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Posting !nonchuds content on /r/professormemeology is good for shit stirring.

Because they crossed over without going through due process of our immigration laws…dipshit🙄

Wow, why so mean? Also, violation of the law doesn't justify further violation. You also still need to prove they did in court.

Laws exist that you can deport illegals convicted of certain crimes. You don't hold an open trial again for a crime they've already been found guilty of. It's just scoop grab deport.

You have no idea what due process means.

He is factually correct. Expedited Deportation process is a thing. They are detained, identified, ask to provide documentation they are legally here. If they cannot and there is a record of them being a criminal here or in another country they can be deported without going in front of a judge.

You have no idea what you're talking about.

Asylum Laws require you to have the right to due process if you are on American Soil and Claim Asylum. There are lots of non-citizens who are here legally.

And there are millions of ones here not legally. Just because life isn't perfect in their country does not conclude automatic asylum. Come in the right way

That's a very privileged point of view from a person that would probably break the law to survive in his own country. But heck, what do i know. Im just a first-generation violent criminal. When you have to choose walking across a border or watching your wife lose her head. I think youll know whats best for your family

That is some mental gymnastics.

Expedited Deportation process is a thing. They are detained, identified, ask to provide documentation they are legally here. If they cannot and there is a record of them being a criminal here or in another country they can be deported without going in front of a judge.

We are not talking about the average ILLEGAL immigrant, we are talking abut those removed and sent to prison.

I had people straight up say "They're all violent gang members being deported." Like no, most aren't. Characterizing everyone being deported as violent is the exact same strategy racists have been using for centuries. If you hate a minority group you just pretend they're all violent and racists will just agree with you.

how did they get caught then if they didnt commit a crime? Are you saying illegally entering a country is legal?

If the cops suspect you of jaywalking, can they grab you and throw you in prison? Jawalking is illegal.

they can stop you or ticket you yes, but i wouldn't compare mere jaywalking to illegally crossing a whole country's border. Id compare it to someone illegally breaking into your home. Now are you going to stop them or kick them out?

I'm willing to bet every American in this thread has been more personally affected by jaywalkers than they have illegal immigrants.

IDs. Social Security cards. Birth certificates. Background checks. Driver's licenses. Do I need to keep going, or do you get the idea?

So what about asylum seekers? The ones who are here legally that are being deported?

Only 14% are granted asylum - this is a non-argument fort his topic.

Expedited Deportation process is a thing. They are detained, identified, ask to provide documentation they are legally here. If they cannot and there is a record of them being a criminal here or in another country they can be deported without going in front of a judge.

As long as they are getting their case heard is all we care about. We just want for them to have their day in court.

You are mixing the process. Less than 20% of illegal immigrants claim asylum. Of those 14% are granted. They get their day in court as do many illegal immigrants that are detained.

Individuals that are known to have a prior criminal record (in this country or elsewhere) can be detained a deported without going in front of a judge. They didn't claim asylum because if they did they wouldn't be granted it and they would then be on record in the US. Address, etc. Why would a known criminal tell the US authorities - "Hey, I'm here".

I forgot you're the expert in immigration, the guy on Reddit. Didn't we just have deported migrants sent back because the way trump handled it was illegal? Like you're trying to make it seem like it's not that bad because it's a miniscule number but I'll go another step and use your logic and say if the trans community is less than 1 percent, why do you conservatives not use that argument with dealing with them? Seems like you're picking and choosing what you want.

Well, I am but you wouldn't accept that fact as then you would have to say, yeah, I guess I was wrong.

And no, none were sent back because the plane was already over international waters so the judge had no jurisdiction. Many SA countries are accepting flights,

Your argument about trans doesn't make any sense. I am not picking an argument, I simply stated that there was a process that allows us to deport certain individuals without going in front of a judge. This is true whether you believe it or not.

They're brown that's good enough for me

Average catholic

Let's protect everyone! We can afford it, but also America is the worst and should slowly die to support people who don't have it as good!

Sure, that's why america is slowly dying. Pay no attention to the crony capitalism, tax cuts, and attacks on our own institutions.

Say, when america was at its peak, what was the highest marginal tax rate? Sort of a trick question, but perhaps you have a different idea of when peak americana was than I do.

