• HelluvaKick@lemmy.world
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    This is giving The Office “I want to have 100 kids so I can have 100 friends and no one can say no to being my friend.” energy

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    Ah yes make money exploiting people, use it to exploit people, so glad we’re too enlightened to tax these people or bind them to our laws.

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    As if his sorry assed genetic material should be passed on. Why do all nazis assume they’re the “superior race”?

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      If you have to beg and bully people into fucking you, you’re not part of anything superior.

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      Not to be a spoil sport but rating how good it bad ANY genetic material is always feels icky to me. If we want to fully move away from eugenics, we need to stop its narrative even in case of garbage humans like musk, too.

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        Inbreeding usually returns pretty ‘icky’ results as far as genetic damage is concerned.

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        I respect your position but have to disagree.

        Trump, Musk ,and probably most of their circle come from families that have a strong inclination towards psychopathy. While there surely are ecological causes for this the probability of genetic causes supporting this are high.

        Capitalism and before that feudalism has positively selected psychopaths for centuries. It’s time we stopped breeding people incapable of empathy.

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        Valid. Musk is garbage, his DNA has nothing to do with it & pivots from the main point; garbage people like him deserve no pity.

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      Because they have nothing going for them. So they look at an old portrait of some long dead white dude who actually did something nice (like make music they never listen to, or wrote poetry they never read or understand) and say that this is all belongs to them.

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    Holy shit if these people get anymore cult like they’re going to move to South America and kill themselves.

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    Declining population, my ass. There were less than 4.5 billion people on the planet when I was born. That fash-hole is only worried that white people will represent a minority of the future population. Nothing more.

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      If they Thanos snapped all non-white people on the planet, I guarantee you, the French, European Spanish, Irish, and others will suddenly be non-white and be enslaved to do former jobs. They will insist they dress differently and even tattoo them from infancy to insist they are very genetically different from ‘proper’ whites and thus are only fit for slavery.

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      Decline population is an actual thing…? Not defending this asshole or anything but your statement is seemingly based off of a lack of information.

      Birth rates in many developed countries are incredibly low well below maintenance levels. Meaning that aside from immigration the population in most developed countries is actually going down quite rapidly.

      Which given the way our societies and financial systems are structured generally means some form of disaster for those countries if such decline occurs.

      There’s even a pretty good recent video talking about what this looks like in South Korea

      Blue indicates below replacement levels:

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        Well, we’re going to have to figure out how to level off or shrink our population eventually. Might as well do it now while there are still some wild animal species that haven’t gone extinct.

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          A lower population isn’t that bad. It’s just that the transition when you have a very large old population and a small young one is very difficult.

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            Watch this video, ignore the clickbait sounding title:

            https://youtu.be/Ufmu1WD2TSk

            It completely changed my view on that.

            Basically, without high birth rates, countries are totally screwed. Immigration (which skews young, from high birth rate countries), has softened that issue for the US, hence you don’t hear about it as much here. One can wave their hands and say “elder care and the economy will be automated in the future,” but that’s wishful thinking if you ask me.

            Figuring out how to more efficiently house/care for a glut of humans farther in the future is way more practical. Honestly we’re ridiculously inefficient now; there’s a lot of low hanging fruit to pick. And we can use much higher technology to address that.

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              Figuring out how to more efficiently house/care for a glut of humans farther in the future is way more practical.

              Our government’s started means testing care services due to the projected costs and loss of tax income as the population ages and costs increase.

              It doesn’t help that the only form of economic management they do is offer tax cuts, they’re getting less and less tax out of an already declining share of the population.

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        Still one billion in 1804
        two billion in 1927
        three billion in 1960
        four billion in 1974
        five billion in 1987
        six billion in 1999
        seven billion in 2011
        eight billion in 2022

        Already too many for my taste.
        And no to all, don’t react with irrelevant “there’s enough food for…” or Malthusian bla bla

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          And no to all, don’t react with irrelevant “there’s enough food for…” or Malthusian bla bla

          So, don’t bother you with the downside of what’s actually going to happen? What’s in the middle of happening? You’re just going to do a little cherry-picking, then tell us don’t bother you with facts?

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBudghsdByQ

          You can already see it in real time by looking at the demographics in South Korea and Japan. The only reason the numbers are offset is that a few countries are still net positive enough to offset them.

          Our great-grandkids are in for one hell of a ride. If we let it drop enough, they’ll be in forced breeding situations.

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            A world with a lot less people sounds like a dream TBH.
            No overcrowded cities, no chasing animals of their land or destroying it for resources, etc…

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              your great grandkids living in total economic collapse. peachy

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                  Carefully planned level sustainability wasn’t off the table. No one even tried.

