u/DistinctSpirit5801

I’m not sure why we should be concerned about the birth rate when businesses plan on replacing everything with AI and robots anyways

From my understanding there is zero incentive to have children when people are worried about being fired just to be replaced by AI systems and have nothing to feed their children because they got replaced by the AI automation system by their employers

It seems like the ai crisis and the population collapse crisis have a way of canceling each other out

The Supreme Court abolished political party spending limits on behalf of candidates cause apparently limits on political spending is considered a violation of the first amendment

However if someone wants to buy products from Cuba or Venezuela then all the sudden being prohibited from doing so is not considered a free speech violation

If having limits on political spending is considered a violation of free speech then using the supreme court’s logic why not abolish OFAC the government institution as being a violation of the first amendment since after all money is speech according to them

The platforms in question claim “they’re not gambling platforms” when obviously despite whatever loopholes designated them as “not gambling” according to the law they very much are in fact gambling platforms

People made millions of dollars in prediction markets predicting death and destruction going on in multiple bets involving the Middle East including the death of Ali Khamenei

People made five hundred thousand dollars predicting the death of Ali Khamenei in U.S. air strikes

Members part of the U.S. military have been caught using classified information to make hundreds of thousands of dollars in prediction market bets

People were claiming that there would be some mass exodus of Jewish people from New York City if Zohran Mamdani won the election

The rabbis who threatened to leave New York City if Zohran Mamdani won the election never did

Voters voted for Zohran Mamdani he won the election

The “mass Jewish exodus” from New York City that they promised never happened

People will endlessly predict a mass Jewish exodus every single time intactivists do anything to restrict or criminalize circumcision

When the rabbis recognize we don’t care about their opinions in the first place and don’t care if they leave our country then they basically recognize that they have zero leverage whatsoever

It’s absolutely possible for the intactivist movement to win despite the fact that the pro circumcision people have basically unlimited resources

There are Seven
FUNDAMENTAL TENETS
I
One should strive to act with compassion and empathy toward all creatures in accordance with reason.

II
The struggle for justice is an ongoing and necessary pursuit that should prevail over laws and institutions.

III
One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone.

IV
The freedoms of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend. To willfully and unjustly encroach upon the freedoms of another is to forgo one's own.

V
Beliefs should conform to one's best scientific understanding of the world. One should take care never to distort scientific facts to fit one's beliefs.

VI
People are fallible. If one makes a mistake, one should do one's best to rectify it and resolve any harm that might have been caused.

VII
Every tenet is a guiding principle designed to inspire nobility in action and thought. The spirit of compassion, wisdom, and justice should always prevail over the written or spoken word.

If people having to wait in line for bread is an argument against communism then why shouldn’t it be considered an equally valid argument for criticizing capitalism given the fact that in the United States one of the most capitalist countries on the planet with corporations also running it’s government have multiple people also having bread lines

In the USA multiple people have to wait in line for food at food banks because grocery prices have significantly increased because of inflation

Multiple people in the USA literally have no choice but to rely upon charities and wait in line just to put food on the table

It seems massively hypocritical to be begging people to go on dates get married and have children while also simultaneously complaining about immigration and demanding the mass deportations of millions of people

Either there’s too many people in the USA or there’s not enough people in the USA these are mutually exclusive claims

The laws criminalizing FGM are only 30 years old in the United States

The federal judge basically struck down the anti FGM law as unconstitutional essentially legalizing FGM until the federal government recriminalized FGM in 2020

People who lived in states that didn’t have their own anti FGM laws were able to legally do FGM during the gap that the 1996 law got struck down as unconstitutional and when the 2020 stop FGM law got signed into law

The very country natalists want to serve as a “cautionary tale” does not take into account that the lives of ordinary Japanese people have absolutely improved as a result of a shrinking population

More and more young Japanese people were able to afford to move out of their parents house because housing prices have plummeted and in some cases people were able to get a house for free

