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right wing handwringing over birth rates has always unsubtly been a combination of wanting more white babies/wanting control over women, so it's bothersome that the popular response to that is just pointing out the cost of living. "we Would be having more kids if you guys made some positive changes to society" and such. pronatalist sentiment is becoming so much more explicit that I don't think many self-styled progressives are ready to reconcile with the fact that many women simply do not want to have children. we already see how women are demonized for refusing to undertake the thankless burdens of their mother and grandmother's generations lol, I can't imagine how full abdication from child rearing will come across to some people.

I can't even see "we Would be having kids" as a strategic approach to get conservatives to consider advocating for a higher quality of life considering that they truly could not care less if you, specifically, are poor. it's true that more couples would have kids if it was cheaper, but that will not be enough for these types until women's subservience is codified. even now, they consider the lack of child rearing in today's insane society to be a matter of selfishness. they view themselves as completely different animals than you. they have and will continue to advocate for more advantages for people of their specific backgrounds and income brackets to reinforce this lol.

communistkenobi

I think this rhetoric also ignores that the right wing want the inverse for Black and brown people - this logic of “raise living standards and we’ll have more kids” is a white perspective that ignores white supremacist medical violence, forced abortions, forced sterilisation, mass deportations, mass incarceration, police murder, imperial aggression, and forced removal of children from families as institutional programs of population control (Canadian residential schools, for example, were built for this exact purpose).

Increasing white birth rates is only one half of the equation for the right wing, and this raising-living-standards rhetoric fails to address this completely. Even in the outlandish scenario where the right wing accepts this logic and institutes robust welfare programs, do people think the state will offer these things to black, brown, and indigenous people? In any scenario where this happens it would just be Aryan UBI

poketcg-art

Spiritomb -- kawayoo

orcboxer

whos that saultry little binch in the bottom rsght

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tortellinigirl

men really be like “well this woman has studied this subject her whole life, and i am a man, so we have equal knowledge on this”

hcrzallerliebst-a-deactivated20

it’s ok you could have just said “i hate men”

tortellinigirl

okay, i hate men

kristina100000

if you got a problem with me its your probble

mmusclemuseum

amazing wayback machine find

unplaces

Rawson Rd, Proberta, California.

frostops

Ringo chuckled, “You mean the elf stones?”

commanderchr1st

artist-magritte-deactivated2020

The month of the grape harvest, 1959, Rene Magritte

Medium: oil,canvas

swordoftheberserkgutsrage

come on dude come outside its the month of the grape harvest.

3liza

the RealDoll division that is working on AI-augmented sex dolls has sold an AI-equipped silicon unit named Sally to the Salamanca school district's high school at a steep discount, which is the only school district entirely inside an Indigenous rfeservation in America. they are testing an AI sex doll on high school kids, not sexually, but testing nontheless.

the Realbotix corporation claims the unit is not able to save identifying information, nor relay it or report it to Realbotix. But the robot is instructed to snitch on students it perceives as posing a threat:

Every safeguard described in the reporting traces back to the company itself. Realbotix's CEO said the system would always redirect conversation back to education and automatically alert administrators to language associated with self-harm. The superintendent, relaying what Realbotix told the district, said the system runs on a closed network with no internet connection and that Realbotix will not have access to personally identifiable student information. No independent audit, security review, or third-party verification of any of it appears anywhere in the reporting. Realbotix can describe what Sally's safeguards do. No one, including Realbotix, can yet describe what a program with these products does to a teenager's learning outcomes or emotional safety, because neither study has been run.

no independent vetting has been done on this supposed closed system, likewise ii assume it has internet connectivity of some kind. the fact that this is being tested on indigenous children is a familiar historical refrain, and according to the Facebook posts from the parents in the Salamanca district I read a few days ago, this was not voted on or presented to the PTA, but rather pushed through the board without consultation with the students or parents in the school