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37. I was reading this earlier today

Tue Nov 4, 2025, 09:49 PM

Nov 4

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/11/trump-shutdown-snap-medicaid-benefits-jd-vance-pro-natalist/

I am certainly not antinatalist, but I am opposed to pronatalism whether it’s in the Global North or the South. I think we should take care of all the people from the elderly/disabled to babies and children already on earth over Cornucopian callousness that treats people as disposable. Most pronatalism is not sourced to any concern for women’s rights or liking of kids. It’s about accelerating chaos and borrowing the reproductive strategies you see in the wild which are not a good fit obviously for humans.

It strikes me that these guys think exactly opposite to that. More babies yes..how they are taken care of..fuck that. They seem to be going for the animal model of survival. That’s completely uncivilized.

The fallacy Cato etc have cunningly created in the public mind is coupling acknowledgment of the limits to the growth with these cruel and fascistic policies against the poor.

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