• doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    17 days ago

    By percentage, but the total birthrate would (continue to) go down.

    And now Trump’s gonna make it harder to immigrate, so the population may actually start nosediving.

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      17 days ago

      Yeah, others have portrayed that as the goal here.

      I just feel like I wouldn’t feel particularly attached to the fate of a country raised by brainwashing conservative families anyways, so it’s a scorched earth approach. Yes, you’ve broken the system, and it can be remade now, but those doing the remaking likely won’t carry your values…