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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBizarre white nationalist/ sexist AF Tweet from Assange....
I've seen the same ideas come from interviews w happy Nazi families. Shame too many people couldn't see this coming from this crazed partisan nut job.
Is it Handmaidens Tale enough for you now? Racists are sexists and sexists are too often racists as well. Learn it.
For those who don't see Tweets, JA says:
"Capitalism+atheism+feminism = sterility = migration. EU birthrate = 1.6. Replacement = 2.1. Merkel, May, Macron, Gentiloni all childless."
Link to tweet
Squinch
(51,087 posts)WHY would anyone think it is important for us to achieve replacement numbers in our birth rates? Is the earth not polluted and crowded enough? Are we not doubling the population and using up resources fast enough for this moron?
Sexist, Nazi AND just plain stupid.
Adrahil
(13,340 posts)A declining population KILLS the funding models for those programs.
A stable population is sustainable. Uncontrolled growth is not.
Squinch
(51,087 posts)in 34 years. Will double again in fewer years.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,414 posts)https://www.learner.org/courses/envsci/unit/text.php?unit=5&secNum=4
The latest growth rate is 1.182% per year - https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.GROW - which would be double in 59 years.
2016 world population was 7.442 billion; which is double was it was in 1971, so that was doubling in 45 years ( https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL ) .
Squinch
(51,087 posts)DOUBLING the population.
In 59 years.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,414 posts)59 years was just my projection of the current rate staying steady, which no-one actually expects. If you look at the actual projections, the highest reaches 14 billion around 2095: https://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/Graphs/Probabilistic/POP/TOT/ . The median projection is about 11 billion by 2095. It's quite possible the population will never double.
Squinch
(51,087 posts)be uncontrolled population growth in a world where we are already wading through our own garbage.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,414 posts)rather than incorrect ones. It's also better to acknowledge that growth is slowing, rather than to incorrectly claim it's speeding up.
Squinch
(51,087 posts)But you seem to have a strong need to find fault with the idea so have fun with that.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,414 posts)1965 3,350,699,989
2008 6,702,159,402
https://www.census.gov/population/international/data/worldpop/table_population.php
The shortest it ever doubled in was 38 years - 1951 - 2,594,938,936 - to 1989 - 5,195,979,089.
Yeah, your source was inaccurate.
pansypoo53219
(21,010 posts)not enough jobs NOW. i think they want SERFS!
JI7
(89,289 posts)their group to have more kids over fear of others taking over.
there are hindus in india who are trying to do this because of decline in hindu population and rising muslim and christian population.
pansypoo53219
(21,010 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)can see that bastard for what he is. He is sexist and racist, always has been.
Squinch
(51,087 posts)http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/11/julian-assange-children-kids-wikileaks_n_822136.html
And just as an aside, he apparently has fathered a number of illegitimate children with different women (according to him, so take it with a grain of salt, and let's all stop a moment and wonder whether the women were consenting) but he may or may not contribute to the raising of any of them.
He's walking talking excrement.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)I could just throw up when I think about how so many dudes worshipped this fuck. Even when it was obvious what he was doing they couldn't admit he was manipulating them. Ugh.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,256 posts)If Africa, Asia or South America's birth rate declined below "replacement rate" he'd be breaking out the champagne.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I hope he gets what is coming to him.
greatauntoftriplets
(175,773 posts)Squinch
(51,087 posts)ismnotwasm
(42,024 posts)How do people get taken in by obvious shit lords like him?
JI7
(89,289 posts)they try to cover it by just throwing out terms without specifics .
Renew Deal
(81,900 posts)Why isn't he pulling his weight in replacing the population?
hunter
(38,353 posts)Otherwise they'd have overfilled him vodka, stuffed him into a diplomatic pouch, and thrown his sorry ass out of the van and into a ditch on the way to the airport, sometime past midnight.
Assange has been in the embassy long enough that he could have tunneled out into the sewers with a tablespoon by now if he really wanted to leave.
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)It seems plausible.
hunter
(38,353 posts)JI7
(89,289 posts)the rent could be in other forms such as business deals to benefit certain people .
struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)yardwork
(61,793 posts)WhiskeyGrinder
(22,522 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)They must be out investing in the stock market and buying atheist gadgetry, instead of making babies.
If only we could find a foxhole to put em in!
Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)I've been telling y'all for a while now that Julian is making his "Weev"-like transformation to White nationalist... Dig deeper into his tweets and you'll see snipes at BLM, Jews, women and anyone who doesn't worship at the Trump-Putin altar...
With his job completed he no longer has to keep up appearances about being some kind of liberal hero, so the mask is totally off. It wasn't enough for Assange to play the left like a goddamn fiddle, now he spends all day trolling the fuck out of his true believers.
ismnotwasm
(42,024 posts)Yup.
Quayblue
(1,045 posts)Unless the reality of the trenches becomes theirs.
R B Garr
(17,019 posts)I remember your posts and the back and forth about this guy, and you were right -- again.
R B Garr
(17,019 posts)He fits right in with the pigs he represents.
Hekate
(91,025 posts)...and is in a position to offer asylum to refugees.
Hmmm.
Has he looked into the Quiverfull cult here? Seems to be right up his alley.
BainsBane
(53,135 posts)bettyellen
(47,209 posts)Saw it on her FB.
BainsBane
(53,135 posts)SMH