• TachyonTele@lemm.ee
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    My grandfather is 91, and we were talking about his family when he was a kid. This picture is how many siblings he had.
    His father would come home every ten months and then leave a few days later.

    This picture is not a healthy family.

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        He did have at least one other family, yep. Good call. They even tried to connect years ago, but it didn’t work out.

        Thankfully my grandfather and his brothers and sisters came out as good people. Most of them are still alive too.

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      Also, there is something deeply wrong with the girl behind the dad. Her knee should not be there based on what we can see of her shoulders. Their politics apparently involve having hellishly mutated children with their six fingered, yellow handed wife.

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        Perhaps this is why you don’t make children with your sister, who is also your aunt? The kid behind him, she is like a snake but the baby on the dads lap has no legs.

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      You thought it was AI, but she just has ulnar polydactyly. How do I know this is ulnar instead of radial or central polydactyly? The wedding ring, it’s on the ring finger.

      (/s of course, this is obviously AI. But yeah people with extra fingers do in fact exist. They or the parents often cut away the extra finger for cosmetic reasons.)

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      Kid on the lower right has two right hands…

      Kid on the top left has an impossibly long body, head/shoulders above their “dad”, and their leg is hanging off the side of the bed.

      IDK what is going on with the kid in the bottom left, and their feet?

      There’s a lot wrong with this picture.

      Apparently that persons fetish is for a mutated family

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      since when are thumbs not considered equal to the other fingers? is this some weird thing in the english language i somehow missed all this time?

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        The English word finger has two senses, even in the context of appendages of a single typical human hand: 1) Any of the five terminal members of the hand. 2) Any of the four terminal members of the hand, other than the thumb

        So yes, thumbs are fingers, but in certain contexts, they may not be included in count.

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    He wants a baby making machine who is capable of dressing nicely and putting on makeup despite being heavily pregnant on top of taking care of 6 children all of whom are in the baby and toddler phase?

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      frankly it’s difficult to be good parents with one child, humans are not meant to raise even a single kid with only 2 parents. We’re meant to have communities that share the load of raising all the children, we’re not birds for christ’s sake.

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      I went to high school with a girl who was I think #6 of 12. And yeah she was raised by siblings and raised siblings herself. It was actually somewhat similar to what my girlfriend experienced having a deadbeat mom and imprisoned dad.

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      At some point, the older kids are providing child care for the younger ones. But also, its very “infinite economic growth thanks to our ever-expanding frontier” understanding of the family dynamic. As soon as all your neighbors start to copy you, and families start bumping up against one another in their effort to cannibalize the surrounding wilderness, you get conflict. Expand far enough, and the conflicts become things of history - even of legend. The War of the Roses. The French and Indian Wars. The Romance of the Three Kingdoms. The Gaza Genocide.

      This is a family style game of The Tragedy of the Commons.

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    “What sort of minimum wage would we need so an honest blue collar working man can take care of a family of ten and restore our society to the good ol days? Oh…ok… well let’s just ignore that part.”

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      obviously only people who are capable of inheriting 2 million dollars pull themselves up by their bootstraps deserve a big family

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    My political views are whatever this is.

    Well, this is poverty. Vote GOP and they’ll help you achieve it!

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      but also ironically the stereotypical american dream was only feasible for a short time thanks to the work of unions, which would be decried as horrible communists in modern america, and frankly the whole concept has a lot of socialist undertones in general which people love to ignore.

      It was thanks to strong union movements that people had such wealth, ever since the unions got beaten into a pulp workers have been paid less and less and at this point the idea of one dude supporting a spouse and 3 kids is fucking hilarious.

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        I literally know hundreds of families with more kids than that and a spouse without any income, and I’m one of them. These are construction workers, small business owners (trades), union electricians and the like, engineers, accountants, etc. They live in modest homes in outer suburbs or rural areas. They/I live pretty frugally of course, but saying it’s impossible or “hilarious” is simply wrong. I don’t know what to tell you, except that its just not true.

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    The man will work 12 hour days at some menial job and the wife will spend all day trapped with kids. Probably get divorced at some point because they find out the stress of everything has sucked the romance out of their marriage. The oldest won’t talk to one of the parents and the youngest will think it’s their fault.

    This worked back in the old times because at least 2 or so of those kids would die from disease or war. There was cheapish land to go around to be on a farm or have some business. You probably had at least a three bedroom house and it allowed for some privacy. Also, families might help out each other so there could be some support.

    It’s a load of shit to think this will happen the way you want. If this did happen, it would probably be some commune that is labelled as a capitalistic paradise and where every one should be. In reality, it would be forced communism with extra steps and new branding. Think company towns mixed with Handmaid’s Tale-type woman subjugation. Oh, the freedom is so bright that it burns.

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    Why are all kids blonde? I’m just saying maybe this guy married this poor single lady with a little league project or maybe this is one of those oliver twist situations.

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      White kids are often blonde even if they won’t be as adults. All mine were at least for awhile, all have medium or dark brown hair now. All born with blue eyes too, but half changed to brown later. Not sure why, but it’s normal.

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        Yep. I was bleach blonde for years. Started switching from blonde to brown gradually around age eight or nine. Dark brown now.

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    Oh, but it isn’t a fetish! It’s the command of God! They have to push out as many children as possible, because the Creator wishes for us to cover every inch of this planet, and they need a holy army to fight the demons Satan sends against us! And the women need to be pretty and subservient because Gods a man and He loves the good, pretty ladies.

    (I have heard this bullshit so many fucking times, with so many reasons why this is their gods plan.)

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      They have to hold that view! How else would a guy like that get sex once every nine months?

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        Marital rape.

        Oh, wait, so much of it already is “I was raised to perform my womanly duties, no matter my feelings”.

        Sorry, this is a personal sore point, not trying to go off on you.

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          No no, you’re absolutely right. I’ve seen a good deal of that too in the culture I was raised in.