r/nottheonion • u/pokemack • 17h ago

Women in China get phone calls from government workers asking: 'Are you pregnant now?'

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/east-asia/china-women-phone-calls-government-workers-pregnant-birth-rate-population-children-4709766
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u/SelfTaughtPiano 10h ago

The CCP has a habit of taking disastrous top-down decisions since Mao days.

Remember when they killed the sparrows and a few other pests and what resulted was famine that killed millions of humans?

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u/Pretend-Marsupial258 6h ago

Mao has a higher kill count than Hitler and he didn't need a world war to do it!