• ameancow@lemmy.world
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      19 hours ago

      Ah, so that’s what it is. You saw someone bad screaming about problems with population demographics and have been programmed to scream and rage whenever you see someone actually talking about a real issue, that’s a real good way to become stupid.

      This has nothing to do with ethnicity, this is logistics, countries that are simultaneously not opening borders for immigration AND not doing more to support family growth are going to experience economic collapse, which will have catastrophic effects on distribution networks.

      You still with me?

      Rapid population collapse hurts more people than the harmful effects of overpopulation, and modern trends are showing a global decline in birth rates, with some nations like South Korea are going to be completely insolvable within a couple generations and cities will be abandoned.

      SK is the worst case, but this is widescale and largely a product of capitalist influence and authoritarianism making people not want to have relationships and family, along with the toxic social effects of the internet.

      You want me to shove data up my ass too?

      https://www.imf.org/en/publications/fandd/issues/2024/09/picture-this-demographic-decline-andrew-stanley

      https://www.bsr.org/en/emerging-issues/the-global-population-slowdown

      https://www.npr.org/2025/10/27/nx-s1-5576355/population-babies-capitalism

      https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/population-decline-future-shock-no-more

      Don’t let fuckers like Elon Musk hijack issues that actually matter and have control over how you feel about what you see. Why would you give someone like that so much power over how you feel?

      You can’t say you hate what happened with USAID and ignore the effects on logistics from industrial nations becoming unable to produce. This is about capitalism crushing our hope for a future and making people not want to have lives and futures.

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          19 hours ago

          Okay so you’re too emotional to read or understand things that you would otherwise agree with, can’t backtrack on reactions, right?

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            19 hours ago

            I understand that your point is reactionary institutional bullshit, regardless of how you try to spin it. It’s a racist conspiracy theory for people worried about losing their social status and entitlement. You’re blowing a dog whistle. Fuck off with this.

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              19 hours ago

              I am citing an issue with xenophobic capitalism, and you won’t even get past your own breathless reactionary impulses to consider that this is an issue that will become a bigger and bigger issue, unless you think the current crisis in South Korea and Japan are conspiracy theories.

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                  18 hours ago

                  You’re not listening, this isn’t a political issue, it’s logistics.

                  Right now, in South Korea, if they don’t open borders then every woman will have to have five children and each of their children will need to have five children to keep the nation functioning.

                  This is a trend-line that many countries are following because of capitalist influence crushing family and community, it’s just that South Korea is ahead of the pack. If you don’t care and want rapid decline, then good, embrace it and thump your chest that you want millions and millions of people to die as logistics networks collapse over the next several decades. If it was slower we could adapt, but it’s happening too fast for supply chains to adapt to, the supply chains that get you your medicine and toys and food and medicine for developing nations.

                  If this is acceptable to you, then fine. Wear it proud and say you’re against humanity broadly, there are plenty of people who think our world would be better off without us at all. You’re not allowed to complain about other social issues like withdrawing vaccine research and so on, and it makes me wonder what you’re even trying to do by interacting with anyone online or why you care if someone is “blowing dog whistles” it’s all contradictory.

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                    18 hours ago

                    I’m all for open borders. Also, that’s all status quo pro capitalism reasoning. I’m fine with certain systems collapsing, and this puts pressure on more accepting immigration policy, which would also open trade up to a more accessible level. Sounds like a win to me.