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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] 2 points 1 month ago

It's nickel plated in the event the woman sleeps with an incel and gets knocked up.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

My great grandma got that one. It allowed her to be a bitch towards the Nazis, as they had to honor her.

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

Another coinkidink.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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 (tm)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Blessed be the fruit.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Why do you think he wants to be "The Father of IVF." Musky's little breeding program.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

The truth is that Trump is a poster child for why abortion should not only be legal, but encouraged.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

ok so this is inconsistent

i read two fucking weeks ago that economists around the world are waking up to the idea that people should have fewer children because otherwise the rich and corporations might have to pay taxes to provide income to the people that the wages don't. if there's fewer people, they don't need to pay people subsidies so much. trump should talk to his economists.


edit: context: wages are predicted to drop so low over the next 20 years that people will not be able to feed themselves on wages alone. social unrest is painful and to avoid it, some sort of Universal Basic Income will be unavoidable. That would have to be paid for by taxes that the rich would have to pay, since literally nobody else has any money. You see where this is going: the rich don't like their wealth to be taxed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It wouldn’t help unless said economists drew pictures and used simple words. Even then there’s no reason to believe he would understand.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

it's worth a try, and better than doing nothing.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Can this medal be exchanged for food and shelter?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

That would be communism!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month 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 month 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] 22 points 1 month ago (3 children)

That's what women of child bearing age want and need. A medal. Not jobs, food, housing, security, nor equality.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

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

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

All the best countries did that, and US will be greatest of them all, that is what he will make it. Great it will be made...

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