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One thing with the Mouse Utopia experiment that he failed to do that should be tried. Is what if you took the mice who still were reproducing correctly and gave them an avenue of escape? Humans arent locked in a walled city. You see this time and again, peoples from civilizations that have collapsed escaped and rebuilt.
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I think that starts with college/university. Kids going away from family for 4 years earning degrees. Then moving to other parts of the nation to work in their prospective fields after. Doesnt work long term for communities or family stability. Yours is a good observation.
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@-WarCriminal-22 In the US, the government very shorty (By 2040) is going to either default, stop paying social benefits or, most likely, print like mad to be able to continue social programs. Women will be hardest hit. Women and children, since they depend most of government handouts. As it is right now SSI will be cut by 22% in 2033. That alone will rip the country apart. I wonder what all those old injured combat vets from near 2 decades of war will do?
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“I have urged our fellow Americans to go about their lives, to fly on airplanes, to travel, to go to work, and to go shopping.” -George Bush (After 9/11)
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@juniorjames7076 Rome came from the fall of Troy (per their legends) and that happened during the bronze age collapse. Rome, administratively, moved to Constantinople long before it was taken by the Lombards. Pick a civilization. There are few that ever were completely wiped out.
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@ladybug3380 You are probably correct in that assessment. But thats not what women say. Thats the problem with not meaning what you say and not saying what you man. Men typically go by what people say and do. They dont try to tease out deeper meaning. If there is a conflict, we often assume lying or some sort of deceit is taking place. If men need to adapt to women, women need to meet men halfway.
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I am a Gen Xer as well. I was 5 when I saw the movie Kramer vs Kramer. That movie was a prophecy. Its forgotten today. But it showed what the future would be. Divorce, women finding themselves and living their "best lives", hookup culture, and eventually the destruction of the father son dynamic in America. The late 70s and early 80s wasnt as good as you remember. Not to mention, threat of nuclear war, acid rain, 18% inflation. Its always interesting how that sweet poison of nostalgia sweeps away much of the bad stuff.
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Are there individuals who have this happen, yes. Are the majority due to things they cannot control, no. Most Americans dont even have $1000.00 in the bank, let alone 6 months savings that everyone should. That is a choice. Perhaps ones family isnt optimal, well get roommates. There are always options. If you think life is hard now, I mean this is peak humanity. Never has it been easier to be push or pulled from your mothers womb and to go through life and climb into a grave well past ones best years. For the modern American the first 20 years one is generally a dependent on your biological family. And when one turns 65, or now 67, you become a dependent of the state. So most will only need to be independent for what 30 odd years? And most Americans find some sort of system to pull their way through with minimal effort. Most people dont lack freedom. They lack any sense of personal responsibility.
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@ninamartin1084 The problem with that is you fast forward it 60 years and you find your population bottle necks. Women cannot have kids and be a good mother AND work full time. She cant be in two places at once. I think this is one of the main reasons so many women today, in the west, are utterly miserable. This typically means she has less children, below population restoration rates. And then after said 60 years your population starts declining. Slowly at first in some cases, dramatically in others, and then it implodes economically. Most of the world, in the next 20 years is going to face this very issue. Heck China alone is projected to loss 500 million in the next 20 years just due to aging. Economies wont be able to handle that change.
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Thats because the year before, in 2007 a piece of technology came out that really changed the world landscape. Probably the most important invention socially since writing. That was the IPhone, but really any smart phone. Now an African living in the slum has access to the same information as a kid going to Harvard. And everyone has potential access to everyone. We still having socially adapted to it yet. I dont know if the human animal can honestly. We werent built to know that many people.
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@AJ-sw8uf knowingly. With the increase levels of casual sex and unknown paternity, it is often the case that this happens, frequently without people knowing they are doing it. With increasing illegitimacy rates, and less than 50% of Black men in the US having children, a large portion of all Black children born are from a smaller and smaller pool of men. Those men being the men that women want. The eventuality is that incest will occur. And it will escalate, even if it is not intentional, via half brothers and half sisters interacting in the community. Its a dirty secret no one wants to talk about. But it is not intentional. Just the outcome of the breakdown of the Black family, the disempowerment of the black father, fathers in general, and an increase in sexual liberity.