Oh shit here comes an anti-capitalist, you were raised on capitalism thank God for the blessing that you were born here and shut the frick up

There's a shit ton of capitalists that appreciate having institutions. A ton of them also complain about crony capitalism. I'm a socialist, it's true, you got me, but none of my listed complaints are particularly socialist coded.

Unless you think america in the 60s was some sort of commie country? if so, big lol

You're forgetting that these raids and targets aren't random. We 100% know who's being deported - and they aren't American citizens.

Except the ones that are.

Oop, did that ruin your fantasy? This is the fricking point. You take the government at face value, presumably after screaming about the Biden administration lying about everything for 4 years, and then citizens fall through the cracks. That's why we have due process

The child wasn't deported. The parents were and they could either abandon their child or take them with.

And so she dies in America with no support and no way to get to her appointments, or go back to Mexico and die where they can't do the treatment.

Which discounts people like this or an old but gold article. It's not like it doesn't happen, and hasn't been a prior concern.

70 potential U.S. citizens were deported between 2015 and 2020, a recent report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) concluded. They were deported even though U.S. citizens cannot be charged with violations of civil immigration law.

All told, available data shows that ICE arrested 674 potential U.S. citizens, detained 121, and deported 70 during the time frame the government watchdog analyzed.

Since when does having a kid with cancer give you a free pass to commit crimes. If someone committed murder or r*pe, do they get off the hook if they need to take their kid to doctor's appointments?

Weird non sequitur, her parents were confirmed to have no criminal history. No follow up for the other 70 citizens confirmed to have been deported by ice last time? All of the citizens being arrested and detained with no due process?

Entering the country illegally is a crime.

Haha show how brilliant you are! Millions with and S and give them due process? Do you know how much that would cost? Take your post down

Darn, so you're saying we could save a lot of money if we just get rid of due process altogether? Wow, why hasn't doge just done this?

? Can't read eh, let me slow down the words… Due Process is great, not for immigrants!

Oh, really? Mind showing me where the 14th Amendment says it's exclusively for citizens? Take just a little longer to read the description I gave.

Listen you are what's wrong with America 🇺🇸 sure you get this a lot, keep posting dumb content

Yeah, wanting to uphold the constitution is a real issue for you.

The really dangerous American fascist... is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power... They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.

~quoted in the New York Times, April 9, 1944 Henry A. Wallace

A Vaush watcher makes a post and the "top comment" is another Vaush commenter agreeing with everything he said and has more upmarseys than the post itself.

Yeah, nothing odd about that.

It is? BAAAAASSSED!!!

Have you considered the counter argument that immigrants and leftists are ba-a-a-a-ad

Simple, you enter without due process...you are now iilegal and are barred from due process due to your dumbass decision OF CROSSING INTO A COUNTRY YOU WERENT SUPPOSED TO IN THE FIRST PLACE...

FAFO

How do you know they entered illegaly? It's not like they are branded on the forehead. Also, greencard holders are being deported on the grounds of "the government said so". The official excuse is "they support terrorism", but once again, how the frick do you know without going through the courts?

I like the idea of america shoving it's peepee down people throats just bc they thought they could come here and support islam

So you don't believe in freedom of religion?

Not for Islam. There is no peace in a religion that talks of rocks and trees telling you that there is a jew behind it and to kill it

Wow, just blatant bigotry. Nice dude

Due process is fulfilled the moment an ID check is run and the individual in question doesn't have a valid visa on record. The ID check/investigation is the Due process. The law states that unauthorized entrants can be deported.

That being said, I work regularly in migrant detention centers. Think old state prisons where migrant detainees are held until deportation. Almost every one of the people there is appealing their deportation order, filing for asylum, etc. It's a lengthy process and sometimes they are there for months. Many times, they sit there for a while, and rhe immigration judge decides that their behavior during the detention process and personal circumstance warrants a reprieve in their visa application, and they're let go. Sometimes, something is discovered in their background that makes them ineligible for a visa and they're slated for deportation.

But, it's not as if they're being grabbed and immediately flown out.

There's a lot that happens behind the scenes to go above and beyond to give these people a fair shot that the media simply doesn't cover.

What I'm saying is, that if these migrants are on a plane being deported, it's almost guaranteed that every conceivable option for due process has been exhausted on their behalf using US taxpayer dollars.

They do take people who even have valid IDs and show them. Mahmoud Khalil showed the ICE agents who arrested him his ID, and even got his immigration lawyer on the phone who told the ice agents they couldn't get away with it because they have a mountain of proof. They took him anyway and got away with it

Having ID doesn't excuse his other violations.

