May 24, 2025

ANTINATALISM: The Latest Destructive Ideology That Must Be Eradicated.

Third, antinatalism sounds more like a pathology than an ideology.

Guy Bartkus’ social media posts — if authentic — are telling. He was depressed and felt worthless, so everyone must be worthless. He wanted to destroy himself, so he is somehow justified in destroying others.

Those interviewed in the Today.com article seem just as selfish and/or blinkered in their worldview. Ana describes herself as an “empath” whose heart is broken by human suffering, but concludes therefore that humans should not exist.

Amanda Sukenick, an activist from Chicago, describes her antinatalism as emerging from conversations about the Holocaust with her Jewish and Armenian parents. “I thought a lot about war and how conflict can’t be solved if we keep creating new people,” she says.

This is ahistorical nonsense. Human life on earth is dramatically better than it was 1,000 years ago or even just 100 years ago. There is less war, less suffering, less hunger, less misery. Modern humans have achieved that and more, and few of those living centuries ago could have foreseen it.

Sukenick describes her “perfect solution” to the problem of human suffering as “unplug(ging) the universe so there was nothing.” If this is her takeaway from the Holocaust, she has learned the wrong lesson.

But perhaps her most telling quote is this: “There aren’t children waiting in some sort of purgatory, desperate to be born. There’s nobody there, so we’re creating problems for no good reason.”

The real message here is that humans have no souls. There is no afterlife, no God, no meaning, no real value.

Walter Sobchak, call your office:

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DEMOCRATS NEVER IMAGINED THAT THEY’D LOSE POWER, EVEN IF THEY LOST AN ELECTION:

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GREAT MOMENTS IN ENTITLEMENT: Kamala Harris called Anderson Cooper a ‘motherf—er’ after tense interview on Biden’s debate meltdown: bombshell book.

Former Vice President Kamala Harris blasted Anderson Cooper as a “motherf–ker” to colleagues following a tense interview over former President Joe Biden’s catastrophic debate performance against Donald Trump last year, a bombshell new book revealed.

The then-veep unleashed the disparaging remark after the CNN host grilled her on Biden’s cognitive health immediately following his disastrous showing in June — that ignited widespread panic and ultimately led to the octogenarian dropping out of the race.

“This motherf–ker doesn’t treat me like the damn vice president of the United States, she said to colleagues,” according to the new book “Original Sin,” co-authored by Anderson’s CNN colleague Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson.

“I thought we were better than that.”

To be fair, after eight years of the Obama administration and nearly four years of the Obama Biden administration, no wonder Kamala felt like she deserved a similarly fawning treatment from her party’s operatives with bylines. Which helps to understand who the “we” is at the end of Kamala’s outburst.

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IMMIGRATION THOUGHTS FROM A FRIEND: “There’s a big difference between wanting to be in America and wanting to be an American.”

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