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@sambo8218 basically what I did after my divorce. Me and the kids have never been happier.
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@belstar1128 I dont think people really understand the fertility rate collapse that has hit latin america. I mean when I was born in 1975 Mexican women were have 5 to 6 kids each. Now they dont even have 2. That same thing is repeated all through the Americas. I think there are only a few small countries that have positive fertility rates in the Americas.
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@evilds3261 thats irrelevant. Most men, autistic or not, dont know how to approach women, let alone other men and engage in conversations. And what makes it even worse is most women dont either. But at the end, you wont date anyone and you wont make any friends at all if you dont talk to people. Social interaction is key. When I was a young man in the long long ago, I always told my male friends that had issues, talk to the ugliest least attractive women you can think of. And then work your way up from there. And I told my female friends the same. I mean even in your statement you went straight to dating. Just try talking to people.
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There are single moms and then there are divorced moms. The two arent the same. But yes in certain communities single moms are the norm. But they only exist because the government can afford deficit spending. As that fails, and it is starting to, all of those single moms and their offspring will starve. Women replaced husbands with Uncle Sam.
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@marcospaulo5390 The problem with that is the rate of change and the current debt load most of these nations have. Take Japan. In a few years its national debt will force a sovereign default. At that time, every Japanese person who is on any sort of social pension fund will lose access to their nationalized retirement fund and health care. And with no one to give them loans, because of the default, that means no energy that they buy on credit. So the country falls back into the medieval ages. This is going to happen to a lot of nations. And is one of the main reasons why Japan's political class agreed to the humiliating deal President Trump offered them and then when Biden was elected they told Biden that they were perfectly happy with it as well. This will happen to nation after nation and happened to several last year but people seem to have forgotten already. World economics is about to implode and folks dont understand that. Cities will be death traps. Like Rome when the dole was late. The cities will burn.
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@11235but economies cannot adapt to decreasing demand, they just recede. More so when they are already spending everything they produce and then some because of the debt burden. First will come the massive defaults. Then the economic death spirals from the majority of nations that are export based. We have no economic theory on what is coming. But if you know of an economic theory that will guide us through all of this until reproduction rates increase, you should publish it. You would be guaranteed a Nobel Prize in Economics.
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My physical therapist broke down the other day while working on my right shoulder, I have a rotator cuff tear. She said many of the same things you said and more. I think most people are maladapted due to multigenerational divorces, several social agendas that pit the sexes against one another and above all a fear that none of us is good enough. I truly feel bad for the younger generation. Every young lady I meet and ask out says yes. Most people are just starved for genuine affection.
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@Jaapst I am glad you are doing better. But we typically do keep things to ourselves in most modern environments, and its not the healthiest thing to do. Its one of the side effects of men having no men only spaces anymore.
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Embrace the suck. Through enduring we win. What do we win? Another day to embrace the suck. Eventually though you see the truth. Life isnt about yourself. Its about preparing the way for those who come after us. Doesnt even have to be about your kids. It could be your siblings kids or cousins, or even the community as a whole. Woe to those who have no one to come after them. For they are truly lost and without purpose.
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Was there a decade ago. It was the best decision I never made. Sometimes a spouse leaving leads to all different possibilities. Take your time to heal and recover. Then find your path brother.
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@wheresmyeyebrow1608 I have visited PI several times while I was in the Marine Corps, and I also worked with a woman who grew up on a plantation in Mindanao. When she described how she grew up to other people they were like, you had slaves? And she was like no, my family was responsible for them. One of the things I discovered traveling is that the idiosyncrasies of different cultures are often lost on people who do not belong to them. The one commonality humans have is the ability to judge others harshly through our own limited world views who do not conform with our narrow beliefs. I wish you a good 2023.
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@peterwindhorst5775 those dont work. I mean with everyones birth rates dropping where do you get immigrants from? With debt piling up and less workers to pensioned people where do you get the money to give tax breaks for children? Not that giving people money to have kids has ever worked any place its been tried.
