Summary

Simone and Malcolm Collins, outspoken advocates of a “pronatalist” agenda, envision a model city-state focused on increasing birth rates and “genetically selected” citizens to counter demographic decline.

Simone, a candidate for Pennsylvania’s legislature, supports Trump, Elon Musk, and a conservative agenda with Silicon Valley backing. The couple’s controversial ideas include selective voting rights, targeting the “elites,” and embryo selection based on intelligence.

Despite their fringe positions, they seek to influence politics by mobilizing conservative voters, promoting family values, and experimenting with low-cost election tactics to sway swing districts.

The couple’s pronatalist foundation received significant funding from Estonian billionaire Jaan Tallinn. Child protective services (CPS) have visited the family twice following scrutiny over their parenting.

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    Eugenics were brought to Europe by Americans so nothing new here.

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      Eugenics can be traced to Ancient Greece and Rome, and the modern flavor and actual term were coined by Francis Galton of the United Kingdom, a half-cousin of Darwin.

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        Obviously, these things are much older but the wave which inspired Hitler and his minions originated in the US before spreading their ideas in Europe.

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          Yes because removing unwanted babies from the gene pool has never been mentioned outside of American ideas. Much less closer to hitlers home…