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A lot of my strongest opinions these days are about relationships and children.

In my opinion, we are going to have a lot of regretful childless men and women over 40 starting to appear now and over the next decade or so. I think it will mostly be women but I can see my own older brothers and some friends lament not having kids.

I don't actively want kids right now but I have just gotten married and whether or not we have them is entirely up to her in the future. When we first met, she wanted kids, but some of my female friends, who are much older than her and don't have children, have absolutely hammered the idea that children are awful into her head. Bad for you, bad for your freedom, bad for the environment, not girl boss, right-wing etc.

The combination of:

• the media's portrayal of women growing old together having brunch and wine dates
• happily married people with kids naturally partnering with other couples socially
• childless people being more active socially with other younger people
• adults spending less time around siblings and cousins etc. who have children
• and IVF successes talked about while failures and miscarriages aren't

has led to a skewed view of kids that is completely negative and a belief that there is more time to settle than there actually is. I have friends with kids who are totally happy, but they are out with other couples doing family-orientated things in family-friendly places.

I am not arguing that women should have children and I am not arguing that women should be convinced that having children is a good idea. I am also not saying that all, or even most, childless women will experience regret. I just think this strain of feminism will have impacted many people from the age of 22 through to 37, basically their entire window to settle down and have children. I think those who have truly actually decided for themselves to not have children will experience less regret, while others who are just part of social groups that are very anti-kids, and those who just run out of time, will be more likely to experience regret.

Plenty of parents express regret also so this isn't just a one-way thing. My point here rests on the last 15 years of social discourse being biased against settling down and having children, so I think the regret will be more experienced by those influenced more by that.

Something else I have noticed myself is that I grew up in a large family and I always assumed I would be like my parents and uncles and aunts and have family around etc. Somehow along the way, I came to believe that was my future, and I still fundamentally somehow and quite stupidly believe that when I am 70, I will have family around. But I am completely detached from the action that is required now today to make that happen. I would not be surprised if others have a similar idea in the back of their minds, thinking future them will have a life like their parents and uncles and aunts and grandparents, while doing absolutely nothing to make it happen. I don't want children but future me 35 years from now remarkably has adult children.

Life isn't some Olympic event you get to train for repeatedly and perfect it, where every decision one makes is calculated with perfect knowledge.

I have no idea why people complaining about their life choices bothers you so much. It is everyone's first go at it and we don't receive any training.

Chronic complaining is annoying but if a friend vents about something, I don't mind listening to them.

When Mamdami ran for NYC mayor, I was hopeful. we are going to see these left wing ideas put to the test on a large scale, if they work we can copy them , if they fail we put them in the bin.
One of his main policies was free public transport in NYC, it caught the imagination of the public, day 1 in office he said "No that wont be happening, too expensive", he has now put out his budged for NYC, it is a staggering $127 billion, NYC population of 8,478,072, For comparison entire state of Florida's budget is $117.4 billion for 23,462,518 people, his NYC city budget bigger than the state budgets of 47 states.
You see the Left are not grounded in reality, they see things as they would like them to be, not how they actually are.

That brings us to Ireland, There is the real world and then the pretend world, to deny all of Irelands problems are not downstream of immigration , is the pretend world of the left.
We Deport 500k immigrants in the morning this is what will happen.
Crime rates will drop - every crime committed by a immigrant is a crime that did not have to happen.

Housing crisis ends - it would free up 100k housing units in a instant, driving down rents and house prices, we know familys of immigrants fresh into the country been given social housing. Outrageous!

Hospital over crowding- eliminated over night, "what about all the foreign doctors and nurses" I hear you screech, no need for them as we are bringing them in to look after the increased immigration numbers.

Infrastructure issues- would be greatly diminished overnight, example is the M50 is a car park these days, remove 500k immigrants many on the road and see the likes of this improve nation wide.

Schools over crowding- Irish children cant get a place in there local school, as immigrants get priority, well that not a problem with 500k removed from the nation, Brucie bonus of this is scientist in the entire Western world are "baffled" by declining IQ test scores in children. Its too PC to say importing Low IQ sometimes inbred families into Ireland would lower the average IQ Children, well deport the lot of them and watch IQ scores rise.

Jobs and wages- 500k deported, admittedly not all of them working, would created plenty of job openings, this glut of jobs will lead to increased wages as competing for workers tends to do that.

Social welfare expenditure- it would be greatly reduced, go to the post office any day of the week and see the imported specimens collecting their dole, its is shocking, all these doctors and engineers on the dole in Ireland. Then we have the Ukrainian scam, fleeing war, but go home for holidays!! €1.165bn spent on accommodation alone in 2024. We see outrage over the cost of the national children hospital, we could build one in each of the 4 provinces and fit it out and operate it for the cost of these Ukrainians, let that sink in!

Now you will see posters saying many are working and paying taxes, they don't tell you taxes that are spent on back on these immigrants by the government, they are a net drain and always will be studies from Denmark show this, the ones with children get Family income supplement, they pay zero tax and get money of welfare while working.

That's just of the top of my head, name a problem Ireland has , and I will tell you how its downstream of immigration.

If you start asking about unrelated stuff like that, you are implicitly agreeing with him about the stuff that is related.

Rapid population increase due to immigration from 3rd world when consanguineous marriage and birth defect are common, present capacity not able to handle the influx of new children into the medical system, panic set into Government, dont want the media full of stories of children in need of medical attention not receiving in so signed of on the new children's hospital in a hurry.

Would not have happened without immigration.

Brucie bonus - The Billions that are been spent on HOUSING Ukrainians , never mind the Billions they receive in SOCIAL WELFARE could have been spent on four provincial children's hospitals, fully fitted out and staffed.