Bookings spiked by 1,200 percent post-election, and IUD signups more than octupled.

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        My first reaction was that immigrants are not the solution.

        But then, that’s USA…you all are technically immigrants so whatevs, maybe it is the way.

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          Immigration is extremely important economically. New immigrants take jobs that average citizens wouldn’t, and can provide a large low-income population base, which keeps goods and services flowing, where they could otherwise stagnate with a more settled customer base. Anyone that claims the opposite is just trying to obfuscate their racsim.

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            Maybe economically yeah, I rather thought culture wise where relying too much on immigrants brings it’s own set of problems.

            Also, I know that what you speak of is normal, but damn does it sound bad…“come to us to work for pennies in jobs we would rather not do”…

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              So like Japan and Korea?

              Japan has a 2.29% immigrant population. Then look at their work life balance.

              Korea has a 2.3% immigrant population and you can see the terrible work life balance there as well.

              The US has a 14.4% immigrant population and work live balance isn’t great either. As if immigrants aren’t a truly massive problem that the media makes you believe.

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                Poland, 1,1% according to google, your point?

                Both Japan and Korea have very specific cultures, and yeah, they screw their work life balance. IIRC Japan is currently working on changing that. But that’s their culture - part of their nation - and flooding it with immigrants erases not only bad parts but also good ones. Hell, look at Germany that struggles with immigrants as far as I know.

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                  Hell, look at Germany that struggles with immigrants as far as I know.

                  The only struggles Germany has with immigrants at large is racist government officials using them as scapegoats.

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      Systemic issues can all be solved if we just band together and make a concerted effort to *checks notes* “own the woke”.

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    I can never get a vasectomy, I just can’t say what will happen in the future. Suppose there’s’ some sort of societal collapse, man becomes an endangered species, and I somehow end up captured by a tribe of busty amazonian women who want to use me as a breeder, just constant and frequent encounters with different women every night. However, they check to see if I’m still fertile and realize I had a vasectomy, then they kill me and eat me. I can’t take that chance.

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      The Amazon is being burned and cleared to make room for cattle ranches, soy feed for raising farm animals elsewhere, wood, palm oil, and minerals. There is no need to be concerned about Amazonian women.

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        And upon confirmation of my fertility, Lula, their chieftess (34DDD) takes me to her personal sanctuary inside of a rusted out old Greyhound bus on the edge of the ruins of old Cincinnati, close to the Forbidden zone.

        Once inside, her personal servants cleanse my body of filth from the rigors of travel. As is tradition with their tribe, soap is applied directly to their nude bodies before being rubbed vigorously across my body.

        After an extended cleaning session, and a pat down, I’m deemed acceptably clean for my first mating with Chieftess Lula, who will personally collect my sacred life juice, impregnating herself to produce the tribe’s next chieftess. After that, I would be given the rest of tribe, a slave to their every whim, expected to impregnate their finest, bustiest shield-maidens. I thank past-Me for never having gotten a vasectomy.

        Stay tuned for the continued adventures of the Fallout Fuckboy, as he struggles to survive the She-Demons of Cincinnati!

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    Got mine in June.

    Was pretty scared going in but now I’m glad I did it. 0 kids, haven’t ever wanted them. Lost a ltr because the woman I was seeing decided she did want kids after 5 years together (where we previously agreed we both did not want them).

    After we split I got a little foot loose with dating and realized I should just make my decision to be childless my own and permanent, why risk it for myself or others.

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      About the same story for me, about a decade ago

      It was also really nice for dating because it weeded out the women who were still on the fence, and let the other women know I wasn’t on the fence

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      I had pretty much the same thing happen. In a relationship for 5 years and suddenly she flips on not wanting kids and ends things. Decided from that point on that I would just voluntarily sterilize myself so that my own decision to not have kids is never a point of negotiation with anyone else.

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        Yeah that phenomenon is odd. She’s married with a kid now, maybe just 2 years later. Glad it’s not me pretty much daily we had a dog together and I was skeptical lol

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    I for one am looking forward to the snip! Why bring a kid into this world just to be a wage slave for some rich POS? My bloodline ends with me!

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        Even before the collaps of our climate and society became apparent to me having kids didn’t sit well with me considering the tens of thousands of kids in our child care system at any given moment.

        Tens of thousands of lives that will be significantly worse, developing addictions and unhealthy coping mechanisms, unhealthy relationships, going straight from the group home to prison or the streets, all of it exists because people would rather selfishly continue their own genetic legacy instead of adopting a perfectly good kid that already exists and is suffering.

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    I got mine done almost two years ago. I think it will be two years in March. My partner and I are 100% sure we never want to do the pregnancy thing and are like 95-99% sure we don’t want kids at all. If we ever change our minds on that front, there are orphanages full of kids of all ages just waiting for a loving home and I don’t expect that will change any time soon in this cruel world so we’ve got plenty of time to have a family when we want one, and in the meantime, I don’t want any accidents.

    Plus, getting to rawdog my girl whenever I want is a huge bonus!

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    Got my consultation the day after RBG died, and the actual procedure a few weeks after. I definitely got the timing right.