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.
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!!
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.
I posit that if we add a spoiler with 20" rims and a high flow muffler, this block of marble will surely take flight.
Well somebody’s about to get added to a Signal chat
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.
Germany has most of these and a low birth rate.
But that’d hurt billionaires.
Nooo not the billionaires!
Someone think of the poor billionaires!
Jesus fuck, if you want people to have kids, it is not that hard. Remove obstacles. On average, people want to have kids. It’s an evolutionary drive. People override that drive when they do not feel secure enough to start a family. Just make that easier. That’s it. Make sure people can afford to have kids, that they can provide them a comfortable and safe upbringing, that they can ready their kids to become adults, and that their kids’ future seems likely to be bright. How?
Decrease inflation. Subsidize child care. Increase wages and benefits (raise the mimimum wage). Mandate maternity/paternity leave. Make coverage for kids on health, dental, and vision insurance less expensive, or provide medicare for all (or at least all children). Make sure young people can afford good homes off of minimum wage. Make sure good schools are available to everyone by improving public education and providing bussing. Make sure kids are safe in schools with gun control laws. Make sure college/trade schools are inexpensive and accessible. Stablize the economy. Promote good middle class jobs. Avoid war. Fight bigotry. Provide comprehensive sex education and family planning resources including abortion rights so that people can start families when they are ready and promote generational wealth and welfare rather than propogating generational poverty.
Notice how damn near all of these things that would increase the birth rate are antithetical to GOP policy though? You want the results, but not the means. You want to offer “medals” for motherhood like a boss offers a pizza party for a record profits last quarter. It’s unserious, unhelpful, condescending, insulting, and still leaves new parents struggling to get by. Be better leaders with sensible policies. Maybe then you will get your wish.
The GOP wants to have their babies and eat them too
I would gold this comment if I could!
That’s what women of child bearing age want and need. A medal. Not jobs, food, housing, security, nor equality.
goes along nicely with the female celebrity “astronauts” from last week. “Putting the ‘ass’ in astronauts”, They said. “There will be eyelash extensions floating around the capsule”, and saying that they were very concerned about their hair in space. Thats is who the republicans need women to be. less concern about the stuff you mentioned, more referring to yourself as a piece of ass who will be required to make a whole lot of babies. Got it?
/s
Also those child-bearing age women do not want nor need maternity care, and are TOTALLY into receiving a huge hospital bill after giving birth.
The truth is that Trump is a poster child for why abortion should not only be legal, but encouraged.
Founding of the Trump youth organization in 3… 2… 1…
Students For Trump already exists, sorry.
Oh, well. Better just start working on the propaganda now in case I need to blend in:
what? no. Trump would never use child soldiers.
He needs them in the factories cranking out more of his cheap-shit product lines like hats, ties and bibles with the constitution in them. If they survive the factories- then they get to become soldiers and die for him. he doesn’t like losers, afterall.
My mistake:
Making American kids exert their bodies in ways Trump never ever has.
Wait so we have too many immigrants but not enough babies?
What’s going on?
…could he just skip to the part where he feeds himself a bullet just like daddy-Hitler, already?
It’s nickel plated in the event the woman sleeps with an incel and gets knocked up.
Your masters want you to breed.
Whether you can afford to have children or not.
Ah, here is step one. The “Mutter der Nation” medal for women having 5+ children.
Next stop: Lebensborn projects where women are forced to get impregnated by real american patriots ™
Blessed be the fruit.
Why do you think he wants to be “The Father of IVF.” Musky’s little breeding program.
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
Meloni copying this (once more, as Italy has already done it many times, since the 1920s) in 3…2…
Augustus did this 2000 years ago. Dictators can only imagine so far.
comes with bag of onions.
Trump is the sum of the reasons I won’t procreate and can shove every single medal up his rectum to form Trump piñata. However, we can then string him up and take turns beating Trump-yata with a bat until we all get a medal, and the world will be on its way to healing.
