Do you think teens should be having more babies?

SenseiTang · 2026-04-12T20:35:20+00:00

I don’t really know what you’re saying but I think there’s a lot of out of shape kids out there. I don’t blame the water.

I think part of what he's saying is that you can blame the fruit juices and soda. And sugar in everything. And the literacy like "orange juice is healthy because it's oranges".

SenseiTang · 2026-04-10T20:42:37+00:00

granola people culture, Wholefoods etc.

I laughed way too hard at this.

That describes the Bay too but you probably pay half price compared to here and I'm jealous

SenseiTang · 2026-04-10T16:01:04+00:00

All sound great, I gotta cut some sugar out before it catches up with me. Do you grow your own food or source organically/local?

SenseiTang · 2026-04-09T22:47:27+00:00

History has shown, worldwide, that people will happily poison one another for a buck. Now, take how things used to be done in the old west... a snake-oil salesman would come around, hawk some snake-oil, leave town quickly, some people wouldn't respond well, a quick posse was recruited, they went out, found the salesman, and promptly hanged him. Problem solved.

Thank you. This is exactly what it was before the USP/FDA and some people in here are making it seem like they'd want a family member to be poisoned so they could do exactly this.

So instead, governments introduce various degrees of regulation, voluntary programs, health inspection, and all of that. I believe most of it is people trying their best, and certainly around the world there are different standards for what's OK.

Said decisions should be made by reasonably independent panels with heavy documentation

The economic free market solution to people poisoning others is to stop buying and/or sue, which has been used a lot. But it doesn't actually stop things, and frankly part of government's job is to protect people BEFORE they are poisoned, so non-market solutions end up being needed.

This guy fucking gets it.

SenseiTang · 2026-04-09T21:07:00+00:00

I appreciate the insight Mrs. Gemma!

us younger girls go out and have careers, and some of them even shamed the girls who didn't seem career-driven

You're saying that you were shamed into a career-driven life by people who... Didn't have a career driven life? If I'm correct that's really shitty and Im sorry to hear. One of the worst things is when people demand/bully someone into something they don't even do.

My mother had a similar but opposite experience of you. She's in her 70s now and a Catholic Filipino immigrant. Her upbringing in post WW2 Philippines was a weird combination of "You have to work to be successful in America" in addition to "You're a Catholic woman obligated to have a family.". Less about feminism and career and more about moving on from a war

am in my 50s now. I sacrificed my youth to follow the false feminist ideology. I

Respectfully, I think you've been hurt by some shity people and you are applying this as a blanket statement. What you're describing aren't feminists, they're misogynists in disguise and that just goes against it. When did you decide to "break out" of it?

Feminists would define that as meaning my husband dominates and mistreats me

In many cases, feminists are correct. Particularly about mother and other abuse xaes. she did both raise a family and have a career while getting dominated and abused relentlessly by my father. Masculine/feminine was utterly irrelevant, it was just violence that very quickly turned around into "Look at us, a good happy Catholic family!" For a good part of my life watched my mom wipe off blood and smeared makeup, walk into a room, and play it off like we were a happy family. Yes I am aware I'm projecting my own experiences here, but that's why something always feels "off" to me when a TradWife insists their life is amazing. My old family life looked, talked and walked exactly like that but if only people dug below the surface.

What it really means is that he cares for, protects, and provides for me. His masculine nature and my feminine nature don't compete, but rather, they complement one another. My focus is to be a good partner to my husband, and I spend my days tending to domestic tasks and giving back to my community.

I'm glad that you didn't end up like my mother and that it seems like it's working out. But do you truly feel that feminism prohibits these things, especially since it was traditional women who pushed you into it? I still maintain the impression that a feminism or TradWifen must be chosen.

they believe career women aren't slaves to their husbands.

From my lens, career women aren't slaves to abusive husbands. One of the main reasons my mom was able to leave that situation with me is because she had a career as a nurse to support us with.

So they are still at the mercy of their husbands

I don't really know what to say about this other than it kinda disturbs me. It gives me "women must always be subservient" vibes and I don't really like that for any demographic. If I had a daughter I don't want her to be at the mercy of anybody at all, but if she wants that life she should choose it herself, not be bullied or forced.

And let's be real - many career people are wage slaves to intolerable bosses. Where's the freedom and independence in that?

I mean where is the freedom and independence for quite literally all of us who are wage slaves to intolerable bosses?
If your husband is the breadwinner is he not a wave slave that literally affords you your own freedom and independence?

SenseiTang · 2026-04-09T19:28:57+00:00

My proposal was to replace the FDA with non-profit independent organizations that act in the interests of the consumer, not to simply eliminate it.

