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[–] FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 67 points 1 day 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

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 37 points 1 day ago (2 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.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Babies get adopted quickly. It's the older children who need homes.

[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Not foster kids. Foster parents/adoptions are always needing people, even babies. Sometimes the babies have to sleep in the DHR office, because there's nowhere for them to go.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago

Talked to a social worker - kids in DHS care sleep in homeless shelters, hospitals, DHS offices. Teen group homes are inherently damaging to them; I’ve never seen a good one.

Foster teens. Short term commitment. They will have severe trauma and can be hard to deal with, but you would be amazed at how they respond if you can genuinely provide love. Love and Logic is fucking magic.

If you can’t foster, you can be a child advocate. Many states have CASA programs. Visit the kid once a month, let them know someone cares, and tell the court what you think is best for them. Even just something like a phone call “hey, kid left something behind at the group home - any way we could get that moved?”

Or even just someone to protect them from the group home. A dozen seriously traumatized kids, with staff paid less than $15/hr on a week of training. A place that provides opportunities for people to be around children, who are already isolated and have limited access to supportive adults… and financial incentives to cover anything up.

I don’t think there’s much hope for the future, but we can focus on the now and helping the children who are already here.

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[–] Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world 15 points 23 hours ago (10 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

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 7 points 23 hours ago

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

[–] Glytch@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago

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

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[–] ultrahamster64@lemmy.world 99 points 1 day ago (7 children)

garbage health care

mass shootings

violent racism

[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 78 points 1 day ago (5 children)

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

[–] zealshock 1 points 13 hours ago

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

[–] MadBob@feddit.nl 30 points 1 day ago

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

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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[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 18 points 1 day ago (2 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.

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[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 39 points 1 day 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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[–] mayhair@discuss.tchncs.de 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

RIP Alaska, Hawaii, and Michigan's Upper Peninsula

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[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 57 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

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[–] Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world 116 points 1 day 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.

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 42 points 1 day ago (2 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.

[–] kozy138 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Idiocracy is a documentary

[–] Bahnd@lemmy.world 51 points 1 day ago (6 children)

It absolutely isnt

President Comacho has a problem, finds the most qualified person to fix it, does so (reluctantly) and then dosen't take credit. This so divorced from reality that it should be concidred high fantasy.

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[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] Jyek@sh.itjust.works 11 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

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

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[–] IzzyJ@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Was gonna say, wheres the fascism going retro?

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[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

At this point I think the GOP are just taunting people who won't bring kids into this. Jokes on them though, if theyre having kids from some sort obligation and not to love and properly nurture them it's just bad news for everyone involved. Have fun with all that trauma.

[–] realitista@lemm.ee 30 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Where do you think we get new Republicans from?

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Generational trauma. It's all just generational trauma.

[–] SquatDingloid@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

And religious indoctrination programming children to blindly follow strongman authority figures and not require any proof when forming their wolrdview.

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[–] stoly@lemmy.world 5 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Conservatives are often very insecure people who have never overcome their own childhood trauma or understood why they want children. That trauma and insecurity just gets passed down.

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (2 children)

I know, I'm the child of two. For the last 20 years I've been completely isolated from all my family by no doing of my own. I often wonder what the fuck all that was about. You know, the whole, bringing 4 kids into the world then putting fasicists into power. Like I got problems, true, but I'd of prefered keeping myself and not being a plague to those around me.

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 5 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah sounds like my childhood. My parents made my life a living hell then suddenly grew up and realized that everyone around them was broken. We have a better relationship but the damage was done long ago to me siblings and we still have problems.

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Glad you're ok, and seem pretty cool from the little I know of you. We got a raw deal in all this, you know. I think it's OK to feel that way.

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago

Figured out tags. You got my first!

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

This plus observing and learning from others convinced me that most people should not have children prior to the age of 30. This is time to grow up, party some, get established, and become yourself. Then you’re ready to parent.

Thanks for the nice words. I’ll keep an eye out for you in the future. Need to figure out Joe to do tags.

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[–] vaper@lemmy.world 42 points 1 day 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).

[–] Slotos@feddit.nl 54 points 1 day ago (9 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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[–] stinky@redlemmy.com 28 points 1 day ago (6 children)

DO NOT HAVE CHILDREN REPEAT DO NOT HAVE CHILDREN

THIS MESSAGE IS FOR ALL RESIDENTS OF PLANET EARTH

NO ONE NEEDS YOU TO BIRTH THEM

ABORT. ABORT. ABORT.

WE HAVE ENOUGH PEOPLE, THE PLANET IS BURNING, THEY WILL NOT LEAD GOOD LIVES. IT'S NOT WORTH IT. PULL OUT BEFORE YOU NUT HOLY CHRIST PLEASE DO NOT HAVE KIDS

[–] Aksamit 28 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

This is mostly copied over from my recent comments elsewhere, but it is very relevant here too.

By 2030 we are going to be 40% over capacity on fresh water resources globally. and 40% of arable land has already been depleted, and 95% will be by 2050.

And that's just water and food.

Once arctic ice sheet coverage gets below 1,000,000 square kilometres, the planet will be absorbing more heat than it reflects and this is called a Blue Ocean Event.

The BOE will trigger the Clathrate Gun which will cause seabeds to rapidly realease fuck tons of methane, cooking the earth in it's own atmosphere.

2024 Arctic sea ice likely reached its annual minimum extent of 4.28 million square kilometers.

Greenhouse gas emissions are still increasing and fuelled by climate change, the world's oceans have broken temperature records every single day over the past year.

So it's basically a race between whether the drought and famine kill us all first, or the BOE setting off the Clathrate Gun will.

Either way, it is unlikely the human race survives the century. Creating more people to suffer in this dying world, is stupid and cruel and is only going to speed up our demise.

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[–] girsaysdoom@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Please consider adoption as an alternative if you are in a stable situation and want children.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

You don’t even have to be in a stable situation to be a Big Brother/Sister at your local Boys and Girls club or a court advocate/CASA for a child. Volunteer at a school district. Children recognize how fucked everything is, and on the whole they are suffering. We need kind and loving adults to show up for them - to teach them art and read them stories to show them the parts of living that can hopefully make it worth it.

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[–] Squorlple@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

What is the acceptable level of tragedy to impart upon a non-consenting progeny? I vote for zero

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (7 children)

You'd have to be immortal, first. Most kids are gonna live to see their own parents pass.

Tragedy is a part of life.

It's easily avoidable tragedy, unaddressed by those who could do something about it, that's the problem.

Even worse, there's potentially extinction level tragedy happening right now, going unaddressed by those who can do something about it.

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