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[–] Onionguy@lemm.ee 25 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Confused the US with the entire world again, honest mistake.

[–] Mossheart@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 days ago

Eh, Canada's about the same too.

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[–] ultrahamster64@lemmy.world 108 points 4 days ago (7 children)

garbage health care

mass shootings

violent racism

[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 79 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Look at this guy who thinks the USA invented racism and holds a monopoly on it.

[–] MadBob@feddit.nl 35 points 4 days ago

The comic is very America-centric if you look at the problems mentioned in totality.

In Europe it's just sparkling "let them down in the Mediterranean and/or make sure they stay in their own neighborhoods."

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[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 40 points 4 days ago (6 children)

I mean, the UK has 2 out of 3 of those. And most countries have the violent racism.

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[–] mayhair@discuss.tchncs.de 28 points 4 days ago (1 children)

RIP Alaska, Hawaii, and Michigan's Upper Peninsula

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[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 18 points 4 days ago (2 children)

The US is far from the only country with violent racism. In terms of healthcare, the privatization. The Canadian healthcare system is being increasingly enshittified by conservatives up here, too.

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[–] Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world 120 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Thats one of the reasons i'm not having kids. I have a decent life by any metric but I had to work my ass off and face a tonne of resistance in my career. It always feels like I'm playing catch up with the cost of everything going up and up to the point where I'm just exhausted and depressed. Like, what is the point of living?! it honestly feels like theres just nothing left to enjoy anymore, everything has been monetized to hell and back. They told us as kids that you can be anything you want when you grow up, the future is bright and if you work hard you will be rewarded and its just not true. I can't do that to another person, these problems are only getting worse with no end in sight.

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 43 points 4 days ago (2 children)

That's the point? The left get demoralized and the right can't be because they have no morals. Its part of the reason right wingers tend to have a dozen children, it's quite literally biblical drown them in numbers bullshit.

[–] kozy138@slrpnk.net 22 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Idiocracy is a documentary

[–] Bahnd@lemmy.world 55 points 4 days ago (6 children)

It absolutely isnt

President Comacho has a problem, finds the most qualified person to fix it, does so (reluctantly) and then dosen't take credit. This so divorced from reality that it should be concidred high fantasy.

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[–] FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 71 points 4 days ago (2 children)

If I ever decide to have kids then I'm adopting because I can't in good conscience bring a life into this shitty world

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 38 points 4 days ago (8 children)

Given the glut of unwanted children from our abortion prohibition, we'll be needing a lot of new adoptive parents in the near future.

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[–] RootAccess@lemmynsfw.com 37 points 4 days ago (8 children)

100% of scientists agree that not-having-kids will solve our climate change crisis in one generation.

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[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 58 points 4 days ago (2 children)

We didn't start the fire. It was always burning since the world's been turning.

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[–] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 3 days ago

The deeper tragedy is in the meme as a whole. There has been so much power, control, and hope sucked away from us... and they try to replace it with panic (usually to buy a product or lie). I would like to believe that the situation is not hopeless, and that we are not powerless...

[–] vaper@lemmy.world 42 points 4 days ago (10 children)

The catch-22 is that if the people with environmental values don't have kids, those values aren't passed on to the next generation (unless they become teachers or media personalities).

[–] Slotos@feddit.nl 57 points 4 days ago (10 children)

You don’t need to have kids to pass on values. The basic premise of your statement doesn’t hold up.

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[–] Squorlple@lemmy.world 33 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

What is the acceptable level of tragedy to impart upon a non-consenting progeny? I vote for zero

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 25 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (7 children)

You'd have to be immortal, first. Most kids are gonna live to see their own parents pass.

Tragedy is a part of life.

It's easily avoidable tragedy, unaddressed by those who could do something about it, that's the problem.

Even worse, there's potentially extinction level tragedy happening right now, going unaddressed by those who can do something about it.

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[–] wrekone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You can be damned sure the crazy fundamentalists are gonna have a shit ton of kids. And some of those will vote.

Yeah, and they'll die in the water wars too.

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 24 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Craziest thing about this graphic is that it leaves so many major issues off while also covering so much horseshit.

[–] Jyek@sh.itjust.works 12 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I mean it's clearly a pandemic era comic. The whole no toilet paper thing and deadly viruses.

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[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 25 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (9 children)

At this point I think the GOP are just taunting people who won't bring kids into this. Jokes on them though, if theyre having kids from some sort obligation and not to love and properly nurture them it's just bad news for everyone involved. Have fun with all that trauma.

[–] realitista@lemm.ee 30 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Where do you think we get new Republicans from?

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 22 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Generational trauma. It's all just generational trauma.

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[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)
[–] ThePolterGhast@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

Ancient ass meme

[–] stinky@redlemmy.com 28 points 4 days ago (6 children)

DO NOT HAVE CHILDREN REPEAT DO NOT HAVE CHILDREN

THIS MESSAGE IS FOR ALL RESIDENTS OF PLANET EARTH

NO ONE NEEDS YOU TO BIRTH THEM

ABORT. ABORT. ABORT.

WE HAVE ENOUGH PEOPLE, THE PLANET IS BURNING, THEY WILL NOT LEAD GOOD LIVES. IT'S NOT WORTH IT. PULL OUT BEFORE YOU NUT HOLY CHRIST PLEASE DO NOT HAVE KIDS

[–] Aksamit@slrpnk.net 31 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (5 children)

This is mostly copied over from my recent comments elsewhere, but it is very relevant here too.

By 2030 we are going to be 40% over capacity on fresh water resources globally. and 40% of arable land has already been depleted, and 95% will be by 2050.

And that's just water and food.

Once arctic ice sheet coverage gets below 1,000,000 square kilometres, the planet will be absorbing more heat than it reflects and this is called a Blue Ocean Event.

The BOE will trigger the Clathrate Gun which will cause seabeds to rapidly realease fuck tons of methane, cooking the earth in it's own atmosphere.

2024 Arctic sea ice likely reached its annual minimum extent of 4.28 million square kilometers.

Greenhouse gas emissions are still increasing and fuelled by climate change, the world's oceans have broken temperature records every single day over the past year.

So it's basically a race between whether the drought and famine kill us all first, or the BOE setting off the Clathrate Gun will.

Either way, it is unlikely the human race survives the century. Creating more people to suffer in this dying world, is stupid and cruel and is only going to speed up our demise.

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[–] girsaysdoom@sh.itjust.works 21 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Please consider adoption as an alternative if you are in a stable situation and want children.

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[–] Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago (7 children)

lol, yes Millennials and Gen Z are trying so much harder to fix the situation by voting for change… ohhh wait

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/yes-trump-improved-young-men-drew-young-women-rcna179019

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Yeah I’m afraid that the lesson is that Gen Z is not actually the future, they are going to repeat the past. What makes me sad is that they should have been the future but social media made sure that didn’t happen.

[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 12 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Did social media make sure that didn't happen, or did the fact that virtually every generation ultimately repeats the mistakes of the one before it ensure that didn't happen?

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[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

And you're not even calling out the war in Europe.

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[–] zealshock@slrpnk.net 8 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Why is the whole world on fire? These are all mostly American problems.

[–] Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago

A) keep electing far-right leaders and they won't be B) global warming

[–] Baggie@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I know Australia is American lite sometimes, but we also have most of these issues. Shit is going bad in a lot of places is my understanding.

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