Y'all are literally complaining that not enough white children aged 15 to 17 are getting pregnant.
Do you even hear yourselves?
You know y'all are saying this out loud right? And that other people can hear you?
I'm running out of ways to tell you that this is a good thing.
I don't know how much you know about anatomy or biology, or how long 9 months is... but the things required for a 15 year old to give birth, are not good.
👴🏻But growing our population through immigration ain't natural! We should grow it like we've always grown it: through good old American procreation!
🧔🏿♂️A) Don't procreate with children. Not debating this.
🧔🏿♂️B) No, that's not how the US population grew
Shout out to all my fellow Americans that still believe in Santa, the Easter Bunny, and that the US population got to 350 million mostly white people, in only 400 years, due to the "hard work" of a few boatloads of frisky settlers.
🐇🐇💘
I think it was in the same routine (possibly “Jamming in New York”) that he said:
“America was founded by a group of slaveowners… Who wanted to be free.”
That observation feels more relevant than ever when the world’s richest man complains that he is oppressed by minorities, trans-people, and anyone else he wants an excuse to hurt.
@adambkaplan
Though I've heard that it's a trap for women to have a year of parental leave, breaks job momentum too much. Maybe 6 months allowed for each parent? A year if there's only one parent? @mekkaokereke
@Oaktag@adambkaplan@mekkaokereke
I do think male parental leave is something that should not only be encouraged, it should be made mandatory to end the career advantage to being an uninvolved or lesser involved or non-caregiving parent and partner.
Women don't "have babies." Parents "have children." I was very vocal about taking my full paternal leave.
And a weird thing about it being hard for women to re-enter the workforce. That's also not quite true. It's much easier for women to re-enter the workforce than people make it seem. What's hard, is for men to accept women who are reentering the workforce.
It's a subtle but critically important difference.
@mekkaokereke excellent post! It seems like the red states are hoping to "solve" the falling birth rate "problem" by banning abortion. More child labor! I kinda wonder if young people will rebel by just not having as much sex.
When I say that a lot of straight men don't even like women, I'm not talking about sexual attraction. Yes, they are sexually attracted to women. But they don't like women. They don't want women to have agency, or autonomy. They don't want to have conversations with women.
Women feel that. It's impossible to ignore. So women are choosing not to date men that are so very loud about their "political" stance built around not liking women.
Yikes. This seems extreme.... and yet given the state of the world (and especially climate change, peering into the future), one wonders if having children to inherit the utter mess is cruel.
@Npars01@Jennifer@mekkaokereke Considering how hard those procedures used to be to access under 30 until Obamacare included them in the required coverage, watch that the next vector GOP is going to head for is trying to stop access to them unless you have a life threatening condition, have spit out multiple kids already, and are of a certain age (aka beyond ideal child bearing years).
I remember my mom telling me about how she'd asked for a tubal after my brother was born (her second child) and the doctor actually started to argue with her about it because she was still under 30 and well within her prime to have kids. She got it in the end, but the fact that it was still a fight after she had two healthy kids? Fuck that noise. We need to be prepared to defend this front for the kids coming up behind the zoomers, to make sure the door doesn't get closed for them again.
@mekkaokereke@Npars01@Jennifer I think that was one of the arguments the doctor tried to throw at my mom. I've also heard from people in the childfree community where doctors would being up hypothetical husbands as well:
"What if your future husband wants kids?"
"You mean the one I haven't even met because I'm not dating anyone? Then clearly he's not the right husband for me."
"But."
"No."
Used to be that the husband's consent was needed for abortions in some states too.
@deathkitten@Npars01@mekkaokereke that is exactly what I was told in the 90s before I got married, maybe my husband would want kids. Then when I got married and neither of us wanted kids I still couldn't find a doctor to do it because I was still too young and "might change my mind."
@Jennifer a patriarchal world we live in - we really need to take a stand and take it back. That freedom of decision was stolen from us. @deathkitten@Npars01@mekkaokereke
@ojensen@Npars01@mekkaokereke@Jennifer It's wild that just by having a uterus, I have less bodily autonomy than a corpse. We literally have more respect for a dead person's preference over if organs they aren't even using anymore are allowed to be transplanted to save a life, than we do for anyone with a uterus to choose if we should use it or not.
The donors that control Texas, Jeffrey Yass, Tim Dunn, Dan Wilks, & Farris Wilks want that system of public corruption to go national as stated in their Project 2025.
@deathkitten@Npars01@mekkaokereke@Jennifer Yup. The constitutional amendment we passed in Ohio last year protects ALL reproductive health care and decisions about reproduction. It was written that way for a reason.
I was over 30, never married (back then), and couldn't find someone to do sterilization until I'd had a second abortion. Because it was life threatening, my doc would do the tubal, but insurance wouldn't approve it.
@mekkaokereke This always gets me... America is one of the luckiest countries in the world in that millions of people want to come here and work. On average, every immigrant grows the economy and makes Americans richer. We can completely dodge the "demographic crisis" facing rich countries by just letting the people who want to come here in.
Are you a patriot who wants a strong and prosperous America? Then you better not be an anti-immigrant xenophobe.
@chasseur@mekkaokereke Modern American history just seems to be replete with folks only to happy to work and vote against their own interests.
I'm Canadian, and just taking into account the Syrian refugees by themselves, we've seen many not only do well but start business that then go on and employ dozens of Canadians or more.
Immigration is a win/win/win, but one has to actually want one's country to succeed no matter who's in government and that doesn't work for Conservatives.