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[–] 150 points 5 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 121 points 5 months ago* (13 children)

    The cost is parenthood is probably one of the biggest obstacles to having a higher fertility rate in most industrialized countries.

    You want more babies? Stop hoarding all the money with the other 15 richest people in the country. Pay your fair share of taxes so the people looking to start building families get the support they need and their children have access to an affordable quality education. Also give everyone a fair pay.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago* (4 children)

    The cost is parenthood

    Money is certainly a big factor, but so is time and the general lack of support parents get from society. Historically (and in some parts of the world today), there was more focus on the extended family rather than the elementary family. The shift in focus on family structure has put a lot more demands on parents. Combined with the higher expectations of parenting, and it's no wonder many people are opting out. When I talk about expectations, think about not only material items but how norms have changed regarding the level of supervision.

    Parenting has become punitive in many modern societies.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I think I heard the best explanation as a generation of people being devoid of hope for the future being told that their actually wrong and really just being selfish and life isn't that bad. Like truly dead inside and just going thorough the motions on autopilot.

    Because fertility rates everywhere are going down, and it's not just an economic consideration. North Korea is racing South Korea to the bottom in terms of who can go extinct first, and they are the most disparate case that could possibly be presented.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    Combined with the higher expectations of parenting, and it’s no wonder many people are opting out.

    It's now Darwinian in the sense that only those who can afford quality have the likelihood of better upward mobility, like some of them insisting to have private education over public. Of course and sadly, the so-called middle class is being hollowed out as the wealth gap widens.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    To add: Baby boom wasn't horny vets.

    They through money at it. One form was affordable mortgages

    government-guaranteed mortgages in the 1930s and 1940s led to dramatically higher rates of home ownership among young couples. β€œMortgage insurance programs led to 3 million additional births from 1935-1957, roughly 10 percent of the excess births in the baby boom,

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    This may have been his purpose for raiding the US government files. Probably some schemes involving widespread eugenics by nudging more favorable social supports for certain groups. Completely speculatory but plausible given what can be done with big data these days. We still have zero leads as to what he stole all that data for.

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  • [–] 95 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    This dude is so fucking creepy

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  • [–] 65 points 5 months ago (21 children)

    Oh, i thought he was covering a hard on...

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    He's allegedly had like 80 surgeries on his previously-normal penis, so I think that's unlikely...

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  • [–] 25 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    You shouldn't spread claims online that you can't verify. You have no proof his penis was previously normal.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago

    LOL that's what my wife said, with full sincerity, she said he might have been born deformed due to the shape of his torso. I don't think so. People who have that kind of deformity tend to get only the amount of surgeries necessary, only a guy who was insecure about his perfectly normal penis would get like 80 surgeries to make it bigger. Just my two cents

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  • [–] 34 points 5 months ago* (15 children)

    He is, as a flaming racist he is embarrassed to be attracted to colored women, and tries to hide it. 🀣🀣

    PS:
    I know he just doesn't want colored people to have more children.
    But the other way is funny too IMO.

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  • [+] -7 points 5 months ago (14 children)

    You mean "people of colour"? "Coloured people" is a racist term.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    You're getting hammered pretty hard on the votes, but you are generally correct. I would not advise you try calling a Black person "coloured" in 2026. POC, or just flat out Black, is the more accepted term today. The point of POC is that it emphasizes the personhood over the colour aspect.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    https://youtu.be/VONoYWxSAsI

    For those who never watch it don't context

    SpoilerLarry was helping a black family who also ironically had the last name "Black" and they were staying at his house until they found another place to live.

    During that time he couldn't invite his date over because there was zero privacy with so many people.

    The doctor had similar issue as her family was also staying over at her place.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    I've always thought either were silly - it implies that 'white' isn't a color. Even if you say 'white is the absence of color' that itself is a color.

    'hey Bill, what did you paint your fence as' 'I painted it not a color' 'ah, quite basic, no?'

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (3 children)

    People usually don't care consider white to be a colour. You wouldn't call a white wall colourful, would you?

