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#eugenics

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The Trump regime continues to double down on their eugenicist choices, nominating Casey Means, a wellness influencer, for surgeon general.

I’ve said for a long time that “wellness” is eugenics adjacent.

While there’s nothing wrong with a healthy lifestyle, no amount of green juice, yoga, meditation or sunlight can cure disabilities.

What’s worse, wellness “influencers” almost always blame the chronically ill for not trying hard enough.

Between Means, Prasad, RFK Jr and Dr Oz, things look bleak for those with disabilities (but great for anyone hawking supplements!)

politico.com/news/2025/05/07/t

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#Autism is a neurological & developmental condition marked by disruptions in #brain-signaling that cause people to behave, communicate, interact, & learn in atypical ways.

Last month, #HHS had denied it was creating a new autism #registry following media reports that #NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya told staff the agency would create one.

#law#privacy#HIPAA

RFK Jr cut HICPAC, the department responsible for reducing hospital acquired infections.

He cut NIOSH, a group dedicated to protecting workers and certifying PPE.

He made Vinay Prasad, a vaccine skeptic and Covid minimizer, the head of vaccines at the FDA

They’re not ending the chronic illness epidemic, they’re ending the chronically ill

I was afraid to read this because I’m really sick of the stigma of chronic pain.

I got one of those “did you know there are other treatments for pain besides opioids” letters from medicare yesterday. Seems like a tolling attempt when the stuff they list (like massage and acupuncture) aren’t usually covered by Medicare. None of us can afford regular out of pocket massage.

This is a regular thing that they send, but the terrifying difference is that this letter had a paragraph about how part D plans can change the formulary at any time throughout the year.

I think they’re warning me that they’re going to stop covering pain medication for chronic pain. And the timing of this article being sent out again makes me even more suspicious.

“Editorial
February 17, 2025
Integrating Buprenorphine Into Chronic Pain Treatment—Putting the Choice in VOICE”
jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai

FEMA has for yrs deployed staff to travel door-to-door in disaster areas.
Ending it, 1 #FEMA WKR says, will “severely hamper our ability to reach vulnerable ppl -usually focused on: most impacted/vulnerable communities -may be: elderly, ppl w disabilities or lack of TRANSP."

We're paying taxes, but our fed govt doesn't care if we live or die, esp if we're POC, disabled, elderly... #TrumpRegime: prefers us dead *more💰for others, esp white donors.
#Eugenics #Sadism #USPol wired.com/story/fema-ending-do

WIRED · FEMA Is Ending Door-to-Door Canvassing in Disaster AreasBy Molly Taft

🗣 LIBERALS WILL DOWNPLAY EVERYTHING

EUGENICS is the effort to maim and kill people by all means necessary so only the strong and wealthy survive.

🗣 THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS “SOFT” #EUGENICS

there is and has always been the need by sociopaths to kill everybody they deem weak and undeserving.

theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int

that’s why when i call eugenics the #GOP #republicans plot to kill #Obamacare #Medicaid #Medicare i mean it.

health care is a human right, not an eugenics strategy.

The Guardian · Maga’s era of ‘soft eugenics’: let the weak get sick, help the clever breedBy Guardian staff reporter
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@kottke There is nothing “soft” about it.

Unless you compare it to biden’s quest to kill off old and sick people by pretending he ended covid.

Then maybe it’s soft by comparison because trump can’t come out and say it like Biden could. There was resistance when trump wanted to kill us.

When Biden did it the ableds CHEERED.

At the heart of all Trump administration policies is “soft eugenic” thinking, writes Derek Beres – the idea that if you take away lifesaving services, then only the “strong” will survive. The other side of the coin is encouraging the perceived strong to procreate more, a view supported by Elon Musk.

theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int

#USA
#eugenics

The Guardian · Maga’s era of ‘soft eugenics’: let the weak get sick, help the clever breedBy Guardian staff reporter
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"When Kennedy claims that autism is worse than Covid-19 because the latter only kills 'old people' and 'metabolically healthy' people don’t die from it, or when a Maha associate claims that measles is 'an essential rite of passage, immunologically', you’re hearing the language of soft eugenics. Don’t let vaccines protect everyone, instead let the infirm and weak be culled so that the strong will survive and perpetuate."

#Trump #RFKJr #Musk #eugenics #healthcare #economy #measles #Covid
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