"This is mass eugenics, social darwinism, all based on racism. It’s not 'humanity' Musk and DOGE are worried about, they’re worried about white men losing their dominance.
We’re looking at evil, square in the face, men marinated in a closed loop of white supremacy who have convinced themselves that they should literally play god with the rest of us….."
#ElonMusk #pronatalism #eugenics #WhiteSupremacy #MaleEntitlement #PopulationControl
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"DOGE’s destruction of USAID will cause the deaths of millions of Black people.
DOGE’s assault on Social Security will kill disabled & elderly people.
DOGE’s attack on SNAP & other programs will kill poor people.
DOGE & RFK Jr.’s attack on HHS & vaccines will kill millions of vulnerable Americans."
#ElonMusk #pronatalism #eugenics #WhiteSupremacy #MaleEntitlement #PopulationControl
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Jim Stewartson comments on how curious it is, viewed from one standpoint, that Elon Musk is ranting about humanity dying and pronatalism, since:
"You would think that this paranoia about 'humanity dying' would mean Musk and DOGE would try to save as many lives as possible. Nevertheless:"
#ElonMusk #pronatalism #eugenics #WhiteSupremacy #MaleEntitlement #PopulationControl
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https://www.mind-war.com/p/the-big-white-lie-humanity-is-dying
“Across cultures and religions, people overwhelmingly seek to control their fertility when given the choice. Research also shows that when women have access to education and contraception, they tend to choose smaller families.”
#Reproduction #ReproAutonomy #Fertility #Pronatalism
I read recently that procedures in #Michigan are being refused for tubal ligation & similar type reproductive surgeries by one of the biggest healthcare providers in the state, a Catholic one.
A reminder that teaching hospitals who receive largely state funding or private funding are often taking patients, and in the case of #Wisconsin, one such school is getting women in within 2-3 weeks.
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I've been trying to polish my understand of fascism a bit and found this nice podcast to help with that:
Fifteen Minutes of Fascism
1. Definition: https://soundcloud.com/user-627234964/ecofascism-episode-one-what-is-ecofascism
2. The pseudo-ethics of forest protection: https://soundcloud.com/user-627234964/ecofascism-episode-two-fascists-speak-for-the-trees-kinda
3. More overviews https://soundcloud.com/user-627234964/ecofascism-episode-four-ecofascism-today-and-tomorrow
4. Ecofascism & pronatalism https://soundcloud.com/user-627234964/ecofascism-episode-three-fascism-gender-and-the-environment-with-diana-garvin
These episodes are relevant to what I often get back to (in this for example). My science background makes me think of the material and ecological aspects of what's going on in the world, and science is about models, not about discrete stories (cases). This is why I've considered "ecofascism" to be a useful model to study a repeating pattern that goes much further back than a century ago; before protofascism, more like "paleofascism".
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Russian lawmakers on Tuesday voted to ban the advocacy of child-free lifestyles, in a move that is part of a broader effort by the Kremlin to reverse a falling birthrate and promote the country as a bastion of traditional values that is battling a decadent West.
The State Duma, or lower house of Parliament, unanimously approved a bill that would ban any form of “propaganda” promoting the “refusal to have children.”
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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/12/world/europe/russia-child-free-lifestyles.html
““Blessed Be the Fruit”
The Contemporary Rise of Pronatalism
“In interviews, novelist Margaret Atwood explains that her inspiration for her 1985 novel The Handmaid’s Tale arose from the U.S. political climate of the time.
Specifically, changing voter demographics and policy attitudes after the civil rights and second-wave feminist movements prompted some Reagan-era politicians to build alliances with religious traditionalists.”
#NEJM #Pronatalism #trump #jdvance #Christiannationalism #fascism
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2410208
"Seen this way, #pronatalism is a #Ponzi scheme," Merchant and Brown wrote. "It relies on new entrants to produce returns for earlier investors, with the burdens falling most heavily on women, who are responsible for the bulk of childbearing and child-rearing, often without adequate medical care or affordable child care."
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-others-urging-people-175223302.html
pro-natalists: people need to have children, this fertility crisis is already---
THERE ARE 8 BILLION PARASITES INFESTING THIS PLANET AND Y'ALL AIN'T DOING ANYTHING TO CURB CLIMATE CHANGE, WHICH IS THE CAUSE OF THE FERTILITY PROBLEMS IN THE FIRST PLACE, WHICH IS YOUR OWN FUCKING FAULT.
WE ARE NOT YOUR BABY FACTORIES TO PUMP OUT MORE PEOPLE TO EXPLOIT.
QUIT TRYING TO MAKE THE HANDMAIDS TALE REALITY AND SHUT THE FUCK UP.
They are going to risk plunging all of Western civilization into a ditch just because they cannot live with less wealth. Even before Reagan, they had far more than they ever needed. They are risking total collapse just to preserve something that will be lost anyway if they have their way.
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As Margaret Talbot says, rather than calling J.D. Vance "pro-family," it's more accurate to say he's "pro-natalist":
"Pronatalism favors native-born baby makers.
It’s an old idea, with roots in early-twentieth-century eugenics and anxieties about national fitness, and, in this country, the spectre of native-born white populations being swamped by waves of immigrants."
#JDVance #ProNatalism #immigrants #WhiteSupremacy #family
https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/j-d-vance-and-the-rights-call-to-have-more-babies
U.S. vice presidential candidate JD Vance has ignited a debate about childlessness and politics. What is the movement desperately trying to get people to have more babies?
@Vox explains pronatalism: https://flip.it/eXDO10
Elon Musk said the woke mind virus “killed” his trans daughter, while misgendering and deadnaming her in an interview with Jordan Peterson.
It’s the latest proof that Musk sees his children as part of a reproductive project, not as people he cares about. His daughter is very much alive.
https://disconnect.blog/elon-musk-doesnt-care-about-kids-he-cares-about-demographics-2/
“Pronatalist messages have made their way from the outer fringe into mainstream circles with the help of uncharacteristically quiet funding from the Musk Foundation,” including $10 million to set up the Population Wellbeing Initiative at UT Austin.
The PWI’s aim is to legitimize the idea that “low fertility is a key threat to long-run flourishing.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2024-elon-musk-population-collapse-baby-push/
Mark Sumner asks why a bunch of billionaries and Silicon Valley types including Elon Musk are coming out as pronatalists who want to ring alarm bells about declining birthrates.
In my view, the answer to the question is that these folks want in any way they can to reverse the movement for women's rights of the past century. Their primary objective is to blame women – women's liberation – for declining birthrates.
Jonathan V. Last writes,
"I have written a lot about demographics and natalism. Here is an uncomfortable fact: Do you know who else is really into natalism? Racists and weirdos."
And this is EXACTLY why I tend to turn a deaf ear to the dire warnngs of people like Jonathan V. Last, a self-professed right-wing Catholic, about "demographic winter," with their implied chastisement of (white) women for not having babies.
#demographics #DemographicWinter #ProNatalism
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/meet-the-weirdos-making-pronatalism
In this week’s roundup, the couple who’ve made themselves the face of pronatalism keep their kids in a freezing home (they say by choice) and slap them to teach them right from wrong because they saw tigers paw their cubs in the wild.
Plus, Google’s AI fail, Kenyan workers write letter to Joe Biden, and more!
https://disconnect.blog/roundup-pronatalists-who-defend-hitting-kids/
@darnell It's terrifying so many still don't know that when people push "#pronatalism", this is why.
Mechanic 
