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The march to Nazism takes another step

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[–] gothiccwaifu@lemm.ee 31 points 2 days ago

More proof that their alarmism about declining birth rates is bullshit

[–] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 38 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Wait a minute... deep in there he suggested incentivizing smart people to have babies. Like a handout? Susidized childcare, free healthcare for kids? He must be a socialist. Lol.

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[–] TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 9 points 2 days ago

Sounds like he needs to get sterilized by his own logic.

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 37 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

How does this interact with male doctors' right to deny women elective sterilizations based on their hypothetical future husband's desire for a kid?

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[–] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago

Nazi fucks busting out the calipers?

[–] shadow_figurine@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago

Thought i was reading the onion for a second

[–] johnpmac@lemm.ee 37 points 3 days ago

So… the trump party? That’s the biggest chunk of low iq trash I can think of

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 32 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The nazi's called them "useless eaters."

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[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 46 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Sadly this was inevitable.

I think it was in the skeptics guide to the universe book, they covered the history of eugenics.

It has a significant history in the US, and loads of ne'er-do-wells were sterilised before eugenics was adopted as a policy by the german nazi party.

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[–] xyzzy@lemm.ee 37 points 3 days ago (4 children)

He's a white supremacist. He means black people. Note the bold.

In October of that year, he responded to a video of people in a neighborhood in Atlanta, saying: “When a population gets feral, a little snip snip keeps things in control. Could offer incentives (Air Jordans, etc.).”

“Where do these population reduction conspiracies come from? All I see is trash multiplying,” he wrote in January 2023.

In May of that year, Beattie wrote on X that “It's not politically correct to say, but low-IQ, low-impulse control populations lack higher reasoning and moral faculties---they require strict corporal punishment and threat of violence to function properly within a society. Instead of anarcho-tyranny, we need Singapore for the dumb and violent, and Sweden for the more elevated.”

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[–] morphballganon@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

"You got a vasectomy because it was forced on you for having low IQ. I got a vasectomy because I refuse to subject another human to this batshit world. We are not the same."

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[–] DrFistington@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago (1 children)

So he doesn't want a future generation of Republican voters?

[–] RedAggroBest@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So I know you're joking but I want to make the point so there's no mistake from you or anyone scrolling by in what this guy means.

He means black people. Like the whole of this statement is targeted at black people in the US. Dude is a hard-r neonazi.

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[–] DicJacobus@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The soap boxes, ballot boxes, and jury boxes didnt work.

the Nazis are laughing that you're calling them Nazis, all while they're making plans to kill you.

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[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 37 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (6 children)

A better idea would be to sterilize people of low empathy.

Andy Warhol allegedly had an IQ around 80-90. But contributed a lot to society.
IQ as a measure of the value of people is bullshit, because it's an extremely narrow part of our combined intelligence that is measured.
For instance empathy is not part of an IQ test, but is a crucial feature for societies to work well. As societies with higher social intelligence function relatively better.
Something Trump is actively demonstrating right now. Remove empathy from how society works, and the losses are enormous.
Trump and his ilk do not understand that, because they don't have it.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I don't think there would be much actual measuring of IQ.

[–] Zer0_F0x@lemmy.world 29 points 3 days ago

-I'm literally under water right now because of climate change

-Climate change is a hoax, you must have low IQ!

gets executed

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[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)
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[–] adhdplantdev@lemm.ee 19 points 2 days ago (20 children)

Intelligence isn't genetic. Its determined by large set of environmental factors as well as societal ones

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 21 points 2 days ago (18 children)

It's genetic and environmental (I'd argue that societal is a subset of environment - the society you live in is part of your environment).

IQ is far from a perfect measure for intelligence, but it has a high degree of inheritability - up to 80%.

However

As soon as malnutrition comes into play, IQ is automatically severely diminished. Add in all the other environmental factors too, and - it turns out we do have a lot more we can do to increase peoples intelligence, before resorting to eugenics.

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