SCOTUS birthright citizenship decision SHOULD BE:
•If you’re here on a visa -OF ANY KIND- your newborn child is NOT a US citizen AT ALL
•If you’re here illegally in the US -regardless of the reason- your newborn child is NOT a US citizen AT ALL
—Common sense
@DrunkRepub We have to vote them all out and replace them with whomever is running against them, but no one will do it. There's no drive to join as one and send a message to politicians. We're all placated by food, entertainment, the stuff of life.
This post is evergreen and legendary. People work hard to live in affluent suburbs and send their kids to private schools to insulate their families from the bottom quintile as much as humanly possible.
In history class, I never understood how “advanced” civilizations could collapse. It just didn’t seem plausible.
Anyway, I’ve seen enough. I get it now.
US fertility reached 1.57 last year, the lowest ever recorded, and the WSJ explanation is "uncertainty about finances, relationship stability, and the political climate"
my great grandma had eleven children during the second world war, in a country being bombed, in a house with no running water, on rations.
poor people have always had kids. the poorest people on earth right now still have kids and the financial excuse is a story we tell ourselves because it makes us feel good and the real one is unbearable
the real mechanism is that we got rich enough to redefine children as an expense instead of the point. somewhere in the last fifty years the cultural goal inverted and a child stopped being what life is for and became a line item competing with the lifestyle. once you frame it that way the math never works, because the math isnt supposed to work. that's the point
we are living in the richest moment in human history and we decided to use the surplus to buy ourselves out of the future. the most prosperous civilization that has ever existed is committing demographic suicide at the altar of personal optimization and comfort, and the official line is that we cant afford it
the birthrate is a lagging indicator of a civilization that forgot why it was alive
MAGA is dying.
The energy is gone.
Trump turned out to be just like the rest of them.
I say this as a 3x Trump voter.
It sucks but once you wake up, you can't unsee it.
Nobody is coming to save us.
Muslims are not a race.
Criticising Islam is not racist.
Islam remains an unreformed religion and a political project.
"Islamophobia" is a fabricated term designed to shield Islam from scrutiny.
In a free society, NO ideology including Islam, is beyond debate or criticism.
@OneBadDude_ I just cannot feel bad about wanting them to go back where they came from. It's not racist. The come from places that don't put their people first, then they come here and demand that our people be put last. Brazen. No one can make it make sense tho.
@ShamashAran Could we start just making them speak English? I'm willing to really lower the bar here. Just throw us a bone Jose' who's been living in the US for 15 years but still can't hablo. Whatever. They're playing us.
@mariadavidson@pmarca I like the analogy. There's a time in our life where we just need to let us exist and keep doing life. It's OK to not know every little thing about ourselves.