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Subversive Saint's avatar

Shouldn't there be a pet cat somewhere in the picture?

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Jake Bullet's avatar

Four simple graphic panels, but they illustrate one of the fundamental truths of our existence. Those of us who choose to have children, and pass on our values to them, enjoy increasing life as we age. Having a family means making friends with other families, and then on to grandchildren as the decades pass.

Those who choose otherwise suffer decreasing life. Whether through unwarranted fear, selfishness, or ideological possession by an evil death cult, the outcome remains the same. The future will not belong to them, and rightly so.

I have every sympathy for couples who wanted kids but cannot through no fault of their own. In those cases, though, they tend to get involved in their communities and wider families. They do the best they can to experience a positive, satisfying life, because they are drawn to that path whatever their personal circumstances.

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Beery Swine's avatar

Daria Morgendorffer also had a cool wine aunt, and she was physically attractive. You can get away with anything in cartoons.

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Vlajdermen's avatar

Ah yes. Teen Karen: the Animated Series.

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Jesan Sorrells's avatar

No wine aunt will ever be this honest. They can't be.

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David Aquinas's avatar

Spot on. Use stories to wake up people.

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The Candid Clodhopper's avatar

Ooof.

They may have had the largest inheritance in human history, but a lot of boomers are paying the toll in another way, cashed out as dying alone/in a nursing home. Their unrepentant evil and selfishness has not gone unpunished, even in this life.

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Okrahead's avatar

The night of the pillow approaches.

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Beery Swine's avatar

It's more like "the day of the negro orderly" for them at this point.

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Aaron Kulkis's avatar

Who do you think applies the pillow?

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Beery Swine's avatar

Touché.

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The Candid Clodhopper's avatar

It’s even worse than the meme/joke about being suffocated with a pillow. Rather, they’ll die alone, with only their pillow for comfort.

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Aaron Kulkis's avatar

Yes, there's the recent case of the bed-bound nursing-home resident Boomer who died in a what was apparently a trial run for the Week of the Shit-Puddle.

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Okrahead's avatar

Man was created to serve God.

Whatever else he accomplishes in life, if a man does not serve God he is a failure.

Woman was created to be man’s helper.

Whatever else a woman accomplishes in life, if she is not a man’s helper, she is a failure.

Boomers delenda est

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Captain Kipps's avatar

A few years ago Pete Quinones and others made the point that HALF of US women will never have children. And what sort of horrid politics will play out from it.

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Uncouth Barbarian's avatar

Yup.

This really is a good explanation for the differences in crazy between the coasts and middle America. Looking at marriage rates/children explains a lot.

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Captain Kipps's avatar

Cities are notorious for their low birth rates. It’s a bad mixture of super high cost of living with a political/social attitude that kids are bad.

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Joe Katzman's avatar

Cities also attract disproportionate talent from their hinterlands. Hence the NRx term:

“IQ Shredder.”

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Captain Kipps's avatar

Here’s the audio version. Gotta thank Skeptical Waves for uploading it.

https://youtu.be/fyYIVL1A0DI?si=

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Cedric's avatar

On the most expensive streets in a metropolitan town, I've read how children have been compared with luxury handbags. They're sociologically useless. Expensive and lacks a utility or any purpose. People want them, but they don't really need them. And that explains the affluenza of the rich kids who haven't been raised.

In that same country, in the countryside, children are a blessing from God. And another set of hands for the farm or the family business.

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Snowyteller's avatar

Lotta people when they're in the pit and see a younger one on the edge they grab the ankles and pull.

There's worse mind you, for a frog if foolish enough will make hero out of scorpion.

Some even smile as they're chewed up.

Blessed are we to be spared such horrors.

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GH's avatar

Some people enjoy tailored self-destruction.

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Jerry's avatar

"Free spirits don't age well." (A saying told to me by a woman I dated, who started noticing this in graduate school.) Especially when they are wrong to begin with.

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Jake Bullet's avatar

One of the dysfunctional ideas pushed by Feminism is that there are no penalties or consequences for poor choices and self-destructive actions. This has infantilised those women. They abandon motherhood and life itself for superficial hedonism. Realisation arrives too late if at all.

Another is that women can lead simply by virtue of being. It's female authority without right, unearned, so it fails. The kind of delusion that this leads to is that a top-tier man will wife her up when it suits her, not him. Usually a decade or more past her age of peak attractiveness.

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Cedric's avatar

Since when did we stop being a social animal? Eating alone and celebrating events without friends is a social failure. In puberty, everyone starts to care very much about being social and popular. I've got no memory of that going out of style.

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Michael Maier's avatar

I don't know. Young people seem really damaged. They seem to want to get diagnosed with something.

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Cedric's avatar

A diagnosis explains things. It's an argument for why it's okay to perform less. Because you have X, and therefore it's harder.

The thing is that you still have to perform if you want to succeed.

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JBRChiRho's avatar

Very well said

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ScuzzaMan's avatar

Whichever way you look at it, somewhere behind a free spirit is a dead body.

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JerseyGeneral's avatar

> Never go with a hippie to a second location

--Jack Donaghy

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Alan Schmidt's avatar

Most are too hopped up on SSRIs to have that much self reflection.

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Vlajdermen's avatar

She'll just find someone else to blame

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Jimmy Neutron's avatar

If only the cool wine aunts were this honest it would save everyone a heap of trouble.

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ImperialistCanuck's avatar

If only Jimmy Neutron was based enough to air an episode with that kind of message

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Michael Maier's avatar

It blows my mind that no one has made a "Tuttle Twin"esque cartoon series with a Biblical, Western mindset.

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SM's avatar

Many such cases. All of my Boomer mother's feminist friends look like that.

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