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#Rural #hospitals typically operate on thin profit margins & rely on #Medicaid tax payments to sustain them. Researchers from the Cecil G. Sheps Center for #Health Services Research who examined the House bill concluded it would push more than 300 rural hospitals — many of them in Kentucky, Louisiana, California & Oklahoma — toward service reductions or closure.

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@LillyHerself

#Longtermist Mike #ElonMusk who thinks that even his own trans daughter has lost her value for humanity, as she cannit fulfill her biological destiny anymore, for instance?

In earlier times, what you mention would've been very much in line with #SocialDarwinism, too.

And if you think of #Longtermists' believe of making #humanity a multi-planetary species, that is going to cost hundreds if billions.
We cannot support "suckers."

Said to say, but here we are.

Same old right wing puritanism dressed up in economic drag - republicans still believe that the elderly, poor, disabled, and under-educated should be left in a gutter to die b/c they're not profitable for corporations.

Link: motherjones.com/politics/2025/

It's vile & disgusting. This is what christainity and being republican *is* now, and they should both be soundly rejected by every decent person.

They worship mammon.

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@molly0xfff When people like that set out to suppress "ideology", with no reasonable argument as to why its only ideology, what they're saying is that their wealth and power are the only things that should matter and they are tired or dealing with inconvenient facts.

They represent "the natural order" and anything that would elicit disapproval of them is unnatural "ideology".
#SocialDarwinism #nazi #oligarchy

Today in Labor History January 2, 1873: Anton Pannekoek (1873-1960) was born on this date. He was a Dutch astronomer, mathematician and radical left-communist. Among other works, he published the pamphlet “Darwinism and Marxism,” 1916, which strongly attacked the social Darwinists, like Spencer, and their racist, eugenicist ideology. He also wrote the classic, “Workers Councils” and was one of the founders of the Council Communism movement, along with Otto Ruhle, of Germany. He was a sharp critic of Lenin and authoritarianism. Lenin attacked the Council Communists in his pamphlet, “Left Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder.

I found this In Our Time episode on Social Darwinism interesting, not least for the depressing revelation that Darwin himself was a Social Darwinist. I thought they could have run more with the point about Marx also being influenced by Social Darwinism but replacing the idea of conflict between individuals with conflict between classes.

#InOurTime #SocialDarwinism

bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03vgq1q

BBCBBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Social DarwinismMelvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Social Darwinism.