Summary

Simone and Malcolm Collins, outspoken advocates of a “pronatalist” agenda, envision a model city-state focused on increasing birth rates and “genetically selected” citizens to counter demographic decline.

Simone, a candidate for Pennsylvania’s legislature, supports Trump, Elon Musk, and a conservative agenda with Silicon Valley backing. The couple’s controversial ideas include selective voting rights, targeting the “elites,” and embryo selection based on intelligence.

Despite their fringe positions, they seek to influence politics by mobilizing conservative voters, promoting family values, and experimenting with low-cost election tactics to sway swing districts.

The couple’s pronatalist foundation received significant funding from Estonian billionaire Jaan Tallinn. Child protective services (CPS) have visited the family twice following scrutiny over their parenting.

  • macniel
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    4929 days ago

    Sounds like eugenics. Crazy Painter from Austria would be proud.

    • @ours
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      Eugenics were brought to Europe by Americans so nothing new here.

      • @[email protected]
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        Eugenics can be traced to Ancient Greece and Rome, and the modern flavor and actual term were coined by Francis Galton of the United Kingdom, a half-cousin of Darwin.

        • @ours
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          -929 days ago

          Obviously, these things are much older but the wave which inspired Hitler and his minions originated in the US before spreading their ideas in Europe.

          • @[email protected]
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            329 days ago

            Yes because removing unwanted babies from the gene pool has never been mentioned outside of American ideas. Much less closer to hitlers home…

  • Flying Squid
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    I’m sure nothing could go wrong with the Brave New World they envision.

  • @jaybone
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    lol those are the people, in the picture, those people are arguing for superior genetics? Wife is super unattractive, guy looks beta af, both parents have glasses. They are obviously not very smart. And Silicon Valley is backing this? Aside from VC douchebags and execs, Silicon Valley has a ton of immigrants, because we can’t be bothered to educate native born US children properly to do these jobs.

    • @IchNichtenLichten
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      It’s just “behold the master race” with a college education.

    • anon6789
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      Not everyone can pull off the Edna look.

    • @[email protected]
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      lol those are the people, in the picture, those people are arguing for superior genetics? Wife is super unattractive, guy looks beta af, both parents have glasses. They are obviously not very smart.

      That’s always the case isn’t it?

    • @Zahille7
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      I laughed a couple years ago at them on Reddit too.

  • Bakkoda
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    2629 days ago

    “Counter demographic decline”

    Holy fuck is that some crazy shit right there. Didn’t make it past that sentence. Imagine white washing “creating a master race” with something almost acceptable sounding. Fuck right off.

    • Bakkoda
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      329 days ago

      As i reread the article i can no longer find that quote. Not sure what happened so take my words with a grain of salt now i guess.

  • @Jyrdano
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    29 days ago

    I remember reading about those weirdos way back. Wasnt the dude really active in My little pony subreddit?

    • @jaybone
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      That’s why j-lo is the ideal human.

      Checkmate science.

  • @LEDZeppelin
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    1229 days ago

    ‘Mass production of genetically selected humans’ ……did these assholes read handmaidens tale as an instruction manual?

  • @snekerpimp
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    Watched “Gattica” and “Aeon Flux” in the same night and said “wow babe, that looks like paradise!” This timeline has some really shitty parts in it, doesn’t it?

  • @[email protected]
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    529 days ago

    I mean we could work on the root cause of demographic decline?

    Naaa that will effect our corporate donors! Let’s just make a dumb solution that can be capitalized!

  • @Num10ck
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    329 days ago

    monocultures, dude