Okay. What violations did his peaceful protest make?

The government has filed additional allegations in the immigration court case, telling the court that Khalil had willfully failed to disclose material information when he applied for a green card in 2024: his internship with UNRWA, his having worked for the British embassy in Beirut beyond 2022, and his association with CUAD

quoting the Wikipedia article about him

The government has filed additional allegations

So his "due process" is not complete, but the government disappeared him anyway. Thanks for clearing that up.

He is literally being detained in the US. He is appealing through the courts. He is receiving his due process right now. Lmao

Can they provide documentation of being a US citizen? That's a good start

That's what the due process is for. Also it's on the government to prove they're guilty. Not the other way around. Unless you want to prove you've not committed every crime known to man

Terrorist don't get due process. Patriot act and all

True. Why don't I just start labeling the opposition as terrorist and putting them in prison? Yet another reason why the patriot act is garbage and shouldn't have existed.

So you're not OK with these gangs from other countries and the cartels being labeled as terrorist?

so if someone broke in to your house, your argument is that you wouldn't kick them out just because you dont know who they are or how they got inside? Nice logic.

Such a weak, pathetic argument. I'd know because I'm the only one who can allow them in. Nice Strawman.

Clearly not because you're not in charge of the border. the analogy involves this person breaking in, like through the border? how do you know who this person is, if theyre from a cartel or what their intentions are in your home. You responded to nothing but insulted an actual response

You do realize I was talking about my house, right?

One of the dumbest posts

Found a sheep.

Found a lib

I'm conservative, actually, but you pathetic little kids can only preserve your self-delusion by maintaining the utter authority of your echo chamber, which of course you do by telling yourself anyone that disagrees with you is evil.

I can't even bring myself to hate someone so sad.

Hahahaha typical liberal response.

Textbook echo chamber. You're literally telling yourself that anyone that doesn't precisely agree with you must be the opposition. Your fundamental existence only continues in an echo chamber of people regurgitating the exact same thing.

"This post is dumb and anybody who doesn't think so is a liberal, mommy make them go away."

Coming from the liberal that called me a sheep. No echo chamber here bucko. If you would like to talk more just send me a chat invite. I can talk to off whatever ledge you're thinking about jumping off of

Darn guys this dude just said he likes kids in dm's.

Coming from the guy that supports a president the sniffed little kids and showered with his daughter!! Sounds like you lost this so called conversation/debate. Just get off of reddit, go downstairs and see what mom is making for dinner.

Darn bro is breaking out the whataboutism and not even slightly denying that he likes kids.

I get the meme but it's kinda spreading false information. They are getting processed. No citizens are being deported.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latinx/us-citizen-child-recovering-brain-cancer-deported-mexico-undocumented-rcna196049

Go on, say it with your chest

Undocumented parents. I guess you're one of those people that believes parents should be deported and kids sent to orphanages. Keeping the kids with their parents is the moral thing to do. Only a monster would rip a family apart.

That enough chest foe ya bucko?

You want to talk about morals, how moral is it to take a family that has zero criminal history and give them the option of letting their child, a us citizen with every right to be here, die alone in america, or letting their child die with them in mexico after denying their child the chance to get treatment? Who's the real monster?

Also, this isn't even a new concern. It happened under Trump's last term too

70 potential U.S. citizens were deported between 2015 and 2020, a recent report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) concluded. They were deported even though U.S. citizens cannot be charged with violations of civil immigration law.

All told, available data shows that ICE arrested 674 potential U.S. citizens, detained 121, and deported 70 during the time frame the government watchdog analyzed.

But go on, say it again, say that American citizens don't get deported by Ice

Die alone?? I'm certain they'd be placed with a family and survive. You're being a bit theatrical here. Say what you want but illegals should are just that. Illegal. You cannot pick and choose which laws you want to uphold. They should have gone through the process of becoming citizens like regular immigrants.

You're a terrible person for wanting to remove children from their parents custody.

Nice reply to the other 70 people that exist despite you claiming that they don't. I don't want to remove the children from their parents custody, I think that if they have no criminal history, they can be left well enough alone while they attend to the medical needs of a US citizen. "You're certain" just like you were certain that no American citizens have been deported?

