WTF

Edit: I wasn’t sure what I was appalled by at first but now I realize it’s that this fucking medal just encourages women to be treated no better than a prized heifer.

  • NateNate60@lemmy.world
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    Governments are always offering weird wacky incentives for women to have children, when the solution is usually patently obvious: you can increase fertility by making it easy and affordable to have children. Stipends for food, paid maternity/paternity leave, free childcare services, affordable housing, and a good economy with an abundance of high-paying jobs.

    I mean… there’s a reason the baby boom happened in the 50s! But no, that would be socialism!!

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      These fuckers will do anything to invent a flying machine except the proven model that works because they knoooow it gotta be possible with large square blocks of quarried marble tied to huskies. Just need more dogs. Or maybe more marble. mush! Ok add some more marble see if that works.

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      Honestly, we need to reform our economic system and not continually rely on fertility to solve all of our problems.

      I’ll add that even those incentives probably won’t help, as fertility declines are strongly associated with education levels and money (and women’s liberation in particular). Give women options and unsurprisingly, some will choose not to have children.

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    the Trump administration has shown signs of enthusiasm for a pronatalist agenda. DOGE head Elon Musk, a father of 14, posts regularly on social media about the need for Americans to have more babies; he has also promoted NatalCon on X. Vice President JD Vance has proposed the idea of a weighted voting system, in which the votes cast by parents would be valued more highly than those by the childless. US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy (a father of nine) signed a memo recommending that his department prioritize “communities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national average.”

    Got to provide a continuous supply of children for the labour camps.

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    yeah its mask off now what with the deathcamp

    medals would be worrying like 13 years ago, and we would be saying, “hey i think this guy might want to do a deathcamp”

    but there’s a deathcamp now sooooooooooooooooooo

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    I think of all the oppressive governments, giving this medal must be a near universal thing that separates them from other governments.

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    Ugh, we shouldn’t condemn something for being something Nazis did. Hitler liked dogs, doesn’t make it wrong.

    I don’t approve of natalism. Some natalists are driven by white-replacement cringe theory. Some are just inexplicably concerned about population decline. (I still don’t understand why.)