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@yaboi9419 its not the change thats the problem, its the demographic collapse that has happened since the end of the post war baby boom. As the boomers fall out, its going to get much smaller. If every nation didnt have a metric ton of debt, it wouldnt be an issue. But every nation does. And it will crush the young. So, their will be blood. The average South Korean woman has .5 kids. In Japan, its barely 1. Mexico has gone from 6 in 1975 to 1.9 kids per woman today. In the US, we are at 1.7 if you discount immigration. In China they cant get women to start having kids again. People dont see whats happening because people live 70 to 80 years, well we ate that delay up.
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@Nobody90019 Thats the ugly side of this whole issue. We do know why this is happening. So to fix it you just have to reverse it. I only know of a handful of people who openly talk about this. You want to get fertility rates back up, disempower women. Though I dont think its the empowerment that causes the underlying issue. I think its the relative difference between Men and Women . Women want a man who is much "better" than them as a mate. In modern context the better is largely economic. Feminism conflicts with this biological want.
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A serious question, since, by your own words, you were hurt so bad, have you had any counseling?
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If I may ask young man, how many women have you asked out?
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@Nykandros Ironically, its modern day Russia. Its almost perfectly in the center of this.
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@joshuaortiz2031 Thats another thing, we have so many combat trained and experience troops running around as civilians now, well regardless of which side the active military sides with, there wont be enough of them to control major cities let alone outside them.
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@happygilmore1844 I didnt forget it. In fact thanks to the Visigoths Roman architecture lasted well into the Islamic ages in Iberia so much so that many Roman building techniques became to be viewed as "Islamic". People act like when peoples and civilizations come into contact that they dont exchange ideas and change. They always do. That typically makes most cultures better. It certainly is why Rome became so great. They copied the best everyone had. Only a fool wouldnt copy them.
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Your fears of a coming fascism are well founded. In Germany, Nazis took power because of how the German people were economically mistreated by the treaty of Versailles, the brutality of the communist thugs in the streets pre nazi era and the social and sexual excessiveness of the Weimar era. All of those things are echoed in the current day here in the US. Fascism is more an allergic reaction to unchecked leftism. Unfortunately the left has never really understood this. They create the monster they fear by giving people no alternative. A figurative gun to the head. This was an excellent video.
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@yespls6260 I found it amusing when prognosticators thought that the pandemic would see an explosion in the birth rates. I was like, what world are you looking at? I am not sure what the answer is, but practice makes better. Keep socializing keep talking to people and be respectful. Thats what I tell my boys and my god daughters. So if you are trying, keep at it.
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China's most recent numbers stat that they have overcounted births for the last 20 years. They could lose that "500 million" by 2050. This is per their own demographers. What is about to happen to China has not been seen in a nation since the Black Plague.
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Self improvement is so important. A lot of men want to be accepted as they are. Thats just not how nature works. If men accepted that and put in more effort, many would excel. But most wont.
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@lukem21 You can say no. A lot of us do. But that requires a lot of blood and sweat. And double the amount of personal responsibility.
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@worldlinkk it's not even about working harder. It's about being more competitive and being more productive. Some people just can't. And that's why we created a social welfare program. But then you have the people that won't. Those that won't are the problem.
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@skepticalextraterrestrial2971 one can imagine many things. Doesn't make them so.
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@worldlinkk you would be incorrect in your worker productivity estimation. The US isn't even in the top 5. Imagine all the other faulty assumptions I can find in the rest of your post.
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@skepticalextraterrestrial2971 I suppose your comment is too.
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Feminism was started by the Quakers, Look up the Seneca Falls convention. Many women are bitter because feminism lied to them and they know they cant go back. They cant undo toxic relationships, they cant undo one night stands and they cant undo the myriad of other bad choices they made. We, as in society, lie to women from the moment they step into Kindergarten. Is it any wonder why so many are bitter, angry and on large amounts of head meds. Unfortunately men cant fix this. Women have to be the ones to fix it. But I honestly dont they they are capable of doing it.