But you have a funny way of putting words in my mouth to deflect from the fact that you're still peddling a patently false statement. American citizens have been deported by ice, both historically and in the present, despite "you're certain" that they weren't

She is very cute and fluffy and old. She is the oldest cat in the house. I think she may still be mad at me after I tried to dress her up in cat harness. She does not like walking anywhere.

I wish she would sleep under my armpit again does she hate me because i am sick and i coof?

She is my precious child, everytime I get home i am super excited to see her and all I want to do is hug her, but now she doesnt care about me

I promised years ago that it would be the last game I ever buy.

without fail these people self report by relating to Cartman lmao https://t.co/0nYwvYz7po

— Johnny 2 Cellos (@Johnny2Cellos) March 29, 2025

I envy the Palestinians. Not for what they’re going through, obviously, but for what they have. Their supremely authentic culture, with its deep roots and ancient connection to the land.

One of the very, very few good things that the Gaza holocaust has brought into this world is…

— Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) March 27, 2025

yeah i think generating incredible internet scale joy of people sending their spouses their ghibli families en masse is better than the counterfactual

— roon (@tszzl) March 27, 2025

Democrats thought Biden was young and dynamic and Kamala ran a flawless campaign. They were in a bubble. The presidential election popped their bubble. MAGA thought Elon's slash and burn strategy was really popular. They were in a bubble. Wisconsin just popped their bubble.

— Cenk Uygur (@cenkuygur) April 2, 2025

As the stepson of a national hero who was confined to a wheelchair after a lifetime of service to our country, I feel I can confidently tell this horrible person to go frick herself. https://t.co/M6IXg4w0Qc

— Dave (@DaveHarvilicz) March 25, 2025

Oh, man. Batya, I really hope you’re sitting down, because you are NOT going to like this: apparently there’s this country that has spent the last 17 months terrorizing and outright murdering paraplegics, too many to count at this point. Their flag has a big star on it, I hear https://t.co/55t8jk2um2

— George Sears 2028 Voter (@ByYourLogic) March 25, 2025

first real moment for the trump-elon split (he can't stand losers) https://t.co/mXZPMy7ktw

— hasanabi (@hasanthehun) April 2, 2025

pic.twitter.com/Bk9zcWTgTI

— teena (@cntgetoutherain) April 1, 2025

This you?! pic.twitter.com/qg4CbkIzQY

— Wealth Turtle 💰 🐢 (@wealth_turtle) April 1, 2025

Time to break out of our echo chambers. pic.twitter.com/KKn8zRDLEk

— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) March 29, 2025

Reddit/BBC reacts by complaining about jobs and taxpayers leaving

https://old.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/comments/1jl1w5o/british_steel_closure_threat_puts_up_to_2700_jobs/

Wise redditor notes that net zero is not to blame for high energy costs destroying industry it's actually privatization

Net zero is not really to blame for that, although it is a convenient scapegoat.

The issue is that the electricity and broader energy industry has spent the last 35 years living off the inheritance of the nationalised energy industries.

Now that inheritence is finally wearing out and the pseudo market in electricity is collapsing under the weight of its own contradictions.

https://old.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/comments/1jlq1xa/steel_tycoon_lakshmi_mittal_plans_to_leave_uk/

Bongland has second highest amount of millionaires fleeing

Definitely between a rock & a hard place on this one.

On one hand if you're resident here you should be paying your fair share of taxes.

On the other hand, the UK has the 3rd largest outflow of USD millionaires in the world, behind China & India (in total, not per capita, where we're 1st by some margin). Even with their tax breaks most of these people contributed significantly more to the UK coffers than the average tax payer.

Edit: I lied, we're 2nd as of 2024. https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-millionaire-migration-in-2024/

The Nintendo Switch 2 direct was today, and while it was admittedly not as strong of a presentation as the January 12th 2017 Nintendo Switch Presentation, Nintendo g*mers can finally enjoy the benefits of the last console generation. What a miracle!

Worthwhile Announcements

The Console

Honestly, for a direct that is supposed to be about the new console, they strangely didn't differentiate it much from the Nintendo Switch. We didn't get a direct showcase of the UI, but from the bits we did see, it looks virtually identical. That doesn't mean there isn't anything new, though. There's also a console tutorial that you have to pay for.

• The Mythical "C" button

"C" is for connect! GameShare is a "new" feature for the Nintendo Switch 2, which allows for on-console voice chat. We're 3 generations away from this being innovative, but it's better late than never.

