I’m not saying there’s a lot, just a lot more than Reddit.

Well, the smart people left Reddit.

Really? I’ve seen Lemmings are much more competent, way higher debate ability, far less disinformation. Also I’ve seen this 10x so far in a month: “sorry, you’re right”. Almost never saw that on Reddit. And I’ve had to say it many times too.

Shithole state Americans: “One hundred sixty dollars? I’ll take four!”

Similarly, I went out to eat and offered them a crisp dollar bill. Surprise! They didn’t serve me.

Now try this: mass edit all of your comments to be that post and watch how quickly you get banned from every subreddit, no appeal.

We’re coming here, but slowly. We each have our tipping point and for many who just scroll mindlessly it’s not any worse than insta/tiktok/Facebook. The commenter crowd has largely moved over.

Not true and it misses the point. Infant mortality was never over 50% and women aren’t having significantly fewer children because of it. It’s become impossible to raise even 1 kid for many couples. There is no financial, marital, or familial support anymore. Now that women have a choice via birth control, they aren’t putting up with it.

You still need 2 working parents, few people want to balance a career and children. We’re not designed for it. And their social help, while good for global standards, amounts to a fraction of the cost of having kids. In prehistory a whole village raised children and people barely worked. Social policies help but we need a global structural change.

Especially when you can’t afford their education. Those are the best kind of voters.

It’s important because the rhetoric of “we only want useful people” isn’t true. It’s not just about her, it’s also about false rhetoric.

How so?