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Ah so they just say the eugenics aloud now
— Alex Hanna (@alexhanna.bsky.social) 2026-04-21T21:14:35.652Z
Scrivener7
(59,838 posts)Martin68
(27,942 posts)Scrivener7
(59,838 posts)pat_k
(13,531 posts)I think this regime would be thrilled if they could bring back workhouses as a condition for healthcare for the disabled and working poor.
Are there no prisons? asked Scrooge
.
Plenty of prisons, said the gentleman, laying down the pen again.
And the Union workhouses? demanded Scrooge. Are they still in operation?
They are. Still, returned the gentleman, I wish I could say they were not.
The Treadmill and the Poor Law are in full vigour, then? said Scrooge.
Both very busy, sir.
Oh! I was afraid, from what you said at first, that some-thing had occurred to stop them in their useful course, said Scrooge. Im very glad to hear it.
Under the impression that they scarcely furnish Christian cheer of mind or body to the multitude, returned the gentleman, a few of us are endeavouring to raise a fund to buy the Poor some meat and drink. and means of warmth.
We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices. What shall I put you down for?
Nothing! Scrooge replied.
You wish to be anonymous?
I wish to be left alone, said Scrooge. Since you ask me what I wish, gentlemen, that is my answer. I dont make merry myself at Christmas and I cant afford to make idle people merry. I help to support the establishments I have mentioned they cost enough; and those who are badly off must go there.
Many cant go there; and many would rather die.
If they would rather die, said Scrooge, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.
Besides excuse me I dont know that.
But you might know it, observed the gentleman
haele
(15,477 posts)They - the GOP, the Project 2025 backers and the Tech Bros have all been dancing around.actuslly saying "cleaning up the risk pool" since the ACA started looking like it was going to become a reality.
The whole reason why the ACA was forced through was that health insurance was already making health care so limited and unaffordable, the US was probably about 4 years from average people either forcing Single Payer or turning Luigi on Insurance Company executives, Lobbyists, and potentially politicians who were calling Medicare and Public Health initiatives either the slippery slope to Communism or Ponzi Schemes.
It's all about making sure "those people and the other parasitic losers" who can't afford to pay premium for wealthy doctors and expensive research clinics just "go away" and die somewhere out of sight
electric_blue68
(27,025 posts)I do remember he was part of the River Keepers group which was a good thing, but woah on the rest!
Yikes!
Irish_Dem
(81,896 posts)It is said that Jackie wouldn't let her kids hang around Bobbie's kids for good reason.
electric_blue68
(27,025 posts)I haven't heard anything nearly as nasty, or strange that rfk Jr ended up doing. I don't consider drug use strange.
Hey, people don't know everything; nor should they. In general people are entitled to a private life. Unless they're doing terrible things.
Irish_Dem
(81,896 posts)Last edited Wed Apr 22, 2026, 07:47 AM - Edit history (1)
She was not naive or unsophisticated.
So I assume a lot has been kept hidden by the press.
There was a lot of drug addiction, wild behavior, expulsions from school, etc.
Two of Ethel and Bobby's kids died young.
RFK Jr is obviously a serious drug addict and psychotic.
He appears to be the worst, at least what we see in public.
yellow dahlia
(6,189 posts)The first thing I look at is - he was 14 when his father died.
Was there a tendency toward importance and narcissism in a family where he may have been treated like a Golden Child? I dunno.
Were there dynamics at play in the family structure where he felt like he wasn't good enough? Perhaps.
Did someone pick on him as a child? I can't think of any obvious suspects...but he shows some signs.
How much did the abyss of drugs take him into his dark places. Likely a lot!
But, the bottom line is - his behavior at this ripe old age is a choice.
IMHO
Irish_Dem
(81,896 posts)There are plenty of people who have suffered horrible loss and trauma as children.
But go on to live a good, decent life.
RFK Jr had every avenue open to him.
Detox, rehab, therapy.
Instead he choses to live a very dark, evil life.
Responsible for the deaths of many.
yellow dahlia
(6,189 posts)and he embraced it.
John1956PA
(5,031 posts)I think he kept a diary about his exploits.
That kind of obsession is difficult for most of us to understand.
Irish_Dem
(81,896 posts)Because the billionaires think all the world's money and resources belong to them personally.
bsiebs
(972 posts)Irish_Dem
(81,896 posts)Mostly for the wealth and military.
multigraincracker
(37,837 posts)the size of the gene pool. There is no way of knowing changes in environment and which gene with meet that change.
flashman13
(2,462 posts)ToxMarz
(3,003 posts)mgardener
(2,382 posts)She was sooo eloquent on the subject.
BeneteauBum
(620 posts)Ive posted several times about seniors potentially targeted by this administrations cuts to the healthcare infrastructure. Insurance costs keep going up while increasing medical bills are incurred with mediocre healthcare.
Peace ☮️
chowder66
(12,374 posts)trials before 1993.
Seems like they want to find another way to fuck us along with anyone else battling health issues.
Marcuse
(9,062 posts)Karasu
(2,055 posts)dont you know.
struggle4progress
(126,462 posts)Maybe eating more roadkill would improve Robby K's mental health
58Sunliner
(6,367 posts)BeneteauBum
(620 posts)An apt description that this administrations policy seems to be perpetuating.
Peace ☮️
no_hypocrisy
(55,105 posts)To keep the "feeble-minded" from reproducing?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_v._Bell
(SCOTUS approved of state-sponsored involuntary sterilization of certain targeted individuals)