                  Applying pressure to the middle class just topples the cards

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                If you can get even low quality robots that can provide some amount of elder care, even if it’s just reminding them to take prescriptions and helping them walk, then you can drastically reduce the economic problems. there will be massive shortages of basic CNA and nursing home care workers.

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                  Caring for the elderly is unfortunately a very small piece of the pie. A small number of CNA can handle a pretty decent number of elderly, in a facility.

                  Of course, we (corporate) stretch those CNA as thin as possible.

                  Automation in every industry that we’re so worried about being our undoing will soften the blow.

                  It’s possible that nanny bots could eventually help ease daycare costs.

                  Problematically anytime somebody creates something that reduces financial cost for someone else, They usually end up charging them significant amounts for it. Those inexpensive elderly care robots will end up being subscriptions and have planned obsolescence. Everybody’s got to get a piece of that pie.

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                You sure have a sunny outlook.
                And it’s really going great now with all those people and their economies

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                  My outlook is based on studies, and this crap is studied a lot. and also on readily observable evidence.

                  It’s dire, and it’s not based on my opinion.

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                  The only reason to believe it would be better with less people is delusional fantasy.

                  The problem isn’t population, it’s policy.

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              Cities aren’t generally overcrowded because they have no other choice, they’re overcrowded because cities typically offer the best opportunities. If the population were to drop three quarters overnight, people would flock to cities.

              Land use is also about want, not need. We don’t have to do it to sustain our population and its growth, it’s just the cheapest (re: most profitable) option.

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    Sounds like the kinda guy you want in charge of all of America’s sensitive information.

    The important thing is that he’s not batshit insane.

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    Hi, I’m Leon! But you can call me the neo-nazi kid :D

    I’m a proud white guy from South Africa (14 y/o in spirit).

    I’m currently trying to fuck up the world and spread my genes hoping to be the new Hitler some day!

    Do you want to have my kid? Haha just kidding. Unless…

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    Would be awesome to see all of his businesses fail to the point he can’t cover his child support.

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    So this guy has time to be CEO of twitter, spacex, xai, starlink, tesla, boring company, head of DOGE and still has time to try to hook up with thousands of girls online? Something tells me CEOs are pretty useless if you can be running that many companies each week.

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    It must be said again.

    There are no good billionaires. Every one of them is doing stupid shit like this while people starve to death, in public or in secret.

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      Even the likes of gates and warren aren’t good. Gates has been criticized by making it took expensive for those countries

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      Even minding one’s own business while the world is as it is could be considered evil, with those kind of resources at their disposal

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      Well apparently he doesn’t do that, news outlets are saying that all of his kids are from ivf.

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        Stop taking the autonomy from these women. He isn’t raping them (that we know of). The only victim is the poor kid that will suffer.

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          The report said Musk sent Fong a direct message asking if she wanted to have his baby despite never having met her in person. Fong confided in friends about the advance, and once Musk found out, he unfollowed her, and her X earnings reportedly nosedived. At the peak of Musk’s engagement with her posting, she apparently raked in $21,000 over a two-week stretch on his platform.

          Coercion is rape.

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            Someone making money directly through Nazi Twitter gets no sympathy from me when its fuhrer turns his ire against them.

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            Is there something stopping her from having a job like a normal person instead of making money on Twitter? She doesn’t have kids, she can do whatever else she wants. At some point, you have to admit that staying where you are is a choice you’re making.

            From the WSJ article this article is referencing:

            Fong didn’t move forward with Musk because she pictured having children in a more traditional nuclear family, but confided to a few friends about the approach—including St. Clair, whom she knew as another conservative social-media figure—and how she worried that turning him down could hurt her earnings.

            Once Musk learned that Fong disclosed the request to others, he chided her for not using discretion, according to the people, and unfollowed her. That contributed to a fall in her engagement, and her earnings declined.

            Taking money/resources away from people who don’t follow along is what Elon does. She knew that beforehand and made the choice not to have a kid with him with that knowledge in mind. Elon tried to coerce her and she dealt with the consequences of refusing.

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      1 serves as. A human shield at all times, only until he gets too old the rest are his organ bank replacements. And he only wants male offspring

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    The report said Musk sent Fong a direct message asking if she wanted to have his baby — despite never having met her in person. Fong confided in friends about the advance, and once Musk found out, he unfollowed her, and her X earnings reportedly nosedived. At the peak of Musk’s engagement with her posting, she apparently raked in $21,000 over a two-week stretch on his platform.

    That’s kind of messed up