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@Mugwortcircle Which was my point. The issue once seen, was quickly resolved. At the time it seemed a catastrophe. And yet today, as you say, bs. Much of the issues of today are the same.
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@ShaneBraaten You mean like those guys in New York City? Anytime a man does, he is punished by the force of government. Men understand that now. Thats why you had that woman get raped on the subway in Philadelphia while people watched. Men understand now. No one is going to protect women.
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@11235but tell me you don't understand economics without saying you don't understand economics. Lol
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@11235but I know you dont understand basic economic theory. You can deflect all you like.
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Rome could have lasted indefinitely had no other groups came along to pull its rotting bones down. Who will pull America down? There is no one. Not to mention global demography being what it is. America and Rome may share the same paths, but the worlds they are in are much much different.
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“You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children’s children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.” Ronald Reagan: from his "A Time for Choosing" speech We have been on this course for a long long time.
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@alexandrabellerose3550 I retired at 45.I dont have millions. I live a small quiet rural life with my sons. Convinced my brother and my elderly mom to move here too. I have acres I farm with animals enough for all of us to eat and a little to sell to neighbors. My brother works a local job for have the wage he got from where he came and at the end of the month he has 3 times the money left over after bill. My mother, being elderly gets SSI, which will be cut 20 odd percent in 2033. This farm is my retirement plan. Family. Even if I dont get a cent from SSI. I have my own investments and the pittance the VA as well, as three pensions from companies I have worked for. But take all that away, and i can still farm. And we might be poor, but we will be fine. Individuals will not be able to navigate whats coming. Families will. Unfortunately many families lack the social cohesion to be functional. Get your family together, go find some cheap farm land and learn about it. Make it a fall back point. Just make sure is more than a 3 days walk from any major city. If your family is non functional find a friend whose family is and try to hang on to them. But if something like this happens the economy will fall apart and be rebuilt in local communities established more on trust and a mans word. It wont be some asshole at a nameless back you are fucking over if you dont pay what you own, it could be the family of the boy your daughter wants to marry. That changes how people act. But most of all, people are going to have to start living smaller again. And the little things that most people ignore today will be the very things that carry them through hardships.
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@phoenixtoash2396 I'm not sure what you mean by "we". But I won't starve, I'm a farmer.
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This is a "community" problem. You want people to pair up, they really have to know each other. They have to spend time with each other, like in elementary, middle and high school. They get to know each other. Or before there were schools working and playing together as young people. But then modern society explodes those communities and people go all over the country to other schools to get even more education, work or military service. Our current society is set up destroys communities. And it destroys those ties that bind us together. All for the hope of a few bucks more. Only when people are older do they really understand that. And then its to late.
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@josephhoward4697 Oh I dont disagree with you there. The main issue is that without a growing population our current economic theories fall apart, or at least current investment philosophies. Its not really an issue that we have ever faced. Even during the Black Death, women still had babies. Now they just wont, with a few notable nations that are exceptions.
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Gen X of which I am a member of, still had functional well balanced parents. Then came Dr Spock. And the US is one of the few nations that even had a Millennial generation.
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@buddermonger2000 The silent generation were the parents of Gen X
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@marktrain9498 Gen X started in 1965 though. I was born in 1975, my mother was born in 1945. She was silent generation, same with my father who was born in 1939. You should look at the age cohort of Gen X.
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@georgefloydsfake20dollarbi28 Clovis Culture did not extend much beyond the current US border with Mexico, much less Central and South America.
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@georgefloydsfake20dollarbi28 No the first Clovis site was located in New Mexico, Clovis New Mexico. Thats where the name Clovis comes from. Its right on the border with Texas if you are wondering. The oldest Clovis sites are on the east coast of the US. You are conflating pre Clovis civilizations with Clovis. We dont even know if they were the same peoples as the pre Clovis peoples. There is zero archeological evidence of Clovis culture extending much beyond the current US border. I am willing to listen if you have proof. Is there some recent paper or finding that has not been published yet?
