#Eugen Gross

[pirateprincessjess]

I feel the need to periodically remind people that Idiocracy is a eugenics movie.

One of the things that eugenicists believe is that it is bad for society when the “wrong people” breed.

The entire premise of the movie is that “stupid people” kept having kids while “smart people” didn’t have kids, and it ruined society because stupid genes propagated while smart genes died out. This is eugenics propaganda.

I know people will read this and their response will be “actually it’s satire” but the movie isn’t satirizing eugenics. It’s satirizing anti-intellectualism, and consumerism, and it proposes eugenics as a solution.

When eugenics was first conceived, it was used as a way to justify inequality. The idea was that people who held privilege were able to do so because they were smarter and genetically superior to lazy and stupid people who don’t have privilege. Obviously this is bad and wrong, but it is also the core lesson of Idiocracy.

The movie literally ends with the main character becoming president and having “the smartest children in the world.” Because he and his wife have smarter genes than everyone else. The proposed solution for the things that Idiocracy is satirizing is for the smart people to have children that can be in charge of the world.

I know it’s fun to use this movie to dunk on anti-intellectualism and the MAGA movement, but we need to stop. When you quote and reference this movie you are spreading eugenics propaganda.

[vaspider]

Okay, I'm only gonna say this once: this is eugenics bullshit. People don't have allergies or celiac disease because they have "bad DNA."

What the fuuuuck.

[shanks]

狐猫

[pookielious]

The fact that the medics of e and d company shaved a LTs mustache and then gave sobel a appendectomy scar after knocking him out with anesthetic as a retaliation against their personal items being taken as contraband is actually insane

[harmonizingsunsets]

I’m sorry if this has been done before but I had to

[rhetthammersmithhorror]

The Ray Bradbury Theater | Skeleton | S2.E2 | 1988

[biseugen]

happy mother's day

[subconsciousmysteries]

Men are absolutely losing it because women are seeing through their bullshit and I'm here to watch their collective narcissistic meltdown

[coulsonlives]

Someone should make a bingo card of all the times bogleech has wished death on people, istg we'd have a full card by now lol

[biprotagz]

stolas' reaction to being banished into poverty made me incredibly uncomfortable (to the point of nausea) and i hate how the show provides little nuanced commentary on it and doesn't delve into it.

[nickbutnodick]

there are two kinds of baby bird.

fluffy, adorable wittle guy! look at the flurf! i just wanna hug it.

and AH! what is that fucked up demon worm? get the moist ass skrieching abomination away from me.

[anghraine]

I'm hardly uncritical of Aragorn or his hereditary claim to the Gondorian throne, but I do think the occasional focus on how he only has a tiny fraction of Elvish blood or Elendil's/Elros's blood is ill-placed.

I mean, for one, counting generations in a single line of descent with someone as inbred as Aragorn doesn't make sense anyway.

But more importantly, it's one thing to point out how much time has passed between Isildur's time in Gondor and LOTR, or even Fíriel's time and Aragorn's. It has been a very long time, and that's part of what makes the challenge so steep for him (it'd be less interesting if he could just waltz into Gondor and be instantly acclaimed at any moment). But when it gets down to "and how many portions of X blood does he have, anyway," it's just ... ugh. Let's not.

[rogueshadeaux]

I thought Alden Tate was inFAMOUS' Magneto spoof for, like, eight years. Apparently he's not ferrokinetic??? He's just telepathic - which really takes away the appeal for me as literally anyone in the First Sons were.

Might rewrite history a bit for Erosion lol.

[dilfsisko]

At what point does PGT in ivf just become eugenics I wonder

[firespirited]

in the past few weeks, I have had to witness multiple posts by abled people, disabled people and people on the cusp of disability that amounted to "If I found myself unable to ethically generate profit, I'd choose ethics", sometimes with examples of disabled folks pimping themselves as freak shows.

(If you find that assessment harsh i'll remind you that it's none of your business how the disability community views inspiration porn, burn survivor testimonial books, paraplegic coaching courses and the likes.)

