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- politics@lemmy.world
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- politics@lemmy.world
Trump official says funds will be released ‘only when states prove they are being spent legitimately’
The changes to US childcare services as part of a response to a viral video, made by a self-described “independent journalist” and rightwing influencer, that purported to discover massive fraud at daycare centers operated by Somali Americans in Minneapolis.
However, other news outlets have not been able to verify the claims made in the video. Allegations of exploitation of Minnesota’s social safety net have also been extensively covered by local and national news media over the past several years, and prosecutors brought charges over one allegedly massive scheme during the Biden administration.
In recent weeks, Trump has intensified his xenophobic attacks on Somali Americans, including his long-running nemesis Ilhan Omar, a representative from Minnesota who is Somali American and came to the US as a refugee. He has said that Omar is “garbage” and said Somalia is “no good for a reason”.
You do know that worldwide birthrates have dropped dramatically in the last few years, right? For example it is estimated that by 2050 China will have about 600 million people. There are still babies being made but not to the extent there should be this is why the birthrate is declining.
Of course I do. But they haven’t fallen enough.
What do you mean by “should be”
Looks like “at replacement rate”, which is a little over 2 for humans overall since we’re a near-even split on sex and not every human born will have children.
China’s per-uterus replacement rate is probably substantially higher than other countries, due to an unintended effect of their “one child” policy.
They’ve known that their population is too huge for decades, and if they manage to drop down to USA-equivalent levels for their habitable size without become a failed state it’ll be the single greatest achievement of a communist state towards world peace.
We should start feeding all the dead bodies to sharks.
The oceans would have so many sharks.
Sharks, as far as the eye can see. Ah. What a world that would be.
Hammerhead sharks. Nurse sharks. Great white sharks. Reef sharks. So many sharks.
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SHARKS!
Sharks?
Where?
They’re over here and over there, in fact they’re everywhere!
They’re in the rivers in the sea, why there’s sharks! Sharks! As far as the eye can so. Oh what a world that would be.
But Fred, I don’t see any sharks around, this might be in your head. Are confused? Are you concussed? Have you been fooled? Is this a ruse? Fred? Fred!?
They haven’t been born yet Mark, but look around this lovely park, it’s full of old ones, covered in gold bond, they’re not long for this earth, and then what is their worth?
Mark, mark, just think about the people in this park, their walkers gone without a song to sing with mouths or hearts. Should we bury them in stinking earth or burn them in Fort Worth?
There’s one solution that I see, it’s sharks, and mankind’s future’s there in shimmering seas.
When it’s my time to depart this earth, my body’s lost its only worth, so wait until the night is dark and throw me to the sharks.
The sharks, the sharks, they’ll feed on human flesh and breed and choke the rivers and the seas, this I ask my dearest Fred, that you do when I’m dead, the shark, the sharks, that’s the burial for me.