Post AcTB4DODxIPv3vAYim by rticks@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #AcT6SRqdLtPt5CC480 by SallyStrange@eldritch.cafe
2023-12-04T14:18:56Z
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What you're saying when you say "Idiocracy was a documentary":"I am a casual eugenicist"
(DIR) Post #AcT6qTlrqyw5ztQIYy by fcktheworld587@social.linux.pizza
2023-12-04T14:25:55Z
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@SallyStrange for sure. Likewise for the people who are desperately trying to reproduce as much as possible. They seem to fall heavily to one side of the political spectrum. They're trying to outbreed their political opponents, and indoctrinate their children into their ideology.Minus the indoctrination, this is kinda what led to the extinction of the Neanderthals, I've seen posited(not going to cite sources, but they're easy to find). We kinda just outbred them.
(DIR) Post #AcT8RLGyVqZ0JE7BT6 by SallyStrange@eldritch.cafe
2023-12-04T14:43:46Z
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@fcktheworld587 Yeah. The thing is, neither intelligence nor ideology work that way. But pretending it does is a great excuse for exercising power over other people's private lives.To say homo sapiens "outbred" neanderthals misses my point, I think. That's one way of looking at it. Another, less eugenicist-sounding way of looking at it is that neanderthals were more specialized than homo sapiens and when climactic conditions changed, they were unable to find the resources they needed to continue reproducing at replacement or better. And homo sapiens interbred with them quite a bit.
(DIR) Post #AcT9f3P5qW9Mti0woS by fcktheworld587@social.linux.pizza
2023-12-04T14:57:28Z
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@thenoid @SallyStrange I wouldn't say it's a concern, but moreso that it could possibly reveal desire and intent, along the lines of eugenics
(DIR) Post #AcT9wPiS8uyb1LLbNI by SallyStrange@eldritch.cafe
2023-12-04T15:00:35Z
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@fcktheworld587 @thenoid@akko.disqordia.space Right. Like I said, ideology doesn't work that way. People grow up and have their own thoughts. But conservatives believe it works that way, or pretend to, and this provides them an excuse for policing how people partner up and reproduce.
(DIR) Post #AcTAjNSpIwPmE3NzWK by rticks@mastodon.social
2023-12-04T14:59:43Z
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@SallyStrange @fcktheworld587 Actually, they doIt is nature and nurture that affect ideology and intelligence and until we do we will never have the Cure for Conservatism
(DIR) Post #AcTAjOjWaLMkA8CqBc by rticks@mastodon.social
2023-12-04T15:00:42Z
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@SallyStrange@eldritch.cafe @fcktheworld587 https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/03/the-yuck-factor/580465/
(DIR) Post #AcTAjPYvVETyjYFtJ2 by rticks@mastodon.social
2023-12-04T15:03:43Z
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@fcktheworld587 Truth doesnt give a crap what you think of it
(DIR) Post #AcTAjQP2NUANLAdVWy by fcktheworld587@social.linux.pizza
2023-12-04T15:09:28Z
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@rticks until specifics to mechanisms involved are well understood, I'm highly suspect of any research claiming genetic basis for intelligence. There are a lot of confounding environmental factors which are too difficult to account for, in research, to look at social data, and draw genetic inferences from
(DIR) Post #AcTB4DODxIPv3vAYim by rticks@mastodon.social
2023-12-04T15:13:08Z
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@fcktheworld587 I dont give a shit about your skepticism, the datum are clear and just because Eugenicists did horrible stupid and racist sbit doesnt mean you ignore an entire vector of cerebral genetics for your feefeesBye
(DIR) Post #AcTBRibO4hfcWfX91M by fcktheworld587@social.linux.pizza
2023-12-04T15:17:28Z
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@SallyStrange data is the plural to datum.
(DIR) Post #AcTChFB1LRoZqvASno by SallyStrange@eldritch.cafe
2023-12-04T15:31:27Z
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@fcktheworld587 whoa. The fuck happened here?