hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
2d ago
Add debt(often on very bad terms).
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I’m not seeing this?
hydroacetylene
3d ago
AFAICT, outside of true third world shitholes and a few anglosphere cost diseases, places with expanding populations are building, and in the kinds of places with ginormous class differences TFR decline is most concentrated among the poor.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Indeed, parochial type private schools cost less than that.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
My read is that when antibiotic resistance becomes a big problem, we will have plenty of warning because it'll be STD's and hospital caused infections first(and neither of those are a huge problem for normal healthy people), and also that there's lots of antibiotics to cycle through before we start needing to invent new ones. I invite doctors on the motte to chime in, of course, but that kinda points to it being a problem we don't need to be quite so vigilant about.
There's an additional discussion that the most common forms of antibiotic resistance seem to be otherwise fitness reducing; when bacteria need to compete without antibiotic pressure, the non-antibiotic resistant variant usually wins. Seems like it's some sort of limiting factor outside of, again, STDs and hospital caused infections, which don't have as much of a reservoir.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
It's an economic fact. Someone's paying for the spendthrift slackers; it sure as hell ain't them; it's people who are working.
Statistically, it's whoever buys T-bills. The government's budget is mostly debt.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
There's lots of possible solutions, they're just all unpalatable. Disability isn't going to get taken away from anyone but the most severe and obvious fraud cases and you know it. Politicians won't suddenly declare that the genuinely disabled aren't getting taken care of, that's not going to happen.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
'The Orange Man' 'Drumpf' 'Cheeto'
hydroacetylene
3d ago
While many people on disability are there fraudulently, it's almost certainly impossible to sort through and get mostly fraud cases pushed out.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
I would ask if you're E Michael Jones- he's the only person I met who shares your talent for tying everything to Jews- but you're actually somewhat better on the uptake. You should take up longform writing.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
We do not work just as much, hours at work have been steadily declining as society gets wealthier.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Municipal bondholders will not be shafted because investors, quite reasonably, don't purchase them unless required to by law, and the people/institutions required to buy them by law are big institutions that can afford good lobbyists.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
TFR adjusted GDP is a thing somewhere, it was calculated out on Twitter. The big winners were Israel and Kazakhstan. You'd have to be able to find it.
Was I a parasite during covid? I worked for a company that did HVAC basically only for restaurants, and took a furlough because unemployment would be better than the very limited hours available. I don't think I was- I think I got my fair share after the government tried to take it from me.
Is a trust fund kids a parasite? I don't think they are, I think they're a bribe for their (grand)parents to work hard and build wealth.
Are retirees at the normal age parasites, with medicare and social security and a 401k/IRA? What about, say, someone who worked a blue collar job for the railroad and accepted terrible hours in exchange for early retirement? I think both of these examples are more or less fair but can easily get excessive.
t leads me, specifically, to ask: HOW MANY PEOPLE DO WE HAVE IN THIS COUNTRY PULLING THESE KINDS OF SHENANIGANS. There have to be known strategies that are shared amongst groups on how to follow these paths, exploit edge cases, take advantage of lax enforcement, or otherwise slip into niches that allow you to live 'above your means' for some period of time if not indefinitely. On the individual level its rational. On the population level, the equilibrium can get dangerously unsustainable. Have we crossed that tipping point? I don't know. Feels like it to me.
A lot. There's entire communities living off of disability fraud, welfare abuse(haredi jews and FLDS with a side of ghetto blacks- but for the latter group, the women most actually work and the men mostly don't get welfare), professional indebtedness, and charitable scams. Talk to people who work in a collections department for securitized debt- they'll have some stories. I think it's important to note that these people, mostly, have very low per capita consumption- that is, their standards of living aren't that great. The examples you've picked are the exception. Trying to wrest trivial benefits from poor people is, at some point, just not really worth it anymore.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
If you're at a trial for your snuggle-bunny beating the crap out of his last girl friend, what the hell are you doing?)
Presumably, believing that she's lying or crazy.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
JD Vance will not prosecute Trump.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
I mean, maybe his impulsiveness and refusal to be left around is why... well I doubt queen Elizabeth wanted him to marry Meghan Markle.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
British monarchs have definitely abdicated before, even in the twentieth century.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
Red tribe normies mostly do not like Trump's personal behavior, but they have a strong divide between 'I wish he'd stop tweeting' and 'I like it, he tells it like it is'. The latter group is a minority, but not a small one, and it is very very male.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
Leaving aside the assertion that democrats would do any better of a job running the country(and Biden definitely did not- we can probably take him as a generic democrat due to his senility giving outsized power to the staffers), there is no right wing authoritarian regime which can be in power without taking care of conservative Catholics.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
People yearn for a social credit score.
There is, obviously, legitimate demand to know about the person you're dating. These women are going about it badly. I have no doubt that the Tea app is neuroticism, immature drama dynamics, and ridiculous wokescold signaling on a good day. But they don't have a better option- even if the Tea app is probably worse than nothing.
People want elders, community figures, authorities to tell them about those they come in contact with. Our brains are built for 150 person farming villages with a median age of 12, where your grandma knows everything about the young man you're talking to, because there's like, three of them. Young women try to recreate that on their own and don't do as well as their grandmothers.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
I mean it seemed patently obvious to me that an establishment candidate wasn't competitive enough to get to 1v1 territory. It seemed like everyone knew it was going to be a fistfight for who could be credibly anti-establishment after Romney's failure.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
Is Bannon actually in the authority position for this to mean much? Like hail Trump, hail victory. Bring on the red caesar, it would be very good for my ingroup. But Bannon could well be a loudmouth, and in fact seems to generally be a loudmouth. I would put higher odds on Vance taking the throne by assassination after the midterms than on Trump actually doing this- I dunno, could be wrong. But he's just really old to try to make your long term dictator, and the people that would need to cooperate in it have to know this.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
The pied-noir are anti-Israel?
Uh, pretty sure modern women are very very attracted to men with provider potential- put doctor in your dating app profile, see what happens.
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