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This is the exact same shit Russia said as a half-assed pretext to invading Ukraine.

"they were standing too close to use so we had to murder them"

Fuck off mini Putin.

Oh fuck, is Lukashenko really considering being a complete bitch of Putin?

I wonder what would happen if the religious leaders all got together and canonized suicide, removing it from the list of damning sins. Further, if they noted you'd go straight to the Rapture if you offed yourself.

What % of the truly faithful would voluntarily remove themselves from the human population? I realize not all of them, but I can see entire industries cropping up to take advantage of the suicide rate increasing by an order of magnitude, almost overnight. I also see a lot of fundies offing entire families in Tent Revivals, so a new set of laws requiring all suicides for religious reasons to be at least 18 years of age, etc.

Sanctioned suicide in jails. Find Jesus, remove yourself from the population. Burden on taxpayers is eased.

Why do we have religion, again?

They haven’t.

Well many countries are already there. They don't plateau. They just keep crashing.

Don't, life is beautiful and bringing more of it into the world is a good thing. Besides, overpopulation isn't the problem anymore, it's aging. More kids will help with that problem.

Guess that means Belarus and Russia are ready to start coming up with a false flag operation against Ukraine for Belarus to join

This is such a strange sentiment to me. Right now, I’m in my 30s with 2 young kids. I see how my parents look at my kids with the same sort of unconditional love that I have for them. If I’m lucky, I’ll have that same sort of relationship with my grandkids in 30 years.

And yeah, maybe things won’t be markedly different by then…or maybe even within my lifetime…but my grandchildren are going to become grandparents too. Are they going to have to look at their young grandchildren in 2110 or something like that and explain why they’re just completely screwed?

My point is that even if you push the consequences out for decades, and even if your concern is limited to how it will affect you and yours, It’s really not hard to imagine how someone you personally know and love just cannot escape dealing with the consequences.

Something like that, yes. It's a mathematical impossibility to keep billions of people alive without adding to the CO2 problem, so this is the kind of thing it would take to achieve negative emissions:

"Food is your own concern, but we're going to impound and destroy every automobile and gas-powered device so you don't get any ideas. Also, say goodbye to electricity, and water may be spotty. Don't complain or we will execute you. If we catch anyone burning wood, the whole household's going in the ground."

I'm tempted to stock up on seeds. Just because.

Try reading Forever War. We are just before the Calorie Wars, or the Ration Wars. And we already have the military intelligence necessary to institute a "Fuck you, Sir" morale policy.

Missing the exoplanet colony ship getting destroyed by an unknown alien race, though.

we are going to invade you because you have defense protecting your borders.

Ehh, what do you mean by an order of magnitude greater than 'Don't leave your house except to exercise once per day? With hospitality etc completely shut down. Like an order of magnitude greater than that is what, returning to the pre industrial societies?

here we go

Natural way to reduce population, yeaaa let's fight it

False flag in 3...2...1...

Every time he makes these impotent threats, he gets closer to declaring victory and pulling out entirely.

I am afraid to look ! (but you got my upvote!)

It is not. Read between the lines.

Putin has all but publicly confirmed that his entire nuclear force is in the same corrupt, corroded state his conventional forces are in.

You're being fearmongered to by an impotent little man who has no more cards to play. Stop falling for it.

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Makes sense. He has only made self-sabotaging braindead descisions so far, why stop now.

(mumbles something about hearing and scales)

More evidence that Russia's once vaunted nuclear arsenal is in the same state of collapsed corrupt disrepair as its conventional forces have proven to be. First, Putin bans inspectors when the world starts asking the big questions about his nuclear threats impotent bluffs. Next, he calls for new disarmament talks -- in the middle of a war, hello? And now he won't even confirm the country is nuclear anymore by withdrawing from decades-old test ban treaties.