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zzyzzx says

They live in an apartment the size of a walk in closet, and people wonder why they don't want to have kids?

Plenty of roomy houses in small town Japan.

Many for free.

I think she did this country a favor. None of her diseased spawn will ever endanger our communities or our political system.

She was probably post-wall anyway, so it's not like she sacrificed anything other than an essentially barren womb.

HeadSet says

More of an expectations problem. Families have dual incomes to support a lifestyle. In the 60s/early 70s you referred to, home life for a family was:

Correct. However, it's the iron costs of living that are up - health, housing, cars, etc. while the costs of luxury items are down.

We need to reverse the post-Cold War era and go back to cheap, modest housing and good, non-seed oil frankenfood, but expensive extras.

One GREAT thing is to restore Set-floor rates for flights like it was in the 80s and get the shitraff off the Airlines which are already Greyhound. A few hundred extra bucks in plane tickets would work wonders not just for quality of air travel, but also reduce costs of airports and reduce STDs and crime.

Booger says

So, she intends to be "under Trump" and does not want to get preggo.

DeportLibtards says

Yes, Planet Reality That You Are In Denial Over.

No you don't live in planet reality. You likely live in a shit hole area hence all the whiney posts. I'm sorry but Californians are the bitchiest people I've ever read stuff from for how great the state is supposedly.

Some of you guys need to stop acting like CA is the rest of the country. It's not.

WookieMan says

Some of you guys need to stop acting like CA is the rest of the country. It's not.

That's rich when you act that way about where you live all the time.

DeportLibtards says

WookieMan says

Some of you guys need to stop acting like CA is the rest of the country. It's not.

That's rich when you act that way about where you live all the time.

I live in a shitty state dude. I'm just sick of the Californians on this forum thinking the rest of the country is like their state. It's not. Brand new homes for $300k down the block here.

Unless you're an alcoholic or druggie and can work a job, you'll do much better in other states. If you can't get a loan for $300k, you're one of the above. Or you live in an overpriced area, don't leave it, and don't realize that there are better places.

Here's what it's like in the Midwest. Youtube I know. It's reality though. That's not happing in CA or FL or NY where no one gives a shit about community. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/N027R2eaeMM

WookieMan says

I'm just sick of the Californians on this forum thinking the rest of the country is like their state.

Yet despite that not being me, you target me as being one of therm.

And no, calling you out on your hypocrisy on this is not me 'the rest of the country is like my state'. It's just you projecting that onto me.

https://x.com/MoreBirths/status/1910780131318374524

Patrick says

Probably in CA. I hang with a bunch of mid 30's guys and women. Almost all own a home and have kids. I'm the geezer. No one lives with mom or dad or has roomates either.

This is why I say the country is vastly different than coastal residents understand. If you're from a coastal area no on wakes up and says lets got to IL, MO, IA, MN, AR, OK, MS, AL, IN, MI, etc. A lot of you guys don't see the reality but are in overpriced areas.

RWSGFY says

They had this prob before the war.

Lower in Ukraine. China is almost as bad, but the effects will be worse because of the effect on globalist manufacturing.

MolotovCocktail says

Ukraine

Not Asia.

RWSGFY says

But muh based Saint Putin and ROC!

The substance abuse problem is worse, too.

Stop educating women and offer NO long term welfare to single or divorced hoebags, problem solved

AmericanKulak says

Stop educating women and offer NO long term welfare to single or divorced hoebags, problem solved

Isreal managed to pull it off despite high housing costs and overeducated bitches.

Yes, the Orthodox Jews pop out kids like the Amish do. But the secular urban chicks have almost 3 brats each.

The key is pro-natal status programs for women. Not kidding -- putting up statues of mothers, awarding them on TV, etc.

https://x.com/MoreBirths/status/1870911221630685465

Mongolia adopted pro-natalist programs and their birthrates soared, too.

https://x.com/MoreBirths/status/1827418468813017441

https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/new-study-mass-mrna-injection-campaigns

Among ~1.3 million Czech women aged 18–39, those vaccinated against COVID-19 had ~33% fewer successful pregnancies compared to unvaccinated women.

If the spike protein is incorporated into the germ line (ova and sperm), then the human race will suffer a permanent decline in fertility. Time for the Africans to start fucking moneys again to regain "Potency."

