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There, the anti-science conspiracy theorist sure to fill NIH with self-proclaimed physical therapists, snake oil profiteers, and homeopathy fans.
If it's not killing, it's him wanting to deny the disabled any financial help and government assistance, insisting the disabled are liabilities.
Who's laughing at self-diagnosis now??
Anyway, fuck this place (USA)
Well that's not great. This is the kind of shit why I haven't wanted to get diagnosed. Granted I'm already in it deep for being trans and that resulting million mile paper trail...
Behind the Bastards has a good couple episodes about what happens when people say they can cure autism (spoilers: many children die horribly)
Their RFK episodes are also highly relevant at the moment.
(spoilers: even more dead children)
A couple things I would like to highlight for the unfamiliar, and I'll preface this by saying that I am autistic myself.
First, autism is not something for which there are any clear medical indicators, no blood tests or brain scans or anything of the sort are involved in diagnosis. It's entirely subjective and observational, something that states entrust people who are ostensibly professionals to determine.
I point this out because I want people to understand that there is absolutely nothing stopping the present administration from hiring people (or using AI) to simply diagnose undesirables with autism through whatever criteria they decide to deem fit.
This might sound absurd, but we're seeing people with nothing but tattoos being transformed into "criminals", "gang members", and "terrorists" by similar logic.
Second, Asperger was a Nazi, and the child euthanasia program was one of the main projects which experimented with the tools and machinery of mass murder that would later be used in extermination camps. Zyklon B was tested on autistic children and other "diseased offspring" long before it was ever used in the gas chambers.
How long do you think it will take before they are using AI to comb through the social media and medical records of teens looking for any indications of anything they don't like, and flagging them as potentially autistic? September has been RFK's set date since he first started talking about it, and people have been puzzling about that from the beginning. September is the start of the school year.
comb through the social media and medical records of teens looking for any indications of anything they don't like, and flagging them as potentially autistic?
anything woke must be autism
woke mind virus etc
Home-growns are next. The home-growns. You gotta build about five more places
it literally doesn’t matter if this is the correct interpretation… the fact that it’s possible is the problem. it should be completely impossible
Lists are not neutral; they are tools of social hierarchy and ideological enforcement.
Creating a national database of autistic people could grow from “support services” to stigmatizing surveillance or work farms—especially if the one proposing it has a history of pseudoscientific views or conspiracy ideation, as RFK Jr. does.
Work farms? No no no— these are wellness farms! Completely different! The labor will be very therapeutic! Plus, if we determine you’re taking medication for any co-occurring disorders, like ADHD or depression we’ll get you clean of that crippling addiction pronto.
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Holy shit, do they want to speedrun fascism?
You're already living under fascism at this point. You just haven't woken up yet, because they didn't get to your door. Yet. The sooner you wake up the better.
I don't live in the US.
Yes. They laid it out with Project 2025 and a staggering amount of people voted for it.
Pretty sure the staggering amount of people who voted for Trump have never heard of P2025 before the election, as FoxNews pretty much never spoke about it.
Until after the election; https://www.foxnews.com/politics/heritage-president-project-2025-liberals-doge-takes-ax-bureaucracy
Yes.
It's Eugenics, this is them warming you up to forced sterilisation. This is Timesplitters shit, let's just kill the Billionaires. Come on.
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...
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.
This is fucking terrifying. How is this not a HIPAA violation?
Edit: Fixed spelling. What can we do to protect ourselves and loved ones?!
HIPAA died when Roe v. Wade was overturned.
Roe v. Wade guaranteed Americans the right to medical privacy.
Because it's called HIPAA, not HIPPA. The second P is the one that stands for privacy.
Fifty years ago, doctors would protect their patients by accidentally losing certain files if they didn't think the authorities had a good reason for seeing them. Under HIPAA, they're required to keep and maintain good records in case the government subpoenas them.
Lol, gj Muskrat, you've been designated the Röhm!
He's looking for the solution to the autistic people question
Next will be ADHD people... and I'm sure they all will be sent with a camp, that will help them focus... a concentration camp if you will.
A camp? Its not like he's ever suggesting sending people to camps before. Oh wait:
See? Its not a camp, its a "wellness farm". Aren't you relieved now? /s
So while RFK Jr. is dangerously and stubbornly doing some wrong stuff, this at least conceptually wasn't a horribly dangerous idea, though perhaps uselessly naive.
It was proposed as a voluntary sort of facility that someone could go do if they chose, and from how it was described, ability to leave whenever they felt like too.
Generally speaking, I view RFK Jr as dangerous due to his convictions, naivete, and belief in some gnarly conspiracy thearies, but not intentionally malicious.
Get ready my fellow autists, for you are the new jews, this time in magastan instead of Germany.
The Nazis started with the disabled, trans, gays, and autistic. The Jews came after the political dissidents.