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Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.

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America’s premier pronatalists on having ‘tons of kids’ to save the world: ‘There are going to be countries of old people starving to death’ (www.theguardian.com)

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The highlight for me is coming up with some weird pseudoscience justification for why it’s okay to hit your kids.

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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 27 points 2 years ago (1 child)

The entire "the world is running out of people" meme is just an attempt to find a non-religious rationale to limit reproductive choice.

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[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

i thought it's mostly repackaged great replacement at this point

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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 8 points 2 years ago

porque no les dos?

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[–] JackRiddle@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 years ago

Yeah, when talking about certain countries and groups of people it's suddenly "oh no we are having overpopulation" and "[people in africa/asia/with a different skin colour from mine] need to stop breeding"

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