Are you a woman?
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@Npars01 @AlexGallagher also hoping to create cannon fodder for whatever war they start (or continue) in 15-20 years
I saw once this "demographic bell curve" of Russia from 2010s (before the war started), marked up "surplus male population". It appeared to be from somewhere like Wikipedia and/or a University, not some fash place and was simply making the bald statement that there were that many "surplus" young men in Russia, it simply doesn't make that a big dent in the population (or prevent it from still growing to some extent) if a lot of them are sacrificed in a war. Which is exactly what has happened just a few years later..
China has the potential for an insta-army.
After decades of femicidal one-child population policies, there is a gender gap, with more men than women.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/12/china-gender-dating-demographic-population-documentary/
https://www.statista.com/statistics/282119/china-sex-ratio-by-age-group/
A declining world population might help slow climate change though.
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@AlexGallagher Mat Godwin had a rather short marriage, and has a daughter aged approx four years old. According to Wikipedia, He and his wife divorced in 2025. Big ‘she doesn’t let me see the kid’ vibes.
@HarriettMB @AlexGallagher "Big ‘she doesn’t let me see the kid’ vibes.".....I can understand that, lol! Who wants their kids brain washed with fascist ideology?
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Are you a woman? Is your mother a woman? Is your wife a woman? Sister? Daughter? Do you have a Granny? Aunts? Female cousins. Is your neighbour a woman? Do you have female friends? Are you a decent, respectable human being?
Then there's no way you can vote for this.
Spread the word.
@AlexGallagher Why does the media give airspace to these fascists?
Oh, yes, I remember now - the media is mostly owned and controlled by the fascists!
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@AlexGallagher I am not from Britain and do not really follow your politics but isn't "reform" basically your trump party? Perhaps take a brief glance at what is currently happening in the usa.
@Ulrich_the_elder @AlexGallagher I'm in the UK, and you're almost correct - reform, the tories, (conservative party), and the 'labour' party are all on board with trump's fascism.
Imho, the only way to return socialism to the UK is via the Green Party - they now have the same 'fire in the belly' that the old Labour Party displayed.
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"Have more kids, but we aren't going to help feed, house, or clothe kids."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/19/republicans-childcare-women-inequality
https://msmagazine.com/2025/08/26/moms-trump-women-pronatalist-more-babies-birth-rate-fertility/
In the USA, JD Vance wants women to give up their careers to function as unpaid daycare for families.
https://nwlc.org/nwlc-in-the-press/jd-vance-says-hes-pro-family-many-women-say-the-economy-isnt/
The right's war on women includes attacks on women's employment outside the home.
Fascist "Kinder, Kuche, Kirche" social policy
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/sep/08/project-2025-trump-vance-childcare
All of this makes me angry. This is where folks like them want to take us. Be poor and respectful baby machines.
"A very awful right wing law that tries to define who is the “deserving poor”. It judges poor women with multiple children. Our society loves to blame women for it's lack of care of poor families. We've not moved beyond Victorian Industrial morality."
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@Ulrich_the_elder
Yes, Farage is a Trump wannabe. But I've met people here who think Trump is doing OK and we should have a similar leader here. One, a retired lawyer for god's sake, told me we should have gun laws like the US.
@AlexGallagher@pthane @Ulrich_the_elder @AlexGallagher In case Trump's performance on the international stage isn't enough, at home the US is kidnapping people in broad daylight, including children. Our government is building concentration camps and threatening to do away with elections while cutting key services and driving up the cost of living. I can't imagine an intelligent person who wants that for their own country.
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Are you a woman? Is your mother a woman? Is your wife a woman? Sister? Daughter? Do you have a Granny? Aunts? Female cousins. Is your neighbour a woman? Do you have female friends? Are you a decent, respectable human being?
Then there's no way you can vote for this.
Spread the word.
METRO
MATTHEW GOODWIN INTERVIEW"Reform will give incentives
to women who have more children and will penalise those who don't. Change is coming” -
hopefully this will create at least /some/ reputational damage to Reform to make them less popular - it goes beyond even what full on religious wingnuts were advocating back in the 1970s/80s (at least here in Britain as opposed to USA)
@vfrmedia @HarriettMB @AlexGallagher the other idiot Rupert Lowe launched his own fashy twat party and has the same stupid idea
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@nf3xn @AlexGallagher Give them enough rope?
