If I had to guess what kind of shot we would make sure schoolchildren got, I would have guessed wrong.
Solid gold, right there.
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I guess this is how they solve their food shortage after getting so much blowback from trying to force children to replace migrants working in the fields.
Yeah, the only logical way I see to evaluate this, assuming these people are not 100% comprised of totally incompetent, koolaid drinking morons...
Is that they are more or less deciding to formally enact and massively ramp up 'economic sacrifice zones'.
Its Bob Page from the intro to Deus Ex:
"Why contain it?"
.........
The insurance companies are already abadoning much of the US Deep Red South.
There is no real solution to that other than massively tax the wealthy and corporations, do massive government directed work and projects and funding schemes... which they obviously will not do, because that is ideologically antithetical to them.
So, instead:
Criminalize poverty, go back to mass slave labor, and just generally encourage and enable everyone to kill themselves and each other in a kind of laissez faire eugenecist free for all... as you squeeze the last drops out of areas that are basically guaranteed to be Mad Max in decade or two.
Shoring things up would require a lot of investment and not the greatest short term ROI, therefore, by C Suite Capitalist logic, uh, just let that branch of the company wither on the vine... maybe the smarter ones will manage to gather enough resources to escape and go be more productive as some other employee elsewhere.
Capitalism is a death cult.
EDIT:
Further evidence of this kind of mindset:
The mayor of Lancaster, Rex Parris, has ignited a controversy after musing during a council meeting that one approach to homelessness would be to “give them free fentanyl … all the fentanyl they want.”
...
He said that he didn’t think anyone had taken his comments literally, but that he did not regret them. In the interview, he said he wished for “a purge” of homeless people.
{"Give them all fentanyl so they will just kill themselves."}
I really despise how accurate this take seems.
So do I, friend, so do I.
how they solve their food shortage
Oh hey, they could actually solve an additional problem at the same time! Just send all their extra kids to hunt all their invasive species. Lionfish are tasty and I'll bet bermese python taste like chicken. Sure, not every kid is going to survive the hunt, but now there's more food for everyone! And remember, killing two birds with one stone (so to speak).
Match of the century:
Unwanted children vs hordes of feral boars / superpigs.
but it makes sense when you understand that they don’t like the children we currently have. They want us to make other ones instead.
Which will die soon too, but who's counting
Who am I as a government or anyone else, who am I as a man standing here now, to tell you what you should put in your body?
Fair point, that means you're decriminalizing all drugs, right?
Well that's true natural selection. At least evangelicals will be extinct in a couple of generations lol
Plot twist: this is the only way to get rid of The Villages
I wonder at what point does a massive series of rocket engines power up and fly the magic kingdom to a market with a viable customer base.
Social security is going bankrupt. Many retirees in FL. If we allow 5-10 year olds to exist, then 60 years from now they are just going to make my share of SS smaller.
main joke explained: Young working people already pay more in SS taxes than they can expect to receive back in retirement. They support older workers in the pyramid scheme, and many who might view the squid game economics have less than 60 years additional life expectancy. Thanks for coming to my podcast.
A fat lot of good that money will do, when there are no young hands able to wipe the bottoms of the elderly after an accident.
Japanese AI enabled robots! Who needs young people.
Problem could be resolved if, I don't know, tax the rich.
but, but... I'm rich. Eating children much easier solution. They can't even vote or buy politicians. You're just being political.
Squid game moment
Just waiting a few years for the news to ask incredulously "Why is Florida's infant mortality rate so much ~~lower~~ higher than the national average?"
Florida already seems to have a bit of a problem with child population. Public School enrollment has been declining in my ~~country~~ county and the surrounding ~~countries~~ counties for the last few years.
Do you mean county?
Yep. Thank you.
You are welcome. I asked for the sake of clarity, not to be a grammer nazi, which is why I won't point out the other typo.
The administration is culling the population....
Prove me wrong
Surely this can't be policy for the kiddy diddler party? Who will they molest and rape, if there's not enough children?
I can't believe that this is policy, unless they figured a way to only not vaccinate the ugly kids.
well
i mean
They want to get rid of the kids, but they have to be ripe first. That's why they're banning abortions too. Make Child Mortality great again