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[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 105 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

I think something else is causing a depopulation problem in Russia right now.

[–] leriotdelac@lemmy.zip 53 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

What could that be, I wonder?... Ah, I know, might be all those working and studying women that abandon their sacred duty to repopulate the Motherland. Definitely not the trenches in foreign countries where the men are dying...

Edit: typos.

[–] TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world 36 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Nah bro, it's all the birth control chemicals women are pissing out and then that water gets recycled, drank by the men, turning them into little soyboy cucks that can't get their little putin up unless they're watching those androgynous kpop boy bands

[–] Zerlyna@lemmy.world 25 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

That’s an interesting theory, I give you that.

[–] TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world 26 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I recommend everyone wears a lead helmet as much as possible to stop the 5G and radiowaves from turning your brain into mashed potatoes

[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 11 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Wait, lead? I thought aluminum?!?! Faaack

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 11 points 4 weeks ago

It's too late for you man.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 18 points 4 weeks ago

Headline isn't wrong though. Population is definitely getting smaller, and it's the young dying.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 8 points 4 weeks ago

Depopulation was an issue a decade or more before the war. Which makes the meat grinder even harder to understand.

[–] ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 60 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Not a problem unique to Russia, but they could help themselves by not getting hundreds of thousands of Russians killed in pointless wars.

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 weeks ago

What do you think Putin wants a young population for?

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 34 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

He only cares about more meat for the meat grinder.

Let's be real, that's the logic of most world leaders

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago

Depopulation has been an issue in Russia for some time. At one point they created a holiday for everyone to stay home from work and fuck, though I think that was a regional thing.

I would love to halve the human population, but the economic situation is going to be horrific for decades as we figure out how to adjust.

[–] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 28 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Restrictive laws to try to force the population to have more children... Where have we seen this before?

[–] tonytins@pawb.social 18 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

For someone so keen on getting Russia back to the "golden age," maybe Putin should have put more effort on listening to the people.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 2 points 4 weeks ago

Nah, he should've just outlaw being unhappy, so that everyone would be happy

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I’m curious how far would an authoritarian country go to improve birth rates.

Unless they go full evil, you can’t really force people to have kids when they really don’t want to.

[–] ProbablyBaysean@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decree_770?wprov=sfla1

I beg to differ, and i dont consider altering sex ed to be full evil. When people have a lot of money and power and political influence they can do some bad unethical things. Things like requiring "the correct race" to breed and "the incorrect race" to have forced military drafts and mobilizations. It's right now easier for other immediate goals to ... not go that route yet. Let the robots and automation catch up to the depopulation is my guess.

[–] 5in1k@lemmy.zip 9 points 4 weeks ago

In Russia it is illegal to grow old.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 weeks ago

That's a big flat surface.

[–] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 weeks ago

Don't hunt what you can't kill