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    Boomer: “Climate change will be your burden to suffer through”.

    Gen Z: “It’s not fair. You got a full life of profligacy before the effects were even noticeable. I get none of the material wealth and I’m going to have to live my whole long life suffering increasing effects of it.”

    Boomer: “Not so long.”

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        Told my mom I didn’t want kids and she said, “Oh you’ll change your mind”

        I came out to my mom as gay and she said “well you can always adopt”

        Then I started intense birth control treatments for my fucked up reproductive system and she was like, “you can still adopt”

        Yeeted my uterus, cervix, and fallopian tubes just before my bday this summer and threw a fuckin party afterwards because now there is absolutely no way I can ever be a parent AND my reproductive system can’t do whatever the fuck it wants cause it doesn’t exist!

        My mom finally accepted that this part of the family tree has ended after that. This while process happened over 18 years. I started telling her I didn’t wanna be a parent when I was TEN.

        Edit: I should prolly say that my mom isn’t a boomer, but Gen X. She’s surrounded constantly by boomers and other members of Gen X who act like boomers so she has picked up a lot of the traits. Practically demanding grandchildren was the worst boomer thing she’s done so far, and I hope it stays that way.

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            How my grandmother was when my sister was adopted. Never treated her the same as the rest of the grandkids. Even when my sister helped care for the bitch 24/7 while she was living in our home dying of self-inflicted lung cancer.

            I was not sad when my grandmother died, if you can tell.

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          “well you can always adopt”

          As if adoption wasn’t an extremely intensive process that goes on for who knows how many years and even then it’s not guaranteed you’ll actually get the kid. Let alone how much it differs from DIY.

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                Ah. See, I don’t want children because I’m what you call a selfish person and want to live my life completely unbound. Kids would just kill my dreams and the vibe.

                The ethical part is just a bonus to make me feel even better about my decision.

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                  This guy’s an anti-natalist, I wouldn’t take seriously anything he fucking says.

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                    You are a very simple person. Does being unburdened by understanding anything feel liberating? Do you do it by choice, or are you just incapable?

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                Fuck off. Anti-natalism is eugenics and anyone who advocates for it is a Nazi in my eyes. Not to mention 90% of you all just project your major depression and misery into literal 8 year olds. Please just go to therapy.

                Every conversation people have about “degrowth” and “the earth has too many people” always leads to someone advocating for eugenics OR LITERAL GENOCIDE. The Earth, right at this moment, can hold ten billion people. The problem is capitalism, consumerism and food waste.

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                  Everything you don’t like or understand is Nazi?

                  Degrowth. It’s not antinatalism, nor eugenics. But simple people need simple answers. It’s ethically shrinking humanity’s population and consumption to within what the earth can sustain. That’s it.

                  You know what hole to shove your Nazi bullshit up.

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                    The earth can comfortably hold 10-12 billion people or even more. The only thing people think when people say “we must reduce the human population” is KILLING MINORITIES or KEEPING THEM FROM REPRODUCING. There is more than enough space and food for TEN BILLION PEOPLE RIGHT NOW. The problem is capitalism. Not the fact people are having children.

                    Literally every time this conversation is started the only thing people think about is commiting genocide against a population that reproduces a lot. Take your bullshit elsewhere.

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      I once saw it described as the Boomers being the “fuck around” generation and Gen Z being the “find out” generation.