And ironically, it is idiotic and patriarchal views like this, that have caused the actual mass extinction event that is happening all around us, right now.
It was also legal to rape your wife until 1989. Then came motherhood being a woman’s choice by 1957: “The birth control pill first came out in 1957, when it was initially FDA-approved to regulate menstruation.”
It is literally incomprehensible to make the argument that we’re underpopulated, with 8 billion people on the planet and rapidly diminishing resources. It is virtually impossible that this fabricated distress can be about anything rational.
It's possible that many adults studied the population of the earth and recognized that there weren't enough resources to sustain the population and maintain the health of the planet itself. Those adults then decided not to contribute to population growth. There is intelligent life out there!
Between 1850 to 1903 my great, great grandmother had 13 children of which only 6 survived to adulthood 4 women, 2 men. I think there was a couple miscarriages as well and she didn't live to a ripe old age unsurprisingly.
Matt Walsh is another Nazi simp. Hes horrifically easy to read through. The fact is though...he knows it. Its a con. Keep'em mad, keep'em distracted, keep'em hooked.
When one’s sole use for humans is as consumers feeding investors’ growth, the statistics would be frightening.
But as humans sharing communities and resources, we’re actually fine with a lower rate of replication.
To the billionaire, we’re only shit where they grow their money.
If Black and Hispanic American women started having 300 babies per 1000, he would be in a blind panic and demanding a White eugenic solution to the 'problem'.
Some time in 2022, the news reported that for the first time in history the most babies born in the US weren't white, and he didn't seem at all pleased about that story.
People know they can’t afford to have, raise, and pay for daycare and college or trade school WHILE saving for their own retirement. Which, by the way, includes having a home debt free before you have to retire. The current financial chaos does not help with this at all.
Spot on indeed. I'll add that we have dramatically reduced infant mortality and we could do a whole lot better for the lesser number of children being born now.
Good grief. They want to take us back to when there was no birth control and women had 9 or 10 kids whether they could take care of them or not/afford them or not. The men took no responsibility for the kids; women that weren’t wealthy suffered horribly and so did the children. HELL, NO, WE WON’T GO
And a large part of the reason women weren’t in studies on cardiovascular problems or cancer was because most women died in childbirth. Not that men lived that long either, most didn’t live to see that 60th birthday. Your chances of making it out of childhood weren’t great.
Then men can have babies for a medal & all the risks that come with it... placenta previa, placental abruption, ectopic pregnancy, hypertension, gestational diabetes, stillbirth, miscarriage, preeclampsia, DVTs, stroke, death...Shall I go on? What woman in her right mind would want to risk her life?
The world population in 1850 was 1.26 billion people.
The world population in 2025 is 8.2 billion people. They know we are not going extinct. It is 💯 about a certain demographic not wanting to lose control.
Not to mention- what was the infant death rate in 1850 or 1950? Or childhood death from diseases we now have vaccines for? How many of those "thousands of more babies" lived to adulthood?
He's a douchebag trying to convince women they need to be pregnant which today, that dog won't hunt. Let's use the statistics another way. Women are sick and tired of their bodies being controlled by men. They are saying, "get pregnant? No fucking way, asshole."
Ridiculous comparison. As any one with any education will tell you (approx 10% of the American population I guess) child mortality was a lot higher then due to bad healthcare..but I guess RFK jr is trying to get you back there..
Not to mention how many women died young giving birth when their hearts are already worn out from too many pregnancies. Each time a women has a pregnancy that pregnancy is taking few years off her life. Pregnancy damages us inside & out. Men just want to SIRE lots of babies to feel more VIRILE.
And how many women died in childbirth in 1850 as opposed to now? And how many of those 300 infants in 1850 lived past their first year? Or past age ten?
Amazing how birth rates decline as life expectancy rises. Who would've thought?
Matt forgets to compare the birth rates back in the old days to the mortality rates of children in their first 5 years of life. It was a farming culture, people had a lot of kids to staff their homes and farms to do all the care that we have machines to do now. But a lot of kids died. Pesky facts.
In 1850 and earlier, women would have 8 to 10 children and only 1 survived past childhood. There were no vaccines and children died from these diseases.
This. Also? Declining birth rates puts mid-long term pressure on social security programs, which is a problem in particular if you're reducing immigration but want to keep pumping money into (say) stock buybacks and not have to compete for labor.
And WTF? The GOP works TIRELESSLY to cut the birth rate massively by cutting all support for all child-bearing age people. And driving up prices by insane amounts.
Lol
The gop is COMPLETLEY full of pure idiots.
They literally make even their own wants 1000 times worse. Lolol
That is exactly how As I read his post, I thought he was being honest and speaking about his kind of people. Besides, isn't ElMusk siring a legion-level of kids before the Apocalypse?
