hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
1d ago
Thé average marriage age for urban women inside the Hajnal line in Northern Europe was much younger than today; it was also not in the teens. Early-mid twenties as opposed to late twenties.
Now marriage in the teens also does not seem to have been seen as sharply negatively as it is today, either- the average age at marriage drops in American colonists, for example, and those were fine, upstanding citizens who happened to have much better economic opportunities much sooner. And while not Saudi Arabia women faced substantial legal disabilities; they worked but there was restrictions on profession, pay might be legally required to be less than male employees, they didn’t have full control of their finances, etc.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Probably. I have noticed that whites in certain fields(especially restaurant trades- cook, manager, stuff like that. Not the jobs students/kids do.) have mostly learnt Spanish, that there are self-segregated mostly-black kitchens and groceries, and that bosses expect to have to translate between different kinds of entry-level workers in certain places- construction in particular, but also sometimes warehouses.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Why are these million women single if they're desirable? Clearly men are passing on them for some reason.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I like this post because it can be interpreted two ways- in the 'fuck covid, the virus is so deadly it doesn't affect those who don't give a shit, I'ma do what I want' platform or BLM.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Eh, it's entirely possible to adopt some 85 IQ child and raise them to be a perfectly productive truck driver or whatever, and it doesn't destroy your life. At a certain point society needs bricklayers- rather more than it needs more sysadmins.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
would be impossible without cooperation from practically the entire Department of Corrections
Why would we rule this out? Prison guards are notorious for accepting bribes and the typical theory names the Clintons, who have rather more connections than the average person. Ditto for the royal family, the mossad, and other commonly-pointed-to culprits.
The prison system is not very invested in enforcing the formal 'rules' of the system when it involves protecting criminals.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Sure, but the vast majority of tiger-mom scoremax grinders make it into 0 ivy league schools. I'll wager that the median outcome is that they get an education of equivalent prestige to their state flagship, just more expensive and requiring more scoremaxxing to get their, from someplace like Boston College or whatever. Hell there are probably more that burn out and wind up at community college than there are who actually get into the Ivies/Stanford/MIT- and I'm not claiming the former are a majority.
My gut tells me that effort put in past getting a 4.0 is essentially wasted. The supply of parents willing to push their kids to succeed academically at the expense of all else simply exceeds the demand by orders of magnitude.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I don't think you understand. In order to work at a Fairfax, VA McDonalds, you need to speak spanish in order to communicate with the rest of the staff. They literally won't hire you.
I doubt this. DFW is much more heavily Hispanic than Fairfax(citation not needed) and white fast food workers are a dime a dozen. They seem to be concentrated in the front of house with Hispanics working the fryer, but McDonalds will clearly hire english-speaking cashiers.
I suspect white teens in Fairfax simply don't want to work fast food, either because their parents want them to do something else(maybe more school), or because they have less desire for spending money, or whatever.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Trust me you don't have more illegal Guatemalans than Texas, yet I see plenty of white teens working as cashiers, waiters, baristas, babysitters, etc.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
It does not hit your credit score.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Ok, but on an individual level, don’t you want a solution that works for you, not someone to validate your feelings?
hydroacetylene
2d ago
‘Pass’ is a valid selection for the bottom x% of both sex, and it’s probably reasonable for women to be pickier- as they always have been. If your only options are bottom quartile men you’d probably pick staying single.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Did you know that if you get a giant hospital bill you can just negotiate it down by refusing to pay? I have relatives that have successfully done this- while also being people who pay sticker price with contractors and car dealers, it’s that easy.
Don’t worry so much about it.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
In Northern Europe? Just took the girl’s word for it. There were actual incentives often granted for marrying known-not-virgins often as well- most of the high Middle Ages had an indulgence for marrying a prostitute, for example.
There was a custom of high status weddings having witnesses to their consummation. That might be what you’re thinking of. But in Northern Europe girls left the house to work as servants in early adolescence. The Mediterranean(even Christian parts) kept girls at home until marriage in their teens; this was not a Northern European custom.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Bridesprices are Lindy(as is borrowing from Shylock to afford it), though, and most urban European women from the high Middle Ages until the first sexual revolution married in their twenties- post conventional college age.
It’s true that those women were generally not spending their time getting certificates in literacy, but in broad strokes it’s nothing unusual.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
A repeat of the second Congo war in Nigeria seems likely to send refugee waves towards Europe, this is true(although North African countries are very willing to just butcher transmigration from sub Saharan countries in the Sahara, if Europe tells them to just stop it in exchange for aid while being nonspecific about the how).
I think a flare up in central/Southern Africa would send refugees towards the much more stable and prosperous southern African countries they already migrate to illegally(SA, Botswana, etc). And an Egypt-Ethiopia water war is unlikely to send refugees fleeing through the conflict zone.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Is the United States not a ‘mature society’?
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Because blessings give grace and strength to the faithful.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Yes it is.
The mainstream Christian view is that trying to predict the end times with more specificity than the Bible tells us is for nut jobs.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
So does Christianity.
I suspect what you mean is ‘I think Buddhism is true’.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
It’s interesting to note that Kamala just kept offending Catholics(even the ones that don’t go to church very much) and this probably explains much of the red shift, even if Catholicism is generationally getting redder as the generation that remembers JFK dies off.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I think that the TradCath community will grow but will end up like the Amish or Hasidics.
We are nothing like the Amish or Hasidic. We speak the majority language of our surrounding communities, our homeschooled kids work normal jobs when they grow up and often enough play sports on normal teams, we don’t have a separate court system internally, etc, etc.
Mormonism is much closer sociologically. Not identical but closer.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I think it is almost inevitable to have mass immigration from Africa when the continent will inevitably be drawn into one or more huge conflicts of countries with hundreds of million of people.
The second Congo war(aka African world war) would have done this if it was going to happen.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
It’s interesting that this represents a shift to the historical norm for western societies- courtship was srs bznss for adult men who could support themselves and their families with no outside help, and a woman of indeterminate age but usually early twenties. And generally, that does seem to be the pattern- teenage dating is an artifact of postwar liberal consensus and declining like every other artifact thereof.
The idea that to court a woman you have to be an adult male with the economic means to marry her is pretty normal, actually. It’s deeply engrained in the psyche of humans domesticated by agrarianism. We should expect it to re-emerge over and over again.
There are lots of views posted to the motte which are offensive to various sorts. I don't understand why your offense at racism should be privileged?
Actually, let's take a broader view- society tolerates, and even encourages, lots of views which are very offensive to me. Why is your offense at racism worse?
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