America’s premier pronatalists on having ‘tons of kids’ to save the world: ‘There are going to be countries of old people starving to death’ - eviltoast

The highlight for me is coming up with some weird pseudoscience justification for why it’s okay to hit your kids.

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      Their next kid will be named Ultima Thule, and they will claim very loudly that this is just because they are so big fans of astrology and that they never heard of the controversy regarding the name.

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          Ow yeah I’m joking here. But it was really weird that they tried to name the asteroid Ultima Thule (and it is also odd that this controversy isn’t on the wikipage).

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          @gerikson The name predates the white nationalist band by *several centuries*. Per wiki: “In classical and medieval literature, ultima Thule (Latin “farthest Thule”) acquired a metaphorical meaning of any distant place located beyond the “borders of the known world”.”

          I suspect they renamed the KBO Arrokoth precisely to avoid the unfortunate recent connotations of the name.

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thule

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            Oh I am aware of the term’s history[1], but just like the humble swastika some stuff can become tainted (although I believe that Ultima Thule the band is only locally infamous here in Sweden). I do know that if someone presented themselves as Ultima Thule I’d do a spit-take, but so would I if I was presented by someone named Titan Invictus.

            Arrokoth is a fucking metal name tho.

            [1] pretty sure the first I heard of it was in one of Evan S Connell’s great collection of essays.