Russians who promote 'child-free movement' could soon face hefty fine
www.nbcnews.com
Vyacheslav Volodin, the speaker of the lower house of parliament and an ally of President Vladimir Putin, said a new bill would tackle the “ideology of childlessness.”
  • Soup@lemmy.cafeEnglish
    302·
    7 days ago

    There’s this shit, and there’s people right here on lemmy that worship the ground this piece of human filth walks on.

      • Soup@lemmy.cafeEnglish
        91·
        7 days ago

        Oh I don’t. But the fact that there are people here that will, does concern me.

      • volodya_ilich@lemm.eeEnglish
        31·
        7 days ago

        People will probably say hexbear or .ml, but I’ve been browsing hexbear lately and haven’t seen any of that. In fact today I saw a post bringing attention to this particular topic (Russian gvt cracking down against “childfree lifestyle”)

  • phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
    18·
    7 days ago

    Ohh, my wife’s ex said the exact same thing to me whilst they were still married. He’s also Russian and loves Putin.

    I wonder why she’s his ex now 🤔

  • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    6 days ago

    I wonder if Putin’s plan to ban talking about childless lifestyle and saying this will work? Russias are not as traditional as people make it out to be, especially those in the cities. He will just rile up many folks.

  • MehBlah@lemmy.worldEnglish
    41·
    7 days ago

    Pooty poot knows how bad off russia really is. The population has taken several generational hits in the last hundred years and he just delivered another. To him women are nothing but things and those things better be producing male cannon fodder.

  • Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    6 days ago

    And God said it should be painful! That’s what you get for wanting to know stuff!

    Can’t wait for Putins youtube. He’s got some killer tips on how to pick up women.

    • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
      762·
      8 days ago

      Right-wingers reach for these religious or moralistic justifications and laws, but Putin is probably just noticing, like many other countries, that their economy is screwed if their birth rates continue to decline. And yet the planet is screwed if we continue to increase. As climate change eats away at the habitable areas of the planet, the obvious thing is for habitable countries with declining birth rates to accept many immigrants from places climate causes people to flee from. This will help those people and help the receiving country’s economy. Unfortunately the right wing is also too wrapped up in xenophobia to accept this solution. They’d rather double down on controlling women.

      • MehBlah@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        7 days ago

        Economies are only screwed with declining birthrate if the goal is unlimited growth. What will happen if the trend continues is stability. Stability is bad for empire building types. It leaves less room for manipulation.

        • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          7 days ago

          In any country with public healthcare, there is a problem with how to afford to care for the elderly when the population contains more elderly people needing expensive healthcare than working people paying the taxes that fund it. This seems like a problem that extends beyond capitalism’s growth-seeking. It’s an issue of how to achieve stability.

          • MehBlah@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            7 days ago

            That is the hole you dig with the myth of unlimited growth. No doubt the correction will be somewhat uncomfortable.

      • dylanmorgan@slrpnk.netEnglish
        531·
        8 days ago

        I recently heard a “housing expert” say that cities have to keep growing, there’s no sustainable static level of population, and I thought “there’s better be or we’re all fucked.”

        The problem with capitalism is that it only works if there’s perpetual growth, which (as many before me have pointed out) is the logic of cancer.

    • angrystego@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      8 days ago

      New ones are born every day, as the “women’s purpose” dictates. I wish it was a generation thing, but I’m afraid it’s ingrained on a deeper level.

        • Obinice@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          4 days ago

          Watch out Soup, I’m sick with COVID right now and I will slurp u

          I’m a soup slurpin, joint achin MACHINE right now 😆

          • Soup@lemmy.cafeEnglish
            2·
            4 days ago

            Awww. That sucks. I just got over it myself. Took a shit-ton of vitamin C, D, Zinc, and B-12, and binge watched Ugly Betty.

            Was rough. Hang in there!

            • Obinice@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              4 days ago

              I’ve been binge watching the fever dreams (⊙ᴗ⊙)

              I’m mostly worried about my mother, I caught it from my father (somehow, after seeing him like once last week in passing) and even though he isolated from her once he knew he had it, she tested positive yesterday too, …and she’s due to go on her first big trip abroad in her ENTIRE LIFE in like 4 days to Paris (we’re a bit lower class haha), supposed to be a big special once in a lifetime treat from her daughter, planned it for a year now :-(

              First time any of us have caught it too, my father is in the high risk category (twice over) so we’ve generally been careful this whole time, and we’ve been getting the boosters (ironically this year’s booster became available TODAY) but ya know it was going to happen eventually…

              But enough of my story of extremely bad timing, glad to hear you recovered without and lasting negative effects :-)

    • neidu2@feddit.nlEnglish
      21·
      7 days ago

      Contrary to popular belief, you are actually factually spot on. It is all described in detail in soviet-era files, locked away.

      Even JD Vance confirms this, ans I challenge FSB to release any documentation that disputes it.