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Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 2h

"you really think some Hindu is gonna come to Mississippi and open a hotel there, Jimmy? some Chinaman is gonna be teaching your grandkids Sunday School?"

Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 2h

this was not part of a civil rights package. it was specifically a Kennedy family project, since they were not pull-up-the-ladder-behind-them Irish, but JFK didn't have the political capital to pass it, and he tried.

as it was, LBJ had to do some fancy lying about its lack of demographic effects.

Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 2h

you bring up negative stochastic events as a clobber verse, as though positive stochastic events -- Kennedy's assassination leading to the passage of the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, which would have been dead without it -- never happen.

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Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 2h

Christ, these losers.

Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 2h

bad arguments, made I think in bad faith, because you've never commented on my stuff before. have you?

so you're a drive-by. I'd doxx you just on general principles if I were still doing that.

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Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 2h

you bring up negative stochastic events as a clobber verse, as though positive stochastic events -- Kennedy's assassination leading to the passage of the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, which would have been dead without it -- never happen.

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Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 2h

you are wildly overstating the negative effects over any sane forecastable time horizon, and I am calling you on it.

you are not actually concerned with the ability of Social Security to function effectively in 2075, because no one is. it's a virtuous lie for the marks.

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Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 2h

what will this do to the educational sector?

what will this do to our youth-centered entertainment culture?

what will this do to our already rather desolate public spaces?

will we have a housing *glut*?

the natalist crapola is pretty clearly Fourteen Words-adjacent nonsense. this stuff isn't.

Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 3h

there are demographic trends happening in the near future that you should be aware of.

our educational system was built to bring the largest cohort in American history through college and professional level education.

but that was the Millennial Boom. it's now overbuilt for Zoomers and Alphas.

Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 3h

in a more functional political system, it would be easy enough to adjust Social Security for any sane projected time horizon. we have a pay-go system in a very rich society.

we aren't going to have a precipitous crash in population by demographic attrition.

so what is the freakout about?

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Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 3h

in a more functional political system, it would be easy enough to adjust Social Security for any sane projected time horizon. we have a pay-go system in a very rich society.

we aren't going to have a precipitous crash in population by demographic attrition.

so what is the freakout about?

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Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 3h

oh okay *now* I'm seeing the BlueSky natalist... mass of uninformed dipshittery.

the main thing happening in the US is that women of school age don't want to have kids. this includes postgraduate education.

there's also a very recent trend that seems to be about vibes and social uncertainty.

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Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 3h

the "debate me" culture. dude, I wouldn't debate one of you pills when you operated by high school forensic team rules, because it has nothing to do with the truth of an argument. I certainly wouldn't bother with you asshole louts now that you've turned it into sideshow wrestling.

Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 3h

"a sharp re-pricing of US dollar assets" sounds very bad.

however, it's the Bank of England, whose track record of analysis is also very bad.

I think the Fed is out of danger for a while. the uncertainty of Donald John Trump's mental and physical health is a larger macroeconomic risk.

Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 4h

you got it: they're assuming a woman needs to be married to have a child.

forty percent of all births in the US are to unmarried women. it seems to be even higher for first births.

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Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 4h

blue-check idiots at the other place are freaking out about a graph that shows the average age of first marriage in the US over time -- low during the Baby Boom, high before and after that, and even higher in recent years, because they're obsessed with fertility.

do you see a problem?

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Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 5h

I also had the shortest last name!

there was also a cluster of Vs, because of the Dutch.

after my time, I'm sure the Vangs outnumbered the Vans.

hell, there are probably kids who are both by this point.

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Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 5h

when I first moved to NYC, I honestly did not realize that blondness was a commodity on the dating scene. why would I?

man this country sometimes.

Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 5h

one of the classroom activities we had in second grade was to line up against the wall by different criteria. one was last name in alphabetical order. since this was Wisconsin, I was not at the end. so many Zs!

another was hair color. since this was Wisconsin, I *was* at the end. so many blonds!

Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 5h

I'm guessing that's just the color of his hair.

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Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 5h

I'm guessing that's just the color of his hair.

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Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 5h

the devolution of Mumsnet is a key example.

Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 5h

I have come to think the great consumer improvement of a customized product or experience has terrible social effects.

why are there creative class neighborhoods? to make gerrymandering *easier*?

Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 5h

why didn't this happen before? because they had peers in whose eyes it diminished them.

you see this coarsening happen precisely when someone's social scope narrows. retirement is a big one. online niche forums are another.

conversely, places with social mixing diminish it. schools, workplaces.

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Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 5h

the moral coarsening of the American public is a topic.

(so many people claim that it's due to one company and one man, who would never claim any other historical trend was the work of one man. come on.)

why do so many people want to embrace wickedness? it elevates their status among their peers.

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Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 6h

the structural problem is that a personally pleasant person cannot win the current Republican presidential primary.

this realization, I think, is what caused so many Romney supporters to go around the bend, a sort of niceness political entitlement very similar to proto-incel sexual entitlement.

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Kyle Starks NYCC A-20 @thekylestarks.bsky.social · 6h

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Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 6h

and I am including the Socialists and the Progressives. Milwaukee's Socialist congressman Victor Berger made Tommy Tuberville look like Bayard Rustin.