the thing with eugenics is how effectively it naturalized oppression through a "scientific" lens through drawing on the theory of natural selection and statistical measurement tools.

feudal societies naturalized oppression quite effectively through religion, and religion is still an adequate tool for many people, but in a world structured by capitalism, the idea of viewing workers as a collective organism with a productive mechanistic function, and fine tuning the "efficiency" of that functioning via allowing the less "functional" to die, is very intuitive.

so of course a science that studies how to determine who should die to make the population more efficient for production will get funded. like obviously the people with the most capital are willing to invest in these necropolitics. on a material level they use it to determine policy, and on an ideological level they use it to make the effects of that policy act as retroactive "evidence" for the supposedly "biological" categories of race, sexgender, disability, fatness, and so on.

they'll say that a particular population faces statistically disproportionately negative health outcomes, and people will think "wow, I guess this group is biologically distinct and less 'fit'" and not "wow, people in control of the distribution of resources in our society are placing people into categories that they've designated to receive less and worse healthcare resources, and when they die sooner on average that's policy working as intended"

god forbid a turkey has hobbies 🦃😔

Costume maker Marjii Ellers in her costume "The attack of the useless decoration" at Costume-Con, a fan convention dating back to the early 80s which was focused on the art of costume and cosplay. Absolutely love these photos–you can see it's a sort of absurdist play on science fiction costuming. So cool.

i really wish we could all just stop this weird facade that mental health is taken seriously just because there might be more conversation about depression than there was 20 years ago. as soon as you’re unable to work or maintain relationships or mask effectively enough you might as well be a joke. even to people who say they understand it

you have been BANNED from MyChart

you were born in 2006? what are you? a Honda Civic?

Unironically I think the early to mid 20s age group in America has unbelievably bad consent boundaries on all levels and so much language to defend it but this makes me sound like elon musk if I say it however the commonality of someone who will be like “I had 47 panic attacks and it’s your fault” if you tell them no is insane

New Superhero Team I Invented

ICE fucking abandoned the scene in a Minneapolis neighborhood and left their battle plans and designs on the city, fake license plates, and challenge tokens which they reward themselves for arrests. Looney Tunes shit.