The point with the example of India is that they saw the same trend of declining birth rates over time as the rest of the world, just coming from a higher baseline level. And in their case, this trend cannot be explained by entertainment or by contraception. (Note how there's no "pill dip" in their birth rate curve like the one you see in the late 60s/early 70s in Europe and NA!)

Same story when you look at places in Africa today, for example Mali, Niger or Tanzania. Explosive growth, birth rates well above replacement level, but nonetheless drastically declining birth rates. People just don't notice it when birth rates go from 7 children/woman to 4.


The rest of what you said are cookie cutter manosphere talking points, oberservations which often times contain a grain of truth, but are grotesquely exaggerated and blown out of proportion.

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Aug 8 2024 05:27pm

Nah, no roids natty, that's why I hit the plateau.
The meta for taking roids is usually when someone hits their plateau to get past it, you can do them to get bigger in the first place but those people lose their gains fast too.
My face isn't ugly, I just had schizophrenia that kept getting mislabeled depression and ass burgers.

This post was edited by PapaPsych on Aug 8 2024 05:33pm

This has gone way off topic but couldn't help myself.

You're dating yourself. You're probably like me, grew up in like the Pete Rubish times in the gym.

It's not guys who are hitting plateaus anymore that look down those crossroads. It's teenagers now hitting the juice train after 6 months of lifting because everyone needs rapid gratification. SARMS must be predominantly taken by teenagers which just quickly gateways into TRT, Tren, dbol, etc.

Used to be people who worked out for years then jumped on the juice but it couldn't be any further from that now.

There was a time where the role model was a dude doing crazy deadlifts in front of his washer and dryer in before Instagram, now it's just a plague of juiced up influencers infecting teenage kids brains.

This post was edited by SBD on Aug 8 2024 07:28pm

Yeah taking steroids in teenage years is ridiculous, your body at that time is already like its on steroids.
If I were interested in bulking up again, and shoving my face full of protein I'd go to a doctor for steroids, since my state is so lax with prescribing them.

This post was edited by Djunior on Aug 9 2024 01:50am

Capitalist induced "feminism" alias strong independent woman needs no man. Let both potential parents work 40h or more per week, make everything expensive due to the full double income, make the genders hate each other for reasons, watch birth rates plummet

This post was edited by babun1024 on Aug 9 2024 02:32am

Declining birthrates predate the rise of feminism.

It made everything way worse for sure. We're talking about birth rates bellow reproduction levels.

They certainly fucked that one up lmao

Some of the sentence lengths seem harsh. 2 years for pushing a wheelie bin at the police while falling flat on your face - really?

I think we're coming to the end of the riots now as sentencing gets amplified by the government and media as a deterrent. Naturally, when this is all over they'll say we've locked up the far right thugs, now everything is back to normal, instead of addressing the underlying causes.

Hopefully the next leader of the Conservatives is a hardliner that advocates leaving the ECHR which will pressure Labour to do more.

The home office should be going into every turkish barber, nail salon, and car wash. We know exactly where the 1.2m illegal immigrants are, and if it means I have to pay a bit more for a fresh trim I'm still down with that.