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago* (2 children)

    The absence of colour is not a colour.

    That said, white people are generally actually various shades of pinky beige, black people are generally various shades of brown, but our language uses colour-based terminology to refer to ethnicity anyway.

    Complaining that white is a colour, so whites should be included as coloured people, is kind of silly in that context.

    Especially if you remember that the term "coloured people" originated as a way to stop people who had black and white heritage from getting any of the benefits of their whiteness.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    It's not 'I want to be included too' but like, the entire thing is silly. We are all some shade of a color. To single out a group and call them 'colored' when we literally all are is just, wat.

    I mean it's not like the people who were at the helm of racism were particularly intelligent, but like come on. It's almost comical how smooth-brained they were (are). If I pulled out a pack of crayons and pointed to the white one, their worldview may implode.

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  • [–] 37 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (6 children)

    I'm originally from Texas and whenever I'd go back (which hasn't been for several years now) there would be tons of 'pro-life' billboards featuring happy, smiling, blonde, blue-eyed, white babies

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  • [–] 27 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    Shithole state in a shithole country

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    On a shithole planet, in a shithole universe.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago*

    You forgot about the shithole galaxy we're in and the multiple shithole dimensions, which we may inhabit just one of an infinite (shitty) number. And some physicists think that we're actually living in a three-dimensional hologram imprinted on the two-dimensional event horizon of a black (shit) hole.

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  • [–] 66 points 5 months ago (22 children)

    When did having multiple baby mommas become NOT embarrassing?

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    People who have no shame don't get embarrassed the same way.

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  • [–] -1 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    I would not accept shame of a type I wouldn't put on someone else. Would I shame a woman for having kids with multiple guys? Of course not, you'd have to be a megachode to do that. So why would we tolerate people shaming anyone for that practice? Why should a person's gender determine whether they're allowed multiple partners in their life? We're not even talking about non-monogamy here; plenty of people have kid(s) with one partner and then have more with another after leaving the first. I've got family members and friends who've done that. You think how much we shame them should be determined by their gender? Only women should be permitted?

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Although a woman having kids with multiple guys would probably negatively impact her, this choice doesn't have the same consequences for her in society. An equivalent "bad choice" for a woman would be marrying an older man at a young age, never getting an education, never getting a job, having multiple kids with him, and then allowing him to be The Head of the Household without any input from her. Long term, that would put her in a similarly disadvantaged social position as a man with multiple baby mommas, if she were an average person.

    I didn't say that people who have kids out of wedlock or who get married before adulthood deserve to be kicked out of society and neither do people who pick their nose in public or who steal from the collection plate at church. I said it's embarrassing and probably shouldn't be encouraged.

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  • [–] -5 points 5 months ago (9 children)

    Why would that be embarrassing?

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  • [–] 22 points 5 months ago* (8 children)

    As a man not taking care of your multiple kids is embarrassing and most guys can't mentally or financially afford to take care of multiple kids. Paying child support instead of providing for your kid day to day is embarrassing. Multiple child support payments can bankrupt you, they'll dock your wages. Not paying child support is a felony in some States. Of course this is only the rule for us poors.

    Nailing multiple hoes with no protection is a gamble on getting a kid or an STD. It's incredibly stupid. This is just how guys in my generation tend to think. Edit: Not that Elon "nailed" anybody, his kids are all from IVF allegedly, which is even more embarrassing than just having multiple kids from different women.

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  • [+] -10 points 5 months ago* (4 children)

    I dont think its embarrassing, but practical if you want to spread your DNA. He's had children from actual relationships so it's not like he can't, and he can afford to pay for all of them.

    Egotistical sure. Having so many kids you cant be a real father to them and using money to replace that, pretty brutal. Im sure other things too, but I wouldn't say embarrassing.

    Maybe if it had been the only way he can have kids.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    If child rearing experts are universally not on board (🀞) with the way you’re executing this β€œpractical” plan, it might be embarrassing to have all the resources but not the sense to choose a healthier-for-the-children path.

