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Summary

The Department of Transportation (DOT) has issued a memo prioritizing federal funding for communities with marriage and birth rates above the national average.

The directive, which applies to grants, loans, and contracts, also prioritizes projects benefiting families with young children.

A congressional aide criticized the policy, saying, “Considering fertility rates when prioritizing federal grants? We obviously have no idea what the full impact of that will be… It’s absolutely creepy. It’s a little ‘Chinese government.’”

The memo also blocks mask mandates and requires compliance with immigration enforcement.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 hours ago

Wait until conservatives find out that communities with high birth rates are not white.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Creatives: produces warnings

Conservatives: Hey check out this cool instruction manual I found!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from the classic sci-fi novel, Don't Create The Torment Nexus

[–] GrumpyDuckling 57 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

This is going to benefit communities with a lot of hispanic families, lmao.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 27 seconds ago

They will have more work to do and it will be closer to home. Win win!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 minutes ago

Gonna solve that 101 freeway issue right quick

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 minutes ago

Inb4 non-white children born only count as three fifths

[–] [email protected] 23 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

They'll find some way to draw up a beneficial neighborhood map that excludes black and brown neighborhoods.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 54 minutes ago (1 children)

"This neighborhood has too high of a birth mortality rate, let's pick this white neighborhood instead"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 36 minutes ago

Nah, it will be more racist than that. It will just say "High birth rates of people, PS, we don't consider non whites to actually be people."

[–] [email protected] 14 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe they’ll even draw the lines in red

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

They would probably make the lines blue, because they are trying to continue that, and avoid the possibly negative SEO of Red Lining.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago

Not to mention, blue means democrat. If the lines are blue they can blame it on the democrats when things go wrong!

[–] [email protected] 164 points 23 hours ago (29 children)

Remember how all the protest voters told us how Harris would have been the exact same? Something about the DNC not offering a candidate that would be any better than trump?

Yeah… Don’t believe them when they try to tell you that they didn’t go out of their way to help make this happen.

[–] [email protected] 74 points 22 hours ago (12 children)

Yep. Quite a few of them have gone quiet, I've noticed. Not one of them has apologized for their cloying sanctimony before the election, no matter how wrong it was.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 20 hours ago (8 children)

They have gone quiet because the project is now wound down. Dufus is in the white house, so they have been moved to a new task.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 19 hours ago

They've moved on to directly attacking trans people and bipoc

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[–] [email protected] 190 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Prioritize funding for places with higher birth rates, you say? So... Communities with loads of immigrants. Got it.

[–] [email protected] 109 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"I was told there would be a medal".

Shamelessly clipped from History.com:

This Day In History: December 16

1938 Hitler establishes Mother’s Cross to encourage German women to procreate

On December 16, 1938, Adolf Hitler institutes the Mother’s Cross, to encourage women of "pure" German origin to increase the size of their families and grow the population of the Third Reich.

The Nazis started such encouragement early. When members the League of German Girls (a wing of of the Hitler Youth movement) turned 18, they became eligible for a branch called Faith and Beauty, which trained these girls in the art of becoming ideal mothers. One component of that ideal was fecundity. And so each year, gold medals were awarded to women with eight children or more, silver medals to women with six to seven, and bronze medals to women with five. The crosses were distributed between 1938 and 1944.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 minutes ago

Knowing Turnip the medals will probably be cheap gold colored metal with an image of himself on it.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

Is there some problem with underpopulation? The qons were always saying "America is full" when it comes to refugees.

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