It seems counterintuitive to think a political/economic system that has failed so spectacularly and consistently over at least 1,000 years (totalitarian dictatorships) is making a comeback. But it is, apparently. Even Google’s right-wing PC AI Overview says, “Based on analyses from historians, political scientists, and global observers, there is a widely held consensus that far-right, authoritarian, and neo-fascist movements are on the rise globally. While often described as a ‘new’ or ‘reconfigured’ form of fascism rather than a direct replication of 1930s Europe, these movements are expanding by challenging democratic institutions and exploiting social, economic, and crises.” Just like 1930s Europe. When you ask “Why?” the AI answer is predictable, “The rise of these movements is linked to economic anxieties, crises of capitalism, fear of migration, and the ‘great replacement’ theory—a belief in a plot to replace native populations.” Again, just like 1930s Europe. And that answer is about as shallow as I’d expect from an “artificial intelligence” created by Tech Bros and other social misfits and Trumpstein perverts. That is certainly the motivation being bought and sold by Trump, the rePutin-lickin’ Party, the Heritage Foundation, soulless goobers like Turning Point USA, and everyone else who is trying to gather fame, profit, and power from fascism. But it’s bullshit.
The rise in fascism is directly related to the fact that the dullest are breeding like caged rats. Take for example, my half-witted, cowardly MAGAot and devoted rePutin-lickin’ US Representative Brad Finstad, who likely couldn’t name more than 3 of his seven offspring at any given time. Putting it politically correctly, “there has been a documented negative correlation between educational attainment (a proxy for cognitive ability) and fertility.” Putting it less politically correctly and more scientifically, “researchers observed IQ drops occurring within actual families, between brothers and sons – meaning the effect likely isn't due to shifting demographic factors as some have suggested, such as the dysgenic accumulation of disadvantageous genes across areas of society.” (Could you find a more opaque way to say that stupid people are reproducing?) As a species, we’re getting dumber and what was once assumed to be a constantly improving species intelligence peaked in the 1970s and has declined ever since.
I suspect excess males has always been a problem for humanity, maybe all mammals. In 2016, researchers published their findings of a large battlefield in the Tollense Valley, in northern Germany. This discovery uncovered the remains of a massive Bronze Age battle, occurring around 1250 BCE. The remains of thousands of warriors and their weapons were uncovered indicating a brutal war that was, possibly, conducted with warriors from hundreds of miles away from the battlefield. The world human population in 1250 BCE was about 50 million and European population was probably around 2 million, so tossing away tens of thousands of relatively fit young males at that time was an obvious statement of excess. In 1920, the world population was about 1.8 to 1.9 billion people and WWI killed off 9 to 11 million soldiers (out of 60 million, mostly men, mobilized) and 15 to 20 million total human beings trimmed from the population. WWII was even more effective at excess male trimming, killing off 21 to 25 million military personnel (overwhelmingly male) plus 38 to 55 million civilian deaths out of a world population of 2.3 to 2.4 billion people. Humans haven’t quit murdering each other for fun and profit, generally accepted mortality numbers (due to a variety of statistical issues) indicates that between 1945 to 2000, about 231 million people died in various conflicts. Mostly, thanks to religion and politics, since 1989 over 3.9 million people have died in local wars. That, clearly, isn’t enough because world population is projected to reach 8.3 billion by the middle of this year (2026), with 50.26% of the global population (4.17 billion) male.
- - About 1.2 billion are already married
- - 94% of the world’s 11 million prison population are male
- - 1 in 8, or a half-billion, males suffer from mental health problems
- - Another half billion are disabled from injuries and and various illnesses.
Leaving about 2 billion men available for marriage and in that group:
- - 56% are unemployed
- - 4% of them are gay
- - 1% are Catholic priests.
- - 10% are parents or close relatives
- - 30% over 65 years old.
The 56% “unemployed” are the obvious “excess male population who would normally be chewed up and spit out of the gene pool in combat. The fact that many obviously-excess males are really into violent video games and, when they cosplay as actual warriors, they suck at it, Proud Boys or ICE-gangser-style, proves the “excess” point. These guys, however, are strongly drawn to a fascist, male-centric culture that does not focus on intelligence, skill and education, or even utility. Ideally, they think the perfect society would be a nation of Donny Trump clones where stupidity, incompetence, and arrogance are rewarded lavishly.
I don’t know if there has ever been a better example of useless, excess males demonstrating their total lack of value than Alex Pretti’s execution in the streets of Minneapolis. Eight cowardly, masked, heavily armed, randomly-uniformed, gangsters rampaging through the city’s streets, terrorizing and brutalizing everyone in sight, and, finally, converging on an obviously decent citizen, beating him mercilessly, and executing him with 9 close range shots to the head and body. These faux-law enforcement cosplayers reenacted every biker gangbanger stereotype Hollywood ever portrayed and rePutin-lickin’ Trumpers somehow saw “law enforcement officers putting their lives at risk protecting the public[1]” from that same picture.
The argument for the continued existence of drone-quality men used to be that “we need people for all kinds of jobs, and intelligence is not everything.” It is absolutely true that “kindness, patience, sensitivity, and trustworthiness are important — things that are not necessarily linked to intelligence,” but just being dumb, unskilled, manual labor is less useful every year. It won’t be long before it’s totally worthless as automation and robots take over the stupid stuff and it’s pretty obvious that excess males have already been “replaced” by useful people, technology, and automation. A world overstocked with 2+ billion excess men is going to be a very dangerous, precarious place unless something can be done with (or to) that population.
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