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It’s essentially the opposite of ‘Survival of the Fittest’; the smartest, most capable people are going to clearly see how doomed the planet and life on it is becoming, and are going to choose not to bring babies into this. As they die without replacing themselves, the only humans that are actively reproducing will be those either too ignorant to objectively see how bad things are becoming, or too poor to prevent pregnancy. As this cycle inevitably repeats itself, only the least capable (or fittest) humans will be born and will reproduce. Until they are simply incapable of doing so in the wrecked world they’ve inherited.

Colombian woman here,

A few days ago, I stayed at an Airbnb on the outskirts of my city. A French girl was staying at the same place, and we talked about prices in the area. She told me that many things (such as goods and services) were more expensive here than in France itself.

It felt like a punch in the gut.

What will become of us?

I recently reviewed some articles (you can find them at the end of this post) from last year that summarize the approximate amount today’s parents might spend on a child, and I was devastated. The prices are in COP, but they range from $435,332 to $715,432,520.

A third-world country with first-world prices—and even in first-world countries, prices are just as high relative to the cost of living and wages. Europeans and Americans can't afford houses or rent. Housing prices are no different here than in the rest of the world.

I’m concerned, and I want to know what you think beyond simply agreeing with me. What factors am I not considering, and where do you see hope for possible change or improvement in this situation?

https://www.eltiempo.com/genplay/cuanto-cuesta-tener-un-hijo-en-colombia-3474803

https://www.larepublica.co/especiales/cuanto-vale/hasta-2-200-millones-le-puede-costar-criar-un-hijo-hasta-que-sea-mayor-de-edad-4163674

It is no wonder he places no value in taking care of our natural spaces! Degrading protections for endangered species and opening pristine eco systems to oil and gas drilling and bulldozer the fragile landscape of the Big Bend!

Defend the Bend!!!

Honestly, this might be one of the most disturbing things I’ve ever seen on the internet.

I’m not even kidding. That’s saying a LOT.

It’s disturbing because it shows how many sociopaths exist out there. Makes me want to throw up.

If you spend any time on TikTok looking at videos about this case, you’ll see an incredible amount of support for a woman accused of killing her three children. (Actually, she admitted it so it’s factual)

Some of these videos have millions of views. Thousands of support comments. Individual comments of support with hundreds of thousands of likes….

WHAT THE FUCK PLEASE GOD TAKE ME OUT NOW IM FUVKIN READY

What blows my mind isn’t simply that people want to understand what happened. Of course mental illness matters and postpartum psychiatric disorders can be devastating.

But explanation and support are two completely different things.

I’ve seen people blame the husband for not being there, they’ll blame the medical system.

People search for seemingly every possible explanation that shifts responsibility away from the person who actually killed the children.

It’s damn near all middle aged white women giving their support. Never seen anything like it, all the same group think.

Would the public reaction look exactly the same if this were a poor Black woman?

My guess is fuck no. All the people making content supporting her are the same demographic of women it’s so bizarre. HOW?!? It’s to the point where POC are making content calling it out too.

This gotta be one of the most mindnumbing examples of group think I’ve ever seen on the Internet and it’s pretty so crushing for anyone who wants to start a family to see that there are so many women filled with this level of demonic energy. And I’m not even religious. That’s just the best way to describe it.

Am I missing something here? Is the reaction I’m seeing actually compassion for severe mental illness, or …??

God have mercy on us all

I have seen videos of men preferring cars over woman because the car has less mileage than the woman. Especially hearing men say they dont want to be with woman that have had more than 5 sexual partners. I would love to have a friendly debate about this with people. Now we can debate among each others or yall can debate with me. I am very open minded that I will play devils advocate of anyone's decision of quality vs quantity when it comes to sex. So no matter what you choose I will argue the opposite. This works in my favor since I can argue both sides I wont get angry with anyone so no fights.

Now think about this if you want quality over quantity then you have to also settle with the inexperienced and not as opened minded or capability of providing satisfaction.

If you want quantity over quality then you get satisfaction and experience. But run risks of knowing where experience came from by either groups, friends, family.

If argument directed to me let me know if open just put it there for your opinion. Have fun everyone.

If yes what happened?

I understand that people have preferences but nobody needs to have preferences while putting other people down which is often the case with men and women who openly discuss how they wanna “participate in the oxford study”.

Many women who “participate in the oxford study” claim that Asian men are more misogynistic and/or right wing and they simply “have no choice” but to date white men. Statistically this is not true. The other argument is that “asian men look too much like family members” which is blatant racism buying into the idea that all asians look the same. Both of these arguments simply serve the purpose of making asian men feel inferior, a goal of white supremacy that has seen an unprecedented rise within the past few years.

The “Oxford study” also hurts Asian women since it reduces them to objects who are either viewed as possessions by Asian men who have now developed complexes due to being ridiculed or white men who fetishize Asian women as part of some social media trend.

so this question came to my mind when i was ranting to my friend about my desi parents being v strict, and they just shrugged "so give them ur password if u got nothing to hide", and that bugged me bcs i was like why do I have to compromise my boundries bcs u have trust issues or whatever?

