Why is the whole world on fire? These are all mostly American problems.

No, noone is under any obligation to do so.

Remember what they say on airplanes. Secure your own mask before helping others.

A shitty life situation has never stopped anybody from having kids. Quite the opposite, the less educated a society and the lower the prospect of comfort, the more kids people have. Poor and miserable people fuck for fun and don't care about proper contraceptives, resulting in more kids. Further more, people believe that the more kids you'll have, the more likely it is that one of them is going to end up rich and successfull.

This entire thread sums up the utter misery of Lemmy.

I’m not.

Give me a break. How about the people having kids in:

• -900,000: Whatever happened to kill off almost all humans
• -1177: Bronze Age collapse
• 535: Volcanic winter of 536
• 1347-1351: Black Death
• 1914-1918: WWI and Spanish Flu
• 1929-1939: Great Depression and Dust Bowl
• 1962: Great Leap Forward
• 1943-1945: Worst killings and bombings of WWII
• 2020: For our lifetimes. COVID and 100 other disasters. So bad most have forgotten it started with Australia burning to the ground, 1 billion animals killed.

As to racism, we watched Mississippi Burning last night. My wife isn't from America and was horrified. "Honey, that was happening when our parents were kids."