Vance’s rhetoric: “Muh trad cath values and Europe is bad dur dur” Rubio’s rhetoric:

Patriot.

Known common DNA regions linked to IQ just passed 500. In UK Biobank, people have only a brief reasoning test, or none. But cognitive ability is embedded throughout our lives: what we eat, how safely we live, books we read, what we do for pleasure…. Imputing those missing scores from health, behaviour and other measures cut ascertainment bias and raised N from ~270,000 to >455,000. That lifted independent common loci from 390 to 550 (>40%). The rare-variant yield rose further: genes linked to lower scores went from 5 to 26, including 14 causing neurodevelopmental conditions. And the polygenic prediction score now approaches the limits of test reliability. The DNA signal is present from conception and transmitted across generations (cf. @gclarkecon). More strong work from @DMalawsky and @hilsomartin: technical innovation and scale. nature.com/articles/s41588-0…

A rite of passage for any rw public figure. "You've never even smacked a leftist's face before?"

my answer to this is basically: 1) conditions for life are probably common in the universe 2) conditions for life sufficiently intelligent to produce advanced technology may be very rare 3) to the extent AI figures in this it seems what it probably tells us is AI never develops a survival instinct of its own and never becomes able to perfectly sustain itself without biological managers 4) as a result AI civilization remains essentially coextensive with biological civilization 5) FTL travel never occurs, so all forms of civilization are constrained the distance they can travel at a fraction of light speed within their lifespans 6) many civilizations experience collapses back to simplicity across million-year-timescales for all sorts of random reasons 7) thus at any given time there are relatively few technologically advanced civilizations in the universe and they face hard limits on their ability to spread across the universe beyond a few probes here or there 8) but the odds a tiny probe is even detected by earth-based tools let alone intercepted are miniscule

Underdiscussed: When the world globalizes, white people, as they become rare, will rise in demand like never before—without any cultural guardrails. Virtually anywhere they go, within the West or outside of it, they will be the most sought out and exotic race; and that will present a genuine challenge for those who wish to preserve it, because the deal will be genuinely good. A rich Chinese or Indian husband, a model Korean wife, an eager South Asian girlfriend (or, ehem, an Algerian goth girl), an athletic black guy (even if you're fat)—all of them with a tolerance slightly higher than what you'd get with a member of your own race. There will be very little cultural or even geographic friction, yet the demand will be there. I am saying this because, in a way, it's already happened. As a white person, whether man or woman, you get an enormous amount of attention the moment you step outside the borders of your country—and there's a degree to which this is starting to happen within the West too, the less common we become. I have heard stories about San Francisco, Seattle, Vancouver, and even have a personal anecdote of signaled interest from other places in Canada. There are immigrant communities in North America right now where people grow up barely even seeing white people.

Here's my list. There's a lot more to read. Looking forward to: - Bryan Caplan - Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids (2011) - Geoffrey West - Scale (2017)

What does the pro-migration anti-natal crowd think the long game is? The native populations gradually die out and are replaced with immigrants, who presumably (and in fact) will converge on the same low birth rates. They also want to proselytize their ideas to the third-world source countries, send them condoms and birth control and porn. Then what? Humanity just ends? What is the goal here? Personal liberation from connection to the past and future at any cost, including extinction?

ESTIMATES AND PROJECTIONS FOR THE BIGGEST HIGH TFR CHRISTIAN GROUPS IN THE WEST BY JAMES A note on projections: current growth is conserved, population estimates range wildly, and retention rates possibly aren't factored in. I would assume lower figures—always better to be conservative with expectations. I am more pessimistic than James, and note my doubts! - By 2100, you may expect 12 million Anabaptists (Amish, Mennonites, and others like Hutterites), almost entirely in North and South America. My own take: growth will slow in the transitional period between depopulation and rapid Anabaptist growth, as the agrarian model becomes less tenable with less available cheap land, and switching occupations leads to contact with the rest of society, which lowers retention and fertility. The current Amish model relies heavily on the Amish being too culturally distinct by the time they choose to be baptized, and needing years of catching up to fit into western society. - Also by 2100: 25 million Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) Catholics. However, even the naive extrapolation is possibly considerably lower, because current estimates of TLM suggest a shaky range of 500,000 to 5 million worldwide. You may be familiar with SSPX—they're TLM. A more conservative projection would have them at a couple million. - Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus host about 2-3 million high fertility groups, which, by my own vibe, would be likely to at least double or triple by 2100. These groups are composed of: (1) 500k-1m Old Believers, (2) 1 million high TFR groups attached to the Russian Orthodox Church, and (3) 500k-1m unregistered Baptists and Pentecostals, many of whom also live in the rest of Europe, especially Ukrainians. All of these groups genuinely have fertility rates in the 4+ range. They are the real deal! - Other groups include Laestadians (mostly Finland + USA), the Dutch Bible Belt (stagnating), the Quiverfull movement (Anglosphere), and others, but none of them are large enough to break the 1 million count. They are usually in the tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of adherents.

lol I just found a New York Times race bait article about Australia from 2018 complaining that Australia was too white I don’t agree with @curtis_yarvin on his solutions to everything but he’s fundamentally correct that the rest of the Western world was mentally colonised/one shotted by American race communism Only the US mainland actually had the domestic antibodies to fight against it

TL;DR for those who liked the OP: more reasonable claim is that every THIRD child will be smarter than their parents. @RokoMijic @Smirkley @Indian_Bronson @HXMnCK @HEAVY_SLAYER @InfoAtJames @seanspriggens @efodix @IterIntellectus @williameijer