Fuck every American that voted for this. And fuck them twice when they claim they didn’t, because they didn’t think this would happen when voting for Trump. People were warned loud and clear, claiming ignorance is not a valid excuse.

Trump’s Triumphal arch is a joke, it has no symbolism of any value, where for instance the French “Arc de triomphe de l’Étoile” has double significance as praising the success of the Napoleon army, and as a symbolic memorial place for the unknown soldier, and today it has become a historic landmark.

What Trump is doing is putting up a huge piece of garbage of no value and slab his own name on it.
It’s a cheap copy of “the original” in Paris, both in concept and design. Much like a cheap Chinese copy of a Vuitton designer piece.
Trump has no style and no class, only someone completely without any sense of either could think such a project is cool.

Britons making sure the decline after losing the Empire, and later after Brexit continues.
Xenophobia and exceptionalism combined is probably the most direct route to decline of a civilization.
It’s weird how USA and UK are messing up completely like they are dancing a weird dance of death together.

Staying at home myself, but I think the trick is to enjoy the moments between those frames.

Apart from being wrong, the rest simply made zero sense, so I admit I simply blocked him. Waste of time IMO, I don’t mind people disagreeing if I at least can understand where they are coming from, but those 2 comments were worse than a bad AI IMO.

You are right, that is a great video, very well made and spot on correct.
The video shows Norway having by far the highest benefits for families with children, so I looked it up to see if it works, but their fertility rate remains very low at only 1.4!

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Joke aside, that’s kind of the vibe it gives off.

Better to live to fight another day IMO. I will strongly discourage anyone from going on hunger strike, it will more likely than not ruin your health for the rest of your life, and it will also shorten your life, if you don’t die outright while striking.

True but that was a first and it was bigger and part of simultaneous demonstrations, and it broke with dogma of women being weak. So probably way bigger story for the press back then in the early 1900’s.

Today hunger strikes very often don’t get much attention, in this case, it is close to game over for these people.

And she earned every dollar of it fair and square, contrary to all those lazy ass musicians playing at your local cafe who can’t afford health care.
/s

So I suppose suspected Republican will be reason enough to kill Americans in other countries now?
I don’t see how Republicans can reasonably argue against that, since they after all are part of a war crime cult now.
We may accidentally take out a few non Republicans, but hey that’s the times we live in now, as they are defined by USA.

Funny then how your previous comment is completely disconnected from the real problem.
I think I’ll just block you, because you are too weird for me.

Enron was cooking the books hiding huge deficits, and spending the money from the workers pension funds, so no Nvidia isn’t Enron, but that doesn’t mean it’s all good.
Enron was the absolute worst, only matched by the Bernie Madoff pyramid scheme and the Bankman Fried crypto fraud.

Saying you are better than that is a very bad look.

I don’t think you understand the problem, because lower is absolutely worse. A small decline in population is fine, the world probably has too many people already. But a steep decline like this is catastrophic for a country.

The fertility rate required to maintain population is around 2.1, having it at only 0.8 is really bad, making the South Korean population basically on a path to extinction within a few hundred years.

The principle of doing it yes, the way of doing it no.

Absolutely horrible, it’s sad anyone had to live through that. I hope you are OK now.

force her to abort me.

Wow I didn’t know they did that! That’s horrible.

Also she got sterilized for giving birth to me.

Goddam, they were absolutely ruthless!
I think congratulations for being alive is in order.
It may have been OK to have a policy, but this kind of enforcement is absolutely not IMO.
I thought it was only about losing privileges like the ability for the children to get a higher education.

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Isn’t it? If the population is growing too fast to be sustainable, who else can regulate this? Having many children is a disease of poor countries, having to few children is a disease of rich countries.

You can prevent people from having many children by taking away privileges. Problem is it doesn’t work so well the other way around. But would you find it equally wrong to stimulate child birth though giving privileges to families with children? Both are regulation to adjust behavior. Where I live we have incentives for people to get children, and we have free fertility treatments.
Would it be wrong if we had too many children to for instance remove free fertility treatment if you already have a child?
I don’t think it’s quite as black and white as you suggest. And almost ALL governments of developed countries have policies that influence how many children people get. Except those policies are to stimulate people having children rather than preventing it.

I just don’t see the one child policy as a good idea in any way because it’s too extreme. If they had to have a policy on this to stabilize the population, it should have been a 2 child policy. And realistically at the time they introduced the policy, the global population was increasing at a unsustainable speed, and the same was the case for China, and they had to do something to prevent people from having an average of about 5 children, simply to help the people get out of poverty. But they went to far IMO.