ISTANBUL, May 24 — In a bid to tackle Turkey’s falling birthrate, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on yesterday announced the “decade of the family”, and again lashed out at...
  • takeda@lemm.ee
    21·
    2 months ago

    Provide social services so having a child isn’t cost prohibitive and more people will have children.

    • takeda@lemm.ee
      51·
      2 months ago

      The low birth rate problem is real, watch Peter Zeihan, it is his favorite topic, he has been talking about it for years that there’s no economical model for this and we don’t know how a nation will function when everyone is retired and no one is on workforce.

      He actually believes that it’s anyone figures out or it will be South Korea.

      Also South Korea and Japan aren’t undemocratic, but yeah this problem is very big there.

      US has a low birth rate as well, but that was compensated by immigrants (which trump goes after)

  • OwlPaste@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    2 months ago

    Idiots in power seem to frequently have a complete inabilty to understand societal changes…

    • atro_city@fedia.io
      2·
      2 months ago

      I don’t think they actually care. It’s all for show to get votes. Whether the country has children or not doesn’t actually matter to them. They won’t have to live with the decisions. They’ll have the money to pay for elderly care.

  • Cosmoooooooo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    152·
    2 months ago

    He’s talking about people no longer being muslim. Because muslim men can marry 4 wives, and produce children 4x as fast as one-man one-woman marriages.

    It’s a technique from thousands of years ago, that still is used by religions. Outbreed your enemy. Turn the women into slaves, and in 20 years, you have 4x the population as your enemy - so now, it’s time for war. And war is used to capture more women, etc…

    All religions are conservative, and when conservatives try to get more power, they appeal to their conservative religions with conservative religious bullshit.

    No other religion is better than the one I’m talking about. They all pull this 'global domination through assholeishness" bullshit.

  • hypna@lemmy.world
    13·
    2 months ago

    I guess theoretically LGBT fascism could exist in some alternative timeline. I’m trying to imagine it. The uniforms would be wild.

  • atro_city@fedia.io
    11·
    2 months ago

    Politicians and their voters in low birth-rate countries will blame everything and anything but the real issues. If you have to stay at work all day to pay for a small shitty appartment, have little to no disposable income on top of that, and are staring down the barrel of a new world war + the end of livable climates for humans, having multiple babies is not very high on the list of future plans.

    But sure. Blame the queers that make up what… 5% of the population?

  • qyron@sopuli.xyz
    91·
    2 months ago

    Try giving people the means to live a dignified life, with proper housing and food security, and wait a while.

    The population won’t boom but people will be more at ease to consider having children.

    Most even want to have children. Unfortunately, they can’t because they have a consciousness.

    • troed@fedia.io
      5·
      2 months ago

      We have that in the Nordics, yet our birth rates are also falling.

      I’m thinking the chants about the planet dying and the children not having a future might have some relevance.

  • Commiunism@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    3·
    2 months ago

    Not surprising - traditionalist liberals attacking LGBT people because they dare defy the holy family structure is very common.

    I doubt this has anything to do with religion though, apart from it being used as a convenient tool to add credence to the rhetoric. More people being born and raised via unpaid labor of their parents (usually mothers) means more future workers for the ruling class to extract labor value from, which usually means more economic growth and more bodies for when war breaks out.