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Evolutionarily? Two sons are suboptimal vs the alternative of having a son and a daughter. There's rapidly diminishing marginal returns to additional sons. It's much less valuable than a daughter at that point. You only need one male child to go and spread the genes among many females, so...

No, what was found relating to Fraternal Birth Order wasn't probably not related to testosterone. It was heightened antibodies to some protein. The Fraternal Birth Order effect is separate and stronger than prenatal testosterone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraternal_birth_order_and_male_sexual_orientation It's from the 90s, and people found evidence for it from the 50s, so it's before the worst of the woke stuff, but yes, the later on in birth order a male is compared to his brothers, the more likely they are to be...

You can actually get to "gay behavior is an evolutionary adaptation" pretty easily due to kin selection and lowering competition for mates (this is likely why third sons are more likely to be gay in humans). So an argument that it's natural isn't hard to make. This doesn't extend to trans stuff...

Congress is trying to reenact racial quotas: https://reason.com/volokh/2024/05/15/congress-is-preparing-to-restore-quotas-in-college-admissions/ There's a disparate impact test in the American Privacy Rights Act. As usual, the bills name has little to do with it's content.

But all of that benefited America (or their backers, etc). That's the part of the fact pattern this event isn't hitting. There's no way in which the level of effort here actually helps America. If it was a Putin assassination? Definitely. If it had destroyed a refinery? Probably. But this...

You need to examine reality in context. It isn't too convenient, because the warnings always happen. We know that the warnings happen when there are actual terrorist attacks because Putin publicly thanked Trump for one which averted an attack in St Petersburg a few years ago. The null...

Ah, I couldn't understand that one. As for US intelligence, my first guess would be the same way they usually are: SigInt. There's a chance at HumInt, but that's rarer. There's simply no one better at SigInt than the US though, and IS-K being stupid enough about it would be enough for a...

No. It simply doesn't line up with known facts well enough to disprove the null hypothesis (it was IS-K). There's always been these kinds of terrorist attacks against Russia, before and after the Ukraine stuff. This isn't even the worst one in memory (both the apartment bombings and the airplane...

It's much scarier once you realize that almost all of them genuinely believe they are doing it for your own good. That's not a good thing, btw. That's a black pill right there. Also, the backlash against Harvard is the same as the backlash against illegal immigration in NY or the backlash...

Organization has little to do with it. In fact, the left has been punching above it's weight class because it wasn't actually organized. There was no central control for the most successful operation of the left. All they did was get hired as professors, teach communism, and only hire grad...

See, this is your issue. You think the backlash against RINOs is coming from online people. It isn't. Trump is the grassroots. And now you are complaining that people not accepting RINOs is too far? Well, RINOs don't have another option, so why should they be listened too? They are stuck between...

Oh, they always chose the unions. It happened in wisconsin awhile ago, IIRC.

You don't seem to understand how movements win stuff. You don't actually need a majority. This is the issue with the silent majority. In fact, a committed, vocal minority can actually cause much more change than a silent majority. No, your point is a logical fallacy. It's called a false...

No, they thankfully aren't. In fact, in some states public sector unions are already banned. Note that 1A basically slices both ways if it was applied as intended: you are free to form a union and strike whenever, and we are free to fire you for being in a union. The US clamped down on both of...

Honestly, I think the reverse. Banning public sector unions bans the Teacher's Union, which stops fundraising to campaign against the voucher system. Also, you don't need a constitutional amendment to do this ban. Just a state law.

You mean when the state refused National City Lines its freedom of association and forced the bus company to follow discriminatory laws? Sounds like freedom of association would have solved this problem for Rosa Parks, had the company been able to offer it. School vouchers do tend to work...

The democrats for a very long time weren't alienating their base by transing their children. Classic logical fallacy here: namely, a false dilemma. You can, in fact, have an ideology that spreads but doesn't compromise on it's core beliefs. You just need to convince people that the core beliefs...

You don't seem to understand how ideologies work. Ideologies have beliefs. And if they constantly compromise on those beliefs, they stop being an ideology. "Christians should compromise about Mohammed being a prophet if they want to attract converts" is a terminally dumb take. That's also the...

I'm genuinely curious: what conservative opinions do you have? Gun Rights? Pro Life? Limited government? Anti-welfare? Expanding evangelical culture? A disbelief in climate change or its severity? Something else? Previously, I had thought you a center left person, but I'm fine with being wrong.