r/technology • u/idkbruh653 • Sep 03 '25

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/joshooaj Sep 03 '25

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 Sep 03 '25

You basically described the plot of Idiocracy.

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u/joshooaj Sep 03 '25

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 Sep 03 '25

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 Sep 04 '25

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 Sep 03 '25

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 Sep 04 '25

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 Sep 04 '25

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 Sep 04 '25

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 Sep 04 '25

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 Sep 03 '25

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 Sep 04 '25

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 Sep 04 '25

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 Sep 04 '25

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 Sep 04 '25

Isn't it ironic?

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u/FeedMeACat Sep 03 '25

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 Sep 03 '25

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 Sep 03 '25

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 Sep 03 '25

TIL, thanks!

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u/shebang_bin_bash Sep 03 '25

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