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

Apparently increasing social spending and work flexibility is great for American Families. Who knew?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Stop the population decline? Is this some nazi-centric great replacement bullshit? Our population and birth rates are fine. What the hell kind of propaganda is this?!

edit: maybe this is just a poorly-choosen domain name.

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

Have you even read the article

More evidence is popping up that increased social spending and flexible work arrangements, including remote work, can positively impact fertility rates, as shown in California. Yet, influential figures in California like Elon Musk and other Silicon Valley "pronatalists", are against these measures and more. Their opposition to remote work, work flexibility, and social spending, coupled with efforts to hamper new infrastructure projects and drive up housing costs. They will not make it easy to do what's needed.

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

You really didn’t read the article

points out that African American women had it harder during the COVID crisis, the brunt of the crisis's financial and health impacts, and we need serious policies to address.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's ok, I am not commenting on the article. I am commenting on the site itself, trying to determine the sort of agenda it tries to push.

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

Then why did you accuse it of being a Nazi site????

It might be pushing agenda but that agenda clearly isn’t conservative

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

I didn't call it a nazi site. I was referring to the great replacement theory, which is a nazi theory. Clearly the domain name collided with that theory but it isn't the meaning of the site.

[–] MotoAsh 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Ignorant American propaganda.

Yes, it does share many, many similarities with Nazi rhetoric, especially when it comes from conservatives.

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

I thought the same and it may be the case still, but skimming the site's content doesn't suggest overt rhetoric. There may be that bias in the agenda somewhere but it seems to focus on human rights issues and not the great replacement theory. Unfortunate domain name, I guess. See my other discussions with op on this link.

[–] MotoAsh 4 points 1 year ago

I'm not speaking of the site, but just responding to the, "what kind of propaganda is this?" question.

I answered that question: It's American ignorance.

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

Like what?

Please tell me oh wise one

Tell me what in this site has Nazi rhetoric because as far as I know Nazis hate spending money on the poor

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

I am going to guess they did what I did and assumed the domain name had to do with the great replacement theory.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago
[–] MotoAsh 1 points 1 year ago

I'm not speaking of the site, but just responding to the, "what kind of propaganda is this?" question.

I answered that question: It's American ignorance.

[–] just_another_person -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Corporate. We'll probably never find out who funds this shit, but let's just say Bezos and co have a good reason to keep the population replenishment as it is.

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

So Jeff Bezos now supports WFH, YIMBYism, increasing social spending, and other good stuff?

Since when?

[–] just_another_person -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Then you know Jeff Bezos isn’t funding this group

[–] just_another_person -2 points 1 year ago

I think you are responding to a different comment.

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

Does it scare anyone else that our society seems to completely rely on there always being more people tomorrow than yesterday? It just isn't sustainable. There are too many people on this planet already, and we are seeing the effects of it worse every day...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Don’t worry!

Republicans are hellbent to decrease social spending, stop woke RTO, and all the stuff that helps people achieve their family goals!

They will make sure that no policy that will increase family size gets implemented

[–] TokenBoomer 0 points 1 year ago

Population decline due to overshoot is known as 'collapse'. The path taken by such a population is referred to as 'overshoot-and-collapse'. Collapse, like overshoot, can occur due to various factors, with the Malthusian catastrophe being a specific but not identical case. [Source](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overshoot_(population).