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What this @UConnMBB vs. @RazorbackMBB Twitter battle feels like.

@triiadxx I see where you’re coming from, and idk if It’s not abusive, but it’s definitely manipulation. Still, not smiled upon, but inadvertently controlling. I feel I’m close to 50/50 on this, I ultimately opt for this not being domestic abuse in the sense that Lois isn’t being abused.

I’m trying not to be woke but what if I say this is abusive?

@HoosierHaze When I played HS basketball in Arkansas there was no mandatory shotclock when I was and finished HS in 2014, granted, most teams and coaches didn’t follow this rule that I played against but it happened sometimes. Apparently 2-3 years ago they enacted it, which is 100% necessary.

Whoever voted no on this is a moron. I don’t care who you are. Being able to stand around for 3-4 minutes with the basketball in an attempt to maintain a lead at the end of a game is just stupid. I mean seriously

@deewatts60 @SteveSkojec You’re right, I think the only people who have discussions like these are people who were lucky enough to be born in a country where most basic needs - food & water - can be commonly provided even if your finances are bottom of the barrel.

@Stolzerback @SteveSkojec Poor people have had kids all over the world. It's a contributor, but not the whole problem.

He’s dead on.

This financial decline all came from a younger standpoint for me, so that would mean you’re a millennial yourself possibly, but closer to Gen X; I’m a Millennial born in the mid 90s. I was 14 during the ‘08 housing crash, and it’s really been downhill from there economically, especially since I became an “adult” and had to fend for myself. The economy is crashing on itself, and it’s only a matter of time before there are too many people being crushed before something gives. There’s a big reason why a lot of people don’t want to bring children into this if they can help it, and it’s been staring everyone in the face for nearly two decades and has only gotten worse.

The thing is, if you peel away everything from the past 20 years, TFR was still on a steady decline. Has been in the entire industrialized world. Asia is totally screwed. China has also been over-reporting their population. They are on track to collapse in the very near future. They have more people over 50 than under. And not nearly enough of them are having kids.

And that plays a massive role into everything today. I don’t think it’s a woman/man genetic or hierarchical role in ANYTHING when it comes to why people aren’t having as many children compared to previous generations. Millennials were the first to feel the financial results of the last two decades - like the Boomers and Gen X’s. What’s different is the last 2+ decades is something Millennials didn’t have a part in, and the results in the new generations are what they are because of it on a large scale economically.

I'm in no way discounting the economics, but I am saying that the economics are downstream of industrialized nations with post-industrial economies, and everything that goes with that. The biggest thing driving home prices lately has been lack of inventory, which traces back to builders getting burned during the 2008 crash (which started years earlier in places like Vegas and Phoenix where homebuilding was happening at a record pace.) Millennials are the second-biggest gen since the boomers, and they are all of homebuying age now. There aren't enough places for them. COVID contributed to *what* people were looking for in a home (because WFH) and then interest rates spiked, locking a lot of folks into mortgages at 3% or even lower. They couldn't even move laterally without losing money. So they all stayed put, and inventory just seized up. My soon-to-be-ex has been in real estate for 20+ years, and one of my best friends is a mortgage broker who had to lay off his whole company, so I've had a front row seat to a lot of this.

How many people do you think opted out of having children over the last decade or 2 because they couldn’t imagine affording themselves AND kids? I paid almost 14k in 2023 in daycare fees because I didn’t qualify for vouchers - nearly half my take home at the time after taxes, health insurance and some retirement. Seems you need to be either rich, or TERRIBLY poor to have kids from my point of view to make it happen.

Well, I can tell you that 15 years ago our family was barely scraping by when I was making $82 K a year, and that was in a $450 K house that's now worth twice that and I wish I'd never sold it. I would agree that in my experience, nothing less than six figures will do for a family with multiple children. And it's been that way most of my working life.

@SteveSkojec I do well enough for myself, I make about 50k a year, but cost of living is so high in most places in the US - you need dual incomes because anything outside of dual requires someone to make well over 100k/yr alone. THATS the biggest reason, bc that’s never been as big a problem.

@Stolzerback It's very hard. I'm 48, and it went from being fairly easy to fairly impossible somewhere half way through our childbearing years.

@SteveSkojec What I CAN say, is economically, it’s been horrible for a lot of folks, but especially young people. Having kids isn’t as easy as it was even 20 years ago, let alone further. I’m a father or a child myself, but it’s been a massive financial struggle for her mother and me - im 30.

It's biology and evolutionary psychology. You can't put the brakes on thousands of years of adaptation, selection, and dominance hierarchy behavior after less than a century of progressive social ideology. We don't work like that. We're wired to pass on our genes and ensure they survive over and above all others.

