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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.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I feel like I missed part of the article where it said that the current administration was planning on distributing this medal. What I read was more along the lines of them saying that the current administration is potentially implementing some pronatalist policies and the it describes one policy promoted by a pronatalist group, but nothing about the current administration planning on implementing that specific policy.

Not saying any of this is good and I tend to mentally gloss over parts of text that I read, I'm just earnestly missing where it says that specific policy is one that is being looked into and I would appreciate someone pointing it out to me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

You're not wrong. The link seems to be based on a couple who are very pro-babies sending the idea of the mother medal to the Trump administration. Then, the article talks about how conservatives are trying to change the national dialogue about having kids and showed several quotes posted on social media saying why having babies is great.

The author of the article seems to be the one who made the link. They probably aren't wrong, but it wasn't the Trump admin who came up with it or started talking about it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Have you heard about the military parade on his birthday?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Another coinkidink.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

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.)

Fuck this medal though. It's going to help make people think women are only good for one thing.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

population decline is incredibly problematic… demographic crises can literally lead to the collapse of a society in a slow enough manner that it’s kinda difficult for people to see coming unless they know what to look for

i’d highly recommend the recent kurzgesagt video about south korea

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The U.S. has/d very high immigration rates, which counters many problems of population decline.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

seems like that might reduce pretty damn fast very soon

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