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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • Theoretically you could hit replacement rate by making everyone a millionaire

    I might argue its a cultural shift as much as an economic one. We spent the 80s and 90s shaming people for having kids before they were “ready”, with “ready” meaning first “graduated high school” and then “graduated college” and then “owned a home” and then “had sufficient savings and health care”.

    I ended up waiting to have kids until I was in my late 30s. And I only really have the time and energy and finances to support one. Would love to have a house full of kids, that’s not happening this late in life.










  • Dems lost the election for many reasons. Supporting Ukraine was definitely not one of them tho.

    They shed 12M votes between 2020 and 2024, in large part thanks to failing to deliver on promises to their constituents. While Biden was throwing up his hands and insisting he couldn’t afford to relieve student debt, extend health care subsidies at the tail end of COVID, or defend the civil and labor rights of his constituents, he was shoveling money out the back door for Israel and Ukraine.

    Russian bribery and blackmail only works on politicians

    They work just fine on American business interests. But then American businesses are perfectly happy to bribe people directly. You had Elon promising to cut $1M checks to GOTV in swing states and TPUSA dropping much of its $85M war-chest across the critical swing state of Arizona in the run up to the election. Both groups pulled their fortunes from the post-COVID asset inflation of the American plutocracy. And they spent the money to buy up voters that Biden had allowed to languish.