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It's Eugenics, this is them warming you up to forced sterilisation. This is Timesplitters shit, let's just kill the Billionaires. Come on.
Just a reminder that forced sterilization is still legal in the US, affirmed by the Supreme Court in Buck v. Bell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_v._Bell
Well technically they're warming people up for full blown death-camps.
It starts with tracking, then sterilization, then "work camps", and then suddenly there are hundreds of thousands stuffed into cargo trains on the way to the furnaces. With tons of them telling themselves they should have done something when they first came for...
That's already here, that's el Salavadore. Specifically I think that's where the human experimentation with neuralink and putting smart tech into your body is really going to get grotesque.
Trump has signed an executive order to build a 30,000 bed detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, and a $249 million contract has already been awarded. It is due to be complete in 2030, but it will open in stages.
For context, the average maximum security prison in America is about 800-1200 people. The largest, in Angola, LA, is about 8300. That means this new detention facility will be almost 4 times larger than our current largest prison, which is already several times larger than average.
Its also going to be on a foreign island, surrounded by a (supposedly) hostile foreign nation, far from the prying eyes of the media or the courts.
So who do they intend on putting in there? He is making it crystal clear that whoever is destined for Camp Gitmo will NOT be recieving trials, or anything resembling Due Process.
Our first concentration camp is being constructed as we speak, Google it.
What does that have to do with my reply to the other user and why are you instructing me to google anything?
My post wasn't just to you, it was an extension of the general conversation about eugenics and death camps. I wasn't necessarily instructing YOU to Google it, I was inviting anyone who was doubting that American Concentration camps are already under construction.
You already have tracking.
I'm way ahead of them. I self sterilized. I don't want any hand in bringing more people into this shit show.
Eugenics seems opposite from RFK Jr's ideas.
I don't think so. I think he's really that delusional. Let's hope his medical experiments won't be worse than some hallucinogenic mushrooms.
Yes it is, that's why the reduction in social security supports, that's why the measles outbreak. This administration is puppets, acting out word for word, Curtis Yarvin's butterfly revolution. That is why Trump is offering awards to women with more than 5 children, that is they focussed on reducing the cost of IVF. That is why musk never shuts the fuck up about the great replacement theory. It is blindingly obvious. This whole far right movement is funded by Big Tech, America First, Ireland First, Britain First, Francais Premier. They all appeared immediately after covid, they all have money come from The Heritage Foundation. This is the most obviousl thing, they're not even hiding it. It's because the economy is going to collapse within 2 generations because Meta, Google, Amazon, Apple and all of them collect obscene amounts of wealth across every denomination of currency in the world, they pay no tax and this drives inflation by forcing ever country's central to print more money. We are about to enter indian level poverty in the West, along with the climate disaster, caused by the people who do not want to acknowledge it and have used the culture war, created by Big Tech in order to ignore. How do people not understand this?
Yarvin actually thinks they should be moving faster and more aggressively than they are, and he fears they might actually fail, and what it personally means for him if they do. Here's the piece on it. He's actually worried that his butterfly revolution may be unraveling under the weight of its own stupidity.
I want Yarvin to be dancing a jig at the end of a rope. People like him are responsible for the descent of America into madness.
That's exactly what he's afraid of. The post referenced in this, is from Yarvin's own Substack, Gray Mirror, titled "Barbarians and Mandarins ", and Yarvin references a method for killing off bird populations called "foam depopulation", whereby an area is filled with foam that suffocates birds in large numbers. It seems that Yarvin fears, that if Trump and Co. cannot successfully pull off his dream, that he will be killed by the very same methods that he wishes done to others.
That's what the articles in this giant skinner box, controlled by the same people trying to collapse society through social media say. Yes, you are correct. Alternatively, is that article exists to make people who would otherwise revolt feel pacified and like they're winning, so they don't bother to protest. Social media exists as a way to allow us to vent. To see opinions that agree with ours and feel validated and things are happening. In actuality this is to make sure people DO NOT feel angry enough to mobilise in a meaningful way. As an example with legacy media, Michael Moore is not your friend, Rachel Maddow is not your friend. They exist to make you feel like people are on your side, they are multi-millionaires employed by their corporate masters to pacify and neuter the will of the working class. Read deeper my friend.
Except that the writer of this piece is quoting the latest post on Yarvin's own Substack, Gray Mirror. The piece is titled "Barbarians and Mandarins"
And while perhaps the first article I shared confirms my bias, I don't have the time right now to read a bloated 7,000 word essay filled with allusions and metaphors to genocide.
Not commenting the rest of your statements, this is not how economies work.
No, you are not. You are about to show everyone else what real poverty is, though, reminding them of pre-XIX century life.
I might agree there is a common interest of power in all this, but that's obvious anyway, evolution, game theory and all.