It's pretty much a Groomercord call on your console, which utilizes a built-in mic. You can even do video calls with the Nintendo Switch 2 Camera (sold separately), mimicking the eerie loneliness of a Zoom call, right on your Nintendo Switch!

They spent an absurd amount of time on this reveal.

• Graphics

The console can play 4K HDR games while docked, with some games even managing 1080p 120 FPS. While keeping the LCD screen instead of OLED, Nintendo boasts a larger pixel count on its built in screen, insuring a clearer picture while playing.

This paves the way for Nintendo Switch 2 Edition games, which allow for graphical upgrades for Nintendo Switch titles (more on this later.) It also is going to have faster loadtimes than the Switch on any game, and comes with 256 gigs of data on the console (which is substantial compared to the Switch's 32.)

• Download Play is back

In a surprising turn of events, certain multiplayer games can be enjoyed by multiple people on separate consoles with only one cartridge. The extent of this feature is unknown, but is a very welcome and consumer-friendly move by Nintendo.

• Mouse Mode is REAL

By holding your Joycon 2 on a surface and dragging , you can mimic the functionality of a real mouse. It's planned to be implemented in several games, including Metroid Prime 4: Echoes.

• GameCube Games for NSO

A whopping THREE GameCube games have been announced for the Nintendo Switch Online: Expansion Pack.

• The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker

• SoulCalibur II

• F-Zero GX

• Release Date

June 5th, 2025 is the worldwide release date for the Nintendo Switch 2. The price has not been confirmed, but expect it to be in the $400 range. No preorders have been announced yet.

First Party Titles

This direct showcased several strong titles coming exclusively to the Switch 2. While there seemed to be a larger focus on Third Party titles in this presentation, what we have gotten are actually pretty good.

• Mario Kart World

A Mario Kart launch title for the Switch 2 was inevitable, and this title seems to be a reboot of the series after 8 Deluxe. The gimmick of this game is that you are able to freely roam around tracks with 24 players, featuring the largest roster of any Mario Kart game. They're just adding anyone to this game, including obscure enemies like the Dolphins from Super Mario World. In addition to the roster, like Mario Kart Tour, there's costume customization.

Taking after SEGA Racing Transformed, your kart is able to change depending on the environment of the track. You can grind on railings, walljump, and even glide on water? There's even a knockout mode, which is DEFINITELY not stolen from Mario Kart Wii mods.

• Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment

Who's ready for another Hyrule Warriors game? Hopefully this time, it can run on the system it was made for!

Like Age of Calamity this game serves as a canon-adjacent campaign that explains events that were alluded to in Breath of the Wild. Not much else was shown, but it's a Warriors game. What else do you want to know? It's releasing in the winter this year.

• Kirby Air Riders

It's a sequel to Kirby Air Ride, a cult classic GameCube Kirby game, directed by Masahiro Sakurai, marking a long-awaited return to the franchise after a 20+ year hiatus. Nothing else was shown, but it releases in 2026.

• Donkey Kong Bananza

A 3D Action-Platformer Donkey Kong game, and the first new mainline Donkey Kong game in a decade. Donkey Kong receives his Mario Movie redesign in this game, confirming that the movie designs will be used from now-on. The game seems to take place in an underground setting, which allows DK to destroy the environment, kind of like Wario World on the GameCube. It releases on July 17th, 2025.

Nintendo Switch 2 Edition Titles

Nintendo was kind enough to allow us to PAY FOR upgraded Nintendo Switch games. This is not a free upgrade, but it's "discounted" if you own the original game. The upgrades range from graphical enhancements to new campaigns that utilize the Switch 2's higher graphical fidelity. How generous!

These games include:

• The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

• The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

• Kirby and the Forgotten Land

• Super Mario Party: Jamboree

• Metroid Prime 4: Echoes

• Pokemon Legends: Z-A

Third Party Titles

There was a lot of titles revealed to be ported to the console, so for the interest of time I'm only including things I find important enough to mention.

• The Duskbloods

A Nintendo Switch 2 exclusive vampire themed FromSoft game. It had a lot of screentime, so I'm sure it's important. It's releasing in 2026.

• Deltarune Chapter 3 + 4

The long awaited sequels for Deltarune are coming to the Nintendo Switch 2, and will be released on launch day. Did not expect this announcement today, but it was welcome.

