Reminds me of when the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio happened. People said the people of the city deserved it because they voted Republican last election.

It wasn't even a big majority, it was a slim margin. It doesn't even count the people arrested who are unable to vote. It doesn't count the children who can't vote because they aren't 18. It doesn't count the people who aren't Republican and are good people.

And I said "Condemning everyone in one city to be infected with toxic chemicals because a slim margin voted for a party doesn't make you the good guys."

And I got flamed for wanting to not poison people. Doesn't help I have a friend who's one of the best people I know who lives in Ohio. They want that lovable person just gone because the state votes weird, when they don't.

Is this eugenics or Darwinism? If they bring it on themselves and die of their own stupidity, I think that's a lot closer to natural selection than intentional editing of the gene pool.

Is it eugenics when they kill themselves?

Eugenics is when I'm tricked into voting against my own self interests out of spite.

It only counts as "eugenics" when it is forced onto you, by others. If all you're doing is selecting your own breeding partner based on your own personal preferences...it doesn't count as eugenics.

Yeah, this is why I think Idiocracy isn't that great. So many people look at it and think it represents where we're heading, but the whole premise is euginics. It also doesn't provide any solutions. It's just a comedy to laugh at people you don't like, where it should be critiquing capitalism and providing an alternative. It sortof is a criticism of capitalism, but more in the neo-liberal sense of "this is the way things are, so just laugh and be upset" instead of saying it's bad and there's a way to fix it.