My grandma’s generation didn’t have birth control. Women weren’t surviving advanced age pregnancies. They risked a fatal pregnancy,babies with complications or infant death.Birth rate does not mean children who lived to adulthood.We have more advanced medicine and still a high maternal death rate
The problem is that women no longer have the right to have a say in whether or not they can have an abortion. They are scared if they get pregnant and there is a problem they will be allowed to DIE!!!!!
In a world that will fast become almost uninhabitable due to the hastened affects of climate change, brought on by increases use of fossil fuels; and devastation of vast tracts of land into dustbowls by removing forests.
Originally, a High birth rate was necessary to successfully farm... Farmers needed free labor! Wives supplied kids! Modern day....the farmers are gone or going and women don't have to supply "labor"!
When I was born there were 3 billion people in the world. Now there are 8 billion. I'm not sure what the concern about falling birthrates is since we got along fine with less than half of our current population one lifetime ago. Racism is the only reason, and it's disgusting.
One of the concerns is that if we don’t have a lot of kids moving towards adulthood, who’s going to work the rich people’s low paying jobs and who’s going to buy their products. In the end follow the money and you’ll find the answer.
In 1850 the infant mortality rate was 400 of every 1000 live births. In 2024, infant mortality rate was 5.6 of every 1000 live births. Not sure what Matt is blabbering about but his math ain't mathin.
He conveniently left out the infant mortality rates from 1850. We have a higher percentage of surviving births than anytime in history. We aren't going extinct. This is nazi youth philosophy disguised as an existential requirement
#Fucknazis
Shades of my very racist NZ cousin. Her: "We'll be extinct soon!" Me: "How? There are billions of people on earth." Her: "but it's not the right people having babies." 🤢🤢🤢
Why isn’t this point raised more often? I think the majority of women still want kids - they just don’t want an endless drudgery of them Pregnancy/labour sucks and can kill you. Life with small kids is limiting. 1,2,3 is fine. More is a rare choice and means a sacrifice of other achievements
They don’t actually want to increase the birth rate, they want to increase white married women staying home, being barefoot and pregnant, unemployed, tethered to their husbands who then get to beat them and rape them at will. It’s code for white male dominance culture.
We no longer choose to have babies for the government to use as “minimally paid” aka “cheap labor.” We have them because our hearts have so much love to share. We have them in spite of the fact that we have terrible maternity leave, daycare and childcare.
Blame the Industrial Revolution and greed. In that time we went from a society where you needed family to survive, to one where you dispose of your children the moment you’re legally able to, and family is barely an afterthought. Personally mine got ripped apart for slightly cheaper gas and rent.
Feed and house those who need help that are here now.
Population growth should slow when people are struggling with basic life necessities.
Birth promoters never talk about after care. Food, medical, clothing. Where are the $$$$$$$$$s for that fellow Birth promoters?
Who has a Feasible Plan?
He also fails to mention that up until we had better medical care, nutrition, and vaccines for childhood killer illnesses, the death rate of all those kids was pretty goddamned high.
Overpopulation is a global problem. Reduced populations in the west opens opportunities for immigration that benefits both donor & recipient countries.
If you are figuring birthrate in 1850, you also have to consider the amount of child fatalities due to disease, etc. when considering population size. Also, birth control wasn't even legal until 1965. Plus, what Alex said.
Men like Walsh are upset they can’t keep the “little woman” in the kitchen anymore. Women no longer need a husband to survive. Women are getting educated and can actually have a good life as single women.
I have no issue with the human race going extinct. I would appreciate the silence. That being said, humans are like cockroaches. They aren't going anywhere. There will just be more melanin in the world.
Also it ignores child mortality. When 1/3 to 1/2 of children were dying before age 5 people were having more kids, because a LOT of them weren't going to live very long.
I mean, even a grade schooler with a moderate understanding of math and life could figure out that if people live longer you don’t need to have as many new ones. WTF is wrong with these people.
I don’t think calling women brood stock is going to help. Maybe some policies like Family Leave, Head Start, Medical care, fully funded daycare and Pre-K. Ya know, all that kind of stuff.
look up what happened when they did an experiment on rats. It was fine with a few but soon over crowding had them fighting each other for food/ space etc.
I was the result of gov propaganda, "have 2 kids & 1 more to add to the population." so I didn't breed!
The world is 8.2 billion people currently and growing . So what will make us extinct . War , famine , pandemic , global warming … stop worrying about forcing births .
Out of those babies how many were surviving? Maybe quit allowing all the children to be killed therefore lowering birth rates for future generations. Everyone gets better but these rich white dudes, they just money.
In 1850, for every 1,000 babies born, over 46% didn’t live to their 5th birthday.
In 1950, it was 29 deaths per 1,000 live births.
In 2022, it was 6 per 1,000 live births.
It was worse, 30% never got to their first birthday, and almost half died by age 5.
