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I don't think for China specifically, though?

There'd be motherfuckers on TikTok snorting lines of asbestos

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Trump never dropped tariffs on China, did he?

Yeah in a global environment essentially China is the workforce/factory workers of the previous gilded age.

Maybe 15-20 years ago, but not so much anymore. Cost of labor has been rising in China dramatically to the point that a lot of manufacturing is leaving China.

when my own joy brought others joy. That was the only thing that was worth it.

If that's something you truly value, then you should absolutely have kids. There is no joy greater than that which a child feels, especially one with a loving family.

I also don't think experiencing life is inconsequential. Sure, it doesn't have some grand cosmic consequence. Our existence has virtually 0 impact on nearly all of reality. But that's not the only way to define something as consequential. What's important to me is my life and the lives of those I care about (which extends far beyond just the people I know personally). My kids' existence has been enormously consequential for many people who I care about, and my life has been enormously consequential on that of my kids.

I don't need some grand cosmic meaning behind that. The meaning of life is whatever you choose to make of it. For me, that's providing as much enjoyment and fulfillment to my family as I can.

Maybe it's because I'm not in IT and don't write code, since an overwhelming number of posts seem to be directed at coders/IT professionals, but most posts on all just aren't interesting to me.

Of course not. Everyone suffers in their life at some point. That's called being alive.

I think that's also an absurd hurdle to insist someone has to clear.

With hall that filtered, how does anything even show up? I feels like there's 10 new posts a day, and 7 of them are about American politics. (Obvious exaggeration)

The fascists have no qualms with having kids and raising them to be little fascists, too. I had kids because I wanted to love and care for people as I help them develop into capable and caring people, but I'm also glad that at least 2 of the members of the generation who will be running this planet when I'm old won't have been raised by fascists.

I think this whole line of reasoning that it's immoral or cruel to have children at all is just plain dumb and utterly nonsensical. Yes, there's a lot of fucked up shit in the world. But, other than climate change, this is far from the worst the world has ever been. Brining people into the world now is not particularly worse for them than, say, having kids in Medieval Europe where there was a decent chance they'd die as an infant or get the plague, but the best case you could hope for was to give them the life of a subsistence dirt farmer. Or ancient Mesopotamia, where, again, odds are they'd die in childhood, but they couldn't expect better than barely surviving on the edge of starvation. Etc, etc, etc.

Yet through all that people managed to find ways to improve their conditions and that of those around them. People fought and built better lives and a better world. Fuck anyone who tells me I should just give up and just resign that the world now and forever belongs to the fascists and capitalists.

Having kids is not cruel. Despite the darkness, there's still a hell of a lot of happiness to be had in this world. I look at the expressions of pure joy on my kids' faces as they explore the forest near our house, or when I get home from work, or when they make cookies for their mom, etc. And you're telling me giving them that joy is cruel? How detached from reality do you have to be to believe that?

I, too, would very much like to know. Not so much to get a new Reddit account, but if Reddit is able to track me across devices, IP addresses, browsers, etc, then who knows who else is tracking us across all that.

I did. I was pretty active on NoStupidQuestions there. I called another user a fascist sanewasher because he was claiming Musk's Nazi Salute at the inauguration was perfectly normal and something every politician does all the time. Within 15 minutes of me posting my comment I got a 7 day ban from the sub. Less than a day later I got perma-banned from Reddit completely. I hadn't even commented or posted anything between getting the 7 day ban and the perm-ban.

I also had an alt account which I hadn't used in a few years. I logged into that and found it was also permbanned, referencing my other account.

A couple of weeks later I got a new laptop (unrelated). I downloaded a new browser I'd never used on any device before (Brave), turned on my VPN and created a new Reddit account using a burner email address. Within a day, before I even posted or commented anything, the new account got permabanned and they referenced my other account. I don't know how they knew it was me. It was a device that had never logged into my old accounts, in a browser that advertises itself as secure and that I had never used before, on a VPN so they weren't matching my IP address. I'm clearly permanently banned, though.

This is a big part of how it's become so pervasive lately, although the racists have been complaining about the same thing for a very long time. The internet and influencer culture has allowed them to monetize the outrage in ways that weren't possible before.