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[–] [email protected] 58 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I work with a guy from Kenya and someone from Somalia who were laughing at the idea that I'm subscribed to a diet company that sends me food; they told me that people back in their countries would be laughing at the idea that I'm paying a company not to send me food as many of them struggle with food security themselves.

People in the poorer parts of the global South would find people like this ludicrous; to see people who have the good fortune to have easy access to vaccines and to deprive their children of it instead must be infuriating to people who desperately wish to provide such simple meds to their families.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Tbh a lot of african countries are struggling with increasing child obesity, not due to the quantities of food, but due to processed corn syrup produce erasing local cuisines. Also many people groups that have been through long famines have a disposition towards gaining weight faster and diabetes. This can clearly be seen in post-independence India and amongst the Lakota people, who have very high rates of diabetes.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Also many people groups that have been through long famines have a disposition towards gaining weight faster and diabetes.

This is also a multi-generational process involving epigenetics, to further support your point. Parents who suffer famine during their own childhood pass on these epigenetic flags that cause their children to have these adaptations to food insecurity activated, which generally makes them shorter than they would otherwise be (since someone who is physically smaller needs less food) and store fat more readily whenever possible leaving them with more of a safety buffer if food stops being available.

It's really fascinating on like a meta level how there's this sort of layer of reactive temporary inheritance for some traits, where an evolved adaptation can be turned on or off based on multi-generational material conditions like that, because something that's a desirable and life-saving adaptation to an unstable, famine-prone environment becomes a liability in prolonged periods of stability and plenty.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Just to add on to your point, this effect has been shown to be triggered over a relatively short period of time. The Dutch Hunger Winter of 1944-1945 caused by the Nazis blockading urban centers in the Netherlands under their control from the rural food producing areas triggered this epigenetic adaptiation in the children and pregnant mothers (who passed it on to their then unborn children) that were affected. All from a single famine lasting from roughly late September/early October 1944 until early May 1945.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

who were laughing at the idea that I'm subscribed to a diet company that sends me food

Tbh I'd assume it was a "normal" food subscription service, which I find detestable and overpriced. It must he expensive?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Honestly? Cheaper than the fast food I'd been binging (roughly only a third of what I was spending on fast food)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I know there's alot of poor communities that have vaccine skepticism because of where the vaccines come from. (white westerners)

When you have the CDC historically doing shit like the Tuskagee Syphilis experiments its understandable for these communities to have such deep mistrust.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 3 days ago

And not only will politicians kill your kid in the usa, you dumb schmucks will THANK them for it.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 days ago (2 children)

If he's just going to let them all die from preventable causes, then he shouldn't be allowed to have any more children. That's just straight up negligence.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 days ago

Thats child abuse. Negligence is too soft a word.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

no need to lower yourself to advocating for eugenics when a comprehensive health policy toward vaccines would be more effective.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I get where you are drawing from but I don't think this crosses over into eugenics. I interpreted this as being about cruelty/abuse not "too stupid to have kids" stuff.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The issue here I think is that any policy that seeks to prevent people like this from having kids will require things like forced sterilization, and something like that will inevitably result in innocent people that the government labels undesirable also being sterilized, which is where eugenics comes into it. It's much the same argument as being anti-carceral. Even in a communist utopia where the government in charge was 100% trustworthy I'd still be leery of forced sterilizations.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago

Fair enough. Similar to the prevailing liberal thinking that kids are a luxury lifestyle that shouldn't be available to the poor.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Still shouldnt be allowed to have kids.

As in, parent them.

Follow up question: if CPS takes away someone's kids, what happens if they have more?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago

I kind of feel like if my child died as a direct result of my own stupidity and negligence I probably would find a way to remain in denial over that too. Maybe not for forever, but I don't think I'd be capable of facing that right after.

Not sure if that says something bad about me.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 days ago

Prison? You've misspelled [ Removed by Reddit ]

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I bet he's probably into the great replacememt theory while... Uh... Sacrificing your own kids for..... Hubris? And bragging about it thats-why-im-confused

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I wonder what's in those frames he took off the wall and turned around

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago

Maybe it's mirrors but it seems like the paper on the back of a frame

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Probably cant stand to have the child he murdered looking at him whenever he passes by.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

flodA reltiH

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

In a civilised society the state would have made sure that the children were getting their vaccines in the first place, no matter if their idiot parents were cooperative or not.

A civilised society would probably also beat this man with a stick until he realises exactly how stupid he is being.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 days ago

What a odd way to say you don't love any of your kids.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago

I'm wishing harm on this person.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 days ago

should be forced to castrate himself with a hot poker jfc

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What is it supposed to stand for?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago

Children's Health Defense, but it's one letter away from CHUD

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

Thoughts and prayers that this guy has a horrible painful death

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago

Death cult. Fascism only cares about your loyalty. But they won't reward it, if you are just a foot soldier. You will be hammered down same as the rest, if you step out of line.

Losers. Weak, pathetic losers.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

There are literally laws on the books, even in fucking TX, that could be used to put this non-person in prison, or at the absolute minimum take away the remaining children, to be put in homes which do not practice medical neglect. But of course they won't be exercised even if officials want to do so, because that would be opposing Trump in one of the deepest-red parts of the country.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

What a piece of fucking shit

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago

But but he's just helping Bill Gates Exterminate 20% of the population /s

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Is it Eco fascism to forcibly sterilize someone like this? In Minecraft, of course

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Cool cool cool, a sizable portion of the country would fail Eddie Izzard's Cake or Death bit... doomer

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

state mandated CBT now