RE: https://mastodon.social/@Green_Footballs/115998586927326681
You know, if you're a white supremacist and your goal is to deniably exterminate the untermenschen in camps by negligently letting plagues rip through them instead of gassing them, it shows a REMARKABLE lack of foresight to put an anti-vaxx nutcase in charge of your master race's public health policy, doesn't it?
These guys are evil but they're not terribly smart.
Bear in mind that the Nazis exterminated non-whites, but also whites who were “unfit”.
Similarly, RFK doesn’t think all white people deserve to be alive.
His belief is that vaccines are responsible for keeping “unfit” individuals alive, thus degrading the human race — including the white part of it — and that superior people will survive infection. So he has no problem with measles escaping these camps and infecting white people.
@bodhipaksa @Green_Footballs And it has never occurred to RFK to wonder where human parasitic diseases came from (hint: coevolution from earlier zoonotic infections that predate hominids, all the way back to before multicellular life). You can't out-evolve parasitisim, it's a red queen's race.
@cstross @bodhipaksa @Green_Footballs "Nonsense!" whispered the RFK brain worm...
@cstross @Green_Footballs While Trump is too dumb to be able to plan for this, his micro-penis of an advisor, Stephen Miller isn’t.
@Green_Footballs @cstross According to DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin, “This is the best healthcare than many aliens have received in their entire lives."
@Green_Footballs
The "not terribly smart" are usually the marks, not the con men.
Stupid evil is just as bad, but targeting them before the smart evil is not a winning tactic.
I simply can't believe the US current speedrun to be the product of mere stupidity.
So: Never underestimate your enemies.
@iwein @Green_Footballs "not terribly smart" is however a common characteristic of the gilded failsons of the ultra-rich. Inherited wealth means not having to care where the toilet paper you wipe your ass with comes from.
Apparently as of a few years ago NONE of the US billionaires aged under 30 were self-made. It's all inherited wealth now, and the competent-evil grown-ups who built those giant fortunes are dying off.
Just like the people at the orgies in Rome, these nitwits are not the architects of history. I sure would like to understand who is, and kick them in the balls.
@cstross @Green_Footballs Their stupidy is something that protects us to some degree. However, we should not rely on it.
@cstross @Green_Footballs
I think it makes sense if your ultimate target is most of the population. After all the nutcase made sure all his family was immunised.
@Steveg58 @cstross @Green_Footballs What these idiots haven't realized is, that they need quite some amount of population to keep things going.
@snaefell @Steveg58 @Green_Footballs I think "keeping things going" is meaningless to them. They'd be quite happy with an 1850s level of prosperity and infrastructure as long as they themselves were still kings of the dung heap.
@cstross @snaefell @Green_Footballs
Yeah, that's my feeling as well.
@cstross @Green_Footballs I think it is more of class warfare than race warfare case, so "white trash" is also to be exterminated by plagues + lack of healthcare + undernourishment.
@blotosmetek @Green_Footballs Race as socially constructed (it has no biological reality) is based on social class. But being inherited it's more accurately a caste system.
@cstross @Green_Footballs "The deadly plague will recognise the superiority of the white race."
@Illuminatus @Green_Footballs That's EXACTLY how MAGA handled COVID19 in 2020. (It worked about as well as any epidemiologist could have predicted.)
@cstross @Green_Footballs Indeed. Another one like that and the GOP will have created the perfect conditions to auto-select against its voters and power base. So sad… ANYWAYS!
