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The bi-partisan eugenicist project continues it's accelerating trajectory.

I spoke to a Labour MP about this (and the similar approach to unemployment benefits) and got the usual boilerplate "dignity in work, government costs, blah blah blah".

Instead of making the usual (correct and moral) counter arguments I decided to try something else, asking instead how a government that is...

• pushing increased AI and job automation as the solution to business growth and shrinking government departments

• overseeing a reduction in worker rights and abandoning policy ideas to reduce exploitative or 'always on call' work (zero hour contract legislation for example)

• overseeing a benefits system that increasingly penalises and discourages part-time and voluntary work, while deliberately pushing end users into low paid, low skill, often explicitly exploitative, 9-5 full time labour intensive work in an effort to hit targets for removing people from the system

...can possibly hope to achieve these aims and square that of actions and economic incentives.

They didn't have an answer. At all. They tried a few weasel words which I pushed back on and they all but admitted it doesn't make sense. "You do make a good point" was the exact phrase before they brushed it off and excused themselves to go and 'urgently' chat to someone else about 'something' before they left awkwardly.

It's bullshit and they know it's bullshit. There's the ones who are fully on board with this neoliberal eugenicist ideology and there's the ones that certainly aren't going to stand up against it but mostly just don't want to think about it. And they're both complicit.

prepare to see a bunch of disabled homeless people begging for money in the streets. thats what its like in amerikkka because we also have little to no disability benefits. it really ruins your day when you see them. not because seeing them is bad for you but its just a reminder of what sort of society you’re living in, knowing these people are suffering to such a degree and you’re powerless to help them

Vowing to "help" people on disability find jobs is a nice way of saying threaten their livelihood at the expense of their health. Wouldn't expect any less from Starmer.

Some of the worst people become therapists. I don’t care if they say it’s reverse psychology or tough love. It’s attempted manslaughter and they are probably took the job with its shit conditions out of bloodlust.

Yeah uhh government, one small problem….

WHO THE FUCK IS HIRING THESE DAYS!?!?!?

Unless there’s a job guarantee or something, this is literally just culling a population.

The level of ableism and punching down in this shithole country is ridiculous. The job market is in the shitter anyway and it doesn't address the fact that companies don't want to hire people with disabilities even if there were any jobs. My experience of most people here is no matter how shit their hand is they will absolutely revel in the opportunity to make someone else even worse off than they are, I've never known a more self hating people. Nonce island is cooked

I’d like to blame a lack of funding, but how an alleged human can look another human in the face and say that is baffling. The whole system is fucked.

Wow, nobody predicted this would happen when you did fuck all about COVID 5 years ago.

by stopping their disability payments

It seems that the rest of the west learned a thing or two from the Nazis about how to effectively commit eugenic mass murder on home soil, by systematically abstracting it away.

my therapist refused to give me real therapy, saying there's no point in my case, and me committing suicide seems like a reasonable plan

This therapist deserves to rot for life in an oubliette. Evil sick piece of shit.

I guess children alone are not enough to satisfy Kid Starver?

Trump's nominee Russel Vought is talking about work requirements for Medicaid too. The Anglosphere is eating itself alive.

Oh the UK is the US now?

If you do this to the most vulnerable people in your society than what the ever loving fuck is the point? Your humanity is gone so wtf are you even fighting for? Why even get out of bed if this is the shitshow you're running when shit isn't that bad? These chucklefucks don't seem to ask this.

Cut benefits and legalize assisted suicide.
You will either work or you will die

cool nice good yeah what a compassionate country