• EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com
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    14 hours ago

    Positive eugenics (i.e. encouraging reproduction among certain groups) is still eugenics. It isn’t just about preventing “undesirable” groups from reproducing.

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      1 day ago

      Broad strokes & bad wording. I’m mainly pointing that bad wording comment at the title, and the author. It’s obviously not a problem of figuring out how to breed, it’s just that men are looking at divorce rates, divorce courts, alimony, child support, etc & they’re saying, “Yeah…fuck all that, I want nothing to do with that.” Enough of the smart, smarter ones aren’t producing children. Technically you could say “that’s a big problem for the country”.

      Hence…they need help/incentive to decide to pump out babies. A one-time $5K baby bonus is on the table, which to his credit as the author points out, is nothing. A one-time $5K payment isn’t going to flip the switch for men.

      Now Hungary is offering tax exemption for life, for women that have 4 or more kids. Again, there seems to be no mention of the men, I guess they can go fuck themselves…but all I’m saying is now there’s an incentive!! At least for the women. Fuck taxes.

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        Fuck taxes.

        Taxes are what enable countries to make parenthood safe and affordable for everyone, and provide healthcare and education for all the children. “Fuck taxes” is shortsighted.

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          As an American & living in IL, double whammy, enough of my tax dollars are stolen & repurposed for…anything they want, really, besides improving society and the lives of citizens. So that’s lost on me.

          We needed to legalize gambling in IL, “for the children & roads”. We need to legalize marijuana, “for the children & roads”. With the last one, they legalized it (yay) and the money does indeed go into the fund for education & roads…but then they move that exact amount out of the fund & take it elsewhere, like it’s their own personal piggy bank. 😆 The corruption is so obvious, it would be funny if it wasn’t ruining our lives.

          It’s like dealing with a bunch of morally bankrupt children, “You said it has to go into the fund…but you didn’t say I couldn’t take it out & spend it on other stuff!” Bitch, do I really have to?? It’s kind of implied, when we’re raising taxes for the children & the roads, that you spend the money on child education. And the roads. Like George Carlin, I am inclined to think this is by design.

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        17 hours ago

        Yeah, see pregnancy can kill women. It fucks their whole bodies up, more children makes them more fucked up. Guys just cum and it’s over.

        Fuck taxes on the poor.

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          3 hours ago

          Technically true, but if you’re not a piece of shit & you financially support, physically be there for your own children, you don’t just cum & it’s over.

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            Right, but that is all physiologically optional. None of it is physiologically optional for the mother. Childbirth is so painful that many women going through it prefer a giant needle in their spine that induces what is essentially temporary paralysis to actually feeling it. They’ve deserve a hell of a lot more than a little tax incentive, it’s really the absolute least we could possibly be doing for them.

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    1 day ago

    The one thing about a low replacement rate that brings me comfort is knowing that the very material realities of our world agonize white supremacists every second of every day.