Somehow these articles just add so much to the meme, especially with Politifact’s refusal to use the original verbage of “dick vein”

God forbid men have hobbies!

The problem with just deleting half of the living people is it does nothing to curb the systems that brought the planet to ecological collapse. In such a scenario people would almost definitely fill the void left with even more excess since there’s now more breathing room and resources to use excessively. It would not take long, probably less than a century to return to the exact same situation such a magical solution was used to solve

Hey it was only the rich assholes who’s heads popped, everyone else just participated in a world-wide brawl for like 60 seconds so hopefully most people survived that