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Yes but for the first time, the worlds population will be stagnant and then decline. Thats never happened before. Even during the place death there was still a population increase over the world. This wont be so much a crash, but a transformation of our economic system. What we have now, due to global debt loads, wont survive.
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@AJ-sw8uf Go work in a L&D unit in a major urban areas with large black populations and get back to me on it. The truth is, most dont even know its happening. Its on of the reasons the Black community is seeing higher rates of inheritable diseases. Its not like these these people know they are related. But genes dont care about that. And from a genetic standpoint its not the first generation of incest that sees the damage, but the preceding ones.
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@Aragorn1989 not until their boomer parents stop getting SSI checks and they get put out. As that stands now, the Feds are scheduled to be cut back SSI by 23% starting in the early 2030s. Thats about 6 years away. Thats if the economy stays as good as it is, which it wont. Hunger is a powerful motivator.
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This is literally a book, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein.
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That you think China will exist as a single political entity after losing half their population in the next 50 years is amusing.
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@darkzeroprojects4245 Women use to have babies in caves and huts made from animal feces. Suffering. lol You dont know suffering if you live in the west.
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@Caligula-qr2ik both nations fertility rates are dropping and have been dropping year over year for the last 40 years. If that is "stable" to you, well, I think we differ on what that words definition is. Venezuela's fertility rate has been dropping about 1% a year. Argentina about 0.6%. And again, for both, that goes back to the late 70s early 80s. That eventually leads to a negative fertility rate, which both are now on the cusp of.
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@pawl23 Ironic, further undoing Bismarck's work.
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I have heard people complain about "end stage Capitalism", which is what I think you are explaining. But its not Capitalism. Its Keynesian economics that is in the end stage. It started failing in the early 70s. And to "fix" it gold standard and previous economics for reserve currencies were dropped. This is a long death. And those in power dont want it to end. Because when it does, the result of fractional reserve banking and endless leveraging will make them all, the uber rich and powerful, paupers. And then the normies will tear them apart as the lies melt in front of their eyes. All economics is based on trust. No one has it anymore. Because everyone knows the game is rigged. But if you say that out loud, and you dont do anything, you are just a coward. So people believe the lie until they cant.
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There will be no civil war unless the right decides it no longer has a vested interest in the United States. Right now, the right, typically supports law enforcement and the use of the military. That is starting to change. Law enforcement, due to increasing oppressive laws, is seen as more oppressive by the right as well. And at the beginning of the Trump admin the right held Trump to his promise of no more wars, the virus hit and you had all these civilians being fired and replaced by military because of failure to comply. People will remember that. If the right slips in its faith that its government, at least in scope if not actual practice, is fair an impartial, God help us all. Because as history shows, the original American revolution was an aberration. I doubt we would get a restoration of our rights, not matter if that was the intent. Good video
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@johnwolf2829 Its easy to walk away. But so many are chronically afraid or anxious into a petrified state. I truly feel bad for them. A prison of your own making.
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Famine isnt going to be what brings down this system. It will be debt. When many nations can no longer sell bonds to buy whatever via debt, their nations, and economies will implode. Debt will be this societies pale horse.
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@sulaak There was not a famine in the US in the 1930s. The government destroyed tons of food to keep market prices stable enough so that more farmers didnt go bankrupt. People has less calories in the US during WWII than the great dustbowl. Food shortages does not equal famine.
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@evilds3261 I hope it does. I hate seeing what is happening to young men and women. I have sons and God daughters. Its hard seeing the state of society and the effects it has on all of you. I wish you nothing but the best.
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If you look at most of these graphs the inflection point is 2008. They year before the Iphone came out. As these hand held devices spread social interaction declined. And look how fast the decline took. Many people dont even know how to hold conversations anymore and god forbid you disagree on something. You are an evil monster. The first step in addressing this is rolling back some technologies which the majority of humans clearly cant handle. Among these would be any hand held viewing device(Cell phones and tablets), internet porn, and bringing back serious physical education in schools. I am not naive enough to think this will happen, but it would address the bulk of the issues.
