▲ 135 ▼ America’s premier pronatalists on having ‘tons of kids’ to save the world: ‘There are going to be countries of old people starving to death’ (www.theguardian.com) submitted 2 years ago by mpk@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems 153 comments fedilink hide all child comments The highlight for me is coming up with some weird pseudoscience justification for why it’s okay to hit your kids.
[–] maol@awful.systems 19 points 2 years ago (2 children) Wow, these people have not planned anything at all. They're going to homeschool all 7+ kids? And go into politics, a job that infamously has long, unsociable hours? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] riskable@programming.dev 21 points 2 years ago* (1 child) No, they're counting on not spending time with their children. Their worldview is all about populating, not educating. In fact, if you pester any of these people how they would plan to educate all these millions of new children you'll quickly find out that either: That is actually not planned for at all (hand waving). They actually only want certain (White people of means) to be having lots of kids. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 12 points 2 years ago Or option 3: they subscribe to the mudsill theory, under which education will no longer be wasted on the lower orders of society, whose lot is to die in harness. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 11 points 2 years ago No need to plan things when you can use Rationalism, nominative determinism, and first principles to get over any troubles. Also the people who give them gifts are very rich. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] riskable@programming.dev 21 points 2 years ago* (1 child) No, they're counting on not spending time with their children. Their worldview is all about populating, not educating. In fact, if you pester any of these people how they would plan to educate all these millions of new children you'll quickly find out that either: That is actually not planned for at all (hand waving). They actually only want certain (White people of means) to be having lots of kids. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 12 points 2 years ago Or option 3: they subscribe to the mudsill theory, under which education will no longer be wasted on the lower orders of society, whose lot is to die in harness. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 12 points 2 years ago Or option 3: they subscribe to the mudsill theory, under which education will no longer be wasted on the lower orders of society, whose lot is to die in harness. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 11 points 2 years ago No need to plan things when you can use Rationalism, nominative determinism, and first principles to get over any troubles. Also the people who give them gifts are very rich. permalink fedilink source parent