• Elden Ring

• Final Fantasy VII Remake

Gaystation players on suicide watch

• Street Fighter VI

They're also releasing amiibo for the game, which confirms that amiibo are sticking around for a third generation. Nintendo-branded Funko Pops are here to stay!

• Split Fiction

• Cyberpunk 2077

• Hollow Knight: Silksong

Is coming to Nintendo Switch 2 this year. That's it, that's all we know.

• Hogwarts Legacy

s on suicide watch (this game is the leftist Assassin's Creed Shadows)

• Hitman: Word of Assassination

Releasing on launch day, IO interactive also revealed a new Goldeneye 007 game, so that's cool.

Overall, the new console looks promising. In my opinion, it's not a "drop everything and buy it at launch," sort of deal, but I can see myself picking it up later down the line. With backwards compatibility and strong exclusives, it's going to be a seamless transition to the next generation of Nintendo. Are you guys going to pick this up?

https://kiwifarms.net/threads/amberlynn-reid.23570/post-20970401

!ranchers

You can read these astral projection reports from the 1980s on the CIA FOIA website. They're pretty funny. During the Tanker War when Iraq and Iran were bombing each other's tankers in the Gulf on a weekly basis, psychics would be saying stuff like:

I see... I see water. It's the sea. There's a ship. A really big ship that's full of some kind of black liquid. Oh no! There's fire! Sorry, I know that's pretty vague but that's all I've got.

@Aevann laughing at !chuds content

https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1jm5che/farright_influencers_are_hosting_a_10kperperson/

https://old.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/1jmc6vi/farright_influencers_are_hosting_a_10kperperson/

Organizers behind a pronatalist conference with far-right ties in Austin, Texas, this weekend have set up matchmaking events for attendees that include the option of getting married onsite as part of their greater effort to repopulate the world, WIRED has learned.

According to its website, the sold-out Natal Conference, taking place March 28-29 at a hotel operated by the University of Texas at Austin, has "no political or ideological goal other than a world in which our children can have grandchildren." But the event, an earlier version of which was promoted by Elon Musk, features speakers like Pizzagate conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec and Crémieux, an online pseudonym linked, according to The Guardian, to Jordan Lasker, who discusses falling birthrates and promotes eugenics.

Natal Conference organizer Kevin Dolan, a father of at least six, according to Politico, has previously stated that eugenics---the belief that white people are genetically superior---and the pronatalist movement are "very much aligned."

Publicly available details about the Natal Conference are scant, with the vague online conference agenda promising closed-door sessions to address collapsing birth rates.

However, an email obtained by WIRED promoting a preconference mixer held Thursday night reveals matchmaking may play a significant role at the conference and in the pronatalist movement more widely.

"This is a special email to NatalCon attendees who indicated they were highly interested in finding the missing puzzle piece for singles, matchmaking, marriage, and family formation," reads the email, sent by an event producer named Luke, who did not sign with his last name.

"We were stunned to receive many emails saying, 'NatalCon needs to be focusing on this, right now!' And we're here to serve you. This is coming from all sectors: singles, parents with dating-age children, grandparents, newlyweds that want to help their friends start families, and more," the email said.

Attendees are instructed to register to learn the exact venue (though it is listed elsewhere on the website), and registration was listed as costing $10,000 for the full weekend---an increase from earlier this year when the cost was 90 percent cheaper. (A Saturday-only ticket is $500.) Last year's VIP package was $1,000, according to the NatalCon website. After credit card details are handed over, organizers vet potential attendees, requiring them to submit their social media handles. The website says prospective attendees aren't charged unless they're approved.

NatalCon organizers, including Dolan, did not respond to messages from WIRED seeking comment.

Single registrants are directed to fill out a survey that asks their desired number of children (listing 1 to over 7 as options), "religious, spiritual, cultural, lifestyle" values, and whether they would be open to a "Q&A with a NatalCon speaker to introduce yourself to the room."

Speaking to Edward Dutton---who has been described as a "proponent of pseudo-scientific 'race science,'" by anti-extremism group Hope Not Hate---on a Jolly Heretic podcast in 2023, Dolan described his alma mater, Brigham Young University, as a "breeding program" for smart Mormons. He said his pronatalist events are a counter to the "perverse incentives in the dating app market."

In the email to NatalCon attendees, Luke noted the conference had set up multiple sessions throughout the conference to strategize on the issue of matchmaking.

