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Unfortunately not. Their fans love this shit, seriously. Remember they're the same fans who went feral during the kneeling demonstrations.

I definitely get it. Ecological fallout keeps me up in cold sweats more nights than not. I'm not sure most people realize how bad it could get, either. All the trees in the world don't make enough oxygen to replace the oxygen we'd need if the cyanobacteria in the ocean dies out, and it's getting perilous with the acidification of the ocean.

That said, I do still see raising a child well as an act of hope for the future. As a parent, that's my most important mission. Could they possibly die/suffer? Yes, but unfortunately that's a risk that all parents run by having a child (and all people run by being alive), no matter what the cause turns out to be. Climate disaster, leukemia, car wreck, it all nets the same thing— pain and suffering for your child. I guess I just take the stance of the Man and the Boy in the Road: we're the ones that carry the fire, and we have to keep carrying it to keep hope and other good things alive.

I'm not saying everyone needs to have kids though! It's rewarding, but this shit is hard as fuck. It's not for everyone. Hell, it wasn't for me until I aged about three decades and did serious work on myself. Adoption is also an option, though harder to do than most people think unfortunately :/

Excellent bit

While many beautiful things are passing away, that implies that there aren't still beautiful things here worth fighting for. I see value in bringing new people into the world and helping them love it and it's life like I do. The world needs more people who care fighting for it, not less.

That's hilarious, 2 was my number one choice, and 5 was runner up if 2 wasn't an option

Source: some guy on substack

You're missing the context of WHEN THEY ARE the targets. Women are more often on the receiving end for both. Just because one gender gets one type of violence more often, still doesn't mean they receive more instances of it over the other.

Read this whole thing and tries to shift the focus to himself and how it makes him feel. Amazing. Bear please.

I mean, yeah. Young people of both genders are doing really poorly. Some people want to really naval gaze it and throw pity parties about how men are just so put upon and lonely, but so are the gals and theys.

It's just that the boys are being offered a solution of basically a heirarchy-cult (read: fascism) where instead of being shat on like the rest of us, they are—in this narrative—meant to be elevated above us.

It's the same bullshit that got the white poor rednecks voting for billionaire grifters.

I'll definitely give it a go! Been meaning to do another binge anyway. I think the last season I even saw was the one using them drowning as a plot device

Well somebody's about to get added to a Signal chat

Dang, the characters are my favorite part of lost :/