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US politics - Guardian Article - "Useless Eaters" rhetoric returns: Trump and Musk attack disabled

JW77

https://www.theguardian.com/global/2025/mar/27/us-disability-rights-trump

It's a tough read - and watch in the cover of it by the permaculturalist & campaigner in this vid. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z48jkaMc-U&t=324s
Keep the strength ✊

I have a good few long term friends in the states, and non agree with what their gov is doing..

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Timbo_Guitar

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/132315/us-politics-guardian-article-useless-eaters-rhetoric-returns-trump-and-musk-attack-disabled

The worship of money and power is always followed by dodgy politics, eugenics and highly divisive and inflammatory rhetoric. Useless eaters sounds like something Hitler or Stalin would have glibly said.

Timbo_Guitar

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1027125#Comment_1027125

Yes, he did some good things certainly, but they were outweighed by the dreadful things he did. Hitler tripled the old age pension in Germany too.

The problem isn't one of politics, or whether the person in power is black, white, rich, poor, disabled, a noble or a serf, the problem is power concentrated in one individual and then what they do with that power. Power in one individual very rarely if ever ends well. I'm no right winger, I lean to the left but no system or political ideology is perfect and everyone must have checks and balances. Present day capitalism, you might call it hypercapitalism or even more extremely economic fascism is destroying the social, political and economic fabric of society.

Timbo_Guitar

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1027282#Comment_1027282

If you live in many parts of the world and are poor, you are lucky to eat once a day regardless.

Girl_No1

Anyone who's surprised that the perpetrator of many other crimes obviously hasn't been paying attention to the criminal's character.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/jul/24/trump-nephew-book-disabled-son-die

That and his mocking of a disabled reporter years ago.

https://www.politico.com/video/2017/01/donald-trump-mocks-disabled-reporter-061897