@Goingthedistance getting rejected reminded me of this one.

There was a farm boy in rural Appalachia who grew up in a dirt poor family. A farm accident caused him to lose an eye, and as they couldn't afford a prosthetic eye, his Father carved him an eye out of hardwood. From that point forward, cruel kids at school teased and taunted him, calling out, "Wood eye! Wood eye!" everywhere he went.

In high school, when all his classmates started dating, he felt abjectly lonely, and insecure that nobody would ever want to date a guy with a wooden eye. During his junior year, the school district put together a big dance for all the upper classes from the high schools in the region.

He felt ignored and lonely as always at social events, until he locked eyes with a girl from another school he had never seen before. She had a nice body, beautiful blond hair and blue eyes, nice skin- but... For some reason her mouth grew vertically instead of horizontally like normal. Wow, she looks like she's into me, and nobody seems interested in her either... here's my big shot!

Like in the movies where the music fades into the background when a couple's eyes meet, he slowly drifted through the crowd toward her. Face to face, he stammered a bit and asked her, "Hi, I was wondering if you would like to dance with me?"

She practically swoons, and agrees enthusiastically saying, "Would I?!?"

The young man is shocked that even such an unusual girl would respond so. Furious, he responds loudly, turning the dream sequence into a record scratch: "Hey! I didn't call you CUNT FACE, now did I???!?!?

@SeasonedRP

Commodity price trends over the last few centuries say you're wrong.

Paul Ehrlich's predictions in The Population Bomb and elsewhere often get pointed to in this discussion. He wasn't wrong about resource depletion, but his prediction timelines were off because of ongoing advances in resource extraction. Sure, humankind has kept up with rising demand far beyond the limits seen by Ehrlich in his time, but at the cost of massively increasing entropy. For example, massive strip mining and leaching operations to capture minerals, and the Faustian bargain of fracking to keep wells producing that were declining with traditional methods but at a higher price per BTU and much more dire deferred environmental cost.

China is facing a catastrophic future due to its idiotic one child policy.

Probably the worst example. China has managed to industrialize and raise the individual standard of living far faster and better than almost EVERY nation in modern history, in large measure BECAUSE of the one child policy.

does not portend well for the future of these countries

Exactly WHAT is troubling about stabilizing population numbers at some fraction of where they are today, in the name of prosperity for all into the distant future? Many of the arguments I've heard against it are economic and boil down to top quintile no longer able to exploit the growing masses for profit and wealth concentration upward. The quiet part seldom said out loud is fear that "their" race will get "taken over" by other races. Proponents of either of these arguments never seem to bring a viable answer to the question of HOW to sustain an ever-growing population on a limited planet to the table.

@redpillschool Strange example, for she is not wrong; and I wonder if this conversation stemmed from Trump's recent announcement of a Motherhood Medal as part of an initiative to get American women to have more babies.

This is a TERRIBLE idea, for the world has too goddamn many people already all competing for nowhere near enough resources to sustain this level of population for very many generations.

One tiny example of this was at the hardware store trying to buy basic ass 2X4s for a project, and the sorry-ass wood available today compared to what I remember being able to buy in the 80s. Sorry-ass fast-growth wood with soft loose rings, already warping badly before leaving the store. Billions of people needing wood products, means tree farms and managed regrowth forests can't keep up with demand. This is true for every natural resource.

Imagine a world where continuous population growth wasn't a necessity of the dominant economic systems, where every vagina wasn't expected to the point of active incentivization to pop out 3+ babies regardless of quality or qualification, where humans VOLUNTARILY normalized having fewer kids to stabilize the world population closer to say the arbitrary figure of 1 billion people?

There is/was an organization called VHMET, the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement, that existed to promote this very idea. Literally everyone I tried to discuss the idea with responded with surprisingly strong emotion: That's the STUUUUPIDDDESSSST IDEA EVERRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!11!!!1!!!!! Very few seem to want to face the idea that humanity mindlessly growing forever like bacteria reaching the edge of their petri dish, is INvoluntarily fatal to the population at large.

Red Pill angle on aspect of the Abrego Garcia case

Part of the narrative against popular Right Wing Punching Bag Abrego Garcia is that "He's a wife beater, she had to get a restraining order against him!!1!" Those who bother cutting through the noise and bias of this case to look into details will find her side of this story. She claims she was traumatized by events from a prior relationship, and knew she'd have to exaggerate her claims against him to make a restraining order stick. She has since recanted her testimony against him used to obtain this restraining order, and wishes to be reunited with him and current charges dropped.

Goes to show that "believe all women" and our gynocentrically oriented family court system, can contribute to the Government ginning up a narrative against a high profile man they are trying to make an example of, and wind up helping get his ass deported to a slave labor gulag in a foreign country!