Brickbat: Be Fruitful and Multiply. Or Else.

Vyacheslav Volodin, the speaker of Russia's lower house of parliament and an ally of President Vladimir Putin, said lawmakers will take up a ban on "propaganda of conscious refusal to bear children." Volodin said the bill will impose fines of up to $4,300 for individuals and more than $53,000 for legal organizations convicted of advocating for voluntary childlessness.
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Planned Parenthood hardest hit?
Tatiana looks a bit better than Becky, the short haired portly human resources no domestic skills slag that exists on Netflix, Uber eats, and Chunkin Donuts.
In Russia, cel in you.
Or else your society dies.
Anti-natalism is forfeiture in the survival of the fittest.
I don't understand. They're Russians without any concept of morality. Why haven't they adopted the Russian equivalent of ritual compulsory impregnation from A Handmaid's Tale? If Russia isn't doing it, and those people are barely-sentient animals, it almost seems like the US isn't persistently on the verge of, or even really anywhere near, tipping into any given Karen's society-level rape fantasy.
Don't see anything wrong with this.
The 'erase humanity' propaganda is endless.
Worse, it's deep in schools.
And if you can't see the effects of it then you're probably an advocate of it.
I wouldn’t say I don’t see anything wrong with it. One way or the other, it’s pretty sad that it’s come to that point. I would agree that it’s far from being the ‘most wrong’ answer and that the way things have swung the other way in other places is as bad and more oppressive.
You’re not allowed to bake an “I’m never getting pregnant.” cake >> You will serve the gay wedding pizza.
I dunno that you get a lot of death threats refusing to bake a "I'm never getting pregnant." cake in accordance with the law or baking one in defiance of the law and, even if you did, it's a least and existential-level situation as opposed to not being able to get a pizza to celebrate your buttfucking.
Let's see ... with 45 million Democrats in the U.S., that works out to about $202.5 billion. Libbertarians are of course a rounding error. Throw in another half billion for the organizational fines, and it comes to $203 billion. Heck, Dementia Joe can pay that easily with another 'stimulus' package.
Soak that in for a minute. It is conversion therapy to tell a kid that "no, you're not born in the wrong body, and I don't think cutting your breasts off or removing your uterus is a good idea at this age, so let's get to the bottom of what's really eating at you". But telling an autistic girl that because she has some masculine traits that you're going to hustle her into hormone therapy and then schedule a surgery date-- that's 100% ok..
Crazy fucking Russians.
“What? The Victorians used small children as chimney sweeps because they were small? Good lord! How backwards! I’m glad to be living in such a modern, fully evolved and completely morally correct society! What a world! We've made all the correct conclusions and have reached the End of History!”
LMAO.
Where Pro-Life will be next after they win the every conception is a ‘baby’ BS.
Now your own ‘thoughts’ are babies too!!! /s