The rich need more
slavesworkers🎶 In a land where people think they’re free! But they’re just… A bunch of… slaves! 🎶
in Texas the steady decline in the teen birth rate since 2007 ended in 2022, with a slight rise in overall teen births – up from 20.32 to 20.4 births per 1,000 (a 0.39% rise)
We’re talking about a change of less than half a percent - probably just statistical noise like the 1.74% increase in liberal Massachusetts during that time.
(Massachusetts still has a teen birth rate about 3.5 times lower than Texas. I thought that that might be due simply to differences in ethnic makeup, but non-Hispanic white people in Texas still have a teen birth rate almost double that of Massachusetts, so there must also be a large contribution from culture, government policy, or average income…)
Austin is still an amazing town. A blueberry in a bowl of tomato soup. Just know that if you get knocked up, you’ll need a quick Denver weekend.
And never intend to have children because emergency care is unavailable.
I was in a coffeeshop on the Idaho side of the mountains yesterday and I was listening to two young Gen-Z girls talk (~17) and Austin came up. One girl said that she heard it was a great town. The other told her not to bother because Texas is too patriarchal, they love their guns way too much and their power grid fails so much that it kills people. Idaho! The Texas state government has ass fucked and murdered the golden goose.
In other news: fire is hot.
I wonder if this is what will finally push Texas blue.
They’re breeding more broke idiots. In 20 years they’ll be the new crop of Republican voters, and the cycle repeats.
“Idiots” because of the simultaneous war on education, I mean. Not because they’re from Texas.
They’re also passing laws like this to make left leaning people flee the state and cement their grip on the power. I used to think this idea was veering into conspiracy theory territory (and technically it still is without proof) but I’m more and more convinced it’s part of the plan. Raise idiots by destroying education and pumping them full of propaganda, gerrymand local districts, and make the libruls leave. Trifecta!
Mission accomplished 😒
I’ll bet the maternal death rate has risen as well and Texas was already first in the nation.
System works as designed
