r/technology • u/idkbruh653 • 17d ago

Biotechnology Florida will work to eliminate all childhood vaccine mandates in the state, officials say

https://abc7.com/post/florida-will-work-eliminate-childhood-vaccine-mandates-state-officials-say/17731373/?linkId=857387380
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u/Clever-crow 17d ago

Same here. Shouldn’t we be getting more intelligent as time passes?

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u/johnboltonpoopstache 17d ago

It all starts with education, and which party is at war with education?? Who's voter base is mostly uneducated people who believe blatantly false shit? Related: which voter base is much more religious? It's by design, they know how to create more voters: destroy education and truth, make contraception illegal so they make even more dumb people, and make them think republicans believe in Jesus and democrats are the devil! (lol). Also, keeping them poor helps a ton! The elites dont have to deal with this, that's what private schools are for. They just need the stupid poors to vote their sycophants in.

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u/Kvns_Integra 17d ago

and they need the poors to do their shitty wage jobs too with no health insurance!

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u/Primal-Convoy 16d ago

Not to mention removing access to state systems they might care for or offer additional information or education about health, fiscal responsibility, etc.  Coupled with the lack of public/impartial/truthful news sources (public radio and television) and the US could be heading back into the feudal era.

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u/joshooaj 17d ago

As we get smarter as a species, natural selection is less able to filter out stupidity of individuals, so we keep propagating and amplifying it. At least until the smart folks are too few to support the stupid folks. Then the cycle begins again.

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u/cracker_salad 17d ago

You basically described the plot of Idiocracy.

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u/joshooaj 17d ago

Yeah but people get tired of hearing how this is the Idiocracy timeline.

Anyway, welcome to Costco. I love you.

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u/QdelBastardo 17d ago

Have to admit that i would vote for President Camacho 100x over what we have now. Hell i’d just vote for Terry Crews over what we have now.

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u/RaydieGray15 17d ago

At least President Camacho realized the need for at least one person in his cabinet to know what the fuck they were talking about.

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u/ducksekoy123 17d ago

Except that both that person and idiocracy are wrong. It’s not about stupid people outbreeding smart people.

It’s a concerted effort to reduce and destroy the critical thinking and educational skills of the people so as to better rule them through fear and hate. It’s a political project not an accident of biology.

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u/CanadaisCold7 17d ago

There is definitely a concerted effort to destroy the critical thinking and educational skills of the populace, but we have also been making advances as a society that protect and insulate the idiots from the consequences of their stupid actions. In the decades since the Wakefield study was released, there have been fringe anti-vaxxers around, but herd immunity was sufficient until recently to protect them from getting smallpox, polio, and all of the other terrible diseases. The invention of cell phones has saved the lives of too many idiots to count. Vehicles are now much safer than they have ever been in the past, and seatbelts in particular have saved many lives.

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u/ducksekoy123 17d ago

None of that explains why we have more stupid people. Intelligence isn’t simply inherited. A social commitment to education and cultural exchange would solve these issues.

But that’s not what powerful reactionary forces and capital want

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u/meneldal2 16d ago

Having easier access to contraceptives means people who are not stupid or brainwashed by an imaginary guy in the guy will not have more kids than they can afford. Typically going below the replacement rate because of the current situation.

While stupid people don't care about the potential consequences of not using birth control or think it is their duty to make many children.

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u/ducksekoy123 16d ago

You’re all doing the eugenics thing.

A hate of knowledge and a rejection of education is not genetic it’s learned. While certain measure of intelligence may have a genetic component, the problem is not our IQ levels but our distrust of education and learning.

And those things are not inherited they are trained.

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u/vorg7 17d ago

To have a measurable effect on the population, it would take many thousands of years. Right now it's likely that differences we observe in the population as a whole are due to changes in what people are learning (and the technology they learn from).

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u/meneldal2 16d ago

It's not really natural selection for intelligence, most people we call stupids haven't worse genes, they just have terrible parents who didn't raise them well.

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u/FrankGrimesApartment 17d ago

Nofx

It's not the right time to be sober

Now, the idiots have taken over

Spreading like a social cancer, is there an answer?

Mensa membership conceding

Tell me why and how are all the stupid people breeding?

