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From what women tell me, I can confirm this. After giving birth, a lot of their female friends just kind of ghost them, because they are just not as fun to be around anymore.

it's way more serious than this

public life in america is catastrophically antichild. it's difficult to even communicate how bad it is to someone who's never experienced normal family life outside the US. spending time on vacation doesn't really get it fully across because vacation time isn't normal time.

in the US, when I had babies and young children, I could not rely on basic humanity from other people. it varies in intensity and ime it is least bad in the south and the worst in the PNW but even in the nicest friendliest parts of the south there is something absent that in my experience is present in every other part of the world except the UK, which is the sense that everyone helps out children and mothers because we're all in this together.

I'm talking about very, very basic things like letting parents with young children ahead of you in line, noticing that a young mother getting on a bus is struggling with multiple children and packages and a stroller, and a really, really big one is allowing children freedom to climb and play and be a little rambunctious in situations where they're stuck waiting and bored without aggressively shaming the parents.
 
I'm talking about very, very basic things like letting parents with young children ahead of you in line, noticing that a young mother getting on a bus is struggling with multiple children and packages and a stroller, and a really, really big one is allowing children freedom to climb and play and be a little rambunctious in situations where they're stuck waiting and bored without aggressively shaming the parents.
The bus thing implies this is mostly urban bugman behavior; but yes you are generally correct. I remember an incident long ago on Fox News where I want to say someone on the network shamed a mother for having kids/being a stay-at-home-mom, implying that was not real work.

This attitude transcends political boundaries. I think what you're really describing is part of atomization and the loss of a sense of community, which is amplified in urban environments.
 
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Contrived just-so hypotheticals can be used to reject anything and even better: with literally hundreds of millions of people in the country I bet you can even find a couple people that have had this happen!

So following this to it's logical conclusion we should never do or change anything (and anyone currently getting screwed, even if it's 100k people compared to your three people with their just-so circumstance, can just fuck off apparently). This is obviously retarded but hey look at these 10 heart wrenching pictures that will make you stop caring out having boarders and shit.
This was not my intent, and I don't claim nothing should happen or no reforms should be done. I think @BradeRunna's being shat upon for making the point that non-MAGA republicans will nine out of ten shoot themselves in the foot, though he IS being a sperg. @WelperHelper99 seems to suffer from the just world fallacy. My position is wiping the roles of clear malingerers, people who haven't paid into the system, and clear illegals before we start cutting the safety net of responsible White Americans.
 
Asians are just as harmful to white countries too. By outcompeting white children in schools by merit of overworking their kids to death in pursuit of white collar jobs
I'm excited to talk about this because it's been a core part of my life lately: i've been studying it a lot because my town is loaded with asians from 1st-3rd generation and i've been seeing a paradigm shift.

Two facts I learned:
A: By the second generation of kids, (the immigrants grandkids) this stops. Asians who were raised by parents born here are almost identical to white kids in terms of interests and performance and general attitude. Average to lazy, decent to good grades, experiment with drugs and partying, will only do things they're interested in. They want to be influencers and gamers not engineers and doctors.
B: For the past 10 years the intensity of this stereotype even for second generation immigrants has dramatically lessened. Anecdotal evidence, but my vietnamese coworker's parents basically got blackpilled by having their degrees become absoleted by some computer program, 40 years of torturous tiger parenting down the shitter.

Point b is happening alot, apparently not just with immigrants but in asia as well. Things change so much nobody sees hyperspecializing as a safe idea. There's also fewer rewards for success sense global growth has slowed to a crawl. I think a lot of that culture is starting to reach the natural end of its life span, the same way white overachiever culture did in the 60s.

The area I live in is loaded with oriental asians, mostly korean chinese and vietnamese. I've learned the amount of burnout Asians suffer by their 40s is unreal and frankly depressing to witness. I've never met any other group of people who are just done with life, like a dementor sucked their soul out.

Even those miserable fat white divorced dads who walk around in their dirty shirts? They will laugh at your conversation or pick up some lame hobby to make their life meaningful, they'll find happiness in their new shitty attitude. But these career asians just have this mixed vibe of dread/horror/disappointment/regret that makes me want to give them a hug and tell them to come to a strip club with me and relax.

I wish I could show you guys photos or recordings of some of the people in my town but this face from google images sums it up well:
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This unbelievable sense of dread, like they know they want to say fuck it all, but their nervous system has been whipped at such a deep psychological level they don't even know how, it's like touching a hot furnace, their brain refuses to let them do it. I've tried to tell some of them "you know you really don't need to do that stuff (nobody or any system is ever going to appreciate or need the extra work you're doing dude... you're just wasting your time)" and they give me this look of "i know... but i can't stop... i mean i physically cannot make my body stop working... please help me.!!"

They don't know HOW to break bad, snap and just quit, rest on their savings and do some easy 60k a year job. They're physically incapable of being content if there is more work to be done, but on the other hand doing that work is making them so miserable they can't even form sentences.

