They're not subsidizing Nigerian daycare. They're subsidizing life-saving treatment.
If you mean "why don't they cut them off so they have fewer kids": a) see "not everything is about TFR"; some people think it's good that people don't die actually, even if they'd have six kids at their funeral. That is insect logic. b) it's unclear that making their lives more precarious will stop them. They had a higher TFR before. Maybe they'd have fewer kids the less they needed to hedge against disaster.
I don't think the sorts of people who do this stuff are particularly interested in boosting the number of kids every African woman is having, quite the opposite. They're likely the sorts who also support family planning and female emancipation and education that they hope will have the same effect on Africa's TFR as it's had elsewhere. I think we discussed Macron stating this explicitly a while ago.
If you want to go that route you might gain from the soft power and proven competence that comes from stopping people from dying.
Tanista
9mo ago
It's not a coincidence, obviously. They'll find something.
It's preferable they find "binders full of women" than you saying what Vance said. All you can do is minimize.
There's an argument for some Trump-style disagreeableness on important things. But I'd be making this argument if a Democrat spoke this way. This is not the sort of thing you want a paragraph-long explainer on. Waste of time.
Tanista
11mo ago
Similar to Caster Semenya and likewise raised as a girl
Another case of pervasive misinformation; most people (including myself until very recently) think that Semenya really is a woman.
Tanista
6mo ago
Trump and Tom Cotton performed hypothetical violence by suggesting sending in troops/national guard, quite fascist. Direct and tacit support for lawlessness and chaos on the streets though? Nope.
Tanista
11mo ago
Yes, but there was appropriate ass-covering.
Musk is significantly more defiant.
Tanista
1mo ago
I was trying to help B against C, but accidentally helped A against B instead" (with A=cis women, B=trans women, C=conservatives) is an easy mistake to make, even if your distinction between A and B is solely based on who is the target of C's enmity?
But they don't just help against "conservatives". The movement against maximal trans rights in Britain didn't run through conservatives but apostates who were themselves lesbians and former feminists in good standing.
I'm not OP, I do think in this situation things likely just dissolve. But if transwomen were making some sort of demand that made them distinct from women (the male version would be being forced to tolerate Sam Smith's ridiculous name shenanigans), without a clear indication of who wins on the stack, you'd at least think sometimes the bulk of the movement would sometimes just side with the women who don't want to deal with it. Especially since they couldn't appeal to the alleged suicide epidemic.
(Are you in fact trying to make a serious argument there, or are you just attached to the snappy sound of this line of polemic for your side?)
Yes.
Tanista
4mo ago
Some version of "America First" has been predicted since the end of the Cold War.
One wonders how much more serious it would be under a different President.
Ah well, we'll never know.
Given how large some of the gaps are or were, it's inconceivable that quotas are never going to be better than doing nothing.
Especially if the blank slate is true. Then one can argue for maybe a limited quota system (for a fixed time period) to remedy discrimination, under the assumption that whatever gains are made will continue when the original barrier is smashed and a self-sustaining population of female /minority X is formed and the stereotype threat/unfriendly environment is gone.
Tanista
11mo ago
The former. My assumption at the time was that Semenya was a female, not a male raised as a woman with a male specific DSD.
Same thing, though. His punishment was carried out. Presumably his country deemed that punishment sufficient for the nature of his crimes.
And that is their right. I tend to fall more on the American normie side of "maybe people who fuck 12 year-olds don't need to be around".
And no, I wouldn't apply it to marijuana. I'm not sure where the line is.
is a pretty simple rule and certainly isn't the worst way to govern these things, but preventing someone with actual skills from using those skills to their fullest extent also creates economic deadweight loss
We suffer this loss all the time. Plenty of people are talented. Kevin Spacey has literally been found innocent in multiple trials and will still likely not be allowed to climb back to anything like his peak status. Ryan Garcia is currently in the doghouse. Poor Kyrie Irving was suspended for moronic conspiracy theories of the sort you hear yelled in the subway, no threat to anyone. He wasn't even allowed to pay jizya at first because he was not sufficiently deferential in his apologies.
Most people don't really care about any of these things on a deep level (unless your team lost out), yet it's not in doubt that this is the status quo. We don't really need to craft some justification for it from first principles like it's novel.
None of these high status roles are pure meritocracies. There's always been a debate about just who deserves to get these benefits (enhanced by the stage and national quality of the Olympics). Perhaps the one bit of crystal clear consensus is that something like race shouldn't be a barrier. The rest is debated constantly.
That whole worldview (America as moral crusader) is dying anyway.
You'd think so. But, on the one hand, Trump criticizes regime change and social engineering and moralism in foreign policy and then litigates DR fascinations like South Africa and white genocide.
Perhaps we're just in the age where Americans don't even pretend that moral crusades are anything but domestic culture wars by proxy.
Canadians can’t agree with each other now, you think they’ll like their politicians better when they’re in Washington?
The Quebecois are one thing but I honestly think the rest of Canada will get over losing things like interprovincial barriers and bitchfights over pipelines quite fast.
Hell, some of them might appreciate no longer having to deal with all of the distinct society stuff.