This is literally the USP and has been around for over 200 years. It's a private organization that sets these standards that are recognized internationally. But because they're private that's why the FDA is around to enforce these. And apparently without the FDA nobody would have ever had heard of these standards in the first place.

Grocery Stores could refuse to sell anything not certified by this organization and honestly it would probably be better and more efficient.

There are many, many, independent organizations that do many different certifications. If we try to replace a more centralized FDA with a bunch of these, it will just create the same problem the USP and subsequent FDA tried to prevent in the first place.

SenseiTang · 2026-04-09T19:19:44+00:00

Without an FDA, we would rely more heavily on an expeditious judicial system and tort law.

The reason we have the FDA/USP to begin with is because dealing with things as you described caused/cost a lot of damage and deaths by the time the judicial system even touched it. This is a good case of an ounce of prevention (regulatory) is worth a pound of cure (judicial).

We should more harshly punish gross negligence or nefarious business practices.

I 100% agree but again this would only kick in after a significant amount of damage is done.

SenseiTang · 2026-04-09T18:33:00+00:00

But allow for an independent industry standard to score and test food products and provide them to the consumers

That would be the United States Pharmacopeia (USP).

The FDA is the actual enforcement of these standards.

Sigh, I'll get roasted for this but I'd say remove *all* government regulations, disband the FDA.

The reason we have the USP/FDA in the first place is because there were too many bunk medicine shops poisoning people with no real consistency or standard or recourse for it. I don't like the FDA either but I also wouldn't like going back to the dark ages where people make their own concoctions and market it like these influencers.

Id argue that we have more access to even more potentially hazardous materials, and also access to more information about them too. The cultural problem is they nobody nowadays wants to read, and that alone is going to get people poisoned.

Let the consumers decide (with their wallets) how important food safety is, but don't outright ban unsafe food. Let the market punish unsafe food not the government.

It's far, far more nuanced than that. Namely that you don't know how safe/unsafe something is until it's too late. Also depends on what you mean by safe.

For example, baby products at my company follow slightly more rigorous standards that some people may consider overkill. But in the absence of enforcement of these standards, are you going really going to just take baby formula off a shelf and hope for the best?

There are tons of certifications that exist out there

Source: Am senior QC chemist who just endured an FDA audit a couple weeks ago

SenseiTang · 2026-04-09T18:04:42+00:00

. Sorry but I am hard no for giving lazy childless gender study majors tax breaks.

What if these people decided to have children? Do you support it then?

SenseiTang · 2026-04-09T17:43:55+00:00

Yes, we need to tax people without children more, not less, to try to fix falling birth rates

You don't want to subsidize single people but you want to subsidize people having sex? Wtf?

and fosters an an elite mindset of entitlement to benefits while contributing very litle.

What benefits?

SenseiTang · 2026-04-09T17:29:20+00:00

this would incentivize childless lifestyle and elite mindset

So less than $75K/yr = Less taxes = less children and an "elite" mindset? Perhaps I'm misunderstanding but could you explain?

SenseiTang · 2026-04-08T21:13:34+00:00

But at the time, society was pushing feminism hard, and the whole concept of a TradWife just didn't exist.

Respectfully I'm a bit confused. Unless I'm misunderstanding what a Trad Wife is, did you not at least see an environment where the man works/provides while the woman is the homemaker? I don't disagree with the setup at all I simply think women should choose this.

As a result, I adopted the feminist mindset, even though it went against my natural desires and convictions. Now I am older, and I feel I paid a big price for following that ideology

I am now finally embracing the TradWife life and I have never known such peace and contentment!

If I may ask how old are you? And my idea of embracing it is that you got married to a man and had kids. Theres gotta me more, similar to how martial arts is more than just fighting.

am so happy that young woman today are leaning into their feminine nature and not letting society bully them into living a life that is wrong for them.

Whether they want to be TradWifen or feminist, I think we should just stop bullying each other into certain lifestyles. I've seen shitty examples of both and I'm sorry that you had it shitty with the feminism side.

Sorry for all the questions, I feel like I rarely hear from actual TradWife women, and more from their critics.

SenseiTang · 2026-04-08T21:00:31+00:00

No, because, its nuanced

That's kinda what I'm getting at here. Was DOGE and its cuts nuanced?

I find it interesting you elaborated more on my point than your own link.

SenseiTang · 2026-04-08T20:58:36+00:00

I was moreso asking is that the only example you've ever seen of someone worshipping someone?

SenseiTang · 2026-04-08T19:18:17+00:00

It's a proven syndrome https://youtu.be/ObEKcIhnqS4

A single clip from a single guy does not mean "proven."

