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[–] Soup@lemmy.cafe 14 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

There’s this shit, and there’s people right here on lemmy that worship the ground this piece of human filth walks on.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I don't think you should take the words of paid actors seriously in that context

[–] Soup@lemmy.cafe 5 points 2 hours ago

Oh I don’t. But the fact that there are people here that will, does concern me.

[–] abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 8 hours ago

Anyone who can look at a human being and say "this is what your just do no matter what because of what parts you have and nothing else" doesn't see others as full people.

[–] ravhall@discuss.online 93 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

When will these people just die already?!

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 60 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (2 children)

Right-wingers reach for these religious or moralistic justifications and laws, but Putin is probably just noticing, like many other countries, that their economy is screwed if their birth rates continue to decline. And yet the planet is screwed if we continue to increase. As climate change eats away at the habitable areas of the planet, the obvious thing is for habitable countries with declining birth rates to accept many immigrants from places climate causes people to flee from. This will help those people and help the receiving country's economy. Unfortunately the right wing is also too wrapped up in xenophobia to accept this solution. They'd rather double down on controlling women.

[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 42 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I recently heard a “housing expert” say that cities have to keep growing, there’s no sustainable static level of population, and I thought “there’s better be or we’re all fucked.”

The problem with capitalism is that it only works if there’s perpetual growth, which (as many before me have pointed out) is the logic of cancer.

[–] sensiblepuffin@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Tbf, people moving from rural areas to more dense and urban areas is kind of inevitable as time goes on. Megacities when?

[–] aniki@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] sensiblepuffin@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] aniki@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] sensiblepuffin@lemmy.world 0 points 12 hours ago

Dense and (I guess I should have said or) urban areas. If these people are moving to the outskirts of metro areas, they're creating a dense, if not urban, community.

[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 8 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

And why is that “inevitable?” Is it because capitalism makes agrarian life basically impossible?

The problem with studies based on any current trends is that they are all framed with the assumption that capitalism will continue to be the dominant socioeconomic system.

[–] sensiblepuffin@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

Currently the earth is overpopulated and many parts of the world are only just starting to slow their population growth. The problem of crowding is going to be here for awhile. Eventually it would be great if we could reduce our population to the point where there's plenty of space for all, if that sounds utopian to you, but for the time being we're going to have to live in denser areas if we want to deliver amenities and services to all (and we do).

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 9 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Let's send young men to die in Ukraine then I guess, IDK...

[–] angrystego@lemmy.world 15 points 17 hours ago

New ones are born every day, as the "women's purpose" dictates. I wish it was a generation thing, but I'm afraid it's ingrained on a deeper level.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 7 points 15 hours ago

If you want something done right, you've got to do it yourself.

[–] LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 73 points 17 hours ago (2 children)
[–] obinice@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

You leave Newbie outta this, he's a beloved Doctor!

[–] Soup@lemmy.cafe 1 points 3 hours ago
[–] NoNotLikeThat@lemm.ee 65 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

"Putin's purpose is to lick my dog's butthole" - me

[–] neidu2@feddit.nl 14 points 14 hours ago

Contrary to popular belief, you are actually factually spot on. It is all described in detail in soviet-era files, locked away.

Even JD Vance confirms this, ans I challenge FSB to release any documentation that disputes it.

[–] M600@lemmy.world 1 points 47 minutes ago

What if I dress up like Putin?

[–] Vieric@lemmy.world 41 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

No wonder Republicans love this asswipe...

[–] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 17 points 9 hours ago

Putin is now leading polls in the south.

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 31 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

sure. in putins russia. just like a mans is to die after insemination in the military.

[–] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 15 points 14 hours ago

No, it's just to die in the military.

The government bureaucrats will do the hard work of inseminating their daughters for them, to serve the state.

[–] HomerianSymphony@lemmy.world 9 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Russian men are being inseminated in the military?

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 7 points 14 hours ago

of course. its lonely in the front.

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 4 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Rape is rampant in Russian military and prisons.

[–] Desistance@lemmy.world 23 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

If Putin is doing it, then Republicans are not far behind. Look for that bill that taxes single people way more.

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 6 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Russia took a more original turn: as the key interest rate approached 20% APY, legislation was implemented to subsidize mortgage to people with kids (6% APY).

With rent prices soaring along (up to 75% in some places, about 40% on average year on year), housing market simply prices out everyone without kids, making living conditions way worse.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 10 points 6 hours ago

Vance is already talking about it.

[–] LouNeko@lemmy.world 21 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I thought a woman's purpose is to seize the means of production, just like a mans?

[–] FlorianSimon@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 hours ago

But what do you do with them after you've seize them? Do you still have a purpose in life? 🤭

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 16 points 17 hours ago

"and a man must fuck around and find out" - also Putin

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 9 points 5 hours ago

"you will make us more wage slaves or you will be jailed"

[–] beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 10 hours ago

Putin’s job is to bounce on my dick.
Fuckin shorty mktherfjcker im so sick of that twerp and everyone who thinks like him

[–] nobleshift@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago
[–] not_that_guy05@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago

Where have heard this before? Hmmm.

[–] emmy67@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

If what he says is true men have no purpose

[–] Mango@lemmy.world -2 points 4 hours ago

If you're going to assign purpose of a thing, you gotta also be claiming that you own that thing in some capacity. Otherwise it's not yours to purpose. So, it seems Putin is in favor of property. Bad communist!

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