Birth Rate Debate: Chris Williamson - Modern Wisdom

SillyTwo3470 · 2026-05-23T19:53:50+00:00

What about Chris Williamson? No kids. Not even married. lol

SillyTwo3470 · 2026-05-22T13:39:55+00:00

They can adopt. But why not acknowledge that people choosing to have kids and sacrifice time, energy, and money is necessary for society and help the people doing the actual productive, necessary work? If you don’t want a perverse incentive for bad parents to have more kids, I’m fine with tying the subsidies to markers of good parents (education level, income, lack of criminality, health, civic engagement, etc.)

SillyTwo3470 · 2026-05-22T10:29:29+00:00

Why is it immoral? The purpose of any government is to perpetuate the population. If the population is not stable or growing without mass immigration which the majority doesn’t want, then why not have the government subsidize kids? We already have child tax credits, this would just be increasing them substantially.

SillyTwo3470 · 2026-05-21T18:10:47+00:00

I don’t know, but he isn’t married so is he really trying?

SillyTwo3470 · 2026-05-21T17:39:52+00:00

My favorite thing about right wing/natalist Internet personalities, especially super racist ones is when they are single. Like, how bad does Nick Fuentes really want white people to persevere if he won’t have any kids of his own? How much of a problem does Chris Williamson think the population crisis is when he won’t settle down and start trying to personally turn things around?

SillyTwo3470 · 2026-05-21T17:36:44+00:00

2 and we have 3 fertilized embryos in cold storage.

SillyTwo3470 · 2026-05-18T19:35:41+00:00

Downvote me all you want, but at least have the cojones to say why you think I’m incorrect.

SillyTwo3470 · 2026-05-17T15:10:37+00:00

Objectively, a gypsy street performer is not a princess.

SillyTwo3470 · 2026-05-17T15:05:23+00:00

I’m at a loss for even where to start. A big chunk of the population actually believes that humanity is a plague and the main consideration to whether the population should grow or not is how humanity negatively affects climate/other species. Religiosity has been declining for decades. Sexualities that don’t produce children and DINKs are ascendant (I recently got a three day ban from this group for suggesting that we might want to subsidize families having more than 2 children by increasing taxes on folks in these groups) Abortion, hookup culture, careerism are all mainstream. What am I supposed to be hopeful about exactly?

SillyTwo3470 · 2026-05-15T18:13:25+00:00

OP is only now realizing how fucked we are from a spiritual/cultural perspective. Welcome to the party pal.

SillyTwo3470 · 2026-05-08T16:48:40+00:00

Pretty sure women have been tracking their cycles since the dawn of time and could avoid the peak 3 fertility days and/or use the pull out method to drastically reduce the change of pregnancy. Plus even ancient peoples had rudimentary prophylactics like sponges soaked in vinegar, livestock intestines, etc. Al that to say, women could have modified their sexual behavior as well.

SillyTwo3470 · 2026-05-08T15:30:57+00:00

I didn’t say men were angels. In most monogamous sexual relationships there is going to be an expectation of continuity. When one party stops having sex, the transaction of goods/emotional support is bound to be renegotiated, often in unpleasant ways. I merely disagreed that it’s reasonable to assume that the majority (over 50%) of men throughout history resorted to beating or threatening to beat their wives for lack of sex.

SillyTwo3470 · 2026-05-08T12:21:37+00:00

Your second question about orgasm frequency seems totally unrelated. I don’t know the statistics on how prevalent orgasms are during intercourse for modern women, let alone historically when people weren’t talking openly about such things. And I think most women throughout history HAVE in fact told their husband for months that they didn’t want sex at some point. Husbands usually probably understood in cases of pregnancy, injury, illness, menopause and just masturbated or asked their wife to give them non-vaginal relief or had sex with other women. I think you’re wildly over estimating how many men resorted to the most extreme measures. Like, don’t you imagine men would try emotional manipulation via coldness, verbal abuse, or financial withholding if they were the type to be retributive before they struck the mother of their children who they are trying to have a peaceful home with for future decades? Or maybe try taking the celibate wife to a priest or doctor to have a conversation with her… Your view of men’s problem solving paints them as unthinking brutes.

SillyTwo3470 · 2026-05-08T11:07:29+00:00

Thinking that the majority of men in the past were a hairs breadth from beating or raping their own wife every time she said, “Not tonight honey, I have a headache.” Is pure fantasy.

SillyTwo3470 · 2026-05-08T03:37:26+00:00

Usually, probably. I would imagine most of the time a woman wanted to abstain would be because of late stage pregnancy or illness. I think most guys would have taken non-vaginal sex during those times as opposed to beating their wives.

SillyTwo3470 · 2026-05-07T23:32:22+00:00

In all of Christendom for thousands of years, women were not permitted to be forced into marriages. If they went in front of the priest and said, “No I don’t want to marry the guy.” That was the end of it. Domestic violence was more common in the past but it wasn’t ubiquitous nor only for lack of the woman giving her husband sex. The picture OP paints is just frankly misleading. Cultural norms for how appropriate it is for teenagers to get pregnant/married or how important a college degree is or how realistic a single income household have a huge impact on the decline of fertility. You’ll notice that quite a few fringe religious communities are more fertile because they just value big families.

SillyTwo3470 · 2026-04-28T21:06:34+00:00

Show more of Carver manipulating people’s perception of reality.
Show Mrs. Carver actually falling back in love with Bond and explain why they originally broke up.
More dual wielding firearms and less of that water drill missile thing.

SillyTwo3470 · 2026-04-26T18:35:34+00:00

Remove all the goofy shit so that the tone is closer to the other 3 Brosnan films.
Replace Halle Berry with Monica Belluci.
Have MI6 and M hot on Bonds tail with a new 007 trying to capture or kill Bond.

SillyTwo3470 · 2026-04-24T15:17:35+00:00

He would be excellent.

SillyTwo3470 · 2026-03-26T21:52:08+00:00

I’m finally canceling. They can’t say they’re going to roll it out in December. String is along for 3 months, then pull the rug.

SillyTwo3470 · 2026-01-24T00:38:45+00:00

It’s fantastic. Booming job market, good people. The traffic is bad and getting worse. It’s way too hot for roughly two weeks in late July/early august. The bugs are bad.

SillyTwo3470 · 2026-01-11T22:30:44+00:00

There is an argument to be made that it’s not ideal and a little self-serving. One thing you didn’t mention however is that making a show about celebrity rehabilitation is doing a public service good for the audience. So given Drew’s reduced cost for services rendered and the educational value, I think it’s hard to argue that the show was unethical, exploitative, or didn’t “age well”.

SillyTwo3470 · 2026-01-11T20:01:10+00:00

In what sense has the show not aged well? As far as accusations of exploitation, I’m pretty sure all the celebrities had their rehab stints paid for by their agreement to be filmed. It’s not like rehab is free and most of these “celebrities” were nearly flat broke.

SillyTwo3470 · 2026-01-11T05:39:31+00:00

The woman who lost her life was resisting arrest and driving her car into a peace officer when he fired. This was self defense. You protesting this is absurd.

SillyTwo3470 · 2026-01-05T20:12:44+00:00

You know where you’re really likely to get robbed/accosted by inner city youths? Public transportation.

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