• wuphysics87
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    01 day ago

    Why would this in particular be important to him? I would think he wouldn’t care

    • @[email protected]
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      01 day ago

      Guess, in no particular order, could be all these or none of these:

      Someone told him about runaway population decline now being taken seriously in SK and Japan, we’re not quite in the unrecoverable zone yet. https://gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/20250404-south-korea-is-over

      5000/child is enough to get a rural wageslave to bolster their numbers and create the next generation of right-wing voters, but not enough to get left-wing educated people who can make reasonable guesses 9 months into the future.

      5000 per child is cheap and it’s enough to gain him popularity where he’s just starting to weaken.

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      01 day ago

      Evangelicals are a big part of his base and hate that there aren’t more children in their sunday schools.