@aadeacon @nf3xn @AlexGallagher the rope only works if people understand fascism. a lot of people are too poor to hear anything complex, if you cant pay the rent or buy enough food, any change at all sounds better that what youve got now sadly
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Are you a woman? Is your mother a woman? Is your wife a woman? Sister? Daughter? Do you have a Granny? Aunts? Female cousins. Is your neighbour a woman? Do you have female friends? Are you a decent, respectable human being?
Then there's no way you can vote for this.
Spread the word.
@AlexGallagher even if someone had somehow never met a woman in their life, we are human beinga first and foremost and being defined in relationship to or in terms of our usefulness and importance to men continues to dehumanise us.
http://www.nerdyfeminist.com/2013/08/shes-someone-vs-narcissistic-fatherhood.html?m=1(I know this isn't your belief because you said it in your last point, re decent human beings, but we see these refrains our whole lives and it's good to be aware of how it fails to break out of the sexism and misogyny mold)
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Are you a woman? Is your mother a woman? Is your wife a woman? Sister? Daughter? Do you have a Granny? Aunts? Female cousins. Is your neighbour a woman? Do you have female friends? Are you a decent, respectable human being?
Then there's no way you can vote for this.
Spread the word.
@AlexGallagher@mastodon.scot and this will apply equally to women of all races and colours, right? riiiight?
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Are you a woman? Is your mother a woman? Is your wife a woman? Sister? Daughter? Do you have a Granny? Aunts? Female cousins. Is your neighbour a woman? Do you have female friends? Are you a decent, respectable human being?
Then there's no way you can vote for this.
Spread the word.
@AlexGallagher What if you're already old (well, 50) and you only had one kid? Do I get penalised in retrospect?
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@Npars01 @AlexGallagher also hoping to create cannon fodder for whatever war they start (or continue) in 15-20 years
I saw once this "demographic bell curve" of Russia from 2010s (before the war started), marked up "surplus male population". It appeared to be from somewhere like Wikipedia and/or a University, not some fash place and was simply making the bald statement that there were that many "surplus" young men in Russia, it simply doesn't make that a big dent in the population (or prevent it from still growing to some extent) if a lot of them are sacrificed in a war. Which is exactly what has happened just a few years later..
@vfrmedia China would now be in the same demographic place. One child policy failed dramatically and now they have surplus men.
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Are you a woman? Is your mother a woman? Is your wife a woman? Sister? Daughter? Do you have a Granny? Aunts? Female cousins. Is your neighbour a woman? Do you have female friends? Are you a decent, respectable human being?
Then there's no way you can vote for this.
Spread the word.
Why are the same people incentivizing birth while trying to kill us? What an insane timeline we're on.
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@AlexGallagher
Matthew Goodwin, I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you're looking for a position in government, I can tell you I don't have money, but what I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you stop talking shit now, that will be the end of it - I will not look for you, I will not pursue you... but if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you... and I and everyone I know will vote against you.@gregalotl @AlexGallagher I don't think he reads Mastodon.
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Are you a woman? Is your mother a woman? Is your wife a woman? Sister? Daughter? Do you have a Granny? Aunts? Female cousins. Is your neighbour a woman? Do you have female friends? Are you a decent, respectable human being?
Then there's no way you can vote for this.
Spread the word.
"Its hog boilin' time."
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@AlexGallagher @cstross Mr. Goodwin, Margaret Atwood is on line 2…
Sherri S Tepper is on line 3.
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@gregalotl @AlexGallagher I don't think he reads Mastodon.
@ariaflame
Still, I thoroughly enjoyed adapting the quote
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@pthane @Ulrich_the_elder @AlexGallagher In case Trump's performance on the international stage isn't enough, at home the US is kidnapping people in broad daylight, including children. Our government is building concentration camps and threatening to do away with elections while cutting key services and driving up the cost of living. I can't imagine an intelligent person who wants that for their own country.
@baconandcoconut
"I can't imagine an intelligent person who wants that for their own country."
Neither could I. But since moving to Central Brexitshire* I've met some.* Central Bedfordshire.
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@aadeacon @nf3xn @AlexGallagher the rope only works if people understand fascism. a lot of people are too poor to hear anything complex, if you cant pay the rent or buy enough food, any change at all sounds better that what youve got now sadly
@Bredroll @aadeacon @AlexGallagher yes but any change does not mean automatically voting MAGA/Reform. They could have voted Green or Liberal but some of these poor are far poorer exactly because they already voted for these idiots once to take UK out of EU.
