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[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 86 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I definitely support women’s rights and will always believe in their unfettered right to decide their own reproductive choices. I was worried when I first read this, however. If the only people having children are the fascists and their enablers, I fear the future will be even more bleak than the present. That said, this story does seem to indicate the movement is more based around not having children with Trump voters which I find completely reasonable.

[–] BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 42 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The future is going to be pretty bleak with 10 billion people on the planet, too.

[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Nah it's cool. That's just a temporary problem.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de -2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

What? Overpopulation hasnt been a worry for well over a decade now and it wont be anytime soon. We will never reach 10 billion.

[–] BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not sure what rock you've been under but global population is projected to peak at 10.3 billion in the 2080s.

[–] uhmbah@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 week ago
[–] uhmbah@lemmy.ca -3 points 1 week ago

You being downvoted makes me sad. Idiots.

Here's the /s

Maybe people will blink and see your comment for what it was.

[–] EleventhHour@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Would be like Idiocracy, but with fascism

[–] RangerJosie@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

With an already functionally illiterate population. We're soooo much closer to that than you think.

[–] EleventhHour@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

Do you underestimate my pessimism

[–] AngryRobot@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

I'm 51, and I've never been so happy not to have kids in my life.

[–] COASTER1921@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago

The fun part is that this the foundation "Idiocracy" built its world on.

[–] iheartneopets@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's totally erasing the born children's ability to think critically. Loads of children from that environment grow up to leave it for the left. Speaking from experience

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

That’s great and absolutely does happen, but it’s the exception not the rule

[–] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Women don't want to subject their children to this world. My cousin teared up the other day because she feels so bad she had kids 10 years ago and the future is so bleak. You all do not understand us at all, do you? Climate change, anyone? Why would I birth a baby that will just drown to death in a flood?

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I can understand that view, I just don’t agree with it. If we don’t believe in trying to working for a better future, no matter how bad it’s looking (holy shit is it bad rn), then I feel like we might as well line up like lemmings and walk the plank.

[–] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Women have been doing the majority of the work for a better future. Men have been creating wars and destroying progress.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I agree that women on the whole generally fall on what I would consider the right side of progress while the worst of men perpetuate the worst aspects of human society, I don’t really understand what that has to do with what we’re talking about. I already stated I unequivocally support every woman’s right to do whatever they so choose with their bodies.