Chud Fusk wrote: Tue Jan 04, 2022 6:51 pm

TylerDeadPine wrote: Tue Jan 04, 2022 6:33 pm

Chud Fusk wrote: Tue Jan 04, 2022 5:22 pm Did anyone post this article yet?

https://inthesetimes.com/article/the-ti ... to-fascism

If anyone wants to argue with the article, don't @ me because I didn't write it and am not taking a stance. Just sharing if it hasn't been shared yet.



Well actually yes I am taking one stance: just because some people profit from a thing doesn't make it real, or imbue it with value. Most of what we consider real in modern life is based on illusions and delusions. There's little difference between arguing about the details of religion, finance, cryptocurrency, and Harry Potter.

99 rats in a box pile on top of each other; the 100th rat climbs to the top, escapes, and thinks he pulled himself out by his bootstraps.

He goes on to a lucrative career of speaking and consultation gigs selling the illusion of freedom, while 99 rats remain trapped, doomed to starvation or cannibalism unless they can reproduce fast enough to make a bigger pile of rats to climb over.

I'm one of those rats. the rats that get laid

Cool, excuse me while I use your litter as a ladder. New meaning to the word "stepchildren" innit

cbs news wrote:Pope Francis criticizes people who choose to have pets instead of children
BY CAITLIN O'KANE

JANUARY 6, 2022 / 9:56 AM / CBS NEWS

Pope Francis criticized people who decided not to have children, but to have pets instead. The pope was speaking to a general audience on Wednesday, when he turned his sermon to fatherhood.

"We have so many children without fathers and the challenges of this in society today, we notice," Pope Francis said. "Fathers are not born but made. A man does not become a father by bringing a child into the world, but by taking up the responsibility to care for that child." He used the example of Joseph, who brought up Jesus, and parents who choose to adopt children.

Pope Francis said "many couples do not have children because they do not want to, or they only have one and not more. But they have domestic animals – two dogs, two cats." He called the decision not to have children a form of "selfishness," according to BBC News.

He said giving up on motherhood or fatherhood "can take some of our humanity away from us," and nations can suffer from this.

The pope said while having a child is a risk, it's a bigger risk not to have them. He said many children in the world are waiting for someone to take care of them, so adoption should also be considered, even if it is difficult. "I pray that no one feel deprived of a paternal love," he said.

Pope Francis made similar remarks in 2014, when he said those who substitute children with dogs and cats feel "bitterness of loneliness" in old age, according to the Washington Post.

While it is believed the Pope does not have a pet of his own, he has been photographed petting animals – from dogs to to panthers – according to BBC News.

hbiden@onlyfans.com wrote: Thu Jan 06, 2022 1:44 pm Somebody fire the vatican's PR Firm

cbs news wrote:Pope Francis criticizes people who choose to have pets instead of children
BY CAITLIN O'KANE

JANUARY 6, 2022 / 9:56 AM / CBS NEWS

Pope Francis criticized people who decided not to have children, but to have pets instead. The pope was speaking to a general audience on Wednesday, when he turned his sermon to fatherhood.

"We have so many children without fathers and the challenges of this in society today, we notice," Pope Francis said. "Fathers are not born but made. A man does not become a father by bringing a child into the world, but by taking up the responsibility to care for that child." He used the example of Joseph, who brought up Jesus, and parents who choose to adopt children.

Pope Francis said "many couples do not have children because they do not want to, or they only have one and not more. But they have domestic animals – two dogs, two cats." He called the decision not to have children a form of "selfishness," according to BBC News.

He said giving up on motherhood or fatherhood "can take some of our humanity away from us," and nations can suffer from this.

The pope said while having a child is a risk, it's a bigger risk not to have them. He said many children in the world are waiting for someone to take care of them, so adoption should also be considered, even if it is difficult. "I pray that no one feel deprived of a paternal love," he said.

