{"id":12184,"date":"2023-06-14T22:20:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T02:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/?p=12184"},"modified":"2023-06-14T22:38:01","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T02:38:01","slug":"no-fate-except-what-we-make-or-dont-make","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/no-fate-except-what-we-make-or-dont-make\/","title":{"rendered":"No fate except what we make\u2014or DON\u2019T make"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leftism: a self-solving problem.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/market-ticker.org\/akcs-www?post=249043\">Go Ahead, Fly That Rainbow Flag<\/a><\/strong><br \/><strong><em>But before you do, realize one thing: When you advocate for this &#8212; which is beyond your personal choice and into trying to influence others to &#8220;celebrate&#8221; or &#8220;join&#8221; it &#8212; you are advocating for the literal suicide of your own species.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t kid yourself.  Just look here.<\/p>\n<p>At 1.784 births per female <em>over her lifetime<\/em> each generation produces 0.892 of itself <em>in children<\/em>. Some small percentage of those children die before reaching sexual maturity and thus the capacity to reproduce themselves, <em>but we&#8217;ll ignore that and count it as zero<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>A &#8220;generation&#8221; is about 20-30 years on a &#8220;family&#8221; basis.  That is, that&#8217;s when the next generation begins to have children.  But on a social basis &#8212; <em>that is, across society, its the bookends that matter<\/em> and the generally-accepted number of generations in the last 100 years is roughly six. I&#8217;ll call it five &#8212; or 20 years per.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Well, at the current rate by 2200 the &#8220;replacement&#8221; population of the United States will be one third of what it is now &#8212; and headed toward zero.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By the way at one third of the current population in &#8220;replacement value&#8221; you had better pray the things that need to be done today by people (e.g. building roads, etc.) are all done by robots because if they&#8217;re not <strong><em>society will collapse<\/em><\/strong> as the basic requirements to maintain it will be lost. Indeed that will happen well before we get to that point.<\/p>\n<p>I will not be alive to see that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>but my daughter has reasonably-good odds to be<\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>If you have children under 18 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>yours almost-certainly will live long enough to see that<\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>In other words if you&#8217;re an adult and put up with this crap you are committing the literal slow suicide of your own species.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On a somewhat related note, it\u2019s long been my own contrarian, tongue-in-cheek theory that, rather than <em>opposing<\/em> abortion on moral and philosophical grounds, conservatives should perhaps consider <em>encouraging<\/em> it, on strictly practical ones. Since it will be mostly shitlibs who avail themselves of this beautiful, uplifting womens\u2019 &#8220;health care\u201d \u201cchoice,&#8221; all we\u2019d have to do to be rid of them forever is just sit back and\u00a0<em>wait them out<\/em>\u2014eventually they\u2019ll all die off, and POOF! Just like that, all our national political and cultural problems will be gone like smoke on a gusty day.<\/p>\n<p><i>(Via <\/i><a style=\"font-style: italic;\" href=\"https:\/\/westernrifleshooters.us\/2023\/06\/13\/denninger-cuts-to-the-chase-on-pride\/\">WRSA<\/a><i>)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leftism: a self-solving problem. Go Ahead, Fly That Rainbow FlagBut before you do, realize one thing: When you advocate for this &#8212; which is beyond your personal choice and into trying to influence others to &#8220;celebrate&#8221; or &#8220;join&#8221; it &#8212; you are advocating for the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"easywp-readmore\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/no-fate-except-what-we-make-or-dont-make\/\">Would you like to know more?<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  No fate except what we make\u2014or DON\u2019T make<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,45,50,54,59,61,77,79,125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gay-porn-cock","category-domestic-disputes","category-youwillbemadetocare","category-fucking-morons","category-heh","category-hmmm","category-meltdown-what-meltdown","category-muahahahaha","category-or-losing","wpcat-28-id","wpcat-45-id","wpcat-50-id","wpcat-54-id","wpcat-59-id","wpcat-61-id","wpcat-77-id","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-125-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12184"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12190,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12184\/revisions\/12190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}