• TheDeepState@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I support any person who chooses not to have children. It’s saving the planet. There are way too many people.

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      8 months ago

      You keep being told that. There are way too many billionaires, that’s the real problem.

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      8 months ago

      Not really. The people there are just put in little effort not to screw up the planet .

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        8 months ago

        Overpopulation as a dogwhistle for racism is a conservative myth.

        Overpopulation in a “I’d rather not turn Earth into Coruscant and so many of our climate and food/water issues would be easier to deal with if the global birth rate slowed voluntarily” is not.

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          Overpopulation as a dogwhistle for racism is a conservative right-wing myth.

          FTFY.

          I’d rather not turn Earth into Coruscant

          Sooo… when will you actually be rejecting this right-wing myth?

          Soon, I hope?

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          We don’t need to make nearly this much trash; it’s just more profitable for shareholders. Not denying that some plastics are essential for medicine though.

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          8 months ago

          We can handle feeding everybody, we can’t handle the trash capitalist parasitism.

          FTFY.

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        The fear of overpopulation, of the poors overbreeding and overcrowding the rich is basically a given in all political elites. Basically part of the washington consensus.

        Our current, below replacement birthrate, no matter how much they try to hide it, is not an accident.

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        8 months ago

        Exactly what part of that is eugenics? Deciding not to have kids, or recognizing the environmental impact of the choice?

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          8 months ago

          “There’s too many people on earth” is a eugenicists talking point by affluent westerners. It’s a short slippery slope from there to completely dehumanizing humans born in nations deemed “lesser than”

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            My main argument for antinatalism is that there are too many idiots willing to reproduce and raise children as bigger idiots than they are.

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              7 months ago

              Instead of dehumanizing people for being born in a crowded, exploited region you dehumanize them for being less educated than you.

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                  7 months ago

                  The irony of you decrying hubris in people you deem lesser than yourself is lost on you

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                    7 months ago

                    Anti intellectuals, jingoists, gun fetishists, imperialists and right wingers are objectively worse that everyone else who’s not any of these things. This has nothing to do with me specifically.