"If you don't like it, you don't have to buy it"

Paired with the idea that it might not be that serious, and it's just a product that's sold to people who will buy it, I think he makes sense here.

American here. Can't speak for anyone but myself, but I've always seen adulthood as the culmination of my loss of freedom and the beginning stages of the rest of my life as a laboring drone. I didn't actually enjoy much of the first decade of adulthood because I spent the whole time surviving a system I simply am not built for. Now that I've made it through those harder bits, my body's starting to wear on me, and I'm not really able to appreciate life like I could have under more accommodating circumstances. It's hard not to hate adulthood sometimes. The pieces of me that are still childish are kinda the few remaining parts of me that can still experience joy, barring the moments where others make me feel pathetic for still being childish as an adult.

That said, I agree that the baby voice and daddy stuff just...doesn't do it for me. I try not to yuck yums, and I know the world of sex is as complicated and diverse as the humans who engage in it, so I'll just say it's not for me and leave it at that.

That's just how it is man. It's part of its style. They gotta vogue.

I'm personally aware that this is a pretty serious problem. I'm also aware I'm not the one who caused it, nor is it my duty to solve it. Answers have been proposed and ignored, so I'm not having kids. Oligarchs get no slaves from me.

What makes you different?

My man, I just don't want pedophiles needlessly occupying my attention. Shit doesn't even affect me. I have no kids. I know no kids. I'm just a grumpy old man shouting at clouds if I decide to be angry all fuckin day. You go be the change you wanna see in the world.

Plenty of people are angry. Anger is not the thing we're lacking. I don't want to think about pedophiles while I work. They're gonna keep existing whether or not I get mad at em while I try to read a document.

This shorthand ruined my job for me. Can't open a .pdf without thinking about terrible things happening to children. I don't understand how everyone is just okay obsessing over this shit when all it gets you is angry.

I like this comment. Because you're right, I felt doom in the pit of my stomach before seeing it. Thanks for adding nuance.

It’s fucking stupid to turn your back on your family over politics

It's really not. Politics determine your opinions and intentions regarding human rights and its violations. If my dad votes for Robodolf Mechahitler, he's not my dad anymore. Someone voting for Trump would likely betray their own daughter when Gilead rises. If they wouldn't, their vote is a contradiction to their character. I wouldn't take something like this lightly.

Food deserts are real, and they show you real fast how exploitable you can be.

I grew up poor and black. The illusion was never there.