    Those without that sense probably also won’t be embarrassed, though. Embarrassed for him!

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  • [–] -5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    The mothers wanted a child, and unless they were going to adopt, were likely going to have IVF through a sperm donor anyway. It's not like he's trying to convince someone who doesn't want a kid to have his kids. He convinced people who wanted to have kids to have his kid.

    So I don't see how that impacts what a child rearing expert think, since a kid is going to be born to a single mother, or a mother who can't have a kid naturally with their husband. Unless you're saying women shouldn't raise a child alone, via IVF or adoption, which I don't think you're trying to say.

    Edit: And in this case, the kid is set for life, albeit with a terrible father (who might have been absent anyway)

    Edit: And if he's convincing people who do not want kids, to have his kids, well that's another ball game entirely and is embarrassing.

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  • [–] 32 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    When a dude who TRIED to get into pedo-island is telling you he needs more kids, perhaps you should trust your gut and gtfo.

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  • [–] 29 points 5 months ago

    Punch a nazi today

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  • [–] 23 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Don't let Elon musk tell you what to do with your genitals. Also anyone that cares about brith rate and however much there is of whatever race is weird.

    Humans will ultimately evolve into another species and concept of human races will become irrelevant.

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  • [–] 17 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    I'm so numb to the threat of a population crash after decades of accepting that I'll likely die as a direct cause of climate change and/or nuclear annihilation and/or global pandemic and/or cancer from one of the many poisons we're pumping into our environment. I couldn't care less about population crash. They do everything they can to ruin the world for everybody but the elite, I'm sure as hell not bringing anybody into it so they can labor for these assholes.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago*

    Every time I hear politicians advocating for more children I keep thinking "you want to put even more people on this earth to use up its resources?"

    Surely having a few less humans around would be a good thing for the climate.

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  • [–] 17 points 5 months ago

    Asshole apartheid beneficiary.

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    The elite want people to have children because people with children have something they could lose that isn't theirs to sacrifice. It makes them easier to control.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Hmm... I think it's for a different reason.

    Birthrates are down because (amongst other things) it's financially impossible to have a family in this time.

    However, as much as these tech billionaires invest into AI, they still need grunt workers to keep society running. So eventually these billionaires will lose value because society doesn't have workers.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    Billionaires can't look 20 years into the future when the babies would grow up to be workers. If they could, they'd see that destroying the environment is going to cost way more in the future than it would to just fuck it less now.

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    wants a slave population basically

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I would think wage slaves, but what does a guy who wants to automate everyone out of a job need wage slaves for?

    Comfort slaves. You want to have food and a place to live? Billionaires get to have whatever and do whatever they want and you never complain. What other future could they possibly be gearing towards?

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Meanwhile, Watters is being a cunt again. Well, he's never stopped, but he's being one again.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago

    Meanwhile I got blasted for following the "wait with children until you're financially stable" advice as a white person (it was supposed to apply to non-whites only).

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago

    The irony of American white nationalism will always be that that despite being a white American by birth and genetics, even as I fight that privilege, I’ll still be a β€œbetter” white American than the world’s richest immigrant can ever be. You picked the wrong allies, you picked the wrong fight, and your ancestors (exploiters as they were) picked the wrong continent. You’ll never be β€œgood” enough. And while I despise that standard, your failure to figure that out and your personal collapse is a small delight.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I don’t really think they want that at all. I think it’s just another culture war wedge to fuck women with. Then people can claim it’s everything but the class war this clearly is.

    Why would they want more kids around? To kill them or destroy them with robots would be the only answer. Nothing in the books they read/write actually indicate they want anyone to have more kids.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago*

    so he can traffick them for "MS kungfu instructor" and Epsteins clientele after thier "source of victims" have disappeared.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago

    I have children and I love them very much, BUT if I was making the choice to have children today it would be resounding no. Primarily because of people like Elon Musk and the TDS that is speedrunning America's collapse.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    When time is the only true commodity, but the ruling class decides that they need more decimal points In their registers...

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    Of course he does

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