I’m at a loss for words with this

  • Black_Mald_Futures [any]
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    241 year ago

    birth rate is such a bad modifer though it’s better late game to move on to women’s suffrage laws for that +%workforce bonus while focusing on immigration to boost your population

  • micnd90 [he/him,any]
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    1 year ago

    As of 2024, they have four children. They are, by order of birth: Octavian (son), Torsten (son), Titan Invictus (daughter), and Industry Americus (daughter).

    The state of these poor kids, especially the state of the last two names

    • @[email protected]
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      171 year ago

      they’re objectifying their own children by seeing them as the means to fulfill some weird ideological goal. Reading their kids names definitely adds proof to that. Who names their child “Industry Americus”??? WTF? They sound like product releases from some weird Silicon Valley company.

    • @[email protected]
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      51 year ago

      There was a set of kids in my school named Nation, Justice, and Allegiance. Thankfully 2 of them became lefties lmao.

    • @[email protected]
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      231 year ago

      Imagine giving your kids hokey ass pig latin names and not committing to bit by naming them, in order: Primus, Secundus, Tertia, and Quarta.

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    The people that believe they have the greatest genetics in the world to carry the future human race have terrible eyesight and need glasses apparently.

    Not that I’m against glasses or anything but you know it’s clown shit when people that are naturally blind claim to have the best genetics.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      101 year ago

      The Yuddites/Effective Altruists/Quakers before the Basilisk/Friends of the Status Quo/Singularity Seekers are a popular topic of scorn here.one of many incredily weird terminally online subcultures we have extremely legitimate beef with.

      • fox [comrade/them]
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        81 year ago

        They’re some of the most emblematic, embarrassing examples of how with a certain amount of wealth you can’t fail no matter how smooth brained you are

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    so, they run a vulture capital enterprise that has a tax evasion subsidiary.

    if they don’t end up in prison for fraud, one of their kids is gonna shoot them with one of their mounted guns after seeing a sibling getting smacked one too many times.

    • emizeko [they/them]
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      101 year ago

      I thought you were just making a tangential Menendez brothers reference, but no they hit their kid in the face in the article

  • fox [comrade/them]
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    231 year ago

    Malcolm and Simone Collins are some of the most moronic people alive. They’re both failson inheritors of their parents’ wealth and have “jobs” operating their own foundations or some shit. They are actual firm believers in Effective Altruism and nominative determinism, which is why all their kids have fucking stupid names. They’re both actual redditors with full bazinga brain.

    They genuinely believe their genetics are imperative to pass down because the ability to accumulate wealth is, as far as they’re aware, genetic. Their genetics also gave both of them the smoothest brains ever recorded, I’m talking SI standard for frictionless surface.

    The one benefit to their harebrained scheme to populate the world with billionaires is that all of their children will be failures from the get-go, having been raised by secular Calvinists, and with so many children their wealth will wither and vanish in a series of unsuccessful artists, honorary MBA entrepreneurships, and the hordes of by-the-hour lawyers each child will hire to wrest pennies from each other’s inheritance.

      • fox [comrade/them]
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        51 year ago

        These people think wealth is generic, which is why it’s imperative to have as many kids as possible so they too can collect all the money and do a better effective Altruism at some point in the future. They’re devour followers of that Big Yud school of thought

      • ericatty
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        51 year ago

        True, and having large amounts of heirs with no skills or education needs a term like “inheritance imbreeding” since they will end up diluting the wealth-gene pool until they are left with nothing and hopefully go extinct after all the wealth has been absorbed into the general population. Or more likely, absorbed by a grifter.

      • ericatty
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        151 year ago

        True, and having large amounts of heirs with no skills or education needs a term like “inheritance imbreeding” since they will end up diluting the wealth-gene pool until they are left with nothing and hopefully go extinct after all the wealth has been absorbed into the general population. Or more likely, absorbed by a grifter.

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          It was messy, but the fuedal system did have a way of filtering out talentless failchildren that capitalism seems to lack 🔪

  • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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    491 year ago

    This is not Quiverfull, the fundamentalist Christian belief that large families are a blessing from God. The Collinses are atheists; they believe in science and data, studies and research. Their pronatalism is born from the hyper-rational effective altruism movement…

    yeah ok there it is. technofascists, like the real ones.

  • mayo_cider [he/him]
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    81 year ago

    I hate people who conflate their hatred of children with antinatalism (and people who hate children in general), but I fear pronatalists

      • mayo_cider [he/him]
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        11 year ago

        That’s true aswell, I wish no child is born without loving parents

        My problem is with adults who hate children no matter the situation

        If you hate taking responsibilty of kids, use contraceptives

        If you hate that, don’t have sex

        If all that fails, you were too horny and now you are responsible of a human being

        No matter how you arrive at parenthood, the kid is innocent and you are 100% responsible barring SA

  • StalinStan [none/use name]
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    231 year ago

    Whoever convinced the idle rich to do the opposite of a single child policy to split their family fortune up is a pretty funny bit. A few generations and the rich will breed themselves down to middle class.

    • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]
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      101 year ago

      You remind me of an interesting cultural habit in ancient Ireland, where they would shave off branching families, cutting them from the family name and inheritance to maintain large holdings within the main families.