Got sick of bigots, and pedants, and trying to figure out if something is “meme enough” to count, and of feeling like I’m spamming other spaces, and very quickly of the lemmy UI too (still love you blahaj.zone!) so am opening my own space where I can make my own rules and post my collection in peace. ❗BE WARNED: SOME OF THE IMAGES YOU SEE HERE MAY NOT TECHNICALLY BE MEMES❗ Now that we got that out of the way, let the infodump commence! Expect a mix of slightly outdated: mostly leftist (but never tankie) content, many cats, and some general old memes I’ve collected over the years. There are many, so will try to mix it up! Update: looks like 🐝Beehaw🐝 have banned this magazine. If you want real leftism rather than "nice" (more like "unchallenging to the status quo and the comfort of libs") leftism, I guess you'll have to follow from elsewhere!
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"Over population" is an argument for eugenics masked with environmentalism. It is eco-fascism and seemingly every liberal believes in it.
The originator of this hypothesis (Malthus) explicitly wrote it to counter the arguments of early (utopian) socialists, it's quite literally a counter revolutionary arguemnt, and one that both Marx and Kropotkin tore to shreds at least a century ago.
Look everyone, when you actually give a shit and aren't just looking to defend your existing wrong view, all these results, and millions more, magically appear in search engines!!! Who would have thought???
https://www.globaljustice.org.uk/blog/2019/03/how-racist-myths-built-population-growth-bogey-man/
https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/overpopulation-and-environmentalism/
https://greenisthenewblack.com/opinion-the-overpopulation-myth-example-ecofascism/
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/9/26/16356524/the-population-question
https://www.theworldmind.org/home/2021/12/10/the-dangerous-myth-of-overpopulation
http://www.rebelnews.ie/2020/05/20/debunking-the-myth-of-overpopulation/
This is a bad argument with good intentions, overpopulation is definitely a problem, however if the wealthy stopped hording resources we could focus on expanding our population beyond Earth and ease the strain of overpopulation.
It literally isn't a problem, which if you'd pull your finger out aof your ass and search for yourself you would easily find out, but I guess it's easier to do mental gymnastics to protect you wilful ignorance and cognitive dissonance than it is to challenge you bias.
So rather than back up your assertion you instead resort to a bunch of high brow ad hominem attacks while telling me "just do your own research bro", you know what, you got me you convinced me, lol.👍
Overpopulation is driving the billionaires to their fortunes as we all consume, consume, consume until we've had so many consumers there's nothing left on the planet, and here you are playing ostrich wanting to pretend its not happening in order to make some kind of pseudo-intellectual point about billionaires and the capitalistic society that creates them, a sentiment that I whole heartedly agree with, sans the whole ignoring the fact that overpopulation is an occurring and constant problem.
I've got a secret to tell you, both things can be real problems, no need to ignore one in favor of the other.
Lastly with things getting worse with climate change the overpopulation discussion is going to become more topical, because you can't sustain the current population with large-scale drought and other catastrophic events harming our global food supply chain, oh and the fucking wealthy and their class war through scaling up their profits by artificially inflating prices.
The sheer laziness and feelings of entitlement the wilfully ignorant can't help themselves but display never cease to amaze me...
Broad generalization like “seemingly every liberal” makes for a poor argument. You either need to make a factual statement with references or note that’s it’s a personal observation such as “in my personal experience…”
Furthermore your premise “over population is an an argument for eugenics masked as environmentalism” needs to be further defined. It’s not clear these things are related without some examples.
Aw, poor lib didn't like a generalisation (that clearly applieas to you) and doesn't care enough to do 2 seconds of research while demanding I do it for them...
Gtfoh 😂😂😂
Seem you don’t understand how making a quality and good faith argument works. I’m not going to go looking for research to back up your claims. Also you’re responses to my criticism is childish and defensive. If you’d like to engage in a healthy discussion perhaps avoid petty personal attacks. Finally you have no idea what my stance is on the matter. I think there’s probably a lot we’d agree on, but you’re too busy trying to make enemies.