Pope Francis made similar remarks in 2014, when he said those who substitute children with dogs and cats feel "bitterness of loneliness" in old age, according to the Washington Post.

While it is believed the Pope does not have a pet of his own, he has been photographed petting animals – from dogs to to panthers – according to BBC News.

Geiginni wrote: Thu Jan 06, 2022 2:21 pm

hbiden@onlyfans.com wrote: Thu Jan 06, 2022 1:44 pm Somebody fire the vatican's PR Firm

cbs news wrote:Pope Francis criticizes people who choose to have pets instead of children
BY CAITLIN O'KANE

JANUARY 6, 2022 / 9:56 AM / CBS NEWS

Pope Francis criticized people who decided not to have children, but to have pets instead. The pope was speaking to a general audience on Wednesday, when he turned his sermon to fatherhood.

"We have so many children without fathers and the challenges of this in society today, we notice," Pope Francis said. "Fathers are not born but made. A man does not become a father by bringing a child into the world, but by taking up the responsibility to care for that child." He used the example of Joseph, who brought up Jesus, and parents who choose to adopt children.

Pope Francis said "many couples do not have children because they do not want to, or they only have one and not more. But they have domestic animals – two dogs, two cats." He called the decision not to have children a form of "selfishness," according to BBC News.

He said giving up on motherhood or fatherhood "can take some of our humanity away from us," and nations can suffer from this.

The pope said while having a child is a risk, it's a bigger risk not to have them. He said many children in the world are waiting for someone to take care of them, so adoption should also be considered, even if it is difficult. "I pray that no one feel deprived of a paternal love," he said.

Pope Francis made similar remarks in 2014, when he said those who substitute children with dogs and cats feel "bitterness of loneliness" in old age, according to the Washington Post.

While it is believed the Pope does not have a pet of his own, he has been photographed petting animals – from dogs to to panthers – according to BBC News.

Gotta keep crankin' out babies to keep the Catholic rolls up. Used to be necessary to fight the wars against the heretics, now it's just needed to keep the coffers full.

This is ultimately the common ground shared by religion and capitalism: You need those extra bodies - surplus labor to provide hungry, subservient bellies; which when underemployed can fight your holy wars too.

WIthout surplus labor the whole thing breaks down, and not a fucking decade too soon either.

PASTA wrote: Fri Jan 07, 2022 4:40 pm

Geiginni wrote: Thu Jan 06, 2022 2:21 pm

hbiden@onlyfans.com wrote: Thu Jan 06, 2022 1:44 pm Somebody fire the vatican's PR Firm

Gotta keep crankin' out babies to keep the Catholic rolls up. Used to be necessary to fight the wars against the heretics, now it's just needed to keep the coffers full.

This is ultimately the common ground shared by religion and capitalism: You need those extra bodies - surplus labor to provide hungry, subservient bellies; which when underemployed can fight your holy wars too.

WIthout surplus labor the whole thing breaks down, and not a fucking decade too soon either.

to be blunt and a lil' crass

Anthony Flack wrote: Fri Jan 07, 2022 5:59 pm Seems to me like the declining birthrate and machines taking people's jobs are two problems that have the potential to solve each other to an extent.

Anthony Flack wrote: Fri Jan 07, 2022 5:59 pmThe pope's hot take probably wouldn't seem so outre if he was more "consider filling that void in your middle class dink existence with a foundling child" and less "fuck y'all dog owners".

Chud Fusk wrote: Fri Jan 07, 2022 7:41 pmthe problem: it's the existence of humans, period. It only takes a few people to begin a nuclear holocaust, and soon (if not already) it only takes a global population of maybe a few hundred to a few thousand to keep the most destructive processes (factory farming, deforestation, fossil fuel exploitation, microplastics production and dispersal, bitcoin mining etc.) happening. Of course a tiny population would consume far less, but I'm sure the surviving elites could figure out a way to destroy everything by themselves.