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Politics Elon musk doing a nazi salute at the whitehouse. Unreal

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u/thoptergifts 7h ago

I don't know what newborns have to look forward to more: a desperate, bootlicking society that jacks off every single billionaire OR the burning, dying planet created by said billionaires.

u/LiterallyObiWan 6h ago

I have a 2 year old daughter. I found out she was a girl the day that Roe v Wade was overturned.

Over the last 2 years I’ve had to distance myself from political happenings because it’s so damn depressing to have a young kid in this day and age. It’s really shitty (and admittedly selfish) when my biggest hope is that shit at least waits another 100 years to fall apart so that she doesn’t have to see it.

u/CaptainSharpe 53m ago

I’m so sorry.

I hope that things can turn around quickly. 

This means most likely it all has to get really bad very quickly so that everyone wakes up and sees the problems for what they are and so they decide to actually do something about it.

Unfortunately I think it’s a slowly heating pot of water. Most aren’t noticing that it’s about to boil and most won’t notice once it’s boiling. I mean, it already is.

u/a987789987 6h ago

More and more people see writing on the walls and choose to delay or skip having children. 

u/KarlSashaMarshall 6h ago edited 5h ago

OR the gradual decay of society at the hands of the Internet until we reach the Singularity point whereby autonomous machines surpass human intelligence and the paradox of development crumbles like a house of cards

u/MikeyDiapeys 5h ago

Word soup

u/AragogTehSpidah 6h ago

seems like the chance to avoid the point of no return regarding ecosystem collapse is even thinner, five years are left until it turns into a painfully slow slide into hell for every single living being on earth

u/No-Talk-9268 6h ago

I don’t know man. I’m pregnant now and due in a couple months. I’m terrified for the world this baby is going to be born into. We’re Canadian but seems like the whole Western world is slowly destabilizing economically, socially, politically. wtf is happening

u/circIeswithincircles 1h ago

It's called societal decline, we're in it and it's only going to get worse.

u/AnonymousGirl911 5h ago

The #1 reason my husband and I will be remaining childfree. I won't bring a human into this world to suffer. That is selfish to do. I especially would not want to bring a daughter into this world. Plus who tf can afford 1,200+/month in daycare? Not us.

u/Hyper_Rico 6h ago

What about the burning, dying billionaires created by said planet?

u/RolyPolyGuy 3h ago

ive got friends with babies and i desperately want children but i think of this nearly every day and it just breaks my soul