My favourite part of that game is that it penalises the player for having 'ideological thoughts'.
One does wonder if anyone making that game thought 'Are we the baddies?' at any point?
For the real life equivalent, consider Louise Perry (who even dyed her hair purple recently).
Crowstep
1d ago
USA 1.6 TFR is not evenly distributed. It is, as with Europe now and world history ad a whole massively overrepresented by 1st and 2nd gen minorities, which are potentially but not necessarily economically acretive to the USA.
First and second generation minorities is an odd phrase. First generation immigrant makes sense, but minority and immigrant are not synonyms.
As it happens, among US-born people (including second gens immigrants), all racial groups have roughly the same TFR, except Asians, who are consistently lower. African Americans have recently fallen below Euro-Americans and are falling fast, which suggests that they may end up with Asian-level TFR soon enough, since their low numbers are already artificially inflated due to higher birth rates among African and Caribbean immigrants.* First gen Asian immigrants have extremely low fertility.
Hispanic TFR is higher among immigrants, but it is overstated due to how it is measured. Since the numerator is babies born, while the denominator is young women legally in the country, illegal immigrants having anchor babies makes the hispanic immigrant TFR look higher than it really is.
With Trump's immigration crackdown reducing illegal immigration from Latin America, it wouldn't shock me if we start seeing white births increasing as a share of all US births in the next couple of years.
*African American wages are actually increasing significantly between generations due to the relatively elite nature of African and Caribbean immigration. Apparently the Great Replacement also involves replacing low-IQ 'native' African Americans with high-IQ Nigerians and Jamaicans!
Crowstep
2d ago
I think you misunderstand my (and I think Corvos') point. I wasn't arguing that the US wasn't playing fair. No country has ever played fair, but right now the US is playing stupidly by alienating its allies and neighbours.
Trump will never get Greenland, but he has managed to piss off an entire continent by acting like a petulant toddler because it hasn't simply been handed to him. And as far as I can tell, he only wants Greenland because he didn't win the Nobel Peace Prize and because it looks big on the Mercator projection.
Whatever the US' strategic aims are in the future once the Mad King dies, the country's ability to achieve those aims has been, potentially, permanently damaged.
Crowstep
2d ago
I think the issue with the Uk is the country has not done anything to earn respect for a very long time. If you want a seat at the table you need to do something.
America is a continent sized country bordered by two oceans, a sparsely populated tundra and a third- (although rapidly approaching second-) world country. It has the world's largest patch of arable land, mountains of natural resources, the best river network in the world, and is populated mostly by high-IQ Europeans. You (assuming you are American) are playing with cheats on.
If we're going to assign moral failings to individuals based on the countries they live in, then you are a failson being constantly bailed out by daddy's trust fund.
Crowstep
2d ago
Could some American enlighten me about this obsession with Europe's demographic replacement
As is often the case, I find myself pointing to Noah Smith's read on the situation:
The U.S. as a whole was never racially homogeneous. Black people were always there, and they never dipped below 10% of the population. Americans in the North had frequent contact with Native American populations. California and Texas had Hispanics before they had Anglos. But in the American mind, Europe stood across the sea as a place of timeless homogeneity, where the native white population had always been and would always remain. In the 20th century, as American consciousness of ethnic differences between Poles, Italians, Germans etc. faded, perceptions of Europe as homogeneously “white” grew stronger.
In the mind of many Americans, Europe thus stood as both a refuge and a reservoir. America itself was a rough, contested frontier, but Europe would always be white and Christian. If you ever felt the need to live around a bunch of white people of Christian heritage, you could always go “back”, but for most that wasn’t necessary — just knowing that the Old World was somewhere out there was enough.
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Anyway, in the 2010s, it dawned on those Americans that this hallowed image of Europe was no longer accurate. With their working population dwindling, European countries took in millions of Muslim refugees and other immigrants from the Middle East and Central and South Asia — many of whom didn’t assimilate nearly as well as their peers in the U.S. You’d hear people say things like “Paris isn’t Paris anymore.”
By contrast, society is unwilling to tell average women that their fantasy of exclusive commitment from a highly desirable man is just as unrealistic and unreasonable as an average man's fantasy of building a harem. If Mr. Tall Dark and Handsome won't commit, it's because men are bad people. And women are encouraged to feel angry and cheated that their primal desires have gone unfulfilled.
I'd love to see something more concrete than the mere assertion that 'society says this', because from my experience, women are intimately aware of how they rank in the dating market and are able to adjust their expectations accordingly. Indeed, that's why most people were able to couple up - at least until smartphones caused us to stop socialising in person.
If 'society' is truly telling women they are perfect and deserve perfection, why did 'society' only start doing this around 2014 or so?
Crowstep
3d ago
It has of course recently been discussed (at long last) just how hard the deck was stacked against young men over the last 15 years.
Your daily reminder that countries other than America exist.
The collapse in coupling is a global phenomenon, it's happening everywhere. America went crazy with race and sex discrimination during the Great Awokening, but basically nowhere else did. Even in the UK, there was nothing like what was detailed in the Compact piece. Wokeness was always mostly an Anglo phenomenon.
The second article you link highlights the real issue. It's the phones (where phones are a stand-in for atomised, digital, addiction-driven daily life).
Crowstep
4d ago
is PRC... Good?
Excluding city states, it has the fourth lowest birth rate in the world, probably about 0.9 right now and falling fast.
They've got a few decades left, but before long China is gonna be the world's largest nursing home.
Crowstep
5d ago
It's still not clear to me what exactly the US wants to do with Greenland that they cannot already do
It's not 'the US' per se, it's Trump. His worldview seems to be extremely zero-sum. Hence the mercantilism, the grasping at Ukraine's minerals, and the desire to annex Canada and Greenland. Combine that with a feeling that the western hemisphere should be the US' sphere of influence, and the threats/bribes towards Europe make sense.
He has such a strong hold over the Republican party that he's been able to drag them along with his zany schemes, although I'm not sure what Trumpism will look like once Vance takes over. Maybe less chaotic but more driven by whatever is happening on right-wing Twitter.
British supermarkets could be found selling 'protein pots' at one point.
(It's two boiled eggs and a bit of spinach)
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