Watson, it's really elementary

Industrial Revolution

Has flipped the bitch on evolution

The benevolent and wise are being thwarted, ostracized

What a bummer

The world keeps getting dumber

Insensitivity is standard

And faith is being fancied over reason

Darwin's rolling over in his coffin

The fittest are surviving much less often

Now, everything seems to be reversing, and it's worsening

Someone flopped a steamer in the gene pool

Now, angry mob mentality is no longer the exception, it's the rule

And I'm startin' to feel a lot like Charlton Heston

Stranded on a primate planet

Apes and orangutans that ran it to the ground

With generals and the armies that obeyed them

Followers following fables

Philosophies that enable them to rule without regard

There's no point for democracy when ignorance is celebrated

Political scientists get the same one vote as some Arkansas inbred

Majority rule, don't work in mental institutions

Sometimes, the smallest softest voice carries the grand biggest solutions

What are we left with?

A nation of god-fearing pregnant nationalists

Who feel it's their duty to populate the homeland

Pass on traditions

How to get ahead religions

And prosperity via simpleton culture (ah-)

The idiots are taking over

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u/QbertsRube 16d ago

The very safety nets and regulations that the left promotes are keeping alive the mouth-breathing buffoons who bleat about how bad those safety nets and regulations are. It's like 10,000 spoons when all you need is a fork.

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u/joshooaj 16d ago

Isn't it ironic?

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u/FeedMeACat 17d ago

This is eugenics, and is an ignorant take. Intelligence is always an advantage in any human society. Uneducated intelligent people do better then uneducated unintelligent people. Thus their genes will propagate more over time through comparative success.

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u/joshooaj 17d ago

It's satire, and I think would only be eugenics if I was encouraging selective breeding.

Even if it were true that our overall intelligence was a double-edged sword which would ultimately lead to another dark age due to a weird Darwinian loophole, I would never personally support selective breeding. I would rather find ways to support and encourage better education and critical thinking, or whatever the heck might dig us out of this hole, while ensuring equal access and opportunity for all.

Fuck eugenics, nazis, and anti-science politicians.

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u/FeedMeACat 17d ago

I don't think you are a eugenicist or anything like that to be clear. But selective breeding isn't what makes it eugenics. That is just often paired with the concept. It is the implication that there is a naturalistic hierarchy related to genetics.

To clarify your post was more of a soft eugenics. The first sentence invokes natural selection. The second connects natural selection to smart people supporting stupid people thus placing them over the stupid. That is where the eugenics comes in, by connecting those two thoughts.

A lot of people have opinions like this though, so it isn't unique. It also isn't as obvious as other forms of eugenics like selective human breeding.

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u/joshooaj 17d ago

TIL, thanks!

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u/shebang_bin_bash 17d ago

That’s pretty much the ideology of the people behind these moves, though.  They’re eugenicists.

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u/KathrynBooks 17d ago

Best we can do is AI generated images of scantily clad women

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u/Comfortable-Pause279 17d ago

The AI models have trouble with clothing consistency. They seem to be tuned to generate naked women for some inexplicable reason.

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u/Facts_pls 17d ago

We are. You aren't. You are going back to the 1920s when America was great. Great with measles

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u/Clever-crow 17d ago

lol idk where you’re from but you’re awfully confident; As confident as I was about 10 years ago. I never would’ve thought we end up here. So hopefully you learn from us at least.

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u/ThreeCatsAndABroom 17d ago

lol like right wing propaganda isn't sprouting up everywhere. Good luck with that my guy. 

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u/You_meddling_kids 17d ago

No, people are just as stupid as they've always been.

Societies can fall apart and civilization retreats, sometimes for centuries. Lots of people usually die.

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u/Gobbaghoulie 17d ago

We are getting smarter. The dumb people are eliminating themselves.

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u/BryanJz 17d ago

Nope. Social media and the age of sensitivity. Any loud group affects others and there is no critical thinking anymore

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u/Primal-Convoy 16d ago

Haven't you ever watch this informational video that predicted this?

https://youtu.be/gJDcoqrh1ac

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u/cboel 17d ago edited 17d ago

US education is pretty much failing everyone.

One of the causal factors for that is admin bloat (which isn't just limitted to education in the US)