Of the remaining kids, 40% never reached adulthood.
So, out of 100 kids born in that ear, 14 reached adulthood, I my math is correct.
People had more children because they wanted labor for their farms and because many babies died. The US population is still growing just not as fast as it has in the past.
Alex Cole hit the nail on the head. MAGA white men are afraid they will lose power in Congress with PoC, LGBTQ+, Women gaining more seats.
MAGA see women as broodmare to birth the next generations of male voters (sons) who will keep power in the hands of men, and female obedient wives (daughters).
Alec Cole hit the nail on the head. MAGA white men are afraid they will lose power in Congress with PoC, LGBTQ+, Women gaining more seats.
MAGA see women as broodmare to birth the next generations of male voters (sons) who will keep power in the hands of men, and female obedient wives (daughters).
And how about he put this in the context of infant mortality and the need for larger families in an agricultural society. And women had no effective form of birth control. These were the reasons for a higher birth rate, not some intrinsic desire for large families.
JFC, how many of those babies died before they reached the age of 3 or even 1 though? If the "birth rate" is declining so much, why are there so many more people today than there were in 1850 or 1950?
In 1850 only 1 in 2 children survived. So more births were essential for parents to care for them at donalds age.
( oh and its vaccines that allowed almost all children to reach reproductive age)
And frankly Matt the attack on IVF is because some woman would rather have an anonymous donor than being tied to, then divorced from a POS that will default on child support anyway.
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Ask a mathematician about this non-problem. Ask a scientist about nature vs habitat.
This “problem” is a made up issue. They are only worried about profits & control.
Just shut the fuck up.
All of you.
YOU don't have children.
EVER.
Reason: Women no longer want to procreate with
a$$holes & weirdos.
But as humans sharing communities and resources, we’re actually fine with a lower rate of replication.
To the billionaire, we’re only shit where they grow their money.
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We had 2 children.
Once at a party when we were expecting our first child, a man who already had 2 kids said to me, I can’t think of a single reason not to have another.
I responded with: Zero population growth? That ended the conversation
The world population in 2025 is 8.2 billion people. They know we are not going extinct. It is 💯 about a certain demographic not wanting to lose control.
Amazing how birth rates decline as life expectancy rises. Who would've thought?
That was also before birth control. Women had children back to back until they died young.
Go visit the pre-1950 section of any large old cemetery. The children far outnumber the adults.
They want Handmaid's Tale.
75 years later, not 100 it’s over 8 billion.
Where’s the problem?
https://www.newsweek.com/republican-kyle-langford-proposes-forcing-migrant-woman-marry-2060334
Lol
The gop is COMPLETLEY full of pure idiots.
They literally make even their own wants 1000 times worse. Lolol
#Fucknazis
Nazi philosophy is the book that needs banned
Personally I make up for being a low-performing white through brand allegiance to my favorite laundry detergent
I am a doctor. Fuck that!
Population growth should slow when people are struggling with basic life necessities.
Birth promoters never talk about after care. Food, medical, clothing. Where are the $$$$$$$$$s for that fellow Birth promoters?
Who has a Feasible Plan?
We do better than that now.
Oh, and in rural times, the more kids you had, the more land you could work and the more prosperous your family was.
Not so any more.
This is *not* rocket-science!
People have babies when they’re secure and happy.
You know - everything that the emerging oligarchs do NOT want to share with #WeThePeople.
They could support policies to change these things, but pigs are still unable to fly.
It's like they're all on meth and just say and do random shit moment to moment with no real clue or plan.
That "go forth and multiply" thing, yeah, we got that done.
Moron.
And he thinks we have a birth problem ffs.
People had more kids because more of them didn't survive childhood.
Republicans: "The babies being born predominately now, are the wrong color."
Republican mindset is pretty simple. smdh.
FAFO
I was the result of gov propaganda, "have 2 kids & 1 more to add to the population." so I didn't breed!
Also gop: Why no babies?
World population in 1950: 2.5 billion
World population today: 8.062 billion
We’re fine as a species.
Matt Walsh is only concerned about the population of people who look like Matt Walsh because Matt Walsh is an ignorant bigot.
Ahem.. right.
Eh, same...
In 1950, it was 29 deaths per 1,000 live births.
In 2022, it was 6 per 1,000 live births.
Ahhhh, now I understand RFK Jr’s focus on stopping immunizations and promoting fake treatments for measles!
Of the remaining kids, 40% never reached adulthood.
So, out of 100 kids born in that ear, 14 reached adulthood, I my math is correct.
MAGA see women as broodmare to birth the next generations of male voters (sons) who will keep power in the hands of men, and female obedient wives (daughters).
MAGA see women as broodmare to birth the next generations of male voters (sons) who will keep power in the hands of men, and female obedient wives (daughters).
( oh and its vaccines that allowed almost all children to reach reproductive age)