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DONALD TRUMP’S DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE likes to present a tough-on-crime image. But how far it goes to cultivate that image has been a recurring source of controversy. It’s not just the prosecution of political opponents and the greenlighting of immigration crackdowns that largely dispense with due process. It’s also in the rhetoric—which often veers into the disturbing and the bizarre.

Last week, one of the department’s top prosecutors argued that, in the pursuit of cracking down on criminals, eugenics could be a useful tool.

The prosecutor in question was Ellis Boyle, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina. Boyle was appearing on a local conservative livestream, NC Chats, to discuss—among other things—the administration’s investigation of Rep. Ilhan Omar, as well as the indictments of a handful of noncitizens for having allegedly voted illegally in the 2024 elections in North Carolina. Eventually, however, the conversation turned to crime, the supposed enabling of it by liberals, and how frustrating it is to see violent criminals get off on an insanity defense.


“I think there’s a big component—if you took out [the] 5 percent of the population that’s bad and removed them from society, so they don’t create mayhem and create, you know, babies with the gene pool of more bad, then I think, in two, maybe three generations, think of how great this population would be.”

“But,” he finished, “that’s something that takes willpower.”

“That’s very biblical,” Clark said. “I like it.”

“Praise the Lord,” Boyle replied.

  • uberfreeza@lemmy.world
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    I know racism or bigotry isn’t based in fact, but I cannot understand how eugenics is even supposed to work. Even if “bad” was a genetic quality, wouldn’t it be diluted as it passes down? Human offspring don’t become an arbitrary percentage more of all of their qualities. Like, under any level of scrutiny, even not knowing how genes work at all, I don’t understand how people believe it.

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    As with all “good ideas” eugenists should volunteer themselves to go first, to make room for their uberkind yes? Otherwise they could maybe not look at societal issues caused by their marriage to poorly contrived precepts and blame it on the victims of their “superior ways of life”…

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    " 5 percent of the population that’s bad" – ‘bad’ describes a behavior, not a genetic condition. I agree, let’s get rid of fascists, grifters, pedos, gaslighters.

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    babies with the gene pool of more bad

    Wow, those are some genes of more good intelligence you got there.

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    If they ignore or rig the midterms, they are coming for the disabled. Expect the autism epidemic to become their target.

    I really hope I’m wrong. But when RFK led with “they’ll never pay taxes” talking about Autism, I knew exactly what they were saying as if they said the words plain as day.

    “If you don’t contribute, you are expendable”

    Bye bye old people, disabled, criminals…wait I’ve heard this one before.

    Tick tock 6 days.

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      Not criminals. Prisoners are profitable.

      But they absolutely don’t believe we disabled should be cared for at all. We don’t “deserve” “their” money.

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    The people who think nothing matters need to be shown once again that they are outnumbered by the people who do think things matter.

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    Studies show biological abnormalities in the brains of conservatives. If conservatives embrace eugenics, we can do that as well.

    Conservatives need to be excluded from every facet of normal society. They harm, ruin or kill absolutely everything they touch.

  • KulunkelBoom@lemmus.org
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    Ah! Gonna create a master race.

    Evil bad guys running countries. Succubus sycophants going to purify the race. All in the name of god, of course.

    Well… god as envisioned by the KKK and the southern baptists and DOC and etc etc etc.

    These fuckers have got to go. Seriously y’all. Get off your asses and go fucking vote. And vote blue cuz this is our LAST CHANCE.