Tanista
7mo ago
Silly poster, he should have known that the only acceptable way to speak of shadowy cabals is to give them a name like "the patriarchy" or "systemic racism"
Leftists will immediately say that they don't think of those as cabals.
They claim a set of structures and incentives that cause people to act in certain ways. Which structures? Which incentives? Well, varies depending on the phenomenon. Or maybe all of them
They're closer to constructs like aether trying to fill in a hole in a mechanical understanding of the world than claims about Jews or elites in a smoky room.
Tanista
2mo ago
Grant that crazy attracts crazy, and whoever originated the more fantastical miracle stories may have likewise just been psychotic at the time, or something.
Or you ignore the traditional narrative that the Disciples wrote the Gospels in which case you don't need a hoax, or delusion. It's just later believers believing what they're told or extrapolating from what the Hebrew Bible says the Messiah will do, an old tactic and not a sign of being insane or mendacious.
Except for the original resurrection claim of course. Strangely, the Disciples may be better candidates for delusion than Jesus. It's possible that Jesus really did think he'd bring about the end of Roman rule in some political sense with God's help like many other unfortunate Jews of the time. But at least some of the Disciples clearly believed that he was resurrected , which is noted by Paul to be very odd by the beliefs of the time, and were willing to be martyred despite having a front-row seat to the mother of all disconfirming events.
I've actually seen this used as a modern version of the Lewis argument by secular Christians who can't appeal to miracle claims: the Disciples had first-hand knowledge and were devout Jews. It's insane for them to go with the divinity of a crucified criminal. Unless...
Do Americans care about what happened in Europe? You would assume so, given how people speak of the Dutch protocol, but a lot of people seemed to try to find ways to dismiss the Cass Report and the slow pullback across Europe seems to have had muted impact.
I instinctively disagreed with Singal but he may simply think that there needs to be a parade of local disconfirming evidence to stop a whole swathe of ideologues, parents and practitioners who were led down the path by the US academy from blaming Trump for their lack of evidence and retreating to fight in the wilderness for decades.
Problem is that we've gone so far down that road people said "fuck it" and now you have spicy social democrats claiming to be socialists now and kids larping as pro-Soviet communists because they follow Hasan Piker on TikTok.
Tanista
11mo ago
I can buy that blue tribe is driven by an ideologically motivated positive outgroup bias.
But it isn't just blue tribe or it would have ended when they lost elections. What about the Tories? What about the business owners?
Tanista
11mo ago
If they had already calculated Biden wouldn't be the nominee, surely that factored into their VP pick?
Yeah, that's the point. Losing after having advanced warning would be particularly inexcusable.
Tanista
5mo ago
Oh, would you or any of the natalists prefer to live in the high TFR paradise of Niger? Ridiculous to pretend that's the only meaningful metric.
Trouble in conservative media? While the left has been catastrophizing over losing the war for attention, a major conservative outlet seem to be stacking a few Ls.
Daily Wire Co-Founder Jeremy Boreing To Step Into New Role Focusing On Entertainment
Boreing, who founded the company in 2015 alongside Ben Shapiro and Caleb Robinson, said that he is turning his “full attention to creative and entertainment ventures for the company.” Robinson will step in as full-time CEO and assume the day-to-day operations of the company.
“When Ben, Caleb, and I founded The Daily Wire in 2015, we set out to build an institution. I’m enormously proud of our team, of our many battles, and of the successes we’ve achieved together over the last decade. And we’re just getting started,” Boreing said. “To get us to the heights we know we can achieve, we have brought in a world-class executive team that I am confident will thrive in taking us to the next level under Caleb’s ongoing leadership while I turn my full attention to creative
My first thought was "did October 7 kill the Daily Wire?". Candace Owens was one of their big stars but they lost her over antisemitism (she's promptly become even more unhinged). Maybe this took more of a bite out of their base than I assumed at the time. The general split in the Republican party between traditional views on supporting allies and the allegedly anti-war segment that questions spending money on foreign partners ,especially (((those allies))) , could create problems for a company like DW.
And then, not long after that, they lost Brett Cooper as well for still-undisclosed reasons and utterly failed to replace her in a way that seemed to only destroy her former show and made Cooper more popular. Matt Walsh is doing great but can he and Shapiro really cover the company's costs, especially given its ambitions in media?
Which, at least, the Bulwark is suggesting is part of the problem: Boreing decided to adapt the Pendragon Cycle and may have bitten off more than he could chew. It's an action fantasy series is a far cry from a Matt Walsh documentary or sports comedy. The Bulwark is not a neutral source but it is a risk we've previously talked about here when discussing attempts to create an alternative to Hollywood.
Combine that with a bit of a downturn and dubious personnel decisions like treating modern influencers like interchangeable cogs and...someone had to take the fall.
Tanista
7mo ago
Where it gets complicated is that at least some of these things could theoretically be achieved by other Republicans like DeSantis who wouldn't have Trump's ability to make unforced errors (with an idiot-savant ability to tell how much his party is willing to tolerate).
And yet, Trump blew them all out in the primary.
Very stupid way for a seasoned political operative to put it then.
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