ɔiƚoxɘup @ Quexotic @beehaw.org

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I'm seriously considering leaving the country. It's a hard path, so I don't know how doable it would be.

"if they want to"

So...

The Chinese government has claimed that the Xinjiang re-education camps were voluntary educational centers aimed at combating extremism and teaching vocational skills...

To me this is clearly getting people ready for concentration camps of some sort. That said I have taken antidepressants and I understand SSRI dependence as I have had withdrawal from SSRIs. I suffered with it for more than 10 years. The tricky thing here, is that the most convincing lies are always salted with truths or half truths to make them easier to swallow.

My fear exactly.

Doesn't this kind of thing always start off "voluntary"?

my partner and I are still numb from everything. We have the necessary documents together in case we need to leave the country quickly. We're going to take enough money tout of the bank in case the banks crash or something like that. We're getting ready to get ready.

Thanks!

So, "what can we do now" posts are okay?

Agreed. I think that this may be a galvanizing force that would otherwise would have been absent though. I think this will cause a lot of new friendships to be forged and bring about a unity that would otherwise never have been possible. Hell of a cost though, hell of a cost.

I want to post my thoughts, but at this point, I feel like the country has gone so far off the rails that I need to keep an eye on my op-sec. Suffice it to say that I'm devastated, exhausted, but filled with a new resolve. This post (a bit of a long read) has been helping me refocus and move forward: https://wagingnonviolence.org/2024/11/10-things-to-do-if-trump-wins/

He didn't even want to buy it, right? It started losing value and he tried to bail but was under contract.

Kind of the theme of the week, no?

I read the cliffs notes. I'll look into it. Thanks!

That seems like a thing that should not be.

And part of me feels it would be well earned, right? Not the best part of me.

I've been seriously struggling with the idea that the changes that are about to come are going to destroy what chances we had left to recover this world from the damage our species has done.

Maybe we need to adopt. Obviously the cost of this is pretty huge, but it could maybe work. Just a thought.

You're welcome internet stranger.

It was a joke. By the time that's a problem I'll be dead you'll be dead. IBDYBD

So it'd hasten Idiocracy? Kinda a IBDYBD problem I suppose.

Seriously though, I think the key would be to drive enough engagement with this so that this in combination with the obvious financial hardships that everyone's facing completely annihilates the birth rate.

Maybe.

Total votes cast: 143,000,000

Percentage of voters who are women: 54%

Number of female voters: 143,000,000 × 0.54 = 77,220,000

Percentage of women who voted for Harris: 54%

Estimated number of women who voted for Harris: 77,220,000 × 0.54 ≈ 41,698,800

This is a rough estimate. More complete data will become available later.

I think that's enough people to have an impact

1. Assumptions:

We assume that 41.7 million women strictly adhere to the B4 movement.

This group represents a significant share of women of childbearing age (usually defined as 15-44 years in demographic studies).

We estimate the average U.S. woman has around 1.7 children over her lifetime, aligning with current U.S. fertility rates.

2. Impact on Births:

41.7 million women choosing not to have children would mean approximately 1.7 fewer children per woman, over their lifetimes.

This would potentially prevent around 70.9 million births (41.7 million x 1.7) in the long term, assuming these women otherwise would have had children.

3. Annual Impact:

Spread over an average reproductive lifetime (roughly 30 years), this impact would reduce the birth rate by about 2.36 million births annually (70.9 million divided by 30 years).

Annual U.S. births could drop from 3.6 million to approximately 1.24 million, which is a ~65% decrease in the birth rate.