@SteveSkojec Similar to the concept of smoking cigarettes and science didn’t know that it was bad for you for a long time until they did. Does that mean what you say is right or I say is right will hold? Time will tell but we don’t have immediate and accurate answers.

@SteveSkojec Exactly - these are unprecedented times that history doesn’t have a lick of answers towards - this isn’t due to human biology enacting these unorthodox numbers. It’s a sign of the times that nobody really has a direct answer to because it’s too fresh and new in the long term.

@BenReynen @SteveSkojec You act like there is a statistical plenty that operates the way you speak effectively when there simply isn’t. You’re talking about - at best - 5% of the population, and that’s on the best of BEST days. It’s worse than that average, and you know it.

@Stolzerback @SteveSkojec Economically and socially we have more options than ever before, the problem is that usury has slipped into every aspect of both of these things and there is a pay to play model now.

@SteveSkojec I highly doubt the majority of people or women are so engulfed in an archaic form of thought process you present to the point that you insinuate there are women who encourage other women to have abortions in order to establish genetic domination - it’s 2026, not the Middle Ages.

I'm not insinuating anything. This is based on real research. Woke and pro-abortion stuff is all part of the decadence, MRS, and civilizational decline cycle. Human beings, like animals, engage in intrasexual competition. Male competition is direct, because male fertility is theoretically unlimited. Female competition is indirect and sabotage-oriented, because women have a natural cap on the number of babies they can have. So the only way for their genes to be overrepresented in the gene pool (the whole point of evolutionary theory) is to ensure other women have fewer babies than they do. So encourage abortion, and waiting on having a family until you've had your career, and limiting family size, and the glories of childlessness, and the dangers of toxic (ie., virile and genetically healthy) masculinity, etc. Any ideology that can be promoted by women who ARE having children that will get other women to have fewer children gives them a big win in the "I passed on more genes than you did" competition.

@RetiredOpinions @JimsTweets Idk if you are offended or not, and if so idk why; I didn’t say “All”, and I didn’t say “know”. I said “feel” based off my own personal interactions with people who were homeschooled until grad; idk what constitutes a lot, but I’ve interacted with dozens of people homeschooled.

Feel all you want, but feelings aren't facts. We homeschooled our 3 children. One graduated from college with a BA in Economics, one has one semester left on a Ph.D., and the last one got both a BA and an MS from college. I would say homeschooling is just great, but thank you for your input.

Do Homeschool kids just like, not have to take tests or exams or get grades? How does the government know if the child is actually getting an education and not just like, being neglected

@SteveSkojec So wait -regarding this excerpt - you’re insinuating that a big part of the decline of birth rates over the decades is due to the “woke” people who are pro-choice in letting women have a say in their own lives plays a large role in why birth rates are down, and not what I said?

@Stolzerback Here's a big one: x.com/SteveSkojec/st…

@CaterinaCatK @CeciliaGlennon @JimsTweets Idk how “fight” is equalized to school shootings or rape, but I suppose you could flip it and determine the rates for domestic rape, deaths, abuse, etc..

@Stolzerback @CeciliaGlennon @JimsTweets Where are you getting your information? That's the most ridiculous statement I've ever heard. There are way more school shootings than there were in 1996, kids are still bullying other kids, assaulting other kids, raping other kids. You're just making shit up.

@CaterinaCatK @CeciliaGlennon @JimsTweets The only kids fighting when I was in school were looking for em, not kids minding their own business. Most kids in most high schools only mess with you if you mess with them nowadays. This ain’t 1996 anymore, Caterina. It ain’t what it was 30 years ago, easily.

@Stolzerback @CeciliaGlennon @JimsTweets That's what happens to a lot of kids in school, are you dense?

@AaronJay954127 @CeciliaGlennon @JimsTweets Nobody ever fought me in school, but I’ll admit I was never a “small” kid.

@Stolzerback @CeciliaGlennon @JimsTweets Most people’s only experience with violence comes while under the supervision of public schooling. How many fights did you see or have while in school v living life as an adult not locked in a school with your neighbors by the government

It’s not a full matter of how impoverished/wealthy a family is, but more a matter of obvious political/religious indoctrination against their child(ren)’s education who aren’t wealthy enough to afford private schooling, but they wish for it. A lot of homeschooling is the religious/political working class’ way of ensuring their child doesn’t get “indoctrinated” in a proper education based off false pretenses mostly politically. It’s just people getting tricked into some false sense of fear, and the children end up suffering educationally. I’m talking about the thousands of families and children who listen to people they don’t need to be listening to when it comes to education, and the tens of thousands of children this ultimately affects in the grand scheme of things

@JimsTweets I’ve gotten a lot of posts about the statistical differences for homeschooling over kids in public schools, and I don’t discredit those - they have merit. I’m talking about the “underbelly” of parents who choose to “homeschool” their kids.