Happy Indictment Day! Open thread

“I was married once. For two years.”

Oh, FUCK this self-aggrandizing asshole. 2 years. What the fuck.

I had to stop. Because I really am not interested in hearing this dipshit’s boner travelogue. Puhleeze.

Just going to rant for a bit so. MRAs get super offended when mass shooter gender statistics are brung up. They say how dare u demonise all men like that and #notallmen. But no one ever says all men are mass shooters, just that most mass shooters are men.

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I bet u feminists dont get upset when it’s said that mothers are more likely to commit infanticide. In fact MRA types, mostly father rights groups tend to bring up the gender infanticide to make a point on how mothers aren’t automatically better parents.

Irony,

Shadowplay:

Wisconsin GOP lawmaker says women should be forced to give birth to grow the labor force

His comments are vile and stupid, of course, but right out of the gate I rolled my eyes at his first line in that article:

“Often in public debates people are afraid to say it, but let me just say it: Abortion is wrong,” Allen said, as reported by Mitch Reynolds of WIZM.

Finally there’s someone on the right brave enough to say that abortion is wrong, an opinion which you just never hear!

@Moggie, that’s the same Twitter I got my Nov. 4 uprising news from 😀

@Shadowplay, I saw that news re Milo today and have one response:

The Wisconsin State Assembly also just passed a law that would allow toddlers to hunt with guns. What the hell is in the drinking fountains at the state capitol?

Peak labor? Too many mouths to feed is far more likely to be a catastrophic problem in the future.

I have a feeling that’s the main driver behind a lot of the GOP’s head-scratchingly cruel policies. It’s herd-culling, by people well aware that the planet is overpopulated and they’re sitting in the few lifeboats hoarding all the goodies. They’re pulling up the ladders, beating at people with oars, and throwing them anvils.

It’s such disingenuous crap. If there really is a labor shortage, you’d think they’d be more interested in keeping immigrants in the US.

We have a glut of labor. Tons of would-be workers are “surplus to requirements” right now. It’s even worse in some other developed countries — Greece and Spain are hovering around 20% unemployment right now. Not a typo. One fifth.

Ah-ah, but you’re talking about people from other countries and most of them are not white. That doesn’t help the US unless we let those people in, which nativism is not okay with doing. Also, see more on immigration below.

Furthermore, the idea that we need more labor when employment is high is a line that comes from companies that don’t want to pay for labor. You hear a lot today about companies not being able to find qualified candidates and how this is an emergency. Whenever you hear that, mentally insert for the wages I’m willing to pay into that complaint. Realtalk: people are willing to do shit jobs if those jobs pay better than shit. It’s when you want people to work for pennies in a job that is physically or psychologically unpleasant in some way that you run into labor problems. Folks with other options will take them.

In the industrial age, productivity has tended to be limited decreasingly by labor, as automation advances, and increasingly by fuel. But the rapid build-out of wind and solar capacity is quickly rendering peak-oil fears moot. Now there’s talk of peak lithium, but more likely we’ll be having to worry about peak arable land and peak freshwater, especially when the likely consequences of climate change are factored in.

Potable water is, and will continue to be, the most important resource on earth. Regardless of that, you need continual population growth in order to have continual growth of GDP, which economists are convinced is necessary in order to attain The Good Life. It’s not complete bullshit: countries with negative population growth have economic problems. It’s arguable that this is a cultural problem rather than an objective one, but until a solution to that is found, it remains a problem.

But if a country depends upon immigration to have a thriving economy, that’s just shifting the problem somewhere else. Somewhere else is going to have economic woes because we lure away all their most able, most resourceful, most driven and motivated citizens. Those charts that show how much more immigrants contribute to the economy compared with what resources they use make me wonder if we’re not stealing that economic activity directly from those immigrants’ countries of origin. What effect does that have over time? Nothing good, and bad economic returns translate straight into internal civil disruption.

Surplus:

talk of peak lithium

There’s talk of all sorts of things. HAARP, inside jobs, Chinese hoaxes, … and talk about how a metal that’s easy to grab out of saltwater will be scarce.

The thing that’s scarce in current batteries is cobalt. If we ran out today, we’d have to use slightly less efficient chemistries. There’s very active research in batteries to get more efficient, long-lived, and cheaper. A lot of that research uses different minerals.

The Good Life is *per-capita* growth. Modern economic theory can deal with population decline as long as it’s not too fast.

If your population is on the way down, sooner or later your pyramid is going to be upside-down. An upside-down population pyramid is Bad News. It can be somewhat bad, or incredibly bad depending on how precipitous the decline, but it’s never good.

I think the point is that having more workers than jobs drive wages down, so of course the 0.1% want more workers.

I saw this yesterday…Uma’s response is absolutely the definition of “controlled fury”.

Judging by Trump’s tweet on the incident and no mention of the word “terrorism”, the shooter was white.

Look at this fucking idiot Cernovich:

“Mass shooting at The First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, which has a largely white denomination.

Antifa terrorist attack?”

Goddamned little fucker.