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demmiblue

(38,172 posts)
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 05:39 PM Friday

Far-Right Influencers Are Hosting a $10K-per-Person Matchmaking Weekend to Repopulate the Earth

The Natal Conference, which costs up to $10,000 to attend, features multiple matchmaking strategy sessions and onsite ministers so attendees can get married, WIRED has learned.

Organizers behind a pronatalist conference with far-right ties in Austin, Texas, this weekend have set up matchmaking events for attendees that include the option of getting married onsite as part of their greater effort to repopulate the world, WIRED has learned.

According to its website, the sold-out Natal Conference, taking place March 28-29 at a hotel operated by the University of Texas at Austin, has “no political or ideological goal other than a world in which our children can have grandchildren.” But the event, an earlier version of which was promoted by Elon Musk, features speakers like Pizzagate conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec and Crémieux, an online pseudonym linked, according to The Guardian, to Jordan Lasker, who discusses falling birthrates and promotes eugenics.

Natal Conference organizer Kevin Dolan, a father of at least six, according to Politico, has previously stated that eugenics—the belief that white people are genetically superior—and the pronatalist movement are “very much aligned.”

Publicly available details about the Natal Conference are scant, with the vague online conference agenda promising closed-door sessions to address collapsing birth rates.

https://www.wired.com/story/natal-conference-matchmaking/
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Far-Right Influencers Are Hosting a $10K-per-Person Matchmaking Weekend to Repopulate the Earth (Original Post) demmiblue Friday OP
Where's that asteroid when it's needed? jls4561 Friday #1
Great question! SheltieLover Friday #2
22 December 2032 canetoad Saturday #48
I wasn't aware the world was underpopulated. Ocelot II Friday #3
Is this the far right version The Madcap Friday #4
Sounds like Rebl2 Sunday #68
What makes these far-right winger a-holes think their kids... brush Friday #5
Well, in the nature-vs-nurture debate, the most strategic was definitely steeped in apartheid and nazi ideology EYESORE 9001 Friday #16
Both trump and musk are products of such households. Some teens rebel and some... brush Friday #18
Yeah, my very Catholic grandparents had eight kids each and 16 for 16 ended up atheists meadowlander Saturday #50
Well, the billionaire city fiefdoms won't run themselves Blaukraut Friday #6
Women beware. Rich and creepy. efhmc Friday #7
I would think the Austin PD Vice Squad is on alert.. GopherGal Friday #24
Numerous cross-wearing mega-church grifters. nt allegorical oracle Saturday #45
Are they unaware there are 8 billion people in the world? alarimer Friday #8
but not the "right kind" of people (nt) Retrograde Friday #32
Gene pool from hell. n/t John1956PA Friday #9
MicroCon LessAspin Friday #10
History doesn't necessarily repeat itself, but it echoes. Ocelot II Friday #11
LOL, what's the man to woman ratio? tanyev Friday #12
I'm sure it's a sausage-fest 😄 kysrsoze Friday #15
LOL!!!!!!! Funniest thing I have seen in weeks. valleyrogue Friday #13
With what?............. Lovie777 Friday #14
What gets me is on the main page of the Natal Conference website, valleyrogue Friday #17
When was the Earth depopulated? NameAlreadyTaken Friday #19
Making Austin worse with help from UT Comrade Citizen Friday #20
Fvkkking Moonies. blm Friday #21
From the Horse's mouth... ultralite001 Friday #22
Or, as it might be, the horse's ass Hekate Saturday #44
Where's my checkbook? What a catch 🙃 Deuxcents Saturday #53
The world doesn't need more sociopathic ideology Ilsa Sunday #60
Netflix should film it. It could be the next big hit similar to "Married at First Sight" IcyPeas Friday #23
Omg Meowmee Friday #25
Please explain how this is not pandering. /nt bucolic_frolic Friday #26
Repopulate? RandySF Friday #27
These folks are apparently unaware of climate change. milestogo Friday #28
ewww dweller Friday #29
X1000 and I'll add a YUCKKK. nt allegorical oracle Saturday #43
Sad that they need to have a special conference with a $10K cover to meet your lifemate. OAITW r.2.0 Friday #30
world demographics are about 15% white??? the other 85% aren't going anywhere Demovictory9 Friday #31
Why do you have to get married to repopulate the world? Renew Deal Friday #33
Good point. Elon's not married to most of his brood-mares, iirc, & he's all about "efficiency" Hekate Saturday #42
lol Renew Deal Saturday #46
Don't republicans have negative feelings about 'baby mamas'? Norrrm Saturday #54
The possession of enough money soothes all their moral feelings. Clearly gawd has favored Musk... Hekate Sunday #57
Sperm donation risks your little uberkind being raised by lesbians or other thought criminals. meadowlander Saturday #49
They need to make sure none of the women have gone through a divorce. Abolishinist Friday #34
The sanctity of Holy matrimony for conservative Christians - Kim Davis Norrrm Friday #37
Makes my head spin, and she's still at it (the court part, not sure about her husband situation) Abolishinist Saturday #39
8 billion people aren't enough? sinkingfeeling Friday #35
"Can I interest you in a pair of zircon encrusted tweezers? Wait a minute let me steralize them, give me your lighter maxrandb Friday #36
It'd be hilarious if it were just a few guys, and no one else sakabatou Saturday #38
Hey Trump: Well-known antisemites are speaking at a major public university dalton99a Saturday #40
I wouldn't want to be in the same room with those guys RazorbackExpat Saturday #47
When I was born the world population wasn't quite 3 billion Retrograde Saturday #41
Uh-huuuunh. dobleremolque Saturday #51
What are they calling it, incels r us? SheltieLover Saturday #52
LOL Emile Sunday #59
Will there be a session where Andrew Tate beats and abuses the women participants? Blue Owl Saturday #55
Conservative dating site. Norrrm Saturday #56
Incel-a-thon '25! Buns_of_Fire Sunday #58
FUCK EUGENICS, NOT EUGENICISTS eShirl Sunday #61
Let me know how many women they get to show up. Quiet Em Sunday #62
Let me get this straight- Conjuay Sunday #63
What a slap in the face, to Austin and UT. (nt) Paladin Sunday #64
Sign up for the "Roofies and you. How to spread your seed." seminar at 11 am. Hassin Bin Sober Sunday #65
Sick people...but I won't talk down to them! travelingthrulife Sunday #66
$10,000.00, I wonder what Epstein charged? "a world in which our children can have grandchildren." Hotler Sunday #67
Gee, times really must be tough for oligarchs these days. Kid Berwyn Sunday #69

