the public perception away from the idea that disability is a moral failing.
We need to be visible, take up space and help people realize that all health is temporary and disability happens to almost everyone.
Inclusion and accessibility matter!
@thetyee This wording is concerning because covid never ended. Our governments just opted to go cognitive dissonance route/eugenics style of public health failures instead. We are still seeing too many covid & long covid patients in health care. I work in health care. Our government is lying to the public & I wish more media wasn't so willing to aid/abet these public health failures.
#CovidIsNotOver #CovidSafety #MasksSaveLives #LongCovidIsReal #BCpoli #CDNpoli #BCNDP #FireBonnieHenry #FailureToProtect #Eugenics #BCNewDeathParty
from 2020:
Gates’ lifelong obsession is population control. his brand of fascism is called #technolibertarianism.
Silicon Valley technolibertarians are, “#apartheid, but make it tech”.
that's why they’re obsessed with AI #surveillance, genetics, #eugenics, GMOs, Mars (for us not them).
“If they want to eat they should get a job!”
“My taxes shouldn’t pay for people who aren’t productive”
“It’s their fault they’re hungry”
My latest is about the ‘useless eater’ rhetoric that has dominated social media ever since news broke that SNAP wouldn’t be funded in November.
People are blaming individuals for what is clearly a society wide failure.
Wealth inequality coupled with rising prices and falling wages mean millions rely on food assistance to survive.
In three days, 42 million Americans will be without food. They will start to starve.
No one deserves this.
https://www.disabledginger.com/p/no-one-deserves-to-starve
#uspol #poverty #foodassistance #snap #usda #fascism #disability #eugenics #ableism
A woman from the FDA's Center for Devices & Radiological Health explains how her entire department was gutted
That means there's no staff to alert you if your pacemaker is recalled
If an implantable device in your body is toxic or broken
This could have catastrophic health impacts & cost lives
"Eugenics never went away. It’s as influential as it’s ever been, echoed in proclamations from Trump that immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country” and the new pronatalist movement led by people like Malcolm and Simone Collins. It’s also at the very heart of the TESCREAL movement, which is what launched the current race to build “basically a digital god,” in Musk’s words, that could replace humanity. Once you realize that eugenics is still dancing, you’ll notice it everywhere. In many ways, the current zeitgeist is imbued by eugenics ideologies, much of it fueled by racist, sexist, classist, and even anti-human attitudes. Yikes."
https://www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/from-trump-to-tescreal-eugenics-is
Marimar Martinez was shot by ICE and ended up with seven holes in her body.
A TikTok personality was shot today in South LA.
Tear gas, pepper bullets and chemical munitions are being used in suburban areas.
A 15 year old autistic boy is in federal custody while his Mom pleads for his return, and a 15 year old Chicago girl who had kidney surgery was detained so violently that she ended up back in hospital.
ICE enforcement is shaping up to be a mass disabling event.
My latest looks at how we can protect one another:
https://www.disabledginger.com/p/ice-enforcement-may-be-a-mass-disabling
#ice #uspol #abolishice #fascism #disabilty #ableism #eugenics
"In this article, I thought it would be worth looking at the views that Yudkowsky has espoused over the years. He’s suggested that murdering children up to 6 years old may be morally acceptable, that animals like pigs have no conscious experiences, that ASI (artificial superintelligence) could destroy humanity by synthesizing artificial mind-control bacteria, that nearly everyone on Earth should be “allowed to die” to prevent ASI from being built in the near future, that he might have secretly bombed Wuhan to prevent the Covid-19 pandemic, that he once “acquired a sex slave … who will earn her orgasms by completing math assignments,” and that he’d be willing to sacrifice “all of humanity” to create god-like superintelligences wandering the universe.
Yudkowsky also believes — like, really really believes — that he’s an absolute genius, and said back in 2000 that the reason he wakes up in the morning is because he’s “the only one who” can “save the world.” Yudkowsky is, to put it mildly, an egomaniac. Worse, he’s an egomaniac who’s frequently wrong despite being wildly overconfident about his ideas. He claims to be a paragon of rationality, but so far as I can tell he’s a fantastic example of the Dunning-Kruger effect paired with messianic levels of self-importance. As discussed below, he’s been prophesying the end of the world since the 1990s, though most of his prophesied dates of doom have passed without incident.
So, let’s get into it! I promise this will get weirder the more you read."
https://www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/eliezer-yudkowskys-long-history-of
Rather than get mired in the thought-terminating arguments around political parties or political factions, though, I think we'd do well to reflect on what sorts of other ways of thinking feed into this one: the measured life; standardized testing; the internet of things (sensors); tracking apps of various kinds; electronic health records; data science as a profession and Big Data generally; predictive modeling; generative AI and other optimization-oriented or productivity-promising technology. All of these function to render life as an object of knowledge in one way or another. All of them trace their origins through eugenics and the patterns of thought that led to it, and all of them threaten to enable and enhance further eugenic thinking. This is not to say these things are always all bad; this is meant to be a reflection on what exactly they're for.
