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EverHopeful

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20. Shouldn't have called it a Malthusian plan

Reply to RandomNumbers (Reply #17)

Sun Jul 27, 2025, 11:06 AM

Jul 2025

That's just how I think of what seems like refusal to see that we can avoid his dire predictions and that it's not some utopian nonsense to recognize our abilities to avoid them. Also think of it as Malthusian to push policies that would accelerate our suffering catastrophic loss of life instead of working to prove him wrong.

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Foreboding [View all] lostnfound Jul 2025 OP

The piece of shit BANNON years ago on record saying we must eliminate all American institutions Eliot Rosewater Jul 2025 #1

I never thought I'd say this ... FakeNoose Jul 2025 #4

Yeah I know what you mean. Some of us knew though Eliot Rosewater Jul 2025 #10

I remember when breitbart died UpInArms Jul 2025 #14

Absolutely, lostnfound. After the Collapse... Kid Berwyn Jul 2025 #2

By now I've come to believe it really is some sort of Malthusian effort to kill off as many of us as they can EverHopeful Jul 2025 #3

Same still-prayin4rain Jul 2025 #16

Did Malthus propose an "effort" to kill off people? RandomNumbers Jul 2025 #17

Shouldn't have called it a Malthusian plan EverHopeful Jul 2025 #20

I don't see humanity avoiding his dire predictions. RandomNumbers Jul 2025 #21

a couple of things come to mind... harumph Jul 2025 #5

And gutting the education department RandomNumbers Jul 2025 #18

Yes, that is part of it too. harumph Jul 2025 #19

I never thought Americans would give up bronxiteforever Jul 2025 #6

The decent hosts at MSNBC and our Democratic politicians may think that we've "checked out" lostnfound Jul 2025 #7

It all brings to mind the French Revolution infullview Jul 2025 #8

Agree completely. 🥲....nt Figarosmom Jul 2025 #9

my late mom once said ,," america will be destroyied from within and not from outside". AllaN01Bear Jul 2025 #11

Impoverishing the American consumer is not a good plan for corporate greed Martin Eden Jul 2025 #12

1) AI and the OBBB, 2) "Shock Doctrine" 3) Climate change Master plan for protecting themselves? 4) Corporate boards lostnfound Jul 2025 #15

Heads Up lostnfound... littlemissmartypants Jul 2025 #13

K & R malaise Aug 2025 #22