canetoad

(18,816 posts)
48. 22 December 2032
Sat Mar 29, 2025, 10:28 PM
Saturday

But chances of it hitting are diminishing by the day. Probably won't happen.

Ocelot II

(123,898 posts)
3. I wasn't aware the world was underpopulated.
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 05:43 PM
Friday

Unless they're talking about a certain sort of population...

brush

(59,396 posts)
5. What makes these far-right winger a-holes think their kids...
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 05:47 PM
Friday

will buy into their white supremacist bullshit? They should research what happened to the Nazis in the '40s and the pro-war assholes of the '60s.

EYESORE 9001

(27,967 posts)
16. Well, in the nature-vs-nurture debate, the most strategic was definitely steeped in apartheid and nazi ideology
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 06:22 PM
Friday

It’d be hard to deny the effect of growing up in such a household, but he’s still a bloody bastard as a human being, and I think he’d still be an insufferable prick regardless of upbringing.

brush

(59,396 posts)
18. Both trump and musk are products of such households. Some teens rebel and some...
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 06:33 PM
Friday

like those to bullies buy into it. Fortunately there are often outside cultural influences that pushback against the crap.

meadowlander

(4,864 posts)
50. Yeah, my very Catholic grandparents had eight kids each and 16 for 16 ended up atheists
Sat Mar 29, 2025, 10:38 PM
Saturday

mostly because of Catholic school. At the 80+ grandkid level only a handful are religious and not that devoutly.

