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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

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

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] ThePolterGhast@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago

Ancient ass meme

[–] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 13 hours 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...

[–] Onionguy@lemm.ee 16 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Mossheart@lemmy.ca 4 points 12 hours ago

Eh, Canada's about the same too.

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 7 points 15 hours ago

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

[–] zealshock 6 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

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

[–] Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world 13 points 15 hours ago

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

[–] Baggie@lemmy.zip 8 points 18 hours ago (1 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.

[–] areyouevenreal@lemm.ee 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Not really. Most of Europe is just fine. We in the UK have elected a labor government for the first time in several elections as the conservatives severely fucked up multiple times. Far right wing sentiment is on the rise in several countries, but that doesn't make them the majority, so they aren't winning elections anywhere but locally. Mostly the far right are just taking votes from the moderate right.

[–] CritFail@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

In the same breath, we now have climate scientists saying that remaining below 1.5° this century is all but a pipedream, right wing leaders surging in Italy, Germany, France, Hungary, and other EU countries stoking socially regressive rhetoric, and the AMOC could fail as soon as 2026, plunging Europe temperatures by 10° and causing a new annual storm front akin to Florida right above France and Germany. I am less than optimistic for Europe's future as a whole, as crises drive further nationalism and right wing populism. In future, with european crops struggling under these worse conditions and with the UK currently reliant on imports for 60% its food, the worst is likely yet to come for us.

[–] truxnell@infosec.pub 3 points 16 hours 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.

[–] LouNeko@lemmy.world 5 points 18 hours ago (1 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.

[–] parrhesia@sh.itjust.works 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Generational-wise, we are having less children then the previous. That's the point of the comic.

[–] areyouevenreal@lemm.ee 1 points 13 hours ago

That's because people are actually more educated than ever at least in part thanks to the internet. In most places the standard of living has actually gone up, in some cases quite drastically. So people are more comfortable. A lot of the doomerism stuff doesn't take into account any of the awful stuff that happened in the past, and most are only focused on the USA which is having weird problems at the moment. In most of the world the material wealth of the average person has gone up, not down.

[–] wrekone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 23 hours 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.

[–] Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago

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

[–] deltreed@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

It's end times folks, only going to get worse before the end.

[–] RootAccess@lemmynsfw.com 35 points 1 day ago (5 children)

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

[–] steel_nomad@lemmy.world 5 points 18 hours ago

Fucking lol

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[–] FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 68 points 1 day ago (8 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

Adopt, don't shop lmao

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