Exactly the type of humans you need to rebuild a population.

And also generally not combatants. Or to use the crass parlance “not having military value.”

I say officially because they would do so regardless but still.

Oh absolutely. They would use literally any excuse, including something entirely fabricated if necessary.

What a damn farce this is.

Don’t know what to tell you. I’m expressing my opinion on how I personally see them, which is an entity that is openly hostile to the American public.

People voting for them doesn’t negate this. It only means that people vote against their own self-interests, which is nothing new as we’ve seen time and time again.

That doesn’t change my opinion. That alliance is to the U.S. government, not to the U.S. people. I consider them to be a hostile entity.

With Israel’s mask off, other nations need to start allowing these protesters so long as they don’t actually turn violent.

We don’t need to pretend that Israel is the “good guys” anymore; they’ve straight-up told us told us that they aren’t.

The birth rate over 30 is probably lower, and putting a deadline forces you into a FOMO situation.

I’ve a heard a similar theory explaining why some (U.S.) Republicans want to ban fertility treatments: FOMO to have kids younger because you might not be able to later.

I personally think this will not work out the way they plan it to, bu there is a twisted train of thought behind it.

Can we finally stop pretending that Israel is an “ally.” I consider the state of Israel to be an enemy to the general American public.

That’s some “she was asking for it with the way she was dressed” shit.

Or more like “she was asking for it simply for existing”

firing a prohibited “Dragon’s Breath” incendiary shotgun

Knew what it was going to be as soon as I read the headline.

While parents certainly have an influence on their children’s ideologies and political leanings, it isn’t deterministic. Those children do still have agency, and external factors such as education (which yes, I know is under attack) and urbanization matter. Or even just simple youthful rebelliousness.

Regardless, I wouldn’t advocate left-leaning people to have more kids in some ill-advised attempt at a reproductive arms race. Among other issues, we are still staring in the face of environmental collapse.

It’s not about feeling better. It’s about calling out bad behavior (i.e. misogyny).

It’s about risk management, first and foremost.

I suppose you might get a second look from a 4B-practitioner if you had a vasectomy (i.e. to remove the risk of pregnancy), but I’m a man so I can only speculate on this. And of course this isn’t such a great option if you do plan to have kids some day. Then again, despite the anti-abortion rhetoric of “don’t have sex if you aren’t ready to reproduce”, planned pregnancies are much more dangerous under abortion bans.

Completely reasonable response to Project 2025.

No sarcasm, I’m quite serious. This is the play.

Also: set a nonstandard finger in a weird way as your finger unlock if you wanna use that

I actually do this. 3 wrong attempts and the phone requires a password.

I consider it a very light measure and not something to rely on alone, but it’s a bit of a no-brainer for how easy and unobtrusive this is.

or can move your finger to the fingerprint sensor).

Good luck guessing which finger and on which hand. You have 3 tries before a password is required.

🎶 I want to see your adblock-block-block

🎶 Your adblock-block

Been using Firefox for as long as I can remember now. Never had a reason to switch away, and I’m feeling rather vindicated.

I think enshittification is a one-way street.

The U.S. even has a designated area to test all this shit out on before bringing it home.