Blindingly Obvious.

Someone called it "soft eugenics" and that makes the most sense to me. It's probably too much bad press and effort to do the old school active eugenics of preventing undesirable peoples from reproducing. So instead you remove health and safety services so "nature" will take care of them. While you simultaneously make it "easier" for the others to reproduce by handing out benefits and preventing birth control.
I'm sure that makes sense to the "utilitarian" crowd or whatever they are called, that believe that the goal of humanity's survival against whatever hypothetical future scenario they think of justifies any means today. Well, except to those who paid attention in biology and know that diversity is actually our best strategy to do just that.
- I get why that term is used, but eugenics is eugenics. At least soft eugenics has the word in it, but it really isn't soft it's just normal eugenics. I can't wait for them to rebrand labor camps as soft prisons or whatever because technically the people there aren't prisoners so they can call it something else.
  
  I agree, but also something can be said about there being different levels of intensity. Like prisons, there is gradation in the regime. You might need a different prison for hardened criminals constantly trying to break out and elderly criminals who long gave up on ever getting out and just watch tv all day. This being called soft eugenics doesn't make it less eugenics, it has the word in it and you could argue there is a difference between this and hard eugenics where you actually slaughter people with 'undesirable' traits. Not saying there is good eugenics and bad eugenics, but i guess i were a victim I rather go through soft eugenics than just be executed on sight.
  
  rebrand labor camps as soft prisons
  Not ironic enough. My money is on "freedom camps". After all, work makes you free, as the saying goes.

Since wards are liabilities, there is no business case for retaining them in their present, ambulatory form. Therefore, the most profitable disposition for this dubious form of capital is to convert them into biodiesel, which can help power the Muni buses.
Okay, just kidding. This is the sort of naive Randian thinking which appeals instantly to a geek like me, but of course has nothing to do with real life. The trouble with the biodiesel solution is that no one would want to live in a city whose public transportation was fueled, even just partly, by the distilled remains of its late underclass.
However, it helps us describe the problem we are trying to solve. Our goal, in short, is a humane alternative to genocide. That is: the ideal solution achieves the same result as mass murder (the removal of undesirable elements from society), but without any of the moral stigma. Perfection cannot be achieved on both these counts, but we can get closer than most might think.
https://newrepublic.com/article/183971/jd-vance-weird-terrifying-techno-authoritarian-ideas
- Our goal, in short, is a humane alternative to genocide. That is: the ideal solution achieves the same result as mass murder (the removal of undesirable elements from society), but without any of the moral stigma.
  Holy shit, he sounds like he wants to redo Hitler's 'final solution' without people disliking him. At first he's like well genocide isn't very nice to people, so we need to find a better solution and then he goes on with the real problem being the fucking moral stigma what the actual fuck.
- Holy fucking shit how is this not on a full page ad in the NYT!
- Let's not forget this is the guy next in line to be president.
- What the fuck

It does seem like they want to thin the herd.

https://sh.itjust.works/post/37344846
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/may/04/maga-soft-eugenics

I suspect a lot of Republicans saw that whites would be a minority by 2035 and when ape shit.
They are deporting anyone they can get their hands on and failing that are prepared to let a disease or two run rampant in certain races.
However, the second disease portion of my theory falls short due to the fact that MAGA itself is antivax. If bird flu was secretly raging through the US, these dumb fuckers would be pushing Ivermectin. Whatever eugenics plot they have cooked up will hit the republican political base right between the eyes.
- I think they've convinced themselves that they can ship out the races they don't want, hamstring the health system and "cull the weak", while also destroying our educational system, leaving healthy folks for the factories and wars that are all they seem to think we need. Meanwhile abortion gets outlawed, providing a constant source of new producer/consumers.
  All the folks who die along the way will just be the cost of doing business to them, like any other sort of production waste, and they will have convinced themselves that it will be some small number of generations before that waste starts to drop when only the "healthy" or perhaps "master" race remains. We're all just here to feed the oligarchs while they profit by enabling them.

258m. Mark my words, that is the number they intend to eliminate. That's the issue when they make up stuff about saving 75% of Americans from fentanyl. They end up saying the quiet part out loud.
They know they can't just stick droves of people in concentration camps and execute them fast enough before the public catches wind of it.
Why do the hard work when disease, famine, and violent resistance can do it for you? Put the people in concentration camps, kickstart disease, "free" them, and let it run wild.
On the surface? It saves those who voted for Trump and some of their children. Easy sell.
But it would allow the survivors who held power to seize wealth that doesn't exist today. Monopolies are one thing - this is about returning to feudal society. Except instead of the king providing "protection" from invading forces, the king "protects" you from "invading forces." Work, so we can have supplies, or the neighboring corpo state will get you.
It would give these oligarchs the power to define their own genetic lines, their own personal "perfect" human, their independent ability to participate in any vice they wish.
And it will all seem "natural." Before we know it, the US is shattered, like the collapse of the Soviet Union, just slower and people don't really know about it until they have to go through checkpoints to cross state lines. How the fuck will they enforce that with our enormous land area? They didn't think that far ahead they never do. They probably think they can keep the US together before any of that happens.
- We are 100% thinking in the same direction!

One downvote for it not being a meme, two upvotes for it being an important message = +1
- One downvote for not reading the sidebar.
- Microblog memes isn't for memes. misleading name
  
  Isn’t *just for memes.
- One upvote for rational thought process.
  
  But do they get a downvote for not reading the sidebar?

OOP is a tremendous disability justice educator, find her at https://www.disabledginger.com/ and on Mastodon at https://zeroes.ca/@broadwaybabyto

They want to track all of that ... but tracking police officers that abuse authority or get terminated for various unsavory reasons ... apparently too hard.

Beginning of the Eugenics Wars, or Great Wars, first came to light in Star Trek TOS S01E22.

Jokes on them! I've been "disabled" my whole life.
Whatever work they get out of me will be about as productive as having an elephant try to do needlepoint.
- ... Yeah. You may want to look up what happened to disabled people in Nazi Germany
  
  Oh, I've been absolutely terrified ever since I became a member of the "parasite" class:

Conservatives are crippling their own citizens, for what? Only reasonable explanation is following Putin's orders to weaken America
- Have you considered that it's a fascist death cult? Germany also crippled itself.
  
  Right-extremism really has much of a cult. Too bad it has to be such an effort to not let the mind to be exploited.
  My pet theory is, since human lived in groups of 100 - 150 people most of it's evolution, and vertical organization works there, that it is our instinct to organise us that way by default. But that doesn't scale well to states, thus the warring city states all of antiquity and medieval times.
  Maybe we should build fallback mechanisms in our governments, to avoid the no-effort fallback (faschism) happening?

Who are “they”?
- Perhaps you are not aware of he dismantlement of the US government currently underway.
  
  I am aware of it in the broad sense, but not the fine details of tracking certain disabilities and such. Thanks for giving me a pointer on what to look up. (Obligatory “I am not American.”)
- Current US Administration and CDC branch probably
  
  Thank you!
- The people you run interference for.
  
  I’m not American and it was a genuine question. No need for that.