u/W_Edwards_Deming
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Bidenism with Socialist Characteristics
u/Living_Attitude1822 — 1 day ago
▲ 11 r/Askpolitics
Why would Buffalo, New York fly a Somali flag, particularly this week?
The flag was stolen but I am very confused why it was there. Somalis are a tiny minority, according to my research maybe 1% of their population. Even if they were a majority (the top 5 largest ancestries of Buffalo New York are German (13.6%), Irish (12.2%), Italian (11.7%), Polish (11.7%), and English (4.0%), according to Wikipedia) a foreign flag being flown seems very odd.
u/W_Edwards_Deming — 3 days ago
▲ 10 r/Natalism
Note which countries have both high birth rates and female educational achievement
ourworldindata.orgu/W_Edwards_Deming — 4 days ago
▲ 1 r/Natalism
Is the iPhone Birth Control? Causal Evidence from AT&T’s 2007–2011 Carrier Monopoly
nber.orgu/W_Edwards_Deming — 4 days ago
Left-leaning Americans are driving the U.S. birth decline, new study finds
psypost.orgu/W_Edwards_Deming — 4 days ago
▲ 0 r/Natalism
Argued with ChatGPT about Natalism until...
Early marriage. Strong religious encouragement of childbearing. Traditional gender roles. Limited higher education. Low contraceptive use.
There is a negative empirical correlation between feminism (or gender egalitarianism) and fertility.
fertility declined dramatically during periods that also saw:
greater educational attainment for women, increased labor-force participation, delayed marriage, declining social pressure to marry and have children, broader reproductive rights.
H₁: Feminist values directly reduce desired family size. H₂: Economic modernization raises the opportunity cost of children, and feminism develops alongside modernization. H₃: Both mechanisms operate simultaneously.
u/W_Edwards_Deming — 6 days ago
Map meme to celebrate my return from a 1 month involuntary "vacation."
u/W_Edwards_Deming — 7 days ago
The "analysis" page has been merged with the "performance" page.
Seems worse in all regards. I always avoided "performance" as the information seems inaccurate, giving undue consideration to cash I deposit or withdraw as opposed to specifics about how my investments have performed.
The analysis page had been useful, especially the "ratings" section but now only contains maybe 1/6th of my stocks with a worse interface.
u/W_Edwards_Deming — 8 days ago
▲ 11 r/Natalism
Strawman
A massive % of the people I encounter in here seem to be anti-natalist Marxists. They like making a strawman of natalism, pretending we are r@cist sexists who want something like this.
Meanwhile they think the problem will be solved via open immigration so that people from those cultures can come here without limit.
They are anti-democratic with no concern about what the public wants and the product of a dying ideology.
Natalists are not the one's talking about "Handmaid's tale," we are the one's talking about data. I am not hearing data from the anti-natalists, I am hearing Marxism and some sort of attempt at moral superiority.
You are not moral and you are not fecund. Your ideas are the problem, never the solution.
Some data:
Atheism is in decline internationally.
>Atheists, agnostics and other people who do not affiliate with any religion – though increasing in countries such as the United States and France – will make up a declining share of the world’s total population.
>>The Future of World Religions: Population Growth Projections, 2010-2050
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_fertility_rate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population_growth_rate
Within the United States it is the intensely conservative Amish (Pennsylvania Dutch) with the highest rates, doubling in population every generation since they came here. Other ultra-religious groups are right behind and secular / atheist / "liberal" leftists in last place.
- Easy reads
>The Trump Bump: The Republican Fertility Advantage
- PRJAs
>Demography leads to more conservative European societies
>Youth’s Political Identity and Fertility Desires
It isn't simply not having babies, they are having abortions AND murdering at far higher rates.
>In 2020, 52% of counties (with 10% of the population) had no murders. 68% of counties have no more than one murder, and about 18% of the population. These counties account for only 2.6% of all murders in the country. The worst 1% of counties (the worst 31 counties) have 21% of the population and 42% of the murders. The worst 2% of counties (62 counties) contain 31% of the population and 56% of the murders. The worst 5% of counties contain 47% of the population and account for 73% of murders. But even within those counties, the murders are very heavily concentrated in small areas.
>>Murders in US Are Very Concentrated, and They Are Becoming Even More So
u/W_Edwards_Deming — 8 days ago
Debate appears to be a dying art
Logic, evidence and meeting minimal standards of politeness & rigour.
Compelling emotional appeal!
"Steel manning" your opponent, avoiding fallacies and trying to mitigate for cognitive biases.
Reddit would seem to be an ideal place for that and sometimes it is but quite often the opposite. My "solution" has been blocking thousands, anyone have a better idea?
Where and how can we have intellectual engagement regarding differences?
u/W_Edwards_Deming — 12 days ago