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Well you've been fooled into sharing far right propaganda. I looked up one more and here's what I found.

The top one, Canadian Doctors Urged to Suggest Euthanasia by Wesley J Smith to "The Corner" blog on the National Review. (Like the first one I searched up, this one is also republished on "National Right to Life"... hmmm could it be a pattern?).

NR was founded by William F Buckley and has shaped right wing politics in the US, advocating for a vision which is even further right than what has happened. It has published defence of epstein, climate change denial, racist shit of all kinds etc etc. Wesley J Smith himself wrote a book (A Rat is a Pig is a Dog is a Boy) advocating for factory farming and is one of various things he's done to speak against animal rights. He is associated with Discovery Institute, a far right "think" tank that promotes christian creationism being taught in schools, opposes the teaching and application of evolution by natural selection, opposes civic measures to house people (particularly those who they perceive as being mentally ill or having addictions), denies the scientific consensus on climate change. &c &c &c.

You know, between my earlier comment and now, I was thinking of following up with something about how everyone needs to be really careful in this area, because fascists and their ilk use it as a wedge issue. The waters are filthy. Of course people can arrive at a similar conclusions from totally different premise--- which is to say I am not calling you a fascist. However you have been tricked into spreading fascist propaganda. But if you are arriving via communist route, you should not need to rely on, or even include, these sources. I haven't done any further research than what I have posted here, but given the non-existent intellectual credibility and rigour of these fash, it actually makes me personally have a worse opinion on the position you are advancing than I did 24 hours ago. These people are wrong about literally everything else. I am very skeptical that they are accurately reporting good science, more likely they are bullshitting on this as they do on every other subject.

I wasn't expecting to find this, perfect little 🎀 after just 10 minutes more of research. As it turns out, Discovery Institute has apparently authored a well known paper called "Wedge Document" describing this very method. You've literally fallen into their trap, as described. Please at least skim so you can be aware of this sort of thing going forward.

None of this was difficult to find out about; writing the comment is longer than looking it up. So I mean anybody could have done it, and I think if you are going to post something that is pretending to be "news" or otherwise factual it makes sense to do some minimal diligence, no? I had a strong sense of what I would find before starting because of how the sources have been redacted, that is not a very good sign. They want you to emotionally agree with the idea but not put you off by pointing out it is from known fash publications. Were you tricked by the original just because it is contrasted with racist stories about China? To me the complete image (How it started...) is even more stupid because nothing was "starting"? I see no apparent connections between left and right other than Canada. Anyhow, I'm not even going to get into that, I'm just sticking to the first image. There are no secrets from the curious. All I did was take the trouble to put the provided information into a search engine, for example: canadian doctors urged to suggest euthanasia wesley j smith. I'll bet 5 beans the rest of the screenshots are from similar sources.

Whoever found this regressive, hateful propaganda convincing should likely go through all the "information" they have stored away in their brains with a fine toothed comb because there is probably other related bullshit in there.