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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFar-Right Influencers Are Hosting a $10K-per-Person Matchmaking Weekend to Repopulate the Earth
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/

jls4561
(2,133 posts)SheltieLover
(65,626 posts)
canetoad
(18,816 posts)But chances of it hitting are diminishing by the day. Probably won't happen.
Ocelot II
(123,898 posts)Unless they're talking about a certain sort of population...
The Madcap
(1,063 posts)Of Epstein's Island?
Rebl2
(15,975 posts)it to me.
brush
(59,396 posts)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)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)like those to bullies buy into it. Fortunately there are often outside cultural influences that pushback against the crap.
meadowlander
(4,864 posts)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)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.
efhmc
(15,327 posts)GopherGal
(2,429 posts)unless they're all registered (gratis) for the conference.
allegorical oracle
(4,437 posts)alarimer
(17,061 posts)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.
Retrograde
(11,013 posts)John1956PA
(3,875 posts)LessAspin
(1,578 posts)Ocelot II
(123,898 posts)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)Bet a lot of chumps will come home alone and $10,000 poorer.
kysrsoze
(6,280 posts)valleyrogue
(1,931 posts)Thanks for the laugh.
Lovie777
(17,594 posts)valleyrogue
(1,931 posts)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.
NameAlreadyTaken
(2,011 posts)Comrade Citizen
(286 posts)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.
blm
(114,029 posts)ultralite001
(1,489 posts)Hekate
(96,948 posts)Deuxcents
(21,555 posts)Ilsa
(62,647 posts)and DNA.
Maybe this is why trump wants Greenland?
IcyPeas
(23,384 posts)I would love to see the contestants' list of what they are seeking in a mate.

bucolic_frolic
(49,449 posts)RandySF
(72,972 posts)I didn’t know we were endangered.
milestogo
(20,061 posts)dweller
(26,169 posts)just ewww
✌🏻
allegorical oracle
(4,437 posts)OAITW r.2.0
(29,764 posts)But, when you live on the extreme, perhaps this is needed.
Demovictory9
(34,984 posts)Renew Deal
(83,699 posts)Seems inefficient.
Hekate
(96,948 posts)
Norrrm
(986 posts)Hekate
(96,948 posts)…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)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)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)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)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
sinkingfeeling
(54,777 posts)maxrandb
(16,438 posts)- Frank Zappa
sakabatou
(44,419 posts)dalton99a
(87,639 posts)https://www.kut.org/austin/2025-03-28/natal-conference-university-of-texas-austin-campus-eugenics-fertility-birthrates-population
RazorbackExpat
(408 posts)Just reading about them gives off super creepy vibes
Retrograde
(11,013 posts)It's now over 8 billion - I don't think the planet is in danger of depopulation.
dobleremolque
(988 posts)Right then and there, ya say? Hmmmmmmm.
SheltieLover
(65,626 posts)
Blue Owl
(55,751 posts)Norrrm
(986 posts)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!
Buns_of_Fire
(18,273 posts)Incel-apalooza?
eShirl
(19,233 posts)Quiet Em
(1,735 posts)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)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.
Paladin
(29,924 posts)Hassin Bin Sober
(26,986 posts)travelingthrulife
(1,921 posts)Hotler
(12,927 posts)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)Read they’re paying a million per vote in Wisco.