Botond173
1hr ago
The focus of this report is a lot narrower than the previous one which means there are fewer fun takeaways. Two facts stand out. There's been a lot of speculation about coupling not working, people delaying childrearing so they are unable to get that third child, et cetera, but the report doesn't bear any of these concerns out. Men and women are still moving in together, but the major driver of the decline is that there's a growing cohort in which the couple never decides to have kids. A lot of DINK-couple (Double Income, No Kids) are no longer as eager to become DICKs (Double Income, Couple o' Kids) as they used to be.
https://www.themotte.org/post/3555/culture-war-roundup-for-the-week/410740?context=8#context
Botond173
1hr ago
I thought there was broad social consensus in the US that such women are usually punished rather lightly.
Botond173
1hr ago
It's not like attractive single female teachers need to resort to such measures in order to get pregnant though.
Botond173
2hr ago
I ask you to reconsider this. Condoms used to be unreliable and uncomfortable. Natural family planning necessitates a level of human agency that most normies lack, plus it entails the woman having sex on days when her desire level is at the lowest, which is hardly practical. Coitus interruptus is also unreliable.
Botond173
4hr ago
It used to be that members of congress lived in Washington full time, now they are expected to fly home every weekend. But not all members of congress live in cities like NYC or LA with their multiple airports.
"House leaders subsequently have built more hoe time into the congressional calendar."
That was pretty funny.
"But in late 1994, when Republicans took control of the House for the first time in 40 years, incoming Speaker Newt Gingrich encouraged his party's members to leave their families in their districts, to emphasize their independence from Washington and their roots among constituents."
I sort of wonder if this was a simple case of pure cynicism or an inability to picture the long-term adverse consequences of this decision, which should not characterize a self-proclaimed conservative. Chesterton's fence and all that.
Botond173
6hr ago
I'm not sure where that 20x statistic comes from, I certainly didn't quote it.
I'm assuming it's this part:
In Ireland, they are 0.7% of the population yet 12-15% of prison inmates, an astonishing level of overrepresentation that even many much-maligned other minority groups on both sides of the Atlantic have failed to match.
Botond173
7hr ago
I'd also rather live in Fiji than South Korea for that matter, but that's mostly due to the weather.
Botond173
7hr ago
but it can’t translate that into running a country that’s a nice place to live in
As opposed to Mexico?
Botond173
8hr ago
I think it's fair to say at this point that black beta males have practically gone extinct in the US.
Botond173
8hr ago
I consider myself sympathetic to dissident rightist views and yet I find arguments such as this somewhat baffling. Endemic black gun violence wasn’t much of a social issue in the US until 1970 or 1980, was it? So American society was clearly finding entirely mundane ways of curbing it before that.
Botond173
9hr ago
The backbone of the US military has always been white men.
Southern white men, actually, in fact, if I'm not mistaken.
Botond173
1d ago
I wonder where these retarded 'youth criminal diversion programs' originate from.
The opinion piece seems to be arguing that the main characteristic of sluts is them pursuing men somewhat aggressively, initiating relationships or at least sending blatant IOIs (indicators of interest) whereas the chastity of non-sluts manifests as them waiting while being paralyzed on the sidelines and being wallflowers. I find this rather strange.
I think most women, sluts or not, obviously agree that initiating relationships with men is cringy and comes across as desperate – and that accordingly, it’s not that sluts are such by virtue of pursuing men – and that putting out early to men that are potential partners/husbands is bad strategy. The simple difference between sluts and non-sluts is that the former agree to proposals for casual sex (normally) from men they do not view as potential husbands and the latter do not.
Andrew Tate once posted that he rejects women who have slept with more than 3 men.
I think it’s worth mentioning that in a practical sense, actually following this standard would reduce his mating pool to nil in the current social reality.
That’s also my suspicion. If we’re talking about the college-educated demographic, if one does not have a long-term partner at graduation, the chances of future marriage and parenthood are probably dropping drastically. I’m guessing there is research bearing this out.
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