Let's take a closer look and unpack a little. There is nothing "ethical" about a system that makes you generate profit to be allowed to survive. If you find yourself unable to survive and have to resort to "unethical" insulin from dogs or selling drugs for example: are you being unethical or is the system that doesn't guarantee you any human rights at fault? ---------------------------

I would like to extend a heartfelt fuck you to everyone who's made all of us disabled folks have to go through these "trolley problems" with our real lives at stake since benefits got demonized, since austerity after the 2008 crash and during the ongoing pandemic and climate crisis... and still wheel us out for the hypothetical thought experiments of whatever AI assistance, marriage rights, sex work, police brutality and bodily autonomy is on the menu today.

Because we keep showing up, putting in our testimonials and all our efforts when the fight never had our rights as an end goal. We do not have marriage, we do not have UBI, we still get brutalized for being ill in public and rot in jail more than able-bodied folks, we beg for medicine or get sterilized at the whims of the state (plus the intersections on top of all that).

So please, if you have any humanity left, do not use fringe case disabled people in your debates as a rhetorical gotcha.

And keep in mind that we are you: as you age, if you get a bad covid case or a car accident. Might want to keep that in mind when advocating for your own rights, at least leave the door open maybe?

[sharonisthebettercarter]

If Homelander was so smart he himself and fans claim him to be, especially believing Supers are superior to average humans, Why Becca a lesser, weaker human? He should be smart enough at the time to realize mere mortals break easily and don't last very long. If he wanted a heir (I mean, he's gonna start liking the idea of having a legacy, a respectable lineage), he would've done it with supe women only, since they don't break that easily and last longer. If he's that impatient and desperate to have a superior offspring, I think it's safe to assume he's gonna start forcing himself on them repeatedly at this point because at least that said heir will ensure he's respected and more perfect than Ryan, since that offspring won't be half mere-mortal and a full-blooded supe. Then again, it's possible he'll be too tired to continue trying regardless, and force Ryan and the supe wife shitlander chooses for him bear him grandchildren, when they're sexually mature.

ew... anon what the fuck. ya really had to go and ask this question, didn't you...

ugh, ick, okay fine, i'll answer it, but what the fuck, and uh... what the fuck

it's because homelander didn't *care* about having an *heir* when he assaulted becca. he didn't even know he *could* have one so that's not why he did it.

on a side note and please for the love of fuck do not actually answer this because i'm only asking so you take a moment to consider what you just proposed

but why do you think a rapist would rape to 'procure an heir' anyhow??? maybe if they're in a relationship with the victim, but if it's a random stranger that gets convicted, it's a 5% chance they succeed and they're not gonna get rights to a kid born from that. pregnancy isn't as much a simple 'one and done' thing or as easy as people seem to think it is to get there. (a healthy couple that is legit trying has a 30% chance to succeed in the first month)

there are a number of reasons rapists will rape.

if we asked homelander specifically why he assaulted becca, his very bullshit answer could be as simple as 'she smelled nice' or 'she was pretty' or 'her husband insulted me' or 'why not' or 'because it was a fucking tuesday'

because even tho the correct answer is 'i'm a fuckhead who wanted to hurt someone', the reality is that in his head, he is a 'god' and he can do whatever the fuck he wants, so if the mood struck him, WHY THE FUCK NOT (ew, hate framing it this way but...)

this is the reality of that situation.

something something about that quote that ends with 'but for me it was tuesday', occam's razor.

homelander didn't give enough shits to put any thought into what he did nor did he think it would amount to anything, so boredom is your best bet for an explanation there

and this also has next to nothing to do with intelligence, this would be a matter of his own self perception (due to upbringing) and lack of understanding/care for consent (which is an educational issue), but thanks for the whole... eugenics rationale i guess??? (ew why and still what the fuck)

homelander has also stated that he wouldn't force himself on his own kind, more specifically, his exact words to maeve are:

"i respect what you are even if you don't, i would never force myself on you."

before he proceeds to tell her that he will harvest her eggs, so the whole eugenics mindset is there, but only *after* he learns that he *can* in fact have kids (see s1 ep7, the perceived sterility is briefly mentioned in his conversation with vogelbaum)

otherwise, and as gross as this is, i would say that homelander probably has the same if not similar mindset that zeus (greek god) would have... which is not great, but probably the most realistic outlook on this shit.

but again.

WHY?????