hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
5hr ago
Aren't the ancient north eurasians literally the ancestors of every civilized race and also pretty close to China?
hydroacetylene
7hr ago
Marriage is earlier, basically. When women's standard of living benefits more from marriage than from career investment both sexes marry at high rates.
hydroacetylene
22hr ago
Aren't you trying to be tradcath? Haven't you noticed the families double buckling, running illegal daycares in their living room, open carrying in blue states, putting seven kids in one room, running totally illegal rental schemes on a cash basis, having entire construction companies competitive on the basis of not pulling permits? All 100% autobiographical observations and going on in normal suburbs. I'm sure the same things happen in the protestant equivalents. The local Mexicans definitely do all of these things, and more.
As it turns out, you can just do things if you don't leave bodies on the ground and have a whole community to run cover for you. Could secular rationalists replicate it? Probably not. 'Federal law' is pushing it because most of these are local bylaws that no one really cares about; the haredi and FLDS do violate federal law, but mostly for welfare fraud.
hydroacetylene
22hr ago
Jerry Pournelle wrote about a solution. Not a pleasant, utopian solution, but I don't think the citizen islands from the codominium are that implausible.
hydroacetylene
22hr ago
How many of the people upset about China's treatment of Falun Gong are specifically upset because they're epoch times readers?
hydroacetylene
22hr ago
There are just an absolutely enormous number of well-educated, intelligent people believing things that... do not match up with current western consensus, all over the world. Korea, or other oriental countries, having less investment in western shibboleths, means they're willing to opine about this stuff more.
hydroacetylene
22hr ago
Isn't it a fad for korean parents to send their kids to hebrew studies for no apparent reason?
hydroacetylene
22hr ago
Because western far right antisemites mostly do not think AI is as big a deal as the people on this forum do.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Kids are also a lot cheaper to take care of.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
This is one of those things that sounds nice but won’t actually work. There’s lots of countries giving handouts to big families. Only in Georgia do these incentives do anything.
Instead, you need to target interventions earlier on. The military is a pro natal culture just by incentivizing it’s members to marry instead of cohabit.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Pax judaica is the sort of schizophrenia that plausibly is a partial truth- there might well be some politically influential mega church pastors who believe they can bring about the end times through middle eastern wars.
But, as I’ve said before, red tribe normies, including boomer evangelicals and other ‘hardcore’ zionists, do not believe this. They believe that 1) God will inflict punishment on nations that do not side with Israël, Israël is special for non-eschatological reasons. And 2) Islam is a major threat and Israël fights it overseas.
I won’t defend either of those two beliefs, but those are the beliefs which give US Zionism political power.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Populism. The answer to your incoherency is populism.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Water boarding seems like a plausible enough metal band name to me.
In any case, brain dead anticolonialism is genuinely popular in Ireland as a shibboleth for anti-British sentiment, which they hold for historical reasons. Don’t know if they’re genuine antisemites or not.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I mean, the haredi cultural model seems very dependent on welfare fraud. I'm not sure you can separate the extremely high fertility rate from their whole way of life.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
No, Obama is seen as continuously escalating leading to a backlash during his second term. Fast and furious, IRS targeting, his racial rhetoric, etc.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I like your term 'k-selection spiral'. But I want to point out you're looking at it wrong in terms of resources. It's not 'amount' of resources, it's 'how they're distributed'. People in the literal poorest countries in the world have lots and lots of children, and they live in like Niger and Chad. You see fertility bumps around oil towns and military bases, too, because young women's best economic prospect is to marry a man employed by the thing that makes their town notable.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
There's no shortage of religious sects with very high fertility rates. The dutch bible belt has many problems but it mostly supports itself while maintaining a 2.5ish TFR. Rad trads have a TFR of 3.6 and we don't use welfare other than social security.
But for a secular example, check the fertility rates of military or oil towns.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
There's a couple of solutions. First, there's the maximally cynical solution- minimum cigarette and hard liquor consumption for elders to receive their pensions. Second, you could raise the fertility rate somehow, but nobody knows how to do that... except there are examples in the secular western modern first world which successfully do this at scale. Military and oil towns in the US, for example, do this quite effectively just by raising average male wages relative to female in the relevant age brackets. We could easily replicate this with fairly mild discrimination in college admissions, or a special tax on female labour, or etc. Modern western society won't, of course, but we could. It wouldn't be that hard. Thirdly, there's what will probably actually happen- lowering the quality of elder care, systemically lying about it, and printing money to cover the deficit necessary to keep it financed. Obviously, persistent inflation but society can handle that, with grumbling.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I mean my political door knockers always greet me by name.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Unfortunately, this statistic is confounded by the shift in calibers for gunshot wounds.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
There’s definitely been a few high profile trans mass shooters, but whether this is just ‘psychotic weirdos become trans’…
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Didn’t Poland enter the nuclear sharing program recently?
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Young women are very underrepresented among politically relevant targets and the US doesn’t have a lot of political assassinations, so that doesn’t mean much even if there hasn’t been.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
‘Taking away the interests of the poor in other solutions, whether communism or church based charity’ was literally the motivator behind a lot thé early welfare states, though, wasn’t it?
Evangelicals do not marry in their thirties(although nor do they marry in their teens, there's an entire decade in between), nor do normie evangelicals make a huge deal out of avoiding premarital sex.
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