this post was submitted on 21 Feb 2022
0 points (NaN% liked)

the_dunk_tank

15914 readers
12 users here now

It's the dunk tank.

This is where you come to post big-brained hot takes by chuds, libs, or even fellow leftists, and tear them to itty-bitty pieces with precision dunkstrikes.

Rule 1: All posts must include links to the subject matter, and no identifying information should be redacted.

Rule 2: If your source is a reactionary website, please use archive.is instead of linking directly.

Rule 3: No sectarianism.

Rule 4: TERF/SWERFs Not Welcome

Rule 5: No ableism of any kind (that includes stuff like libt*rd)

Rule 6: Do not post fellow hexbears.

Rule 7: Do not individually target other instances' admins or moderators.

Rule 8: The subject of a post cannot be low hanging fruit, that is comments/posts made by a private person that have low amount of upvotes/likes/views. Comments/Posts made on other instances that are accessible from hexbear are an exception to this. Posts that do not meet this requirement can be posted to !shitreactionariessay@lemmygrad.ml

Rule 9: if you post ironic rage bait im going to make a personal visit to your house to make sure you never make this mistake again

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
 

:so-true: :funny-clown-hammer:

Edit: I’m not a lib! I’m not a lib!

https://twitter.com/waitbutwhy/status/1495488331509075969?s=21

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] hwoarang@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

always difficult to tell from a tweet if people are doing great replacement bits, but countries having very old populations and not enough young people to care for them due to dropping birth rates is going to be a serious problem and I don't understand why people aren't more scared of it.

[–] Cowboyitis69@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Having a big surplus of young people to care for the elderly is just another luxury of the old world that we will have to give up. I certainly don’t want anyone having kids just so they can wipe my ass later on. I guess what I mean to say is that I don’t feel entitled to it and I don’t think anyone else should either.

[–] hwoarang@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

that's a very bleak view you hold

people are entitled to a long safe and happy life, I've no doubt there's a time coming where that gets less and and less possible for more and more people, but that's a thing I believe with my heart and giving up on it is not an option

[–] Cowboyitis69@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I feel giving up on it should be considered if you care about the future generations that are going to be brought into this burning house we call an ecosystem.

I mean fighting for a better world is great and all, but that doesn’t necessitate dragging another soul into existence to experience a declining, dying world.

[–] Cowboyitis69@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Call me an edgelord and a doomer all you want. We all know we’re not going to adequately deal with this as a species. Not anytime soon.

[–] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Cowboyitis69@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

I agree that old people should be cared for lol.

I just don’t think it’s a valid reason to keep a high birthrate. If we can’t figure out how to care for old people more efficiently with a smaller population of young people, then we kind of deserve to get steamrolled by ecological collapse.