You are my parent. You gave me all the parvarish and morals growing up, so have some faith in your upbringing. Cant even say idc because I do, and it hurts like hell.

has anyone ever felt like this??

(im 18F btw its not like im a child anymore)

I made the mistake of casually scrolling in the virgin subreddit and a response to a topic asking when it's time to give up was when 25.

His justification was at 25 you're way past the high school and college era of your life and that you're fully in the adult world and the puppy dog puppy love era of connecting based on who you are as people are taking a back seat in favor of what women already expect of you at that age.

And.....it made sense, I mean at 25 women will definitely be more judgemental of a man if he have certain things in his life in order and one of the expectations alot of women will have for men is that they've had at least some dating/sexual experience but is that enough for a large majority of women to consider a man a lost cause for that?

Or can that be countered somehow?

Ebay saved searches are driving me insane. Started with a few, now I've got a lot and it's becoming unmanageable. Way too much time spent scrolling through the same results. What are you all using? External tools? Browser bookmarks? Some spreadsheet magic? Open to any suggestions.

Sorry for this silly post lol

Online these days I see a lot of talk about this "alpha male" and "beta cuck" talk that is male posturing to me. Now I'm a woman so maybe I understand what it means to be a man incorrectly. The men in my family I online discourse these days would call "beta cucks" and yet to me I consider a blessing to have had them in my life and as a true example of what a man should be.

My grandfather (RIP) was a WW2 vet. He made a close friend while serving in the war and promised this friend that if he didn't make it my grandfather would take care of his family. Sadly, his friend was blown up in front of my grandpa. When he came back he married his friend's wife (my grandma) and raised the son as his own. My dad was born several years later.

My mom was from an abusive household hold she wanted to get out more than anything and at the time the best way was to get married. So she got married at 16 to a 34 year old man. He was abusive to her as well, but she was out of her childhood home. She got pregnant and had my sister. She was born with extreme physical and mental disabilities. She's 50 now and still has the brain development of a 3 year old and is wheelchair bound.

My mom's first husband left her when after my sister was born because of how hard it was going to be so my mom was alone. She met my dad when my sister was 9. To my sister my dad is dad there is no one else and she is the biggest daddy's girl you will ever meet.

So what I'm getting and I suppose the discussion I want is why is the narrative that "raising another man's child" makes a man lesser and a "beta cuck" when I come from generations of men who raised other men's kids and to me they are a shining example of what a real man is. Is this also why I have more empathy for men's struggles and despite being a feminist can't behind a lot men hate like "I choose a bear"? I feel like there is no winning because either men are awful and I'd rather be alone with a dangerous predator or "don't be a cuck" type BS and neither side seems to know what a real man is.

Like men generally are attracted to what a woman naturally has on a biological level and that's usually enough for us. But women act like that shouldn't be enough for men which I agree with but it's still going to a huge part of the attraction and that still seems to be an issue for them.

What women tend to be attracted to in a men actually takes time, luck, and skill to acquire and there's alot of men who won't be able to accomplish that, and it's a reality men are able to accept regardless of how most may do so with strong bitterness.

Cause let's be honest deep down in general women expect the man in the relationship to be the breadwinner in the relationship, so in circumstances where thats not the case there's usually SOME other reason why a woman would put up with that.

I absolutely am NOT saying women can't be happy with a man who makes less than her, I'm just saying it's not a common scenario for a reason and I'm curious what those reasons are.

I understand this is a trigger but I urge you to not get emotional and engage with a clear head seriously please, I'm not trying to attack anyone.

I don't agree with anyone being used and discarded over this, but it is a fact that men are initially motivated by a strong desire to have sex with women. My thing is as long as it's consensual and the women are still treated well then what's the issue?

Nowadays it's like if a man is openly honest about his sexual intentions he's likely to be accused of only viewing women as objects despite the fact that mindset should only apply to a CERTAIN TYPE of men who couldn't give a crap about a woman's consent.

CEO pay has gone up over 1000% since 1978 and in 2023 CEOs earned about 290 times what an average worker made. In 1965 a CEO would have made 21 times what an average worker made.

With numbers like these, I call that Wage Theft. Not everyone can be the CEO, or President or Founder of an extremely successful company; and the Higher Ups should not be making Millions/Billions when their Average worker is likely barely surviving Week to week.

I remember when I was Younger it was a Big deal for Bill Gates to have a Net worth of around 50B dollars; now you have Billionaires going past 200B and they still want way more; Musk wants $10T, despite claiming "*Money will be worthless in the future anyways*".

Really absurd the level of Greed people have, while some are dying/barely surviving week to week, some have no limit to the Depths of Money they wanna have.

What did he do I get it he’s on the Epstein list he’s done horrible things politically and gave Israel our taxes etc. I know he’s a felon etc but really what did he do so what if people hate on him he’s a legend.Everyone including Trump deserves to be forgiven in life.