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''...recent Federal Election Commission filings showed one significant difference in the expenditures of the two presidential campaigns. The Harris campaign spent $34,550.02 on sign language interpreting services. The Trump campaign spent $0.00.''

(Note: Hitler's regime targeted disabled individuals as part of its eugenics policies, leading to forced sterilizations and mass murders under the *T4 program, aiming to eliminate those deemed "unfit" in the pursuit of racial purity.)

This is really all you need to know. VOTE!

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*The T4 Program, officially known as Aktion T4, was a Nazi euthanasia program initiated in 1939 to systematically kill disabled and mentally ill individuals. The regime believed these people were "life unworthy of life" and a burden on society. Victims included children and adults with physical and mental disabilities, who were murdered through lethal injections, starvation, and gas chambers. The program was an early precursor to the broader Holocaust, with the same methods later used in extermination camps. Over 200,000 disabled people were killed under this program.

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Once again we can turn to American history to see that “extermination” has happened here too. Eugenics was a widespread practice in the U.S especially aimed at sterilizing women to achieve “selective breeding”.

These programs were well funded by prominent Americans who targeted poor, disabled, mentally ill and Black people in particular.

In North Carolina the program lasted from 1929-1973. Over 7,000 women were sterilized with the slogan that “no child should be born to subnormal parents”.

The “American Breeders Association” wanted to be sure that only those babies with “superior” blood and genes would live.

Does this sound familiar? We have an American running for president now who is talking about people with the best genes and those who are “poisoning our blood”. If we truly examine our history we’ll understand why half of the nation is supporting a white supremacist who wants America to be a fascist nation. It’s not just the experiences of foreign countries-it’s a thread running through the fabric of America too.

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Elizabeth Catte writes about the practice of eugenics in Virginia in her book Pure America:Eugenics and the Making of Modern Virginia.She is also the author of What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia in which she offers a different perspective on the region from that in JD Vance's Hillbilly Elegy.

In the 1970s an estimated 25-42 percent of indigenous women of childbearing age were forcibly sterilized by doctors. This was subsidized by the federal government. Read Brianna Theobald's book Reproduction on the Reservation:Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Colonialism in the Long Twentieth Century.

Aktion T-4 was beyond horrific as is what has happened in our own country. Let's acknowledge it and make a vow never again. Never again.We can't go back.We won't go back.

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It was only under Governor George Allen (1994-98) that elder members of my husband’s tribe were allowed new birth certificates denoting them as Indigenous rather than black after Plecker declared all natives black under law in the 1940’s.

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Thank You, Kamila. I just ordered Catte's book on your recommendation. I worked as a nurse for the good people in Appalacia for 3 years in the late 70's. I HATED Hillbilly Elegy.

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Hello, MaryPat. I hated Hillbilly Elegy too. It made my blood boil.

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It seems to run through the fabric of white Europeans, doesn't it. Absolutely disgusting.

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Chinese have done it in a big way with their " lesser breeds". A cross between bureaucracy and pure sadism.

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I hadn't considered that; thanks.

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Good lord, never heard of that in NC

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Good Lordy, doing genealogy, I ran across some info re Melungeons, in husband’s nephews wife’s family. I didn’t pay much attention to it. Damn, they had a tinge of racism. Be careful who you disparage (or sterilize). May be somebody you love…

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Jeri, at retirement, my husband discovered a great-aunt died from a botched back alley abortion via inheriting a bunch of very old family letters. Funny, his uncle who would be this woman's nephew is a huge MAGA supporter. I am unsure if he is aware of it (I cut communication with him after I had a Bernie sticker on my car and he started sending personal emails about the state of my soul for being a Democrat. Although not a word to me in person when he was in town and saw me and my car!) Said uncle also divorced his wife of decades and lived "in sin" with a series of women. No hypocrisy there, right.

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My friend's little sister got pregnant at 16 and had to deliver at L.A. County Hospital. This was 1974. When she came home she told me they had sterilized her without her even knowing what that meant. Just told her after the fact. She's Navajo. I as a young Caucasian woman had no idea this even happened. I explained to her what this meant.

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There have been news articles about the victims of sterilization being awarded damages for their involuntary sterilization. It was a quiet program.

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Gina, that is horrifying. And until 1973? I never knew.

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Will we ever learn?

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When he said there were "good people on both sides" was he talking about "good genes?"

