childfree

2082 readers

10 users here now

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

551

Won't someone please think of the boomers?! (poptalk.scrubbles.tech)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

150 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 86 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Told my mom if she wants grandkids she better stop voting for conservatives. Didn't work, and a deal's a deal.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

I mean, she's a boomer, if she said she had I still wouldn't trust her.

Boomers: "Reality can be anything I want."

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

she better stop voting for conservatives

Democrats have won the popular vote in the last seven of eight elections. If everyone struck this deal, I would expect to see significantly more grandkids than we're getting.

But also, states like California and New York and Massachusetts are seeing grandkid-gaps bigger than anything you'll find in Utah or Ohio or South Carolina. If conservatives are causing the problem, you would expect to see more Gen Alphas in the bluer states, wouldn't you?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

The poorer families in those states make do better than poorer families in red states, but not enough to support having kids