My childhood dream of all children being raised in an orphanage/ boarding school environment doesn’t sound so crazy now…

further comment on my post about birth rate and natalism. a lot of women responded, "yes and also so many of us want children but can't afford to have them!" it's totally a fair and important comment to make, but after seeing 100 of them in a row i feel like i have to add... look, my research suggests so far that all types of socialist intervention which make childbearing more attractive for women still do not bring the birth rate above replacement. when i say in that post that the evidence doesn't bear out a version of natalism that is feminist, that's what i mean. what i have read so far strongly suggests that the completely free birth rate as far as we have ever been able to see so far in modern history is probably slightly below replacement. consider that even if you personally want children, if you want fewer than three children, your desires point toward the maintenance of a below-replacement birth rate. for every woman who doesn't want any children, another woman must want five to push the birth rate above replacement. the fact that the birth rate is below replacement is the exact thing that the antifeminist right considers an emergency. so, the argument that women would have more children in a more equitable economy, although it's probably true, is not enough for them and we need to be aware of the weakness in that argument. read this anti-feminist piece in compact magazine for an example of their perspective.

i worry about the consequences of the argument, "well, we would have more children if the state would perform a different policy intervention than the one the right is suggesting." i feel that this argument represents a type of socialist natalism. again, i understand where the comment comes from, but my point is that attempting to alter the decision of a women to not have a child should not be an appropriate motivation for policy intervention point blank. that's why i think we need to be generating economic ideas that presume below-replacement birth rate is the only free and just demographic future for all human beings.

Jorah: Khaleesi, my loyalty is to you and your House.

Dany: Oh really? Name five Targaryen Kings!

Jorah: Aegon.

Dany: That's on me, I set the bar too low.

when I see a dumb post on my dash and I'm like woo hoo can't wait to see what the smart woman I follow adds and then nothing comes and I scroll up and it's one of the normie fandom blogs I follow so I don't really wanna be the one to be an asshole and get blocked lest I miss out on my daily little updates

I guess future Wyatt is a warlock…

Does that mean if he dies the body disappears like with other warlocks?

This is genuinely what like half of you sound like unironically

My hope for the legacy of Fortnight is that it will get Americans to stop using the stupid phrase “bi weekly.”

Cocaine was a stimulant used by a priestly caste of the middle period United States called businessmen in order to commune with The Market. [1]

damn

nothing makes me go "ooooh we are NOT the same" quite like reading some post about how people talk with their parents about their interests. what do you mean you told your father about stevebucky. what do you mean he asked further questions

The painting, is complete :3

“Is this not the fandom website? Are you not fandom people yourself?”

Yes, but this is also the self hating fandom site

Roger Ebert just destroying some specific kind of nerd(s). 

When she said “we’re a very bright bunch, and we talk a lot,” it reminded me of the polite stranger from The Purge