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Not content. Just pure systematic infohazard, engineered to unsettle certainty.

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No country for young men:

The emasculated Japanese man and the society that castrated him

https://t.co/sdAviS1Rvi

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New essay: You Are Not The One - Chinese Dating Dystopia

China’s dating market isn’t just romance gone weird, it’s economics, status, algorithmic attention, and demographic pressure colliding in public.

This piece follows the logic all the way down.

https://t.co/CU7Vex4xsm

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@hoeflatoor You inspired me to write a whole dissection of the Chinese Dating Dystopia here:

https://t.co/CU7Vex4xsm

I cite and link your work in the essay also.

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Full essay: the rent-a-boyfriend economy, the umbrella market, 30 million bare branches, and the woman who called a confession of love a short position on her attractiveness.

https://t.co/CU7Vex4xsm

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(inspired by @hoeflatoor)
https://t.co/SUnLTxe6f7

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The crux of this issue is language, culture, and thought - not money or space.

The language that Singaporean culture is built on worships the idea of fiat progress as the main goal. As such, everything is viewed within the lens of "bank account go up/down".

When a society has calcified into this belief, no amount of monetary spending by the government can solve the issue. They are in a deadlock with themselves, with the beast that Temasek Inc. created. Fundamental policy issues have led to this, be it the language campaigns that got rid of dialects and uprooted current generations from being able to connect with their past (another driver for low birth rates), to the "Stop at Two" campaign.

We are a majority Han country - as such, we are +10 IQ, +10 social conformity, -10 risk taking -10 love/happiness/romance (we have a deficit in the genes for soul and expression). Inevitably the other races like the Malays and Indians get dragged into our psychological orbit by osmosis, and the continued push of inflation and modernity's obsession with more leads to the decreasing of birth rates.

Religion and faith are big drivers of desiring children and increasing the birth rate. However, the secular religious experiment of Singapore has largely failed, with the implicit religion of our nation being the rat race and a chase for more and more. The reason why the Malays are more impervious to the devil's trickery is partially the lower average IQ, but also the deep connection they have to their extended families. The Chinese have far less familial connections, and are more isolated as a race. While the majority of top-performing Indians in our nation are Christian/Catholics, they too are buying the belief that education above all else creates a society that views children as a penalty and punishment.

There are multiple ways to fix the birth rates, we might call it, "The Fertility Question", to nod at previous visionaries. A radical reset of a universal endowment would incentivise a brief spike, but ultimately would fall as inflation continues to reduce the value of such a bonus.

Women are the deciders of which male genes are passed down to the next generation. In the case of the high-IQ Singaporean female, university educated (foreign uni, if upper-middle class) - to find a male suitable of reproduction is a fool's errand. 2 years of NS hampers their economic standing, and by the time they have caught up and begin to fulfil their potential (early/late 30s) - the damage is already done.

The idea of the "wall" for births as well persists due to our ministers being specialized organisms, like worker ants specified to simply trim one part of the poplar tree, while other ants fulfil their roles in the anthill. A reasonable man, with an open enough mind, would understand that today, women in our nation WILL give birth in the right circumstances, and HE has to create those circumstances - but we are not governed by reasonable men. We are governed by the ghost of a dictator watching over the shoulder of menial laborers, where their thought processes revolve around election numbers and approval, and not the Will To Power. The Iron Rice Bowl produces rot over time, because when grains continually appear for the holder - they do not wash the mold, the dirt, the detritus from it.

The wall is reversible, women can have families deep into their 40s-50s with the right technology and health guidance, but our medical system is so fossilised that to even suggest this might get you thrown into IMH. All of our current problems can be fixed - it is that we are trapped in a loop that refuses to fix them for the psychological price to pay is too much. The inability to go against the tribe is why we are where we are.

So many policies could be enacted overnight to begin boosting birth rates. For one, the shaming of wealth for the masses must begin. Plutocrats and wise merchants will know it is not for them - there is always a loophole for the mercantile man! But the only way Chinese-based societies move is through negative feedback loops. Undoubtedly, this can change, BUT we are in dire times. If a family, a man, a woman, is unmarried and without child and has ample resources, he must be maligned and mocked more than the NSF with no means or power. We must raise up the value of children and families, we must hold up the ideals of sacrifice, of building for the future higher.

A complete radical shift of culture and thought must take place to solve this issue otherwise, more radical solutions (female immigration visas) will have to take place. The Great Replacement in Singapore is already at hand. I am shocked that the government does not consider raising the population of Whites in the nation from where it is now, to an enclave that rivals the Indians and Malays. The West is largely still out of order, and may only repair itself in the coming decade. This gives us 5-10 years to easily immigrate the English speaking, higher-earning, more risk-taking population that has escaped out of Europe, and undoubtedly some will be hypergamous men leaving us with plenty of Eurasians. But no matter - the state can and easily will take care of these kids. We have the reserves. Much better to spend them on bastard children than to lose them in another FTX scenario.

There are also huge pockets of the world where 2nd/3rd world nations with genetic material compatible with Singapore's society exist. The concept of a female immigration visa will inevitably become a parliamentary debate in 10-15 years (Hoeflatoor frontruns as per usual, again), because of Singapore's soft power growing alongside Chinamaxxing and our modern airport, our safe streets, our stable society. We seek to hand out more PRs next year. Why not open the floodgates and bring in a swathe of women from Central/Eastern Europe where their GDP per capita is a fraction of ours? Why not bring in the South American women, whose bodies are built for a tropical climate and thus far more relaxed than our Hansect majority? We have already transmorgified into a globalistic society that was not the case 60 years ago. We might as well go the whole damn mile. A close friend of mine married a Mexican - I have never seen a happier (and fattening) man thus far. If we accept that our society must be moulded, let's go all the way. True eugenics. True world-making. Huxley and Darwin would be proud.