Why read the number of steps your FitBit told you you took today, unless there were some sense in which you want your future self to be better than your present self? It's not an accident that this is called "physical fitness", "fitness" being the Darwinian concept describing which organisms should survive. Why subject children to standardized testing unless there were some belief it made them better students? To what end tends to be left out. Why adopt a technology meant to improve productivity, unless you're of the belief that improvement (optimization) were even possible?
Generally speaking, if one is able to bring oneself to believe that a human being is made better by a data-informed technical intervention, isn't one playing the same game as these anti-autism anti-vaxxers, just with different terminology? If your answer to this provocation is that your data is better than theirs or that you're more aligned with reality than they are--some variation of "the science is on our side"--you've ceded the territory: this is more of the same optimization logic that brought us to this point to begin with. I think we have no choice but to do better than this.
That's my reflection anyway.
#USPol #autism #vaccination #vaccines #antivax #eugenics #BigData #AI #PredictiveModeling #DataScience #science
Predatory Data
Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Futurehttps://bookshop.org/p/books/predatory-data-eugenics-in-big-tech-and-our-fight-for-an-independent-future-anita-say-chan/21312207
There's a nearly straight line from 20th century eugenics to 21st century big data and data science. Google, the bastion of big data, was founded by two Stanford graduate students; Stanford was founded by a eugenicist and instituted eugenics principles. Francis Galton--inventor of the regression analysis that forms the backbone of data science--was "hot or notting" London with a counter hidden in his pocket long before Harvard-age Zuckerberg recuperated the same with the favorite quantification technology of our day, computers.
"The measured life" is a eugenics concept. All these doohickeys that collect data with the promise of making your body a bit more "fit"? Eugenicist in origin. Eugenics is about "optimizing" the physical "fitness" of people. Apps that help you learn, make you more mentally "fit"? Also have origins in eugenics. Eugenics is also about "optimizing" the mental "fitness" of people. Hence the obsession with IQ.
This isn't to say you shouldn't take care of your body and mind in whichever ways you want. I do think it's important, though, to periodically reflect on, and ask yourself hard questions about, what's driving those efforts and what the goals really are. Part of understanding why eugenics thinking is resurging so hard and fast in the US is understanding its roots, where that type of thinking comes from. It's also important to reflect on where the apps and devices you use to achieve these goals come from. How many come directly or indirectly from Stanford, which was built by eugenicists to achieve eugenic goals, and its offshoots?
Trump and Musk are literally repeating themes from Francis Galton's eugenics out in the open now. They're confident they can get away with it without pushback because the ground was laid long ago. But eugenics didn't suddenly become bad again because coarse people started saying the quiet part out loud. It's always been bad thinking, bad science, and bad morality.
#DataScience #eugenics #BigData #fitness #US #IQ #Trump #Musk
It's a short step from "extinction"/"unsuccessful" ("low fitness") to "elimination". The latter word is what is meant. The passive voice/inevitability framing purposely obscures the agency of the literal, nameable human beings who are attempting to bring this reality into existence. "Embrace #AI or we will do our best to eliminate your profession, your livelihood, and you" is more precise and brings out the hostility of the threat these corporate statements attempt to hide.
This dehumanizing and ultimately eugenic idea frequently hides in plain sight like this. Sometimes evolutionary or genetic language and metaphors are used. Don't accept it. These folks may try to create this reality but that doesn't mean they'll succeed and it doesn't mean we need to surrender and let them succeed.
Mars does not have a magnetosphere. Any discussion of humans ever settling the red planet can stop right there, but of course it never does.From https://defector.com/neither-elon-musk-nor-anybody-else-will-ever-colonize-mars...
The South Pole is around 2,800 meters above sea level, and like everywhere else on Earth around 44 million miles closer to the sun than any point on Mars. It sits deep down inside the nutritious atmosphere of a planet teeming with native life. Compared to the very most hospitable place on Mars it is an unimaginably fertile Eden. Here is a list of the plant-life that grows there: Nothing. Here is a list of all the animals that reproduce there: None.
Life on earth writ large, the grand network of life, is a greater and more dynamic terraforming engine than any person could ever conceive. It has been operating ceaselessly for several billions of years. It has not yet terraformed the South Pole or the summit of Mount Everest. On what type of timeframe were you imagining that the shoebox of lichen you send to Mars was going to transform Frozen Airless Radioactive Desert Hell into a place where people could grow wheat?