• MissJinx@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    Well that’s true natural selection. At least evangelicals will be extinct in a couple of generations lol

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    Well, that is a fact: there are too many children.

    But I think sterilization is more ethical than killing them.

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      No, there are not enough children

      The rate of population growth has fallen considerably and in developed countries the population would be shrinking if it wasn’t for immigration.

      Immigration is only a short term solution as developing countries will eventually have low birth rates as well.

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          It very bad when the population drops in a short timeframe. (such as a century)

          Public infrastructure works better with lots of people.

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      there are too many children

      Not really, no. It’s not so much overpopulation straining resources as it’s a hundred billionaires already owning almost everything and expecting to further profit in order to hoard even more life-sustaining resources already fenced in by artificial scarcity.

      But I think sterilization is more ethical

      Don’t give them any ideas. Doing it voluntarily is usually a good choice, but fascists are famously not averse to forced sterilization of anyone they deem in any way “abnormal”…

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        Yep, we throw away, as USAsians… what, 40% of our food, with our insane JIT logistics/business model?

        Uh yeah turns out globalized JIT is a highly efficient paradigm, in the sense of maximizing profits…

        … But it is also extremely wasteful, fragile and shatters easily… the Trump tariffs and surrounding uncertainty, and mass destruction of the hierarchically lowest, but also most essential, foundational rung of the food production system, migrant labor…

        That’s basically just swinging at the knees of this paradigm with sledge hammers.

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    13 hours ago

    Surely this can’t be policy for the kiddy diddler party? Who will they molest and rape, if there’s not enough children?

    I can’t believe that this is policy, unless they figured a way to only not vaccinate the ugly kids.

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    If I had to guess what kind of shot we would make sure schoolchildren got, I would have guessed wrong.

    Solid gold, right there.

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    1 day ago

    I wonder at what point does a massive series of rocket engines power up and fly the magic kingdom to a market with a viable customer base.

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    but it makes sense when you understand that they don’t like the children we currently have. They want us to make other ones instead.

    Which will die soon too, but who’s counting

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    13 hours ago

    Who am I as a government or anyone else, who am I as a man standing here now, to tell you what you should put in your body?

    Fair point, that means you’re decriminalizing all drugs, right?

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    I guess this is how they solve their food shortage after getting so much blowback from trying to force children to replace migrants working in the fields.

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      how they solve their food shortage

      Oh hey, they could actually solve an additional problem at the same time! Just send all their extra kids to hunt all their invasive species. Lionfish are tasty and I’ll bet bermese python taste like chicken. Sure, not every kid is going to survive the hunt, but now there’s more food for everyone! And remember, killing two birds with one stone (so to speak).

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      Yeah, the only logical way I see to evaluate this, assuming these people are not 100% comprised of totally incompetent, koolaid drinking morons…

      Is that they are more or less deciding to formally enact and massively ramp up ‘economic sacrifice zones’.

      Its Bob Page from the intro to Deus Ex:

      “Why contain it?”

      The insurance companies are already abadoning much of the US Deep Red South.

      There is no real solution to that other than massively tax the wealthy and corporations, do massive government directed work and projects and funding schemes… which they obviously will not do, because that is ideologically antithetical to them.

      So, instead:

      Criminalize poverty, go back to mass slave labor, and just generally encourage and enable everyone to kill themselves and each other in a kind of laissez faire eugenecist free for all… as you squeeze the last drops out of areas that are basically guaranteed to be Mad Max in decade or two.

      Shoring things up would require a lot of investment and not the greatest short term ROI, therefore, by C Suite Capitalist logic, uh, just let that branch of the company wither on the vine… maybe the smarter ones will manage to gather enough resources to escape and go be more productive as some other employee elsewhere.

      Capitalism is a death cult.

      EDIT:

      Further evidence of this kind of mindset:

      https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-04-20/lancaster-mayor-calls-for-homeless-to-get-free-fentanyl

      The mayor of Lancaster, Rex Parris, has ignited a controversy after musing during a council meeting that one approach to homelessness would be to “give them free fentanyl … all the fentanyl they want.”

      He said that he didn’t think anyone had taken his comments literally, but that he did not regret them. In the interview, he said he wished for “a purge” of homeless people.

      {“Give them all fentanyl so they will just kill themselves.”}

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    Florida already seems to have a bit of a problem with child population. Public School enrollment has been declining in my country county and the surrounding countries counties for the last few years.

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    Social security is going bankrupt. Many retirees in FL. If we allow 5-10 year olds to exist, then 60 years from now they are just going to make my share of SS smaller.

    main joke explained: Young working people already pay more in SS taxes than they can expect to receive back in retirement. They support older workers in the pyramid scheme, and many who might view the squid game economics have less than 60 years additional life expectancy. Thanks for coming to my podcast.

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    Just waiting a few years for the news to ask incredulously “Why is Florida’s infant mortality rate so much lower higher than the national average?”