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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Eh, Canada's about the same too.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Ancient ass meme

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day 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...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Wait, there's a toilet paper shortage? No idea, haven't been to Costco in a while.

[–] [email protected] 107 points 2 days ago (10 children)

garbage health care

mass shootings

violent racism

[–] [email protected] 79 points 2 days ago (5 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 days ago

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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[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 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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[–] [email protected] 70 points 2 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

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 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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[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 days ago (5 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 115 points 2 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.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 days ago (9 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.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

No no. Wars are destined to be over. This? I don't know how it would end.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

A shitty life situation has never stopped anybody from having kids. Quite the opposite, the less educated a society and the lower the prospect of comfort, the more kids people have. Poor and miserable people fuck for fun and don't care about proper contraceptives, resulting in more kids. Further more, people believe that the more kids you'll have, the more likely it is that one of them is going to end up rich and successfull.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 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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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago (5 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 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).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

How often do children adopt their parents' values?

[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 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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