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[–] [email protected] 1 points 59 minutes ago (1 children)

Its bad I get it. But lets go back to 1968 when baby boomers who would give birth to the millennial generation was born. Vietnam, political assassinations , race riots, anarchist bombings. Throw in watergate and stagflation. The world has always been burning.

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

The difference is climate change. The better you understand it, the less likely you are to want to have children.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 50 minutes ago

Yeah feeling this, I'm a little tired of one country projecting it issues on the entire world.

That sentence can be interpreted in a number of ways and all are correct sadly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 hours ago

Cringe

2020 called, they want their self-pity memes back

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

During covid and maybe bird flu if it takes off. Also if vaccines stop being a thing In murica.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

Fucking lol

[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

It'll take more than one...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago

Well since we can't count on our leaders to be responsible

[–] [email protected] 12 points 13 hours ago (4 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] 1 points 2 hours ago

I mean, they did vote for change... just not the change we were hoping for, I guess. Things will most likely change for the worse now.

That said, real good change wasn't really on the ballot either.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours 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] 10 points 10 hours ago (1 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?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

That they could have been so much better without Zuckerberg, Savage, Peterson, etc.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 12 hours ago

but the system is rigged or my vote doesn't count or genocide joe or some stupid shit

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

Look at this guy thinking that we can vote our way out of this when we only have two, corporate sponsored, candidates.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 19 hours ago (1 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] 34 points 18 hours ago (5 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] 92 points 22 hours ago (14 children)

garbage health care

mass shootings

violent racism

[–] [email protected] 17 points 16 hours ago (1 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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

The Canadian healthcare system is being increasingly enshittified ~~by conservatives~~ up here, too

FTFY

[–] [email protected] 73 points 20 hours ago (5 children)

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

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

I bet they would hold a monopoly on it if they could. Damn I wish they did

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah I don't really get comics like these, or any other form of "[my generation] has it the worst, the world had been destroyed, why should I have kids" that more or less ignores all of history.

For context, I'm gen Z/millennial with a child and planning another with my wife. We're not rich or living in nice city of whatever, just living in a smaller city in Europe.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

Oh thank god one person on this threat who is not opposed to children or straight out antinatalist

[–] [email protected] 24 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 13 hours ago

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

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