• Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]
    hexbear
    64
    1 month ago

    If someone doesn't care enough for their baby to feed it, they would simply sell their baby on the baby market to somebody with a use for it. Checkmate commies ancap-good

    • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
      hexbear
      43
      1 month ago

      Hasn't some libertarian ”intellectual” said that there'd be a marketplace for children in a truly free market?

      • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]
        hexbear
        42
        1 month ago

        Murray Rothbard, yes. The guy who coined the term, "anarcho-capitalism."

        "the purely free society will have a flourishing free market in children".

        "the existence of a free baby market will bring such 'neglect' down to a minimum"

        • BountifulEggnog [they/them]
          hexbear
          24
          edit-2
          1 month ago

          I would be very interested to know why they think that would be any better then our current adoption system. You can already give up an infant, and there's a wait list a mile long. What's going to make abusive parents suddenly realize "you know what, I should give up my baby". Because I've known a lot of uh, not great parents who just continue to have them.

          To everyone's surprise, abusive pieces of shit don't really care about their victims.

          • dementor333 [she/her]
            hexbear
            23
            1 month ago

            Yeah but they'd care about money, and I assume the idea here is that they literally sell the babies to people who want them. With no restrictions or necessary background checks. I see no way this could possibly backfire and turn into some kind of dystopian hellscape, after all, when has that ever happened under Capitalism? \s

          • PKMKII [none/use name]
            hexbear
            5
            1 month ago

            Real world consequences are irrelevant for libertarians, all that matters is that they come up with some answer that satisfies their absurd logic game constructs. The walking embodiments of “the means justify the ends.”

      • Greenleaf [he/him]
        hexbear
        27
        edit-2
        1 month ago

        Murray Rothbard. And he wasn’t just a “libertarian intellectual”. If libertarians had their own Five Heads, he would probably be on it.

        • Frank [he/him, he/him]
          hexbear
          32
          1 month ago

          He wasn't a libertarian intellectual because itnellect is the dump stat for libertarians.

          • CloutAtlas [he/him]
            hexbear
            30
            1 month ago

            So is charisma and wisdom. They pump it all into luck. If they succeed due to luck, they create more libertarians saying the system works better the way they did it. If they don't succeed, well, they die poor and alone but won't be famous enough to dissuade future libertarians

    • context [fae/faer, fae/faer]
      hexbear
      32
      1 month ago

      this high margin baby futures derivatives speculative asset bubble is actually the most efficient system of distributing babies

    • ProletarianDictator [none/use name]
      hexbear
      45
      1 month ago

      The dead ones are probably the lucky ones in this situation.

      If they believe parental neglect of children should be permitted, then there would be orders of magnitude more children who end up malnourished, developmentally stunted, and abused, but not to the point of dying 🎉

      You'd see twice as many instances of chained up 17 year olds who have seen the sun twice and eaten nothing besides dry store brand corn flakes their entire life. Or sold to their local libertarian warlord or meth dealer.

      Even the ones that manage to become an independent adult will have severe traumas and extreme difficulties integrating into society. How big is the problem where the state takes a child away that shouldn't have been? Just another right wing weirdo who sees children as property of their parents.

  • Fishroot [none/use name]
    hexbear
    42
    edit-2
    1 month ago

    Even capitalists would tell you that Kids are not disposable because they are “a long term investment “ hence why you have to invest in their education for the betterment of the machine.

    Lolbertarians are just final stage debate pervs and have the stupidest takes because they are brave rnough to look unhinged in public

  • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
    hexbear
    35
    1 month ago

    Me, Satan, introducing my 2 friends at the party under a chandelier of baby skulls: "Unbridled Personal Freedom, meet Fascism." My two hands grab each other and pretend to handshake.

  • nohaybanda [he/him]
    hexbear
    23
    1 month ago

    Heads so empty it’s like Capitalist Zen. Freed from all the rationalisations and lies. They can channel the true essence of Capitalism - nothing but pure pitiless void

    • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
      hexbear
      9
      edit-2
      1 month ago

      I have an iota more respect for this flavor of ghoul for at least not wasting my time with ego-defending pretenses, like liberals do

      Well, not really respect so much as appreciation

  • mayo_cider [he/him]
    hexbear
    22
    1 month ago

    Can't we just give these guys an island? we must have another gruinard island that hasn't been decontaminated yet

    • mayo_cider [he/him]
      hexbear
      19
      1 month ago

      Just make sure you can't land a plane there and surround it with mines

    • context [fae/faer, fae/faer]
      hexbear
      16
      1 month ago

      the-more-you-know today i learned:

      The Dark Harvest Commando of the Scottish Citizen Army (DHC) was a militant group which in 1981 demanded that the British government decontaminate Gruinard Island, a site which had been used for anthrax weapon testing during World War II. They distributed on the mainland potentially anthrax-laden soil.[1][2]

      The group identified itself as "Dark Harvest Commando" and claimed to include a "team of microbiologists from two universities" in Scotland. In a message to the Glasgow Herald, the group said they had landed on the island with the aid of local people and removed 300 lb (140 kg) of soil contaminated with anthrax spores, to be placed around the UK.[3][4]

      The group placed a container of soil outside the Chemical Defence Establishment at Porton Down in Wiltshire.[5] Five days later, a second container of soil was placed at Blackpool, a resort town where the Conservative Party was holding a conference presided over by margaret-thatcher .[4] The first container was found to contain Bacillus anthracis (the causative agent of anthrax), while the second was uncontaminated but of the same soil type as found on the island.[6] At the end of the year, the group announced they would take no further action through a message pinned to the doors of the Scottish Office in Edinburgh.[4] Gruinard Island was eventually decontaminated in 1986.[4]

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Harvest_Commando