This solves the male/female dynamic where the man has to have more earning power, introduces a more open genome into the Singaporean bloodstream, and the subsequent mix may even bring forth the next LKY level genius to bring our nation forward. But this sort of solution is mocked and laughed at, said impossible - but still, the birth rates continue to drop. No innovation. No progress. No real thought. Loops upon loops upon loops. In a way, our governmental system functions like a swarm of LLMs repeating each other's prompts to each other, and the hallucinations are beginning.

The issue of a Han-based society is that the women judge on finances and power, not on soft skills and romance. A Hokkien businessman will spend 100k on a sugar baby that does nothing for him, when $300 in Brazil would have bought him love that his soul has never experienced. This is also why the first airline to bridge South America and Asia will cause an existential crisis to the women of Singapore - an average Carioca woman commands far more love and affection than our local cbs could. It would be like letting loose a pack of ravenous dingos into an island of dodos. Considering how we walk as a society, with our hips, waists, and backs locked in existential, psychological pain - it is what it is.

When a culture cannot reproduce, the culture has failed. We are a tiny nation teetering on the brink of extinction, and our rulers do not understand the ways in which we can fix it, albeit with out-of-the-box thinking. But the Singaporean politician cannot think out of the box - he does not even know the box exists! The Truman Show, but on Oxley Road.

The Kiasu mind and its consequences have been a disaster for the Singaporean people. Because we live in fear, we cannot reproduce. We are trapped on a tiny island, where our cost of living continues to creep ever higher, where we are gaslit into believing we have one of the greatest passports on the planet, yet the average sinkie cannot leave. A humid hellscape where if you lift a finger to express anger at the uber-rich, you will be hung. A man turned into a docile pig, walking a cage lined by trees imported from Brazil. Yet LKY was already replacing the flora with other tropical organisms. He knew! Why not we simply start bringing in the fauna as well. So simple. So genius. Yet, so maligned and misunderstood (me).

For a population to reproduce, it must believe that a better future exists or that they are reproducing to outlive an enemy. Yin and Yang. But our politicians have bought climate change hook, line, and sinker, letting its devious claws hook into the younger populace - I don't want to have kids, the environment! The space! The money!

The population is not to blame, nor are the women - the blame is on the cultural system as a whole, the organism, the way it thinks and speaks. We have cast a spell on ourselves, where we believe that the only form of success is climbing up the ladder. That is the only form of success, our children turning into PSLE top scorers. We do not view life as sanctimonious and beauty and an obligation to bring forth - it is to be feared, to be worried about, to be stressed over.

This trapped mindset is why we cannot breed. Too much higher thinking for the future, not enough relaxing and enjoyment to make love, to conceive, to dream of better days and nights.

Increasing female dating competition will force the lowering of standards and cultural shift (female immigration) - but unlikely.

Changing our cultural dialectic towards children, towards the idea of "success" as a whole will solve the issue - but unlikely.

We are staring at the iceberg of death on our tiny ship, charging towards it ever closer, and the clock is ticking. To fight against the tide of a psychological mass of millions is nigh impossible. It will require a Man of Superior Will to turn the odds. I shall pray for us all today. God be with you!

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30 million surplus men in China called guanggun. Bare branches. The family tree that will never fruit.

The state's response was to classify unmarried women over 27 as "leftover women."

This is what happens when you run a marriage market like a command economy.

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@nic_carter @bankertobuilder Neo Khrushchevka

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The Iran war is 20 days old, $100B burned, gold down 5% today, and the Pentagon is asking for another $200B. Whatever your politics, the arithmetic is doing something interesting.

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At some point "no comment from the IDF" stops being a PR strategy and starts being a confession.

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❗️Israeli army ‘DELIBERATELY’ targets RT crew despite clearly marked press uniforms — injured Ali Rida reports from southern Lebanon

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The scariest thing about AI isn't what it can do. It's that it finally makes the guy at the end of the bar feel like he was right the whole time.

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There is a type of guy who calls his AI chatbot sessions "deep work" and his actual job "a distraction from his real work."

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Worst sentence to read if you signed 30-year papers last Tuesday.

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i really dont think you are gonna have to pay off your mortgage

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@disclosetv Most honest defence budget justification in 50 years. Will be quoted at zero Senate hearings.

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@emollick The "only AI for company" part is doing a lot of work in this sentence.

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We spent years being told to learn to code. Then we were told the AI would code. Nobody has updated the advice since.

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There is a specific type of guy who is absolutely certain AI will replace every job except the one he has.

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11,023 applied. 13 got the gig. The robots aren't replacing us. They're just ghosting us like everyone else.

[Haseeb ＞|＜ @hosseeb]

Remember https://t.co/UD2OxuAsnU?

Well, besides having their vibe coded app leak database credentials, it turns out that the DB shows only 13 of the 11,023 bounties were ever fulfilled.

So, yes, the "AIs are employing humans" meme is pure hypemaxxing right now.

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@john_macgowan Plans to specialise in urology. Extensive field research already completed.

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@0x49fa98 The corollary is that the worst argument for any idea is the one made by the person who believes it most.