Republicans are actively burning ballots, threatening to kill people, purging voter rolls, bribing people, and committing voter fraud in order to get their Kremlin-backed candidate into office after years of very intentionally weakening democracy, and you’re worried people might be reminded of the consequences of their religion-based laws?
Yes, I generally agree. I can’t help but note that we aren’t expected to hit peak population for a long time. There’s a good chance we’ll both be underground by the time it happens.
Meanwhile, many of the key metrics we use to monitor the environment have already been indicating irreversible damage for decades.
If I knew the goverent would support me like that I’d be more likely to have a child
Its right there in what you typed, its giving them time off. That’s what inventivizes them.
I’m part of everyone, so yes, it’s reaching into my wallet.
I’m not trying to take anyone’s “rights to reproduce,” I just don’t want someone reaching onto my wallet to incentivize increased population because its a stupid thing to do that harm humanity in the long run
This is coming from somene who supports things like single-payer universal healthcare, broad financial support for education, ensuring housing for people, etc.
You’re putting up optimistic hypothetical consumption scenarios against an ongoing global mass extinction, climate change, and environmental degradation caused by our actual real world consumption
Yeah, that’s going to suck, but the apparent alternative is continuing massive overconsumption that will eventually cause much worse problems.
Immigration will be a huge problem that’s already being exacerbated by climate change and disinformation.
Says the fact that we’d require several more earth size planets just to sustain current human consumption, or the fact that we’re killing off other life on the planet at an almost unprecedented rate.
We produce enough food to feed everyone… in a completely unsustainable way.
weird angle to take against equality
Come on, what a shitty strawman.
I’m fine with regular support for people who need it, but not paying for people to create more people. There are WAY too many of us already.
Unless you have a super duper magical way of changing how billions of people live, it’s both.
I get all of that, I also understand that we literally have no choice but to change how we live because it’s completely unsustainable.
Ignoring the fact that the Earth is already way over populated isn’t helping anything.
Another thoughtful argument from Hexbear.
I get it, I just also understand humans are destroying our only environment. Were driving the fifth ever mass extinction of life on Earth.
We literally can’t keep living the way we are.
I’d rather have a functioning ecosystem and mitigated climate change.
There are already way, way too many people on the planet. We shouldn’t be forced to support someone else’s family.
Sorry, my mistake. Agreed.
Is the Kremlin recycling this old propaganda line?
Yeah looks like it they decided to suppress your good analysis. I had a bunch of lemmy.ml accounts follow me around and downvote everything I posted on an old account. They weren’t subtle that time either.
Anyway, now I’ve got you tagged too. “Too legit to quit”, see ya around Lemmytopia.
Yeah that’s roughly what I’ve seen too. Some suspicious downvotes but nothing obvious. That’s why I said I don’t think that’s how they usually operate.
It’s strange though, it’s major international news and I saw two posts about it on Lemmy in over an hour of scrolling.
Yeah democrats sold out to corporations, but calling it a two party regime is just ignorant.