• IHeartBadCode@fedia.io
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    When my uncle was president, the fertility rate in this country was 3.5%. Today, it is 1.6%. The replacement rate, in other words the amount of fertility that you need in order to keep your population even, is 2.1%. We are below replacement right now. That is a national security threat to our country and we know why this is happening, and President Trump is addressing the root causes through his MAHA agenda of reducing endocrine disruptors, the exposure to chemicals that decrease fertility.

    You can’t debate that. Mostly because it’s just illogical altogether. It would like trying to convince someone that pasta doesn’t taste like clay bricks. There’s no logic to the initial argument, you can’t logic that away.

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      He’s got a bit confused. It’s the birth rate, and it’s not a percent. You need a birth rate of 2.1 per person to keep the population steady. It’s nothing to do with fertility, but more personal choices, like when a couple look around and think “nah, I’m not going to subject my kids to these fucking idiots”.

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        If I wasn’t already not having kids I definitely would have done it just to spite Paul Ryan

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      Yeah. Leaving aside his getting the units wrong, he’s interpreting the fertility rate as is it’s a direct measure of sperm viability. There might be a causal connection between the two, but conflating them like RFKJ does is idiotic.

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      Is this AI generated? It seems like such a string of random elements… I can’t help but being impressed somehow. Like, wow, this pigeon really succeeded in shitting all over the chessboard!