The email concludes by noting that there will be "some ministers attending if anyone decides to take the leap at the conference!" Luke also instructed attendees to "come up with great ideas" regarding matchmaking, which will be passed on to him "for implementation."

Other conference guests include Indian Bronson, the pseudonymous founder of AI dating app Keeper, which aims to help people start a family, and influencers Simone and Malcolm Collins, who have four kids and say they plan to have up to 13.

The pronatalist movement, which views declining birth rates around the world as an existential threat, has seen a boom in recent years, propelled by famous and powerful tech elites, including Musk, who has 14 children. Tweeting about the 2023 Natal Conference, Musk said, "If birth rates continue to plummet, human civilization will end."

Even tech elites who have not explicitly associated themselves with the movement seem generally aligned with its aims: Sam Altman, for instance, has invested in multiple fertility startups and said he would like to have a family with "six or eight" children.

The movement gained even more momentum during the 2024 election, when comments surfaced of then vice presidential candidate JD Vance calling Democrats "childless cat ladies" around the time of his Senate run in 2021; he also previously said people with children "should have more power" than "people who don't have kids."

However, the pronatalist movement has been criticized as being racist and classist, with some startups catering to adherents by even offering to screen embryos used for in vitro fertilization for IQ.

Dolan told the Jolly Heretic podcast his pronatalist events weed out "stupid people."

"Some of the debates that I hear about natalism [are] like, 'We can't have natalism, we have too many stupid people.' But in my opinion the only people who are going to respond to any of our natalism conferences, natalism conversations, are going to be on the higher end of the distribution," he said.

Despite criticism of the conference, University of Texas at Austin spokesperson Mike Rosen told WIRED the school rents out its spaces indiscriminately. "The AT&T Hotel & Conference Center leases space to non-University groups for their events without regard to their viewpoint consistent with the First Amendment," Rosen said.

The venue also hosted an Ayn Rand conference in February.

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@Aevann rightoid drama

Observation

• The birth rate in Mexico is lower than the U.S. for the first time in modern history

• Teenage pregnancy no longer exists in first world countries

• Birth rates are falling globally, not just in rich countries (where they are super duper falling)

• Japan is the most productive country in the world per working age adult per capita, yet still faces economic crisis because of all the olds

• Paradoxically, birth rates of married couples has not fallen. What has fallen is the rate of marriage and rate of coupling altogether

• Redditors are dumber than you can possibly imagine, ignoring the central thesis of the video

Guillotine-Wit

Because it's expensive to raise children. (+26)

Rising cost of living cannot explain the unexpected decline in birth rate, because the effect can be observed in poorer countries where cost of living has not increased at all.

Similarly, increased educational attainment/economic success by woman and all the traditional reasons are no longer fully explanatory because there are too many counter-examples within the global trend.

By process of elimination, the author arrives at only one plausible explanation:

• Widespread access to Social Media and Apps (Tinder) through smartphones.

Availability of smartphones is the only data that has sufficient explanatory power, because they are now cheap enough that even thirdies have them. All of the apps and social media have globally changed how male and female humans interact with each other. The widening global political divide between male and female is also a result of this.

The author concludes that Social Media is literal cancer on a civilization scale and we are doomed.

That sounds plausible, but is wrong. The author is too well socialized to find the real culprit.

Bsbbana

Disclaimer: some of these might have been stolen from here, idk I don't remember. See ya!

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Link to post calling out mod and response

https://old.reddit.com/r/dropout/comments/1joaova/why_is_uthundermateria_the_only_mod_on_this/

This comment was pretty funny.:

https://old.reddit.com/r/dropout/comments/1jo92qs/comment/mkq2rov/?context=8

The sole mod replied:

https://old.reddit.com/r/dropout/comments/1jo92qs/comment/mkqog0n/?context=8

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1jogq78/a_new_show_is_announced_for_the_streaming_service/

These r-slurs all do this shit what the frick

I've been jerked

url because screenshotposting

Here is /u/Merari01 melting down over this change because of "accessibility" issues

/u/Bardfinn thinks this change was because the United Kingdom no longer allows encryption

Disney's Snow White (2025) cost 240 million dollars to make. It opened on friday and made 86 million on its opening weekend. Will it make back its budget within a month?

Enter BetYES! I believe in Disney magic. Snow White 2025 WILL make at least 240 million in global box office by April 21st - 1,035,800 total betted

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Closed.