The more you insist on indoctrinating kids into a very rigid belief system the more likely they are to rebel against it.

Blaukraut

(5,953 posts)
6. Well, the billionaire city fiefdoms won't run themselves
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 05:47 PM
Friday

They need plenty of willing serfs to see to their lords' needs. And because they'll be turned into biofuel when they're no longer useful, there needs to be a steady supply of little worker bees.

GopherGal

(2,429 posts)
24. I would think the Austin PD Vice Squad is on alert..
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 08:40 PM
Friday

unless they're all registered (gratis) for the conference.

alarimer

(17,061 posts)
8. Are they unaware there are 8 billion people in the world?
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 05:50 PM
Friday

The world hardly needs more people. I guess they really mean white people.

I mean, immigration actually solves a lot of issues with low birth rates, but these people are all racists.

Ocelot II

(123,898 posts)
11. History doesn't necessarily repeat itself, but it echoes.
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 05:51 PM
Friday

This is a bit of an an echo of the Nazis' Lebensborn program. "Lebensborn e.V. (literally: "Fount of Life" ) was a secret, SS-initiated, state-registered association in Nazi Germany with the stated goal of increasing the number of children born who met the Nazi standards of "racially pure" and "healthy" Aryans, based on Nazi eugenics (also called "racial hygiene" by some eugenicists)." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebensborn

tanyev

(45,882 posts)
12. LOL, what's the man to woman ratio?
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 06:04 PM
Friday

Bet a lot of chumps will come home alone and $10,000 poorer.

valleyrogue

(1,931 posts)
17. What gets me is on the main page of the Natal Conference website,
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 06:29 PM
Friday

there is a vintage picture of Jackie Kennedy with daughter Caroline on the beach. It was taken by Mark Shaw back in 1959. The Kennedy family, especially Caroline, should speak out against this misuse of a well-known photo.

Comrade Citizen

(286 posts)
20. Making Austin worse with help from UT
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 06:37 PM
Friday

These lunatics should stay away from Austin and stay away from Texas.

The public university flagship should not be accommodating them.

Meanwhile, we normal native Texans are preparing to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Head Start at our local Community Action Agencies.

Ilsa

(62,647 posts)
60. The world doesn't need more sociopathic ideology
Sun Mar 30, 2025, 10:28 AM
Sunday

and DNA.

Maybe this is why trump wants Greenland?

IcyPeas

(23,384 posts)
23. Netflix should film it. It could be the next big hit similar to "Married at First Sight"
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 07:06 PM
Friday

I would love to see the contestants' list of what they are seeking in a mate.

OAITW r.2.0

(29,764 posts)
30. Sad that they need to have a special conference with a $10K cover to meet your lifemate.
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 09:14 PM
Friday

But, when you live on the extreme, perhaps this is needed.

Hekate

(96,948 posts)
42. Good point. Elon's not married to most of his brood-mares, iirc, & he's all about "efficiency"
Sat Mar 29, 2025, 06:45 PM
Saturday

Hekate

(96,948 posts)
57. The possession of enough money soothes all their moral feelings. Clearly gawd has favored Musk...
Sun Mar 30, 2025, 04:23 AM
Sunday

…and others like him, so they can do what they like.

It’s just the melanin-enhanced and money-deficient who get the scorn, derision, kicks, and blows — because just as clearly gawd has not favored them.

meadowlander

(4,864 posts)
49. Sperm donation risks your little uberkind being raised by lesbians or other thought criminals.
Sat Mar 29, 2025, 10:32 PM
Saturday

It's not enough just to spread your useless genes if you don't also activate them with your useless parenting.

Abolishinist

(2,347 posts)
34. They need to make sure none of the women have gone through a divorce.
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 09:34 PM
Friday

Matthew 5:32 ESV

"But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery."

Norrrm

(986 posts)
37. The sanctity of Holy matrimony for conservative Christians - Kim Davis
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 11:49 PM
Friday

The sanctity of Holy matrimony for conservative Christians - Kim Davis

Jesus was quite vocal about divorce/remarriage and the possible resultant sin of adultery.

