Hegar

Post-war/crisis baby booms are likely a seperate phenomenon, there's archaelogical evidence of baby booms in similar situations, like in athens after the persian war there seems to have been a baby boom that fueled their rise to imperial power in the aegean.

When standards of living rise, birthrates drop.

Western countries, japan & korea all have low birthrates and all developed them as av. income rose. China too but one-child made it a less clear example. Even within a society, middle and upper classes have smaller families than the working class.

Declining birthrates can't be fixed by improving living standards, but that's fine because low birthrate is a good thing - a sign of a society doing well.

If a high income/low birthrate society needs more citizens, immigration from low income/high birthrate areas is the only viable option. Endless expansion is a fools errand anyway.

“Are you already aware of the situation?” [Ungaro tweeted @ pam bondi]. “Do you fully understand the extent of the information I possess regarding you and the individuals associated with you? I strongly advise you to consider the seriousness of these matters. Any actions taken against me or attempts to escalate this situation could have significant legal consequences,”

This is the brazillian "model" who was deported at the personal request of her ex husband and father of her child, Paolo Zampolli.

He is one of trump's closests friends, was close with diddy, worked with epstein, was a "modelling" agency director and obvious sex trafficker. He was the one who procured melania and trafficked her to trump.

Ungaro is obviously referring to her knowledge of her husband's role in the wider trump-epstein trafficking ring.

He is not a republican asset, he's just a member of the ruling class. He's representing his class interest, not ours.

I wonder how much breaking up the trump-epstein ring lowered the fertility rate of 15-19 year olds.

The fediverse is small enough that i remember upvoting a few of your comments recently.

two charred Cybertrucks were seen parked next to each other. It’s unclear what caused the vehicles to catch fire.

Two cybertrucks, right next to each other, both catching fire?

It's pretty clear what caused the fire: peer pressure.

Even sad af persian cuisine is gonna be pretty amazing.

You're talking aout the ruling class, basically. Around their world their class interests generally align, so they act as one.

Sometimes the ruling class get into intra-class conflict - factions form or some members try to steal each other's stolen wealth, but they'll usually stop when it begins to threaten the interests of their class as a whole. See: every single war. Maybe WW1 they didn't stop in time.

But then we'd still be talking about the fact that he rapes children and none of his cabal of fellow rapists have seen justice.

I think there's a chance this was the plan all along and the 'ceasefire' was just a PR ploy to avoid having to admit the tuesday 8pm deadline was just a bad bluff that everyone saw through.

Of course it's entirely possible that the us regime did desperately want the ceasefire to work and was just too stupid to realize that israel won't stop until they've created a crippling humanitarian crisis in iran.

Nah, not giving any passes just think there's better wording when that wording has inspired pogroms in the past.