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.”
        • Obinice@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          16 hours 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·
            15 hours 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·
              15 hours 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 :-)

  • Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    3 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.

  • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    3 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·
    3 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.

  • Desistance@lemmy.worldEnglish
    411·
    4 days ago

    If Putin is doing it, then Republicans are not far behind. Look for that bill that taxes single people way more.

    • Allero@lemmy.todayEnglish
      7·
      4 days ago

      Russia took a more original turn: as the key interest rate approached 20% APY, legislation was implemented to subsidize mortgage to people with kids (6% APY).

      With rent prices soaring along (up to 75% in some places, about 40% on average year on year), housing market simply prices out everyone without kids, making living conditions way worse.

  • LouNeko@lemmy.worldEnglish
    302·
    4 days ago

    I thought a woman’s purpose is to seize the means of production, just like a mans?

    • volodya_ilich@lemm.eeEnglish
      51·
      3 days ago

      If you’re saying this ironically because you think Putin is a communist, you’re extremely misguided about the current political situation in Russia.

      If you’re endorsing communism, based

  • stupidcasey@lemmy.worldEnglish
    817·
    4 days ago

    All living things purpose is to reproduce, that being said, If your leader tries to restrict your freedom’s to your most basic instinct you can probably find a better value with someone else.

      • stupidcasey@lemmy.worldEnglish
        39·
        4 days ago

        It doesn’t matter. If a living thing “chooses” not to reproduce, it will not pass on its genes, and that decision was detrimental to the species. As such, it no longer exists. This could still be considered a choice, just a flawed one. However, this has taken place trillions of times throughout history, and anything that made that choice was weeded out. You might not understand your purpose, and you might die before fulfilling it, but make no mistake: you have a deep evolutionary instinct to prioritize reproduction over anything else. Everything else consists of instrumental goals that emerge from the primary goal of reproduction. It is literally mathematically, scientifically, psychologically, sociologically, experimentally, and simulatively PROVEN—to the extent science can prove anything and even further thanks to mathematics.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

    • coaxil@lemm.eeEnglish
      102·
      4 days ago

      I mean, inherently there is zero purpose to anything.

      • stupidcasey@lemmy.worldEnglish
        43·
        4 days ago

        Incorrect, you can purposely build things, you can build a birdhouse for the purpose of housing birds, a factory can build a car for the purpose of driving and cells can build a human for the purpose of reproduction.