• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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    Yeah, I’m not taking ANY advice from this dumbass. What does he even do for a living anyways???

    checks job title

    SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES??? HOW THE FUCK DID THAT HAPPEN???

    looks at world

    Oh. Right.

  • Tramort@programming.dev
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    this administration spends more time thinking about teenage sperm and circumcisions than is justifiable

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      Put a picture of Trump under the pillow before you go to sleep. During the night, the supreme wisdom of Trump will be focused by the pillow and absorbed by your subconscious mind. In the morning, you’ll just know the correct answer.

      Also works with university exams. No need to read any books as long as you have the photo of the relevant professor under your pillow.

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    Today, the average teenager in this country has 50% of the sperm count, 50% of the testosterone as a 65-year-old man. Our girls are hitting puberty six years early, and that’s bad, but also our parents aren’t having children.

    Let’s practice some critical thinking. Join me!

    Teens have half the sperm count of a senior citizen? I’d maybe believe they’re equivalent? Maybe? He’s getting this from dropping teen pregnancy rates.

    Teens have half the testosterone of a senior citizen? Boolshit on it’s face. So senior men are more aggressive, more horny, stronger and hairier than teens? Stronger bones too! Also, seniors have more zits. Are you teen boys even trying any more?!

    Parents aren’t having children. OK. I’ll let the audience stew on that one a minute.

    We are below replacement right now. That is a national security threat to our country…

    True! Not so much a security threat as an economic threat, maybe the same difference? So what’s the solution? Kick out the foreigners? Hey yo, Japan! How that working out?

    Money says these idiots do what Russia did about their shrinking birth rates. National holiday to stay home and fuck for the Motherland! (Not even joking here.)

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      Our replacement rate has been low for a long time, but our population has stayed relatively steady… because of immigration.

      Low replacement rate is only bad if you’re racist/xenophobic. Otherwise there’s usually (in a supposedly first-world country) an easy solution.

      And if you think this is a dig on specifically the US, it isn’t. Japan and South Korea are about to have insane difficulties with a very obvious and simple solution, and the US had that solution and are destroying it in favor of racism and xenophobia.

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        I don’t think immigration is bad, but if the “problem” of fertility below replacement is caused by the other problem of people who might otherwise want kids not being able to have them because of economic constraints, focusing on solving the first problem by importing competitive and ambitious skilled professionals seems at least kind of questionable.

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          That is not the problem. Population declines as countries move to first world status, and I think the people not having kids due to financial constraints are few and far between. Otherwise population would not start and continue diminishing as an area becomes more affluent. People have less (or no) kids because they don’t want kids, don’t want a bunch of kids, and can reasonably expect the kids they have to survive to adulthood. And access to birth control, education, and other opportunities (mostly for women) makes having less kids (by their own desire) possible.

          So bringing capable workers in means they pay into taxes that support the aging and school-age population, and never had to have their school-age years paid for. They’re a productive member with half the cost over their lifetime.

          It’s a no-brainer… as long as you’re not worried about changing the… shade or hue… of your population over time.

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    Today, the average teenager in this country has 50% of the sperm count, 50% of the testosterone as a 65-year-old man. Our girls are hitting puberty six years early, and that’s bad, but also our parents aren’t having children. Parents who want to have children do not have access. I have seven children. I feel that God has blessed me with that and I can’t imagine how different my life would be if I did not have that blessing.

    RFK jr counting teenager sperm?

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      our parents aren’t having children

      If someone doesn’t have children, they’re… Not a parent.

      Unless you RFK means people with a child already, which makes no sense (and never did) except to religious nuts.

      People aren’t cats to have litters of up to 6 kittens, and kids don’t grow up in 6 months.

      They need to be fed, clothed, medicated and educated for 18+ years!

      P.S. If you dump your kids out on their 18th birthday, spoilers! You’re a bad parent.

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      hes also a serial womanizer, slept with hundreds of woman and has a journal of sexual conquests and also to hurt her deceased wife drove her to suicide.

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    sighs I want off of Mr. Bones’ wild ride.

    I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: we live in the dumbest timeline.

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    I swear he’s just such a no-good dirty lying bastard. Like I don’t even have any words for him anymore. Whole world would be better off if that worm had finished the job.

    The fact that the Kennedys lobotomized a young woman for no good reason and yet allowed this putrid pestilence to permeate our world. Shit.

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    Sperm counts and testosterone have been dropping rapidly but I didn’t think teens were now worse off than 65 YOs

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      Supposedly this is (of course) a lie/mischaracterization by RFK, that the study is comparing t/sperm levels of kids from the 70s with kids now, and so the kids from the 70s might have had higher levels but now they are in their 60s so…