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Aren't these the people who freaked out about teenage pregnancies?
They were angry about “single mothers” for decades, but that was a racist dog whistle.
If you’re all white, it’s all right.
They're Republicans. Of course they are concerned about teen pregnancies.
Who do you think is making them pragernet?
This entire administration is just pedos and perverts, isn't it?
Always was.
Not all of them. Here's the exhaustive list of those who aren't
Brace yourselves for the pedophile parasite class campaign to justify their crimes
Abstinence education is working! How are they not happy at their success?
When I was born, the human population was around half of what it is now. If there ever was a time to organically decrease our population size, imo, it would be now.
The big concern is probably a decline in number of wage slaves. Children of teenage single moms are probably the best demographic for enslavement.
Next they will be decrying the decline in crime because it will harm the prison industrial complex. "We need more cops to arrest more people to keep us safe (from underpopulated prisons)."
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Can't have prisoners being reformed when they can be rented out as ditch-diggers for less than minimum wage. Just don't call it slavery.
I mean, they're right.
They're saying the quiet part out loud and why they're anti-abortion. The younger the better for a quick turnaround:
They need the poors to fight their wars and work on their factory floors.
I frequently just stand outside and look at the sky and think, yep, we weren't meant to work all day. We were meant to pick berries and mushrooms and take naps. I feel better about my station in life, knowing those oligarchs can never be satisfied, and all I have to do to feel right is take a walk outside.
I distinctly remember a time when boomers and talking heads would automatically respond to concerns about issues with the cost of having kids with:
"Don't have kids if you can't afford them."
"If you couldn't afford kids then you should've kept your legs closed."
"Don't expect a handout, nobody forced you to have kids."
"Healthcare and child care are too expensive? Tough shit snowflake, that's the free market! Work harder!"
"Why are my taxes paying for a public school when I don't even have any kids that go there?"
So nope, no sympathies. And no, you can't have your child sex brides, either.
They are still saying this when it's convenient for them. The only consistent thing for such people is their cowardice in the face of responsibility.
Who the fuck wants to be having kids in this day and age anyway. Also why is it up to the underage teens to push out babies to keep the population up. Yeah let's put pressure on them to ruin their entire lives before they even get to live it. Love the American standards.
The dude was conflating a number of things.
Teen birth rate is down the most, at 7% in 2025. 70% since 2005.
Overall births are down slightly last year.
Overall we have a sub replacement birth rate of 1.53 per woman.
The last one is a societal problem. But just saying we need women to have more kids isn't a solution. You need to find out why people don't want to have as many kids. Which I would bet is almost entirely economic. Kids are a large long term expense. And if you're living paycheck to paycheck, with an uncertain financial future, a kid is a scary prospect.
I remember when teen pregnancy was considered bad and a sign of a decaying morality across the country. Now the same right wing moralizers are saying they need those teen moms again. But this time it's about money so they are noticeably quiet about morality.
Fucking lemongrab grade screeching of purity and abstinence for decades and then suddenly this
Our masters want us to breed.
In a normal country, a doctor endorsing teen pregnancy would get their licence suspended.
I wonder how much breaking up the trump-epstein ring lowered the fertility rate of 15-19 year olds.
Maybe if you just imprison fertile women and give them to rich couples to fuck and impregnate, that will solve the problem? You could call them handmaid's to distract from what they really are!
How many times do conservatives have to prove that they're all pedophiles before the rest of us will learn?
not a matter of "learning", it's a matter of "caring"
everyone knows by now this regime is full of pedophiles… but nobody gives enough of a fuck to do anything about it
I'm not talking about the regime. I mean every last one of them.
Fertility rates are an issue for capitalism not humanity
Logistics at a certain point does not care what economic model you follow. Someone has to plant the crops and do all the other work that leads to people being fed, clothed, and housed under any system.
If your demographics are such that there are not enough people of working age to take care of those too old to work, you're going to have the kind of problems that led other human societies to kill their elders.
It'd be great if we could automate our way out of this, but I don't see that happening soon enough.
15-19 yr olds aren’t supposed to be having kids.
Hell some of them ARE kids
From my perspective, everyone under about 24 is still a kid.