• @[email protected]
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      201 month ago

      They don’t just kill science: that’s inconvenient and dumb but it can be put on pause fairly safely.

      In this case, they’re putting public health in grave danger. That will turn them into literal mass-murderer if a new pandemic takes hold.

      • @[email protected]
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        151 month ago

        I think they liked the results of the pandemic, they want to cause another one. First term I could blame it on incompetence, but this time it’s very intentional.

      • Phoenixz
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        91 month ago

        And you think they care?

        Killing off science will ruin the country, it will even ruin the military as it depends in the results of science

        They don’t care.

        They want their theocracy, that’s all. If millions die, then that is a sacrifice they’re willing to make, as long as it isn’t them

      • FundMECFSOP
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        71 month ago

        Science is a tool.

        20th century facists used eugenics (which was considered scientifically sound at the time) to argue for genociding disabled people.

          • FundMECFSOP
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            51 month ago

            It was an extremist interpretation of mendelian genetics. But it was a near dominant view among geneticists at the time.

        • @[email protected]
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          11 month ago

          What’s crazy to me is that eugenics is largely sound… It’s literally a forbidden branch of science not because it’s unscientific, but because our species can’t be trusted with it

          So much so that it becomes worthless. Elon Musk is doing his best to spread his genetics, even inappropriately offering up his sperm to female employees… He thinks he’s one of humanities best and brightest. The kedamine addicted failed programmer turned conman, a guy so insecure he faked being good at video games and has created nothing himself, thinks his genes need to be spread far and wide

          We are animals, we can indeed be bred for traits like animals, but we’re so bad at evaluating ourselves we literally cannot use this branch of science

          • FundMECFSOP
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            11 month ago

            Eugenics is not sound because

            1. It makes moral judgments as to what human traits are desirable and undesirable, which are non-scientific and largely based in prejudice.
            2. It treats all traits as heritable which neglects socialisation and other complex factors.

            Like for example eugenics in the Nazi regime genocided 90% of people with schizophrenia to try and wipe it out. But now, in 2025, schizophrenia rates are largely the same between germany and other western countries, because schizophrenia only has a small heritability factor.

      • @[email protected]
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        31 month ago

        Enter bird flu. That’s a good way to make the earth conveniently depopulated for the Tech Bros to rule over whatever scrap of humanity left.

        • Flying Squid
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          11 month ago

          Their Immortan Joe fantasies always make me think of this: