Post AVgwvRmFHPOM3fICFE by thelaughingmuse@masto.ai
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 (DIR) Post #AVgflTjvQhh21ortFg by cstross@wandering.shop
       2023-05-15T17:39:59Z
       
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       Low birthrate is UK’s top priority, Tory MP tells rightwing conferenceA Conservative MP has claimed the UK’s low birthrate is the most pressing policy issue of the generation and is caused in part by “cultural Marxism” They're getting ready to go full forced-birther white supremacist here, aren't they https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/may/15/low-birthrate-is-uk-top-priority-tory-mp-tells-rightwing-conference-miriam-cates?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
       
 (DIR) Post #AVgflUJNIu37nlSCVU by ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org
       2023-05-15T18:23:44Z
       
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       @cstross Oh poop. 💩
       
 (DIR) Post #AVgwvRmFHPOM3fICFE by thelaughingmuse@masto.ai
       2023-05-15T17:44:40Z
       
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       @cstross And just like the US, if they weren't so dead-set about Not Letting The Wrong People In, the low birth rate would be less of a problem.
       
 (DIR) Post #AVgwxZQVoIRIMU8hhA by JonnyT@mastodon.me.uk
       2023-05-15T17:56:25Z
       
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       @cstross I'm sure they'll be immediately dismissed from the Conservative Party for their blatant anti-semitism...
       
 (DIR) Post #AVh5xCVBwTr0qlE7QO by Npars01@mstdn.social
       2023-05-15T22:03:10Z
       
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       @cstross As Ceucescu demonstrated in Romania, a forced birth program just produces children that people can't afford & they end up neglected in orphanages.It does nothing to treat the underlying causes of why people don't have children. Housing precarity. Employment insecurity. Inadequate social safety net. Systemic misogyny. The Pink Tax. Lack of affordable child care. Student loan debt. High mortgages. Women already have a 30% wage discount, having children makes that worse. 1/2
       
 (DIR) Post #AVh5xDBNPdb8xaxoB6 by union@mu.zaitcev.nu
       2023-05-15T23:17:09.367802Z
       
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       @Npars01 @cstross Bunch of silly excuses. When people didn't make any of these excuses, they had children.In addition, "women wage discount"? Their husbands are supposed to provide, why is this a thing?
       
 (DIR) Post #AVh5xE79wnopqnzxFA by Npars01@mstdn.social
       2023-05-15T22:08:51Z
       
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       2/2It means too many women retire impoverished.It costs $330,000 USD to raise a child through college.Moreover, the concern about the birth rate is really a cover for voter suppression for women.Most conservative political strategists believe young children take women out of the electoral process for several years. Women with young children vote lessIt's the familar "politics of exhaustion" used against POC working 2 jobs to pay the rent because of wage suppression tactics like racism
       
 (DIR) Post #AVhN7dG90ptLx8kSsC by Waterloo2@mstdn.party
       2023-05-15T23:44:54Z
       
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       @Npars01 not if they marry at 12
       
 (DIR) Post #AVhN7e5Bx2j0VSdERM by Npars01@mstdn.social
       2023-05-16T00:34:58Z
       
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       @Waterloo2 There's no such thing as "marriage" at age 12. The phrase "child marriage" is a misnomer for child sexual exploitation and sexual predation.