Patrick says

People everywhere now have better enterntainment options than fucking. Blame the interwebz.

https://x.com/peterjhasson/status/1921692058294628771

@peterjhasson
I find this 100% believable.

We have two toddlers. Our third child is on the way. Federal regulations mean that we are required to buy a bigger car than our CR-V if we want our family to legally ride together in the same car.

I have 0 idea how that’s supposed to work if you’re a working class parent

See also:

https://patrick.net/post/1335478/2020-10-07-bubble-wrapped-americans-how-the-u-s

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/05/16/kid-rock-faults-americas-low-birth-rate-on-ugly-ass-deranged-liberal-women-no-guy-wants-to-sleep-with-1544033/

Kid Rock faults America’s low birth rate on ‘ugly ass,’ ‘deranged’ liberal women no guy wants to sleep with

29-year old childless women are fatter today than 30-year old women from the 1950s who already had 2-3 kids.

BTW, vanity sizing has gone apeshit. My mom's friend, a skinny woman who was basically a Size 4 her whole life, can't buy Size 4 clothes anymore, they're humunguous on her. She has to specialty shop for XXS, and even those are too big.

I read somewhere that a 2000s era "M" is now like "S" for women now.

Patrick says

I find this 100% believable.

We have two toddlers. Our third child is on the way. Federal regulations mean that we are required to buy a bigger car than our CR-V if we want our family to legally ride together in the same car.

I have 0 idea how that’s supposed to work if you’re a working class parent

Get a car with a 3rd row? Different occupation and make more? Minivan?

If you're a dual income household and didn't plan you're kind of an idiot. I know that's blunt. Other option is to move where it's cheaper. People set these stupid American Dream wishes. You have to work for it. Never has it been given just because you live here.

Whatever happened to duct taping the extra kids to the roof?

Ceffer says

Whatever happened to duct taping the extra kids to the roof?

True, child's seats have loops at the bottom to facilitate that.

WookieMan says

Patrick says

I find this 100% believable.

We have two toddlers. Our third child is on the way. Federal regulations mean that we are required to buy a bigger car than our CR-V if we want our family to legally ride together in the same car.

I have 0 idea how that’s supposed to work if you’re a working class parent

Get a car with a 3rd row? Different occupation and make more? Minivan?

If you're a dual income household and didn't plan you're kind of an idiot. I know that's blunt. Other option is to move where it's cheaper. People set these stupid American Dream wishes. You have to work for it. Never has it been given just because you live here.

this was never expensive. cost of living skyrocketed. permanent inflation did it. inflation that was intentional.

Or, kids laid out in the back of the Station Wagon and the Insurance Industry didn't get the government to force people to have kids in seats. There was talk of making seats mandatory up to age 12, which means now people have to buy at least 3 seats, planning or no planning (since an infant seat won't hold a Kindergartener won't hold a pre-teen)

AmericanKulak says

Or, kids laid out in the back of the Station Wagon and the Insurance Industry didn't get the government to force people to have kids in seats. There was talk of making seats mandatory up to age 12, which means now people have to buy at least 3 seats, planning or no planning (since an infant seat won't hold a Kindergartener won't hold a pre-teen)

^^^^
This. That's what station wagons were for. Long trips were cool, since you could just jump around in back when you got bored.

Then there were the obligatory accidents were all the kids died and they passed laws to require child seats (which small children absolutely HATE).

Got swiped in a Pinto Squire when I was 7 and riding in the back. Some tipsy woman turned right into us as we slowed down from a red light. Good fortune for my dad, if you remember what the Pinto was infamous for.

I also remember driving down the Southern State in my Granddad's Gunboat about the same age, him taking me to OTC and getting me a "Meatburger" at White Castle, sitting in the front whenever with one parent, and never sitting in a car seat that I can recall. Granddad was wild, he placed a few $1 bets after the weekend edition of the Racing Form arrived. He dropped out of HS about age 14 and autodidact from the WSJ and the Bible and Crossword Puzzles.

My whole family with five kids were hauled around the USA twice in station wagons when he had to move for Navy, no special seats, just rotated the lay down parts. You learn a lot of fart jokes and stayed in stinky motels.

https://substack.com/home/post/p-163837174