I don’t think there’s some central antinatalist org yet, but there are smaller organized groups. I first encountered the whole philosophy when a group called Stop Having Kids put up billboards and tabled on the street here in Portland.

I think your stance on childbirth is fine, it’s the same as mine. It’s a decision for ourselves that we don’t feel we’re prepared to equip a new human to operate in the world when it’s in this state. But take our stance and make it an organization, if it’s anything more than a support organization for people who’ve already made that choice then it’s going to be about telling others to not have children too, and arguing that they’re doing an ethical wrong by having kids.

Not a source that AIPAC is telling dem leaders to stand down, which is what was requested.

But if you want to see it, Majority Report did a segment on it last week. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4H84ZeYNN4

AIPAC doesnt represent Jews, they represent the interests of the government of Israel in America.

There’s no “source”, AIPAC deals directly with politicians and those discussions are not public. But we know that AIPAC gives lots of money to Democrats to the point that they can and have dictated policy, and we know that AIPAC’s spokesperson has been on national news shows specifically to fearmonger about Mamdani both before and after the election. Most direct source here is gonna be using your noggin.

I know several new dads who would be absolutely livid at the thought of someone calling them “selfish” for what they’re currently submitting themselves to XD

A lot of us had shitty parents and find it easy to transpose those traits onto all parents. But there at least as many parents out there for whom it’s absolutely the largest sacrifice they’ve made in their entire lives. It’s them pouring all of their collected love, knowledge, and material means onto someone else so that they don’t leave this Earth having only taken from it.

And if their kids grow up anything like me, they’ll be grateful for that choice and happy to be alive.

I actually meant to reply to the comment above you but I’m just as happy to reply to you! So I guess to add regarding what you asked about people using it as a guise for eugenics, I actually don’t think antinatalists are doing that, generally. Antinatalists aren’t villains, and I think they mostly mean well. They just have a lot of resentment, absent a fully matured leftist framework to guide those emotions into socially healthy advocacy. Which makes them sitting ducks for any actual villains looking for a demographic to coopt.

Don’t worry Bannon, Democrat leadership doesn’t exactly have the best track record of holding criminals and actual enemies of the people accountable for their crimes.

• Emotionally-founded movement masquerading as ethically-founded
• Driven primarily by resentment
• Distinctly Malthusian
• Condemns a fundamental process of biological life
• Primarily advocates abandoning the world before improving it
• Adherents frequently direct their anger at mostly non-political actors

Yeah it’s disturbing that you’re getting so many downvotes simply for being bold in your stance here. I mean I do understand why… There are strong and often unexamined emotions at play here. But it’s still disturbing. Antinatalism isn’t eugenics but it sits right next to eugenics in a logical process. It’s positions on ecology and it’s emotional social resentment place it on a pipeline to fascism.

I was hoping for Sadik-Khan, Bloomberg’s transportation chair! (The best person from that administration IMO)

Billionaire Mike Bloomberg cut down on traffic in Manhattan by closing off streets

That was his transportation secretary Janet Sadik-Khan’s idea, give her credit! She was the brains behind all of the Bloomberg safe streets / cycle network stuff. And she did it on a shoestring budget. He gave her a few million bucks for paint and she created hundreds of miles of bike lanes.

Cartoonist fucked up, he should be on a bicycle riding around the barrier instead of smashing through it with a car. Zohran is a cyclist, he doesn’t own a car, he supports safer streets.

I am so painfully aware yes lol. Like my brain min-maxxed that specific attribute. But thanks! A lot of young people don’t know this.

Jotaro Joestar was apparently a C-section.

Yeah it seems like there’s a shocking amount of “telling people their preferences” in the LGBT community. I had a girlfriend who insisted I wasn’t straight just because she had a penis. As if her getting bottom surgery would have retroactively certified me as straight again.

Like anyone who tells people something that only that person can know for themself, it’s usually more about their need to be comfortable within some unresolved dissonance they have, rather than wanting to help resolve something for you.

In the case of my autism I was fortunate enough to not reflect it back on myself in most cases and instead was just frequently frustrated with how shockingly fickle, arbitrary, flighty, shortsighted, and ethically inconsistent other people seemed to be.

My mom did her best to turn it inward by always telling me I was “too judgemental” but she had already raised me with enough confidence and privledge by that point that instead of crushing my spirit it just made standing up for myself extra frustrating.

And our parks levy ballot measure just passed!

The great thing about having a large, involved grassroots constituency is that you can always safely say no to these ghouls.

Maybe it’s like a safety blanket thing. Makes them feel better than having nothing.

Yeah kid better learn to enjoy the drudgery imposed on you by institutions because it’s all you’ll be allowed til you die. /s

Seriously if this comic was trying to communicate the message to enjoy the time you have it’s sure shooting itself squarely in the foot with it’s scenario.

Oh by the way, which one is Pink?