At the heart of all Trump administration policies is ‘soft eugenics’ thinking – the idea that if you take away life-saving services, then only the strong will survive

Enter Robert F Kennedy Jr, the US secretary of health, who regularly laments over the “back then” of his youth when he says that diabetes and autism was almost unheard of and obesity rates were far lower. (In his campaign videos he would often do this over vintage footage of white bodies splayed on a beach.)…

Kennedy’s myopic emphasis on personal responsibility as the main driver of health means he’s at best indifferent, and at worst welcoming, of the idea that those that don’t heed his counsel might die.

Yet health is never simple. By avoiding discussion of education, employment, social support networks, economic status and geographic location – the social determinants that public health experts agree influence health outcomes – Kennedy, in lockstep with top wellness influencers, is practicing soft eugenics.

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    They’re not helping the clever breed. They’re letting rich parasites breed.

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      Rich white parasites. There is a strong white supremacist strain in this eugenicist outlook.

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        And yet Clarence “Uncle Tom” Thomas is still benefitting at everyone’s expense. For now the only color that matters is green. That parasitic power structure of rich leeches gets fucked and the low IQ run of the mill racists will be easy to weed out.

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    Should clarify “clever” here. They mean anyone who can get ahead by any means. That means exploiting, cheating, nepotism, etc.

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    They’re not just saying weak as physically or poor, they’re saying weak as in having empathy. They’re saying if you’re not a full on greed like trump, bezos, epstien, theil, bannon, stone, etc., you’re weak. You’re not a brutal POS? You’re not one of them.

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    This is what magats wanted. It’s around the time they deserve to be beaten down in the streets for voting and subjecting us all to this fucking horse shit

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    RFKJR is a goddamn nutcase, always has been…with the Kennedy’s…how could you not be? The whole American love affair with the Kennedy’s has always given me pause. They did some great things for the plebs, but they were narcissistic and primarily concerned with their public image, and they did some awful things to people in their private lives…I suspect that Frank Miller used them as a model for the Roark’s in his “Sin City”.

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    back then rfk jr, was busy getting freaky with carcasses to obtain his worm masters.