Abolishinist

(2,347 posts)
39. Makes my head spin, and she's still at it (the court part, not sure about her husband situation)
Sat Mar 29, 2025, 06:17 PM
Saturday

Appeals court rules in Kim Davis case aimed at overturning same-sex marriage (Fri, March 7, 2025)

A legal appeal filed by controversial former Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis that aimed to eventually overturn the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court decision was denied this week.

Davis gained fame and notoriety in 2015 by refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, citing her Christian faith and First Amendment rights.

A ruling this week by three Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals judges noted Davis previously had claims of qualified immunity denied in two separate court decisions, and her actions as a public official in denying those licenses were not protected by the First Amendment.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/appeals-court-rules-kim-davis-200657068.html

maxrandb

(16,438 posts)
36. "Can I interest you in a pair of zircon encrusted tweezers? Wait a minute let me steralize them, give me your lighter
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 10:42 PM
Friday

- Frank Zappa

dalton99a

(87,639 posts)
40. Hey Trump: Well-known antisemites are speaking at a major public university
Sat Mar 29, 2025, 06:25 PM
Saturday
This year's speakers include Jack Posobiec, a hardline conservative influencer who allegedly has ties to neo-Nazis; and a blogger who openly questions whether Ashkenazi Jews are as inherently intelligent as non-Jewish white people. Another speaker was fired by The New York Times after his work for a white supremacist website became public. Another reportedly posts homophobic, racist content on X and has called for journalists to be lynched. (The Guardian has a more detailed breakdown of some of the event speakers.)

https://www.kut.org/austin/2025-03-28/natal-conference-university-of-texas-austin-campus-eugenics-fertility-birthrates-population

RazorbackExpat

(408 posts)
47. I wouldn't want to be in the same room with those guys
Sat Mar 29, 2025, 10:21 PM
Saturday

Just reading about them gives off super creepy vibes

Retrograde

(11,013 posts)
41. When I was born the world population wasn't quite 3 billion
Sat Mar 29, 2025, 06:31 PM
Saturday

It's now over 8 billion - I don't think the planet is in danger of depopulation.

dobleremolque

(988 posts)
51. Uh-huuuunh.
Sat Mar 29, 2025, 10:44 PM
Saturday
closed-door sessions to address collapsing birth rates.


Right then and there, ya say? Hmmmmmmm.

Norrrm

(986 posts)
56. Conservative dating site.
Sat Mar 29, 2025, 11:41 PM
Saturday

A dating website promising to match pro-Trump supporters has removed the main photograph from its homepage after local media identified one of the people portrayed in the image as a North Carolina conservative activist who has a child sex conviction.

http://www.newsweek.com/face-trump-dating-site-dropped-child-sex-conviction-812484

Nice MAGA hats!

Quiet Em

(1,735 posts)
62. Let me know how many women they get to show up.
Sun Mar 30, 2025, 10:35 AM
Sunday

I remember they tried to do a dating site back in the con's first term and it ended quickly because there were no women, only men, who signed up for the dating site. lol

Conjuay

(2,335 posts)
63. Let me get this straight-
Sun Mar 30, 2025, 10:39 AM
Sunday

WOMEN are willing to spend 10 THOUSAND DOLLARS for a chance to meat (heh heh,,, sorry) MEET Mister Reich?

That there should be grounds for a mental evaluation.

Hotler

(12,927 posts)
67. $10,000.00, I wonder what Epstein charged? "a world in which our children can have grandchildren."
Sun Mar 30, 2025, 11:03 AM
Sunday

Those are their words. Are not children age 12 and under?
A reminder;
Not one single person who paid to rape children on Epstein's island has been arrested.

Kid Berwyn

(19,688 posts)
69. Gee, times really must be tough for oligarchs these days.
Sun Mar 30, 2025, 11:16 AM
Sunday

Read they’re paying a million per vote in Wisco.

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