For what it's worth - the Washington Post put the article in the style section.
The Collinses married after Malcolm proposed on Reddit in 2013.
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Is their whole pitch "We have sex, you poors need to know that we are busting in each other"?
Industry Americus
Octavian George
Torsten Savage
Titan Invictus
These parents weren't stuffed in lockers enough as kids
Wait these are those funky "American" names from that weird SNES Japanese baseball game
taking a stab at what these kids will be called when they're inevitably stuffed into lockers themselves:
Industrial Waste
Octopus George, Depravian George
Testicular Torsten
Tetanus Infectus
New Mad Max cast
Octopus George
This nickname is potentially a blessing, depends on Octopus' personality.
Thirsting Sewage
In reality, these kids will just pick a kinda normal name as they're growing up, like most kids whose parents give them names that border on mild CA
Indy/Rick
Avvy/George
Tor/Orry
Ty/Vic
I was stuffed into so many fucking lockers as a kid. Maybe that's why I turned out communist... 🤔
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Titan Invictus, Simone, Industry Americus, Malcolm, Torsten Savage and Octavian George
Shut the fuck up. 
edit:
Still, the Collinses’ ideas about what will encourage people to have more babies are unconventional, even among other pronatalists.
They dismiss solutions such as more housing or more money as “unrealistic.” And just because a policy is pro-family — universal day care, for example, or extended parental leave — doesn’t necessarily mean it will encourage people to have more children, they say.
Instead, they’re pushing for deregulating the day-care industry (“We have data on this,” Malcolm said, sharing a Substack link) and removing car-seat mandates (another Substack link). Requiring parents to have car seats discourages people from having big families, because you can only fit in so many seats, he argued. “In a number of states, you need to be in a car seat until you’re, like, 16, right?”
There have been multiple articles about these people in particular, they talk about having superior genes that need to be spread but both of them wear glasses, the woman is neuro divergent and they admit she needs a small team around her to be productive.
having superior genes that need to be spread
This mean they're white.
No, they literally believe that wealthiness is genetically hereditary, and that by using nominative determinism to name their children they'll set them up for success as entrepreneurs and future tycoons. These people are a special kind of moron.
One of their kids is going to kill them in their sleep. Bookmark this comment.
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That always makes me chuckle, the eugenicists of the modern day also shed crocodile tears over “muh population decline”.
Although I’m guessing they want even “untersmench” to reproduce as a type of slave race for them. While they’re out there from cradle to grave in a big never ending party, I’m stuck doing all the shit jobs until I keel over.
Pol Pot may have had a point (/j obviously)
“In a number of states, you need to be in a car seat until you’re, like, 16, right?”
Actually it's until 38, I just got out of my car seat on my birthday.
mfer you're my age? holy shit
I mean these ideas kind of check out. Raise child mortality rates, and people will have to have more to replace them. More births for the birth god!
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I feel so bad for these children. I know there's a good chance they'll grow up to be freaks themselves, but still, talk about being dealt a bad hand
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It's endlessly amusing to me that these sorts of people think they are smart. They insist they are geniuses in fact. Yet they are incapable of grasping the glaring obvious reasons that their stated goals clash with their political objectives.
People must have more kids but we must make the world a worse place and that'll make them have more kids.
No it won't. It obviously won't to anyone who examines evidence for 15 minutes.
I understand that some people are lying. Saying they want one thing but actually wanting and doing another. But there are true believers. These types... Musk fanboys... Etc
I just want to point and laugh at them because they truly are so fucking incapable of understanding despite their education and auras of intelligence
this is the end result of devaluation of the humanities. Dunning-Kruger is overused on the internet but freaks like this are just a massive, massive, glaring example of it
True. Just the idea "well I know calculus/Java/physics like the back of my hand so I'm clearly an Uber level intellect."
Accepting you might be good at one thing and not another is surprisingly difficult
"I paid the tuition of a 4-year liberal arts college to learn a trade, now bow to my superior intellect!"
I've studied all of the above and the "applied sciences" were by far the easiest (and least intellectual) in my experience.
Learning the humanities, on the other hand, is like studying a proof inside-and-out without a proof to actually study from. There are no toy models, components cannot be isolated, there are no authoritative references, you can't work backwards from the answer, you can't coast off of your classmates, and even the best teacher does not guarantee that an idea is going to click in any student's head. And that's just for comprehension - a productive mastery is even more intellectually challenging, with even fewer guideposts on the path.
Wrapping vocational training into higher education has caused untold harm to the world imo. Trades like engineering and software development should never have gotten mixed up with the university systems. However capitalism made it all but inevitable.
This is literally the mirror-image of the STEMlord anti-humanities arguments, and it's a silly argument in either direction. Both STEM and the humanities are academically rigorous and contribute great value to a student's education--that's why the best schools have so many gen-ed requirements.
STEM and the humanities would do much better uniting against their common foes in academia: administrators and athletics.
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b-b-b-b-but their mensa memberships!
It's so funny that mensa means stupid in Spanish. Apuesto a que ninguno de los mensos saben eso jajaja
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oh my god she has that useless $200 "AI assistant" thing that everyone made fun of when it came out
I like to google on two monitors
one's night theme for when it gets dark outside
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Rich people don't let your breeding kink inform your politics challenge. Difficulty: impossible.
Quiver-full cult getting gentrified
Somehow, wearing all that, those giant thick-black frame glasses are still the most ridiculous part.
I bet the glasses cost at least a grand and are made by some chud firm with name like Traditional1488.
14:88 vision 
That's their genetically superior myopia.
Chapo did a good reading series on these delusional eugenicists - episode 682
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The dads a weird failson. From the couple's Wikipedia:
Malcolm is the great-grandson of Carr Collins Sr., founder of the Fidelity Union Life Insurance Company, and grandson of James M. Collins, a Dallas, Texas businessman and politician.
and the son of a failure whom we won't mention because it will detract from what we're trying to push here
These fuckin weirdos again
Little Titan Invictus running around with a tablet around his neck on a lanyard at age 3 (extreme choking hazard)
Wasn’t there already an article about this exact set of freaks and their brood?
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Why do papers keep giving these nerds attention? I've seen dozens of articles about them.
They are keenly aware of the type of person that has totally seized power to become the new ruling class and are rolling out the red carpet for them.
Matty Yglesias getting absolutely turgid reading this.
Never again put Matty and turgid in the same sentence please. This causes damage at the best of times. I'm having lasagna for lunch so it's extra unsettling.
Tell me you enjoyed The Handmaid's Tale in the wrong way without telling me you enjoyed The Handmaid's Tale in the wrong way 
I'd bet money that the bonnet is not just a prop for the photo shoot and she wears it in public to trigger the libs. Hell, I'd be triggered if I was minding my own business at Trader Joe's and I saw that shit in person too.
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You ever notice how this dude looks like a failed clone of Rod Dreher? I am sure it's nothing...
Why don't these dr octavius lookin mfs just disappear. Annoying eugenicists
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