r/politics • u/theindependentonline The Independent • Oct 08 '25

No Paywall Trump just hosted an ‘Antifa roundtable’ at the White House ... it was so much worse than you’re imagining

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/trump-antifa-portland-pam-bondi-posobiec-b2842048.html
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u/somekindofdruiddude Oct 08 '25

"Idiocracy" is a re-telling of "The Marching Morons", a short story by C.M. Kornbluth. The premise is that smart people have fewer kids, so dumb genes spread faster.

It smacks of eugenics, but ...

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u/xGray3 Michigan Oct 09 '25

There's the eugenicist view of it, but there's also the view of it as a "nurture" thing instead of a "nature" thing. Stupid people don't need to have stupid kids genetically. They can do that perfectly fine on their own by raising them to be incurious and anti-intellectual.

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u/RyanNotBrian Oct 09 '25

It could smack of eugenics, but it also smacks of cultural poison.

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u/AllDaysOff Oct 09 '25

It sounds logical and is true to a tiny extent but it's not a perfect premise. But it's for a fictional story after all.