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I farm. 90 percent of my food I grow, a garden, 2 cattle, 2 pigs, and a flock of chickens for eggs and meat. Only thing I buy is flour, white rice and tequila. The sooner folks unplug from the cancerous society of modernity the better it will be for them.
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Its a shame that over 75% of young Americans are unfit for military service. Kind of limits who will fight dont it. Either that or those rookie casualty numbers Americans are use to are going to get pumped up to legion status.
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@chuckhoyle1211 You can hardly blame the boomers for the system that was set up, they didnt created it. Though its unfortunate they didnt try harder to fix it. I really hate saying this, the only person who tried to fix it since Reagan and O'Neal kept social security on its feet in the 80s, was Bush in the mid 2000s. I was never a fan of Bush, but he was the only one who had the sense to see what is coming with SSI, Medicare and Medicaid. Every other politician just seems to want to throw more people into those systems not understanding they are already about to break. But I suppose it doesnt matter now. It will be interesting to see what happens when the budget gets discussed.
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@lukem21 it is. I'm sorry if you disagree. But that is your choice. But every choice comes with consequences.
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@juniorjames7076 why do you say that? And what does any of that have to do with the current conversation? Enlighten me?
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@WhiteFang111 Are you saying the US will become Turkish or Moscow? Not following.
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could have named this video, When Atlas Shrugs. Some of us have already walked away.
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Nah, when the welfare runs out thats when the issue will resolve. The question will be, as you say, will the local British have the resolve to endure the ethnic enclaves butchering each other. Which is what always happens. It happens here in the US, happens in China, happens in India. It always happens. If the local British hold their own, most of the fighting will be done for them. They will just need to mop up.
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@user-wr3vt8uq4s 74% of Americans are obese or overweight. Half of them wont even make it to 50. A very large minority of women are so mentally unstable that they cannot be in public unmedicated. When the medical system breaks, and it will break, millions will start to die. This says nothing for the millions of diabetics or people who have transplants. They will just die quicker though. Anyone who is in a city at that point is just wrong.
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@IsaiahMiguel the only blame boomers have is they had the opportunity to address a lot of the problems and didnt. Their generation had the numbers to effect political change. They chose the status quo. They didnt start the problems though.
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@cyrus2546 I remember getting 13% interest on my savings account. lol
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@peterbelanger4094 Drug war didnt start in the 80s, it started in the 1920 with prohibition. Reefer madness was made in 1936.
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@cync5349 Nazi, is simply a short form of the word Nationalsozialistische, which is the German name for the NSDAP party.
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This video shows the amount of time he put into. The amount of errors in it is astonishing. Usually he has decent content. He should never have put this up.
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I am curious you didnt bring up the staggering world debt, currently 72 trillion US Dollars, thats not including future liabilities. The last 100 years has been paid for with debt. Future generations are A) either going to pay that back (which they can't), B) use inflation to deflate the value of their current debt, while at the same time taking out more debt (which is what everyone in the world is doing now), or C) default on that debt. All of these routes make you objectively poorer (which is what is going to eventually happen). There is no way, from an economic standpoint, that people will have wealthier lives. Add to that contracting populations then you have less people paying into any system and purchasing goods in any system and real GDP drops. Japan is going through this economically right now. They cannot even cause inflation anymore. And as their GDP drops and deflation makes the value of their debt worth more, it will crush them. They wont be the only one, the PIIGS will too. I do love your videos and all your other points seem well reasoned. But I am just curious as to why this was never brought up. Do you think this is a non issue?
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@NormieNeko Its funny you mention trade. Germany is a good example of this. Right now they are exporting all their chemical plant to the US, since they no longer can afford to do it in Germany because Russian natural gas is gone. Its a waste product in the US. A lot of nations are going to go through this in the next two decades as populations collapse and resources just simply stop being produced.
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People only are working as hard now because they know there is an end to it. If there is no end, a significant amount of people will just give up. They are already in our society today. They are the homeless. The drug addicts. The neets. You going to force these folks to work? Some people will take the bullet just to spite the society that lied to them. Its why I avoid the cities.
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