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Bald Stalin posted:They're referring to white people population as a percentage vs. bad inferior others that they don't love I know a lot of them are but this person just sounds like she thinks new york is going to be a ghost town or something.
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Apr 11, 2024 03:47
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quote:It’s why, as a teenage Thiel Fellow Okay nevermind
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This interviewer is so bad, it's infuriatingquote:I must now ask a question I’ve been dreading. I’m sorry in advance. Here goes. It’s the inevitable question about Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes. I mean she also had Theil backing and a stupid-rear end idea sooo quote:If you’re trying to charitably understand where this question is coming from, how do you do that? Oh of course, it's that, that's the only possibility, sure. Also lol at the point where the interviewer is like "it sure does sound like eugenics, but I was told not to say that word because the company doesn't like it, so I won't!"
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Apr 11, 2024 03:58
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You might could try improving things, which might improve the birthrate. So many people just don't have the means for kids despite wanting them  But I'm gonna guess if you're the type who worries about the birth rate in "places we love" you have no intention of ever attempting to improve things
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Apr 11, 2024 06:01
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It's actually bizarre when you think about it. Having children, a right that every human being should have, is starting to become more and more a privilege for people with vast amounts of wealth. I would like to emphasize that I am talking about the West. I realise that there are people in the world that are off so much worse than we are, but the possibility of a family, a house, a decent life like my folks had is so far out of reach that it almost seems like a myth. I know this thread is more or less about that, and that this comment is not necessarily a valuable contribution to the topic at hand, but I just wanted to express my frustration. Whelp, that's it. Gotta get back on that grind. Have a nice day.
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Apr 11, 2024 07:02
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Apr 11, 2024 07:46
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sassypotassium posted:It's actually bizarre when you think about it. Having children, a right that every human being should have, is starting to become more and more a privilege for people with vast amounts of wealth. I would like to emphasize that I am talking about the West. I realise that there are people in the world that are off so much worse than we are, but the possibility of a family, a house, a decent life like my folks had is so far out of reach that it almost seems like a myth. I know this thread is more or less about that, and that this comment is not necessarily a valuable contribution to the topic at hand, but I just wanted to express my frustration. Have you considered that actually everything is awesome because Number is Up and there have never been so many billionaires as there are today and they've never on average had as much money as they have today?
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Apr 11, 2024 09:42
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sassypotassium posted:It's actually bizarre when you think about it. Having children, a right that every human being should have, is starting to become more and more a privilege for people with vast amounts of wealth. I would like to emphasize that I am talking about the West. I realise that there are people in the world that are off so much worse than we are, but the possibility of a family, a house, a decent life like my folks had is so far out of reach that it almost seems like a myth. I know this thread is more or less about that, and that this comment is not necessarily a valuable contribution to the topic at hand, but I just wanted to express my frustration. thats what its always been like, the post war boom was just a blip.
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Apr 11, 2024 14:53
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mistermojo posted:thats what its always been like, the post war boom was just a blip. Yeah, but not really, because modern contraception makes a lot of difference in terms of having kids.
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Apr 11, 2024 15:06
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I really don't think having children should be a universal right because so, so many people are ill suited to caring for children, and even fewer are able to do so while walking the line between being present and being controlling. It's just not a thing 90% of parents can really do. I don't know what the solution would be, aside from a cultural shift away from child-as-status-object or idk moving to a creche system where trained professionals can care for kids on set shifts 24/7. We aren't birds, it's a little more complicated to raise a well adjusted adult than putting twigs together and vomiting on command. E: we also have too many people already for the amount the earth can support without fossil fuels, even if we all switch to eco-vegan stalinism. Not in a eugenics way, but in a give everyone alive free birth control, condoms, abortions, and access to r/childfree.
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Apr 11, 2024 16:33
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i cant even vomit on command
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Apr 11, 2024 16:36
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fanfic insert posted:i cant even vomit on command Go suck a dick, like really deep. Either you learn to vomit on command or you have a far more valuable skill.
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Apr 11, 2024 16:46
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BonHair posted:Go suck a dick, like really deep. Either you learn to vomit on command or you have a far more valuable skill. hell yeah i love this quest. be back later!
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Apr 11, 2024 16:47
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fanfic insert posted:i cant even vomit on command I actually can, weirdly enough
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Apr 11, 2024 16:49
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tokin opposition posted:r/childfree. I really really do not want kids, but nothing has ever made me reconsider that position more than /r/childfree, just to spite them
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Apr 11, 2024 16:51
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tokin opposition posted:I really don't think having children should be a universal right because so, so many people are ill suited to caring for children, and even fewer are able to do so while walking the line between being present and being controlling. It's just not a thing 90% of parents can really do. I don't know what the solution would be, aside from a cultural shift away from child-as-status-object or idk moving to a creche system where trained professionals can care for kids on set shifts 24/7. Me, with ghost of Engels over my shoulder smiling in approval: "Sounds like the problem may just be the nuclear family"
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Apr 11, 2024 16:52
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tokin opposition posted:I really don't think having children should be a universal right because so, so many people are ill suited to caring for children, and even fewer are able to do so while walking the line between being present and being controlling. It's just not a thing 90% of parents can really do. I don't know what the solution would be, aside from a cultural shift away from child-as-status-object or idk moving to a creche system where trained professionals can care for kids on set shifts 24/7. The nuclear family and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
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sassypotassium posted:It's actually bizarre when you think about it. Having children, a right that every human being should have, is starting to become more and more a privilege for people with vast amounts of wealth. I would like to emphasize that I am talking about the West. I realise that there are people in the world that are off so much worse than we are, but the possibility of a family, a house, a decent life like my folks had is so far out of reach that it almost seems like a myth. I know this thread is more or less about that, and that this comment is not necessarily a valuable contribution to the topic at hand, but I just wanted to express my frustration. Improving things is likewise the "solution" to high birthrates too, but they're also opposed to that. I think they just might be opposed to things getting better!