He did run on finding the increased cause of autism in the youth. He said it was likely environmental toxins from corporations.
So if hes right and hes not looking to murder people then we get statistics on where its occuring, and he would track it down like we did lead and things like that.
Which there doesnt seem to be a counter-point to what hes doing, heres MSNBC who obviously hates Trump, and as she says theres not been clear answers yet. Which maybe with the data he is gathering there will be some insights:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0OxB7DzBGQ
He's a cunt with half a brain, he's the new Mengele. His delusions have already killed people, I don't believe in his supposed good intentions.
I believe it's more likely that they (this administration, obviously) would change the meaning of the term "autistic" to mean any unwanted person. Basically, the Autist would become the new Jew under Trump's regime.
Autism has a genetic origin. Even with today's gene therapy techniques, it would not be possible to alter the already formed brains of adults so that they would not be autistic.
The simplest way to eliminate autism in the population would be to identify all autistic individuals and sterilize them or to genetically modify the zygotes or embryos of autistic individuals, but these, especially the first, have serious ethical implications and completely violate individual freedom. All this not to mention that we would be destroying part of the diversity of Humanity's genotype, which could even have long term consequences that are difficult to predict.
I'd assumed it was something when you're a fetus, not a fully formed brain. Would that be impossible as well do you figure?
RFK must be very upset with Trump letting coal-fired power plants pump arsenic and mercury into the atmosphere unrestricted then
Ah yes, this is clearly a person who is gathering information purely for science and the public good
I dont like the guy, but clearly it is an issue according to this MSN interview. So if he can figure it out I'd like that he did, so that the corporation causing it is held to account. Or what, do we just wait until a democrat is the one to do the same thing?
RFK is also talking about the obesity epidemic, specifically tying it to our food quality that many large donors really dont want to hear. I think some of these things seem sane, and I'm glad the republicans are starting to appreciate these ideologies.
Except, you know, autism can't be cured and, you know, the uptick in cases is not because a raise in the numbers but a better diagnosis.
If they spent that money and time in improving autistic people life quality instead of "curing" them, the world would be a much better place.
Why are you so sure autism can't be cured? Is "autism" even a narrow enough diagnosis to cure?
I didn't vote for trump. I don't support rounding up autistic people. RFK is a maniac. Can we have civil discussion?
Because we are not ill. We have a differently wired brain. You can't just rewire my synaptic connections in a neurotypical way. The only way to "cure" autism is by removing autistic people from the world and... I'm not gonna agree with such solution.
I really hope you are asking this out of innocent ignorance, because the alternative would make you part of the problem and... there are words for you in that case, words that could probably get me banned.
I will speak for you, if you are willing.
If people try to kill us, we will kill them. We will defend ourselves from genocide.
I am ignorant about autism. I'm pretty sure humanity is ignorant about autism. There are people suffering degraded quality of life attributed to autism, is that not worth treating? Are people like Chrischan not ill or is that not related to autism?
I can accept that. But the problem is that autism is not a disease, it's a different kind of brain wiring. Our brains are different, you can't "treat" autism without changing the brain itself. In some cases, autism brings people to a state in which they can't live in a neurotypical society without support, but you wouldn't be able to cure them because you'd need a new brain for them.
The solution is not "curing" or "treating" autism, the solution is making a society that has in mind also the neurodivergences, something that doesn't happen today.
Ehm, because It's not a disease....? How do you know being Chinese can't be cured?
You don't get diagnosed as Chinese.
Because whatever causes it, it's a difference in synaptic connectivity that can't be medicated or trained away. The only effective way to remove autism from society is removing autists from society and that's exactly what rfk jr wants to do.
Are you trying to be a unhelpful walrus or is this just happening organically, can you actually add something of function or substance to the conversation of just being a little detracting asshole?
I'm asking questions. I think just stating autism can't be "cured" is a wild claim considering we barely understand what it is. Do I need to state my politics before asking questions or do you just immediately think I'm a trump loving maniac that is okay with rounding up all the autistic?
Dude, these people are puppets of big tech. Donald Trump ran on lowering the price of eggs. Come on.
Yes, well, there are good statistics and studies on autism and it's mostly genetic. A bug of some of our far ancestors being related enough to have kids, but not enough to avoid weird bugs. Like - some of the neanderthals were not eaten. And parts of their genes were kinda compatible to those of bog standard homo sapiens sapiens, but not entirely. Which mostly doesn't show in humans, and when it does, it's autism. Or green eyes. Or something like that. Point being - really nothing to do with environment.
BTW, RFK Jr really with his manner of speech seems like a high-functioning autistic person, give or take. I wonder if he knows that you don't have to hide in a room all day and smell and have problems talking at all to be that. I also wonder if he knows that his survival\camping interests too match that a lot.