Japanese people have stronger collective bargaining power as a result of a shrinking population because in an economy with a low population number employers have no choice but to treat their workers better because they can’t just mass fire people and mass hire replacement workers this results in Japanese people having higher wages

This would get them running away ASAP because the people who try to pressure you into dating getting married and having children have zero interest in paying for any of the above expenses in the first place

It costs around several hundred thousand dollars to raise a child

Your average wedding costs more than a minimum wage yearly salary

Going on dates costs a significant amount of time and money

I say let the Natalist people put their money where their mouth is

If they value more people being born into this world so much they can pay for the dates the weddings and the childcare expenses

This is why because circumcision is unfortunately legal the victims of male genital mutilation basically get zero justice in court because hospitals are like circumcision is legal

Assuming that the movement is successful at criminalizing circumcision we still won’t get justice for what was done to us without our consent because the argument will then become it was legal during the period that xyz person was born

The victims of male genital mutilation deserve justice and we need a constitutional amendment to strike down the ex post facto section of the constitution to ensure justice

The men who have been circumcised as infants should absolutely get reparations from the medical system and the government

The intersex people who dealt with so-called corrective surgery should also get reparations from the medical system and the government

The women that had to deal with FGM before FGM got criminalized also deserve reparations from the medical system and the government

All three have a common thread it’s they were all subjected to genital cutting surgeries as children for cultural and religious reasons with zero medical validity

All three surgeries are cosmetic surgeries

it should absolutely be illegal to do cosmetic surgeries on children especially genital cutting surgeries

For those who respond with the AAP circumcision policy statement that document has been marked expired by the AAP for years

For starters The federal reserve has said that we need a portion of the population to be unemployed to lower inflation

The federal reserve does not want full employment

This by definition means that someone who is just at home unemployed spending their time playing video games is already providing value to society by helping cool off inflation yet an unemployed person never sees any of that value whatsoever

Politicians and members of society are begging and praying for more babies to be born so yes the government unequivocally has the responsibility to help people just because they exist because they literally beg people to become pregnant and have babies and as well as the literal fact that you never chose to be born on planet earth in the first place and require resources just to stay alive

Tech companies get millions of dollars from social media browsing by selling your data to data brokers and advertisers and they don’t compensate you for that value even though it’s your intellectual property

AI companies make millions of dollars from your intellectual property without paying you for that intellectual property

If you were assigned male at birth and you have been circumcised as an infant you provided value to the healthcare system just from your very existence and neither you nor your parents got to see any portion of the value from scientists buying foreskin cells for creating various products you never get to see royalties from products made from your foreskin that would not have been possible had you not been circumcised

Your very existence is already providing value to society by just doing what you are already doing anyways

When people are not getting paid enough to move out of their parents house go on dates get married and have children they just simply aren’t going to be willing to do so in the first place

Who is going to risk creating babies when they are afraid of war breaking out losing their jobs and getting replaced by AI people having to choose between paying their rent and feeding their children etc

The population collapse is just simply the inherent contradictions of capitalism playing out with employers trying to pay as little as possible and employees opting to skip dating marriage and having children in response to low wages

People didn’t choose to become born in the first place and require resources to stay alive

People shouldn’t let politicians and others gaslight people because they in fact are begging people to get pregnant and have children

The so-called population collapse is basically the inherent contradictions of capitalism playing out

Legislators axe programs which benefit children in impoverished families employers pay crappy wages people opt to not get pregnant and have children

politicians beg people that are broke to get pregnant and have children just to receive the reply that they don’t get paid enough to go on dates get married and have children in the first place

Since legislators love talking about “free market capitalism” so much they should recognize that when people get paid crappy wages from their employers they are much less likely to have children in the first place

The remaining kids that do become adults have stronger bargaining power under a population collapse

Governments are going to be much less likely to spend money on endless wars because when they have a low population from people opting to not have children they are going to prioritize basic civil infrastructure over endless wars and military spending

Governments can print money out of thin air

Governments can’t print full grown adults into existence