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@NebraskaBobert @HartZ677 @Zach216 Lol

@deumcole @HartZ677 @Zach216 No it’s not

I want to ask everyone who is saying: - Health care is too expensive - We don't have maternity leave - Day care is too expensive Why are birthrates even lower in Nordic countries?

@NebraskaBobert @HartZ677 @Zach216 They have a lot less money in Sudan

@deumcole @HartZ677 @Zach216 We stopped at one because money

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@max_schneiter @CrabP3rson Thanks for that Max

@deumcole @CrabP3rson It's called sarcasm dipshit

@n0t_pop Dude. Whether I do or don't is outside the point. I do, but it doesn't matter. It seems like supporting them has turned into a purity test for getting to the actual question. Why would they increase birth rates here when they don't increase birthrates there

@deumcole So you don’t support them.

@BillMoo23535153 It's definitely Candy Crush.

@deumcole More Candy Crush? 😆 Shocking that Americans are like this…

@HartZ677 @Zach216 The cost of living in Sudan is worse

@Zach216 @deumcole Exactly, here in the US it’s compounded by the crazy cost of living too.

@fuzzyroses1 @HartZ677 @Zach216 People aren't having kids in the US so they don't have the living conditions in Sudan?

@deumcole @HartZ677 @Zach216 Because people in the US don’t want the same living conditions as people in Sudan.

@MitraHispana Are children good?

Those are primarily developing countries with no education for women or birth control. Agrarian societies. They have no other choice. Once they do, birth rates decline as overall living standards rise. Teen pregnancies are overlooked. Everywhere women are still having kids. But birthrates are lower because *girls* aren’t having as many kids. 6 is good. We’re not mares.

@DaoOfMorphy That must be it. I'm a critical thinker and that's clearly what he said and meant.

@deumcole Is it because they play more Candy Crush?

@n0t_pop Only if someone is hearing what I'm not saying. I'm not saying they're bad. I'm asking why they don't seem to be doing what folks are saying they would do, if we had them in the US

@deumcole You see where the implication you don’t support these things comes from right?

@biff_ff @spqr_sulla @mcconn_chris No honey, not tonight There's just too many billionaires

@spqr_sulla @mcconn_chris @deumcole Right wing internet guy means it’s “anything but the billionaires”

@HartZ677 @Zach216 I know Then why aren't people having kids in the US?

@deumcole @Zach216 We’re in the US, not Sudan.

@DJportapotty @Zach216 I know Why do they keep having kids when it's so bad?

@deumcole @Zach216 sudan has one of the worst infant and childhood mortality rates in the world. its on some 1700s shit.

@Zach216 There are a lot poorer people in Sudan having a lot more kids

@deumcole No clue, but personally finances have impacted my decision soooooooo, I’d say money is an issue

@alabasterangel2 @ZubyMusic This trend started way before the COVID vax

@ZubyMusic @deumcole Sterile by vax is important too. Had a few married friends that used IVF. its shocking when you're mature enough to realize it's not always a female issue. But I know you boys are fussy. Can't always be us, my sons.

@SimonettaCarr People really thought he was specifically talking about Candy Crush

@deumcole And in Italy. I think Sasse's reference to Candy Crush is just emblematic of a shift in life choices. My friends in Italy blame the economy but I think it's a matter of priorities.

@MitraHispana I'd say 1-3 don't make much sense to me. SS Africa and much of ME have suffered severe poverty and almost constant war for the last 100 years. They have a lot of kids 4 and 5 are basically two ways of saying the same thing The real answer is close to 6, though it's not good

Kind of “all of the above”. Some good and bad. 1) young people have more debt and lower wages than previous generations (BAD) 2) housing and food and childcare and gas and healthcare are outrageously expensive (BAD) 3) society is mean spirited and divided, or it at least seems that way, makes people feel tired and hopeless and alone such that they feel like they’re hurting a kid by bringing a baby into the world (BAD) 4) women have more education and independence, higher incomes (GOOD) 5) fewer teenagers having kids, which historically helped keep birthrates up (GOOD) 6) fewer people feel as though having children is an obligation and that it’s a moral failure to be childless (GOOD)

@SojuConnoisseur Do Iceland (and Japan) not have cultural coherence?

Because birthrates are downstream of cultural coherence.

@MitraHispana @n0t_pop No.

@deumcole @n0t_pop Implicitly, you are.