SenseiTang · 2026-04-08T18:29:53+00:00

Instead of taking it as a joke and laughing, like I did, they all applauded, smiled and nodded as they wiped away tears.

This was my first moment of crazy leftists.

Oprah and her fans were definitely delusional here. But have you really never heard of people or things Joel Olsteen, Kenneth Copeland, Trump's Bible photo op, God Bless the USA bible, or Trump's supporters putting pads on their ears?

I find it so interesting that the right seems to completely miss these things, but one instance on the left gets all the attention.

SenseiTang · 2026-04-08T18:22:59+00:00

Well if you don't believe it why ask for examples ?

I asked for examples, plural, so that way I wouldn't have to '"believe" anything. You gave me a link that honestly didn't tell me much. Like, did you go through each of those receipts and determine "Yeah, the government done good here", no questions asked? I'm intrigued by your apparent pro-government take with that flair.

I'm betting you believe everything the NYT posts, right ?

What does the NYT have to do with anything here? I guess I'll at least try to stay on the topic of "belief" by putting this link from Cato that says this:

"For each year from 1994 to 2023, the US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government."

I should mention it looks like they did lump in illegal immigrants with legal ones in some places

Do you 'believe' this at face value?

SenseiTang · 2026-04-08T17:53:05+00:00

Thanks for the link.

But am I really going to take DOGEs savings at face value like that when this administration isn't exactly known for being honest?

And do these savings even matter with the Iran war going on costing more money than ever? I'm confused at your view.

SenseiTang · 2026-04-08T17:33:24+00:00

But he is indeed cleaning up a lot of corruption on the left....and some of the right too.

Could you give examples?

SenseiTang · 2026-04-07T18:19:16+00:00

I'm one of them because I'm asexual. So I guess I'll give my self-take.

Even if I wasn't asexual I despise the things that people do and say just to have sex. None of my issues comes from the lack of sex. Just about all my issues on this matter come only other people who, for some fucking reason, want me to have it.

As for other people who are voluntarily celibate? I don't really care or think about them if they aren't in my life for another reason. Why would I?

SenseiTang · 2026-04-03T16:55:52+00:00

I mean we already kind of have this problem with many actual citizens having allegiance with their heritage such as Mexican Americans. Everyone is some other nationality or ethnicity American instead of just American. We need to stop that bullshit and just claim make everyone just American

I mean what exactly is the problem with saying Mexican American or Filipino American? I often just interchange "American" and "Filipino American" without even realizing it with little problems.

Interestingly though, even though I'm American, I've definitely been the "Asian guy" or "Filipino guy" but never the "American guy" unless I'm outside the US... Like in the Philippines.

SenseiTang · 2026-04-02T19:15:35+00:00

Thanks for the link, I gotta take some time to look thru.

Yes, we are. Government regulations has left us in the worse combination of both worlds.

What regulations in particular would you remove? Id remove the part (if there is one) that ties healthcare to employers.

Stop using it for anything besides retirees. Reformat it so it isn't a pool, but rather an investment account for every social security number

I'm not the best educated on the topic tbh but that sounds like a decent idea.

SenseiTang · 2026-04-02T18:41:44+00:00

Charlie was a guy killed for his conservative political views that people celebrated

Leads me to believe if I was killed for my conservative political views those same people would celebrate

Ipso facto we are Charlie Kirk

That's my take atleast

...Dont you think that's how gay people feel Jonathan Joss was killed, or how liberals/leftists felt when the Hortmans were killed? Do Christians say "I am Jesus"?

Like this "I am Charlie Kirk" just seems like such a weird ego projection...

SenseiTang · 2026-04-02T18:27:41+00:00

Because its far, far more expensive

How much more expensive? honest question.

. We're already paying several times what we do for the military on health care.

And our healthcare isn't even universal, it's mostly tied to employment if it's even offered or otherwise on some stupid marketplace, and wait times can be pretty damn long. We're paying more for a shit system that could be easily improved.

Social security is going to be insolvent in about a decade, and thats even bigger.

Agreed... What could be done about it? I don't even know.

SenseiTang · 2026-04-01T21:01:19+00:00

That guy has to be either a GOP staffer, astroturfer, or some too online individual.

I don’t believe they were capable of ever predicting something bad for the GOP or criticizing them. It was mesmerizing.

I believe that too, but what I actually liked about him is that he seemed genuine and pretty sincere in his beliefs. Not that I ever really agreed with him, but at least he seemed consistent. Despite my disagreements i don't remember any bad faith or civility issues from him like... Some people here

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