At yesterdays Wis SCourt rally: Musk: I think last year was the lowest birth rate on record, it was very low...

[riversedge]

Musk has 14 kids by 4 women-the last one announced a few weeks ago.
Musk has talked about this issue lots of times.


Musk: I think last year was the lowest birth rate on record, it was very low. And we are seeing this trend in almost every country on Earth. This is worrying because it is like if something doesn't happen, humanity is gonna disappear. So..I think very important to have kids

Link to tweet

[Blues Heron]

1. too bad his mom didnt abort Elon

[BigMin28]

6. There is always

Post birth abortion the rethuglicans love to talk about.

[CousinIT]

2. WHAT a freak! Creepy weirdo. He's OBSESSED with forcing women

....to have babies.

Any man who is obsessed with that, IMO, has ISSUES.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. You sensed the deeply troubling vibe there too

[bucolic_frolic]

3. What a weird comment to make

I expect MAGA insemination parties to be a subject anyday

[Johonny]

5. Because people like Enron pay bottom dollar

And demand 80 hrs work weeks. Who has time or money to have kids in today's America.

[hlthe2b]

7. Creepy incel... I'm not sure I want to know/care to know why he is as he is... but it is creepy

And his kids (hopefully) will have good, caring mothers and beloved siblings because they sure as hell won't get much sane "fathering" from that man.

[Boomerproud]

8. He's even starting to speak like T.

It's very low....please help us.

[NameAlreadyTaken]

9. He should keep his botched implant in his pants.

[eppur_se_muova]

10. And yet, according to actual FACTS, the Earth's population continues to grow relentlessly.

Oh, wait, he's only counting white people. That must be it.

Earth's population would be perfectly sustainable if it were 1/100th, or even 1/100,000th of its current size. It is NOT sustainable at its current size. Culling, by Nature or otherwise, is inevitable.

[travelingthrulife]

11. 8 billion people on this planet and he wants more.

Deport him.

[Wiz Imp]

12. One of the biggest reason birth rates have been declining overall

is the birth rates among teenagers have dropped enormously - down from 96.3 live births per 1000 females aged 15-19 in 1957 to just 13.6 in 2022. Most people would view that as an extremely positive trend.



https://opa.hhs.gov/adolescent-health/adolescent-sexual-and-reproductive-health/data-and-statistics-on-adolescent-sexual-and-reproductive-health#:~:text=The%20teen%20birth%20rate%20in,the%201991%20peak%20(61.8).&text=The%202022%20birth%20rate%20for%20adolescents%20ages%2015%E2%80%9317%20was%205.6.&text=The%202022%20birth%20rate%20for%20adolescents%20ages%2018%E2%80%9319%20was%2025.8.

[eppur_se_muova]

13. Thank you !! I did not know that, and it needs to be more widely known. It should be noted that the data ...

... is for the US only, and similar trends might be expected in other developed countries. When women and their families are given CONTROL over their decisions to bear children, every society on Earth can expect a downturn in birth rates, and a resultant boon in QUALITY (as opposed to excessive QUANTITY) of life. World population continues to grow out of control only because so many women and families have NO birth control choices except poverty and starvation. If every country could cut its birth rate the way developed countries have, the population could drop to sustainable levels. It is not there now. The only reason mass starvation is not more widespread is because we are consuming Earth's resources at a furious rate, especially fossil fuels and tropical forests, which will eventually leave us with an overheated Earth where hurricanes, massive flooding, wildfires and waves of insect pests will curtail the population in brutal fashion -- and when we hit the tipping point, it will be sudden and mythically brutal.

Demanding an increase in the birth rate only to outnumber our "enemies" is the strategy almost universally chosen by the most brutal tyrants. Mostly it succeeds in creating more enemies, as other nations realize that the threat of a population clamoring for more land and more resources is that eventually they will just take them from their neighbors -- and "success" breeds unrest at home, as well, as the quality of life declines for no good cause.

The current clamor for higher birth rates from the RW is highly selective -- they want more WHITE births, but fewer brown ones. Only racists favor such a strategy. No exceptions. None.

We can solve this problem the hard way, or we can do it the smart way, but we need smart people in charge for the latter to be a reality.