It's one of the saddest things i've ever seen and i'm glad it's finally being talked about.
The whitepill is i've been seeing some random asian dudes online talk about how they broke out so it seems to be possible:

Because i know people are going to ask: No... indians are not like this at all they're fucking lazy, stupid, and self entitled from start to finish.
 
public life in america is catastrophically antichild. it's difficult to even communicate how bad it is to someone who's never experienced normal family life outside the US. spending time on vacation doesn't really get it fully across because vacation time isn't normal time.

in the US, when I had babies and young children, I could not rely on basic humanity from other people. it varies in intensity and ime it is least bad in the south and the worst in the PNW but even in the nicest friendliest parts of the south there is something absent that in my experience is present in every other part of the world except the UK, which is the sense that everyone helps out children and mothers because we're all in this together.
WTF are you talking about? White America is better than literally every other country on the planet when it comes to how nice strangers are to families. The PNW is very European in its coldness, but the rest of the country is extremely warm.
I'm talking about very, very basic things like letting parents with young children ahead of you in line, noticing that a young mother getting on a bus is struggling with multiple children and packages and a stroller, and a really, really big one is allowing children freedom to climb and play and be a little rambunctious in situations where they're stuck waiting and bored without aggressively shaming the parents.
>bus
That explains it. No one middle-class or above rides the bus unless they're an anti-natalist bugman.
 
Why drink coffee anyway? That stuff is probably designed to be addictive, makes you feel anxious and acts like a laxative. It's not healthy, and withdrawal headaches are terrible. Just get tea with no caffeine in it and drink that.
Wtf is this mormon schizo nonsense. "Designed to be addictive" my friend it is an extract of dried fermented fruit seeds. God made it that way

He made coffee delicious
He showed coffee to goats, then ethiopians, then turks, then real people, sparing us effort in cultivating and letting us have the Enlightenment
He spread coffee across the world
He kept it out of the hands of communists in the 1980s thus securing the US victory in the Cold War
He made all the nations who live where it grows retarded and exploitable
He made all of the nations who are smart really good and distinctive at making it (except americans, american style coffee milkshakes are yucky)
He made it to teach us the value of agrarian slavery, of bitterness and complexity in flavor, of industry and international commerce, of the virtues of milk

god is great and so is coffee
 
Wtf is this mormon schizo nonsense.
I'm no Mormon, but I can speak from half a decade of experience of drinking it. It's clearly not helping me anymore, I'm done with it. And not only that, it's wasting my money at this point for more reasons than one. I'm not, say, advocating for criminalization of it for moral/religious reasons, but I'm just done with it.
 
public life in america is catastrophically antichild. it's difficult to even communicate how bad it is to someone who's never experienced normal family life outside the US
My observations from being a parent in the US is that Americans view a baby as a burden that prevents them from doing things they want and isolates them from friends. It's considered an embarrassment to show up to a hangout with a baby. The culture views parents of young children as uncool and teaches that unplanned pregnancies are the worst thing to happen to a woman. Women do not have maternity leave by default.

My friends in Israel who have babies have a different experience where it's completely normal to have a baby around during casual hangouts and the parents are not so isolated. If you go out to a restaurant no one minds the baby. The general culture is more child friendly as well where having kids is viewed as a positive thing.

The benefit of the American view is that it's more individualistic and allows you to be more selective in how you raise your kid.

The benefit of the Israeli view is that it's more communal and you get more support but less selective in how you raise your kid.
 
The Chinese Navy has very little in terms of blue water capabilities, ESPECIALLY in terms of proper capital ships. There's a reason why they're desperately trying to get as many ships as possible for landing crafts and are still trying to fix their aircraft carrier. The best they can do is try to make up for their lack of offshore ability with the threat of submarines.
The Chinese have 3 aircraft carriers, over 50 frigates, and over 50 destroyers. Not including subs or landing craft. Wut?
This was not my intent, and I don't claim nothing should happen or no reforms should be done. I think @BradeRunna's being shat upon for making the point that non-MAGA republicans will nine out of ten shoot themselves in the foot, though he IS being a sperg. @WelperHelper99 seems to suffer from the just world fallacy. My position is wiping the roles of clear malingerers, people who haven't paid into the system, and clear illegals before we start cutting the safety net of responsible White Americans.
I suffer from not wanting things to stay the way they are. The system is getting bled dry. Yeah work if you want Medicare. Don't be a trailer hillbilly only taking and not giving back. Lived in Illinois and that was the state in a nutshell. Excuse my lack of empathy
 
Also can the mods threadban this retard? I'm all for people with different opinions coming in here and discussing things but this fag literally shits up the thread with inane bullshit like this when someone disagrees with them.
By that logic they would have to ban @The Last Stand for being the dumbest person alive.

He won't get this.
 
They're physically incapable of being content if there is more work to be done, but on the other hand doing that work is making them so miserable they can't even form sentences.
That's basically academia in a nutshell and it transcends race. It's why being a research professor is possibly the worst job on earth.
 
I'm no Mormon, but I can speak from half a decade of experience of drinking it. It's clearly not helping me anymore, I'm done with it. And not only that, it's wasting my money at this point for more reasons than one. I'm not, say, advocating for criminalization of it for moral/religious reasons, but I'm just done with it.
Is coffee good for you???
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