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It seems like not so much a conspiracy theory as something totally transparent and out in the open. There's a huge political push to birth as many babies as possible. Major political parties have it as part of their platform. Their spokespeople talk derisively of "childless cat ladies" and how you're not a real contributor to society unless you produce babies.

The "Birth" lobby is a stool composed of several legs:

1. Attack abortion

2. Attack contraception

3. Attack porn

4. Attack education

5. Attack "women in the workforce"

All of these things are seen as contributing to declining birth rates, so they're opposed by Big Birth. You can see the same politicians tend to go after these things in lock step.



I don't think they can succeed though, because the 5. is the crucial step, as being a baby-making machine is a full-time job, and no lobby is going to get a lot of following from the business with the premise to cut the available workforce by half.


With the absolutely massive investment in (and push for) AI, I assume the belief is that the the reduction of workforce will have less of an impact.


If the plan is to have most people out of job soon-ish, then big population with bunch of young people without good prospects is a recipe for disaster.


If 1. and 2. are done, 5. falls very easily. It's no surprise they started with attacking Roe vs. Wade.


Pretty much, yeah. Like everything is factually right, but I completely disagree with their method. So far, they’ve failed at each step.

There’s a very obvious “pro-religion” push going on across all social media as well, but it’s hard to pinpoint when/how it started. Not sure how far they’ll have to roll back women’s rights to get where they want to, but it’s incredibly sad to watch. Not sure how fathers with daughters are going to watch this happen in real time as well.


Now consider that perhaps the current state is the result of a similar conspiracy but in the other direction.




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