It's always funny seeing socialists say they "follow the science."
Because when Stalin decided DNA was right-wing propaganda, they shot every scientist who disagreed. The story of how ideology murdered genetics—and millions of people. 🧵
Picture this: You're a brilliant geneticist in 1930s Soviet Union.
You've spent years studying how traits pass from parents to offspring.
Your research could help feed millions. But there's a problem. Your science contradicts the party line.
Stalin's solution? Kill the science by killing the scientists.
Meet Trofim Lysenko—a peasant turned "scientist" who claimed genetics was bourgeois propaganda.
His "revolutionary" theory? Plants of the same class would never compete with each other because they understood socialist cooperation.
So he planted seeds so close together they choked each other to death.
But Lysenko had something real scientists didn't: Stalin's personal blessing.
When Lysenko spoke in 1935, Stalin stood up and applauded: "Bravo, Comrade Lysenko. Bravo!"
From 1934 onwards, geneticists started disappearing.
By 1948, Lysenko could declare: "The Central Committee has examined my report and approved it." Genetics was now officially "fascist science."
More than 3,000 biologists lost their jobs.
Hundreds were executed.
— Izrail Agol, 45. Executed as a "Trotskyist."
— Solomon Levit, 42. Shot as an "American spy."
— Georgii Nadson, 72. Founded Russia's microbiology lab. Bullet to the head, buried in a mass grave.
— Even Nobel laureate Hermann Muller had to flee the country.
Their crime? Believing in DNA.
Nikolai Vavilov’s case breaks your heart.
He was Lysenko's own mentor who taught him everything. When Vavilov realized his student had become a monster, he spoke up. He knew Lysenko's pseudoscience would cause mass starvation.
Arrested in 1940. Sentenced to death in 1941. Died of starvation in prison in 1943. The man who collected seeds to feed humanity... starved to death.
Soviet media went full dystopian.
They published articles titled "Siberia is transformed into a land of orchards and gardens."
They asked the crucial question: "Who do these so-called geneticists really serve?"
Anyone opposing Lysenko was labeled a defender of "mysticism, obscurantism and backwardness."
Sound familiar? When ideology replaces evidence, the first casualty is truth.
Lysenko's pseudoscience spread like a virus throughout the Communist world.
Poland, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, China. It became the foundation of Mao's "Great Leap Forward." Result? Tens of millions died in famines.
One charlatan's ideology. An entire planet's tragedy.
Today's campus thought police aren't (yet) executing professors.
But the pattern is identical: declare objective truth "reactionary," silence dissenting voices, destroy careers of those who resist.
The method changes. The mentality remains the same. When ideology trumps evidence, people die—sometimes literally, always intellectually.
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Your professor talks about inflation, housing costs, and wage stagnation like they're mysterious natural forces.
But there's one date they never mention—the day everything changed: August 15, 1971.
That's when Nixon broke the money system. 🧵
Your wallet has been paying for Nixon's decision ever since.
Fifty years of "temporary" monetary policy have systematically transferred wealth from savers to asset owners, from workers to Wall Street, from your generation to the political class.
This isn't economics—it's organized theft.
Before 1971, the U.S. promised the world: "Every $35 we print can be exchanged for exactly 1 ounce of gold."
Foreign governments could literally ship their dollars to Fort Knox and get gold bars back. When France's Charles de Gaulle got suspicious of American spending, he sent warships to New York and exchanged $150 million for gold.
This system kept America honest. Print too many dollars? Countries would drain your gold reserves.
Your professor loves this story. Politicians too. But there's one problem: Sweden got rich BEFORE it tried socialism.
And when they actually tried it, everything fell apart. 🧵
Every campus economics debate ends the same way.
Someone drops the Sweden card: "High taxes, big welfare—and they're rich and happy!"
This myth has become the ultimate trump card against free market arguments. But what if the entire foundation of this story is backwards?
150 years ago, Sweden was dirt poor—poorer than Congo at the time.
Life expectancy was half the average of developing countries. Families mixed tree bark into bread to survive famine.
In Stockholm, 1,400 people crammed into buildings with only 200 one-room flats.
As Swedish author Vilhelm Moberg wrote: "Of all the wondrous adventures of the Swedish people, none is more remarkable than this: that it survived all of them."
Many people think legal immigration to the US works like this: apply, wait in line, get approved.
The reality? 99.4% of would-be immigrants have NO legal pathway to enter America.
Here's how the "wall of paper" makes legal immigration nearly impossible: 🧵
Immigration law in the US doesn't just have bureaucracy—it has prohibition.
Think of it like drug prohibition. There may be a few exceptions, but in practice, it's forbidden for almost everyone.
1st Brick Being an immigrant in the US is practically forbidden.
There are five exceptions (refugee, diversity lottery, family-sponsored, self-sponsored, employer-sponsored), but the presumption is that no foreigner is allowed in.
In 1958, Mao promised to turn China into an "industrial and egalitarian powerhouse."
Instead, he created one of history's deadliest famines.
15-45 million people starved to death because of socialist central planning.
Here's how utopian promises became mass murder: 🧵
The Great Leap Forward had noble goals:
→ Transform China from agrarian to industrial
→ Create equality through collective ownership
→ Achieve rapid economic progress
Sound familiar? It's the same promise every socialist makes.
Mao's "solution" was to abolish private property, force millions of farmers to produce steel in backyard furnaces, and create so-called “people’s communes” to boost efficiency.
The regime destroyed individual incentives and turned farmers into amateur steelworkers.