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They started with children by taking them from their parents, and then reporting them as having died in institutions where they were supposedly cared for, but really they were killing them. Then went to adults who were institutionalized, and started killing them, that raised a hue and cry in the population. My understanding is that is why Hitler decided to remove the death camps from Germany, because out of sight out of mind.

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"That raised a hue and cry in the population."

And by that time, it did no good at all.

And neither will the hue and cry raised by the American people when inflation rockets, the labour force disappears, as will Medicare and SS, FEMA etc etc etc.

And sadly, the worst hit will be the most vulnerable - many of whom vote "Trump!"

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But they will die praising him, betcha

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You are SO right😱

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I really don’t think they understand or even see that trump’s policies will effect them, too!!!

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Yes, many camps were in Poland. That’s where my maternal grandparents were gassed in 1942. Chelmno was the camp.

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Marlene, I am so sorry about your grandparents.

My daughter went on a class trip to Poland for the March of the Living, when she was on exchange in Vienna in eleventh grade.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_of_the_Living

This was a very powerful experience. Her class visited 3 concentration camps, and stayed in the Jewish community in Krakow where they had a tour, and met a survivor at Auschwitz who talked to them about his experiences.

On the morning that she went on the Walk of the Living she had not slept much or eaten, and felt somewhat ill, and she said later on it felt appropriate somehow for the memories she was paying witness to in the march and hearing the talks. It is this history that worries me for us now.

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Thank you, Linda. Yeah, my sister and my cousins were robbed. My mother and siblings couldn’t forgive themselves for not trying hard enough to get them out. But they did try extremely hard and it was to no avail. My father lost family members also, in the oil fields of Boryslav Poland.

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Marlene, How awful for all of you. Never again MUST mean something! We MUST make sure of it.

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So sorry to hear of your loss. My father’s side, Ukrainian and Lithuanian, immigrated around 1905. Although I have extensively lived among my mother’s people in Italy, I have always wanted to visit Lithuania and the Polish death camps. Maybe next year.

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Dachau was the first. Short drive from Munich.

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Marlene, You having to live with that personal history just breaks my heart. I am sorry.

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Hard to "like" your post, Marlene. Knowing that there are people in our political realm today that would do the same thing to many of us makes me absolutely flummoxed.

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Oh, Marlene! So sorry to read this! What a loss for your family! I have small grandchildren and I know how much my parents would have loved to live to see all their now dozen grandkids! The special love that spans generations is a blessing.

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People should read up the case of Kurt Gerstein, maybe in the Holocaust Encyclopedia.

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"was a German SS officer and head of technical disinfection services of the Hygiene-Institut der Waffen-SS (Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS). In 1942, after witnessing mass murders in the Belzec and Treblinka Nazi extermination camps, Gerstein gave a detailed report to Swedish diplomat Göran von Otter, as well as to Swiss diplomats, members of the Roman Catholic Church with contacts to Pope Pius XII, and to the Dutch government-in-exile, in an effort to inform the international community about the Holocaust as it was happening. In 1945, following his surrender, he wrote the Gerstein Report covering his experience of the Holocaust. He died of an alleged suicide while in French custody."

Wikipedia

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And here Trump’s nephew was advised by Trump to let his disabled son die and move to Florida…

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He doesn't like to be seen with disabled or injured people. He has a phobia.

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Stephen Hawking would have been toast

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My husband has ALS, which is what Hawking had - he would have been toast too. Frightens me just to think of it. ALS, in itself, does not dim a brilliant mind.

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Anyone without the perfect Aryan body would get “demerits.” Guess brains didn’t count. Wipe out about 80% likely. Just insanity. No excuses for nonsense

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My great granddaughter has Down Syndrome. It breaks my heart to even think about it!

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They have told us what they will do. And are ignored. Worse than Germany

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“Useless eaters” was another term.

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Good lord

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T4 was also used against the elderly, euthanizing them so they wouldn't be a burden to their family or country.

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And that worries me at the age of 77!!!

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All you need to know.

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The list of disqualifying actions that would have ended any other politician’s career is staggering, yet tRump has managed to escape unscathed. His crimes, indictments, convictions, and outrageous statements—any one of which would have been career-ending in the past—haven't diminished his support. Instead, we’re left with a demagogue whose cult-like following not only overlooks his history but revels in how much he outrages his political opponents. It seems they care more about provoking a reaction from their adversaries than about the policies he offers.

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Michael....I did a search but could not find the sign language services information. Can you direct me to the article. Sadly, even $35 K is a very small amount...but better than $0...plus I thought certain events required that be available by law. Sorry I am not more aware of things like that. Thank you.

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