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Apr 11, 2024 17:33
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Things being very bad is great because that means desperate people you can exploit. You might think immiserating people for too long would have side effects but they're actually good side effects. If your domestic labor force starts to die or shrink because they've been crushed too hard for too long, the solution is never to improve things. Instead, you just make sure the poorer countries are getting worse faster so the working class in those countries is even more desperate, and then you can siphon off all the best workers from them to both prop up your failing domestic labor supply and also use as a cudgel against anybody domestically who gets ideas like "say doesn't a constrained labor supply mean laborers have more power?" People in the country illegally or on conditional visas are very difficult to impossible to unionize. Even better if they don't speak the same language or have a different religion or something, then you can really get the racism going to ensure worker solidarity never happens. Making things better ruins everything. People need to be more desperate not less desperate, it's just math.
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Apr 11, 2024 17:43
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tokin opposition posted:I really don't think having children should be a universal right Hey sport it's cool that you feel this way but for now it's probably a good idea that people who don't want kids don't get to impose that preference on people who do. Bad parents exist and I get the vibe that you maybe had some but most of those IMO are afflicted by artificial scarcity that should be eliminated by addressing systemic issues, which would also bring down the global birth rate - an idea I fully support btw. Forcing people to completely forgo one of the most basic (but clearly not universal) animal driving forces is not a good idea.
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Apr 11, 2024 22:20
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3D Megadoodoo posted:One time I was reading a novel (based on real events I think) written by a communist, describing young German boys fighting in the resistance against the Nazi regime, and the people sitting opposite me kept giving me looks. I surreptitiosly checked if my pants were split at the crotch, and tried to peep my reflection in the window to see if I had maybe toothpaste all over my chin or something. what was the book
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Apr 11, 2024 22:26
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jeebus bob posted:Hey sport it's cool that you feel this way but for now it's probably a good idea that people who don't want kids don't get to impose that preference on people who do. No one's saying you can't gently caress
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Apr 11, 2024 22:29
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The Oldest Man posted:No one's saying you can't gently caress I am
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I'm the official gently caress Arbiter now
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Epic High Five posted:Me, with ghost of Engels over my shoulder smiling in approval: "Sounds like the problem may just be the nuclear family"
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The Oldest Man posted:No one's saying you can't gently caress I'm saying some people actually want children for reasons other than capitalist nuclear family propaganda and that the solution to overpopulation (which is more a problem of allocation) or bad parenting being a thing is not to make people take a test before they can start raw dogging.
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Apr 11, 2024 22:36
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oh yeah I definitely trust the Are You Allowed To Have Kids Test to not be insanely racist
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Mechafunkzilla posted:oh yeah I definitely trust the Are You Allowed To Have Kids Test to not be insanely racist Let's let tokin opposition pitch it first before we pass judgment
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Apr 11, 2024 22:38
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My parents were fantastic and I still turned out like this
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Apr 11, 2024 22:40
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khazar sansculotte posted:The nuclear family and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
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Apr 11, 2024 22:41
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Mechafunkzilla posted:oh yeah I definitely trust the Are You Allowed To Have Kids Test to not be insanely racist Using the US immigration law quotas as a starting point for my reproductive means testing law. “Look it says only 30,000 children of Ethiopian descent, doesn’t say anything about whether the parents are white or not!”
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Apr 11, 2024 22:41
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jeebus bob posted:Let's let tokin opposition pitch it first before we pass judgment
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Apr 11, 2024 23:11
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It's a simple test: are you a burgerfied American jackal? If Y, the test-taking apparatus gives you the snip
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Apr 11, 2024 23:34
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khazar sansculotte posted:The nuclear family and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. It's Private Property's fault
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Consolidated Ed posted:what was the book "It's Not What You Think" by Rudolf Shimmler
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BonHair posted:Go suck a dick, like really deep. Either you learn to vomit on command or you have a far more valuable skill. 
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Consolidated Ed posted:what was the book Halo: the fall of Reach
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Ok here's the metric: Do you want kids? You are not allowed to have kids. Do you not want kids? You are not allowed to have kids. Are you not sure if you want kids? You are not allowed to have kids. Are you a Pell Grant recipient who started a business that operated for three years in disadvantaged communities? You are not allowed to have kids.
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