2019? Oh... oh dear.
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Cyanide & Happiness (C&H) is a webcomic created by Rob DenBleyker, Kris Wilson, Dave McElfatrick and Matt Melvin. The comic has been running since 2005 and is published on the website explosm.net along with animated shorts in the same style. Matt Melvin left C&H in 2014, and several other people have contributed to the comic and to the animated shorts
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The real depressing message is always... π€’... in the comments.
There, I made myself say it. I apologize if I gave anybody flashbacks to any older, worse social link aggregator platforms.
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Governments when theres no parental leave, unaffordable childcare, skyrocketing cost of living, no social spaces, and they actively sell out the future yet for some strange reason nobody is having children:
OP: My desire to reproduce outweighed my capacity for foresight!
I'll throw my lot in with OP. I'm not leaving the planet to the fucking nazis.
It almost used to be a truism that the youth were more progressive than the older generations, but nowadays... Not sure if it's borne out of rebelliousness edginess or what. Agreed at how disappointing and gross it is.
The owner class wonders why birthrates are down. This is on peopleβs minds when deciding about families, whether the powerful want to acknowledge that or not. They only care about birthrates so much as it goes to maintaining their power anyway. This is why they are fighting abortion access and sex ed. They count on teen & unplanned pregnancy to prop up their labor market.
My son was born in December 2019. Not a day goes by where I don't feel this in my soul. I hate knowing the suffering he is likely to witness or experience so a few can have it all. It equally depresses and infuriates me.
There are also great opportunities. You care, he will care. That's a good foundation.
Thank you for saying so!
Most people aren't these YT commenters or Twitter megaphones like Donald Trump.
It's an attention amplification mirage. But we've fed the trolls and given them power.
IMO if folks were largely aware of that, they'd be burning down the headquarters of Big Tech, Big Media, stuff like that. Instead, it makes them depressed because it looks like all other humans are mad, and I find that really sad.
You definitely have a point. They're not a majority of people. They're just so loud and noisy the real majority can't have a decent conversation anymore.
Not in social media, at least. Social media is totally rigged and scored to fascism.
The reason assholes like Trump can win elections is because there are SO many other assholes who support them.
Trump won because more people valued hurting others than helping others.
Trump won because of algorithmic propaganda and people following idols instead of history.
This includes the 'assholes' who have been indocrinated for decades.
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In other news, birth rates are inexplicably plummeting across the globe. Governments remain baffled.
China reversed its one-child policy and people there are having even fewer kids.
Latin America isn't at the replacement rate of 2 children per couple any more. You know, the continent with all those Catholics? They aren't having kids.
Only Africa now is above the replacement rate. Likely not for long.
Human population will peak way sooner than expected.
What will Western billionaires do when the flow of poor brown people stops? They're dependent on them for cheap labour and to deflect blame onto.
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If I saw any real positive progress being made I'd reverse my decision to not have kids, but they all seem to want to do what's worst for the planet, so why actively bring someone into that?
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Fuck that's a depressing comic
And its from 6 years ago...
This here is straight up one of the biggest reasons I do not want a kid. Right now it sure seems like the best thing I could do for my children is not force existence upon them.
I once had a girlfriend tell me she aborted a baby I'd fathered. At the time I was surprised (I learned there was a baby), puzzled, saddened, depressed, and I went to have a drink (ok, several).
But of course she was right.
What kind of lunatic would raise children nowadays?
However The problem is that only lunatics would raise children nowadays. So we'll end up with people raised by lunatics. Our species will drift towards lunacy. (Ok, we're already looneys) Is it realistic to throw kids into the boiling pot to counter the crazy ones? Or should we just let the crazies fight amongst themselves?
I'm for the lmatter (also I won't be there, so it's not like I care, unless I can haunt them, in which case theyre going to fucking suffer), what's your POV?
As much as I'd like humanity to improve, it feels off to task my not-yet-existent child with trying to fix humanity. It still simply doesn't feel right to bring a child into this existence, and it still doesn't feel right to task them with fixing it all.
If I had more hope that very serious improvements are guaranteed, I might be more keen on it. As it currently sits, it's not my unborn child's job to fix what I failed to fix.
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One of those comics that only get more depressing as it ages
This is why, as a father, you go on a search for the amulet.
Every generation has had to deal with some version of this, either they could see it coming or they got blindsided by something. Not saying that makes it ok, it just happens.
Has there been a time in history where they expected their offspring to live a harder life then themselves though?
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