Once you’re born they don’t care bro, your use to them is over
Totally not true. They are happy to employ you as a wage slave.
They’ll also happily send you to protect
corporate interests and keep the war machine churning so that the economy can continue to experience exponential growthfreedom. As soon as you turn 18 and you enlist (and have no idea what you’re actually signing up for because of the lifetime of pro-military propaganda) they’ll happily break your body, mind, and soul, then refuse to fund your healthcare afterwards. Because nothing says “Freedom” quite like being so desperate to escape generational poverty that you’ll go kill brown people halfway across the world, just so some billionaire can sell bananas for more profit.But only if it doesn’t cost them any more than the absolute minimum.
Naw, born kids are also really useful when you need to pass some draconian surveillance or censorship regulation, or ban LGBT folks from existing - all of course to protect children, no other reason, it’s all for them precious kids!
the use isnt over
thats at 18
Wait a few years and you can knock them up
Why do Americans have such a hard time feeding their kids?
Because empathy is socialism apparently.
Unironically, it is. No other political framework actively suggest loving, caring for and helping the anonymous fellow. Conservatism is almost always exacerbated individualism. They band together because they hate the same thing, not because they love each other.
Socialism is an economic model, not a political framework. You’re being lied to when you’re told government programs are socialism.
You might want to read what you replied to again.
That seems an overly simplistic a view point to me
You are free to refute it.
Sure I’ll bite.
Your economic framework has nothing to do with social policy and vice versa. Russia was a socialist national and they let Ukraine starve to get rid of dissidents. Norway is a capitalist country with very strong social welfare programs. The two are not related whatsoever.
Socialism as an economic model is not based on empathy at all, but rather where power lies. Capitalism is not opposed to government social programs and in fact only flourishes when government can mitigate externalities.
OPs view is simplistic and OP does not seem to understand the difference between socialism and social programs.
Is there a middle ground between individualism and communitarianism? I am looking for perspectives in earnest (i.e., this isn’t a “gotcha” question). I agree that “rugged individualism” ends up trampling people.
Social democracy, maybe. At least they acknowledge social justice as a core political value. Plenty of socialism political stances are emphatic about social justice without going full on accelerationist authoritarian communism.
Thanks.
Is there a middle ground between individualism and communitarianism
Socialism…
The middle ground between capitalism and communism is socialism.
Everyone gets enough, and if you work hard you get more.
The Overton window has just shifted so far right that “middle ground” has started being treated as extreme.
Of course there is. Are you looking for an -ism name for it?
Basing the collective mentality and the legal framework upon ubiquitous and mutual sovereignty. That is, an individual is sovereign, an organization is sovereign, etc - and thus, none have rights over another, except as agreed to by ongoing mutual agreement. Anyone can withdraw, and no other has the right to deny that. Disputes are resolved through finding the path of least incursion.
Implicit in this is the notion of ‘innocent until proven guilty’, that abortion is a right, that forcing medical choices (including vaccination) has no moral standing, that one can arm oneself, and one can also, by contract, participate in a community which disarms itself. Government bodies are ultimately services, in this model, which people, at some point, contractually agree to - or don’t.
The right to withdraw is a necessary one, as any contract one cannot deny or reject when one wants to is, at its root, compulsion or slavery.
No other political framework actively suggest loving, caring for and helping the anonymous fellow.
What? Levant, 2000 years ago, Bible “1 John 3:17”
They even number each sentence in the book to make it easy to find.
Your Bible also says something along the lines of “chop off your hands if you jerk off.” There’s so much shit in Leviticus I could pull up which aren’t exactly “loving.”
Edit: Leviticus 25:44-46 NLT
“However, you may purchase male or female slaves from among the foreigners who live among you. You may also purchase the children of such resident foreigners, including those who have been born in your land. You may treat them as your property, passing them on to your children as a permanent inheritance. You may treat your slaves like this, but the people of Israel, your relatives, must never be treated this way.”
From: https://www.evilbible.com/evil-bible-home-page/slavery/
Well the Bible is mythology, so putting any value into the words is just like putting value into the words of a fictional book.
Words in fictional books have value.
Maybe some, but the Bible isn’t one of the ones with value.
Don’t kill each other seems like ok advice.
Apparently it didn’t do the job, as the Jesus fandom in the US are literally the ones killing social services.
Because they elect Republicans which are the Nazi party
It’s not that we can’t feed our children, it’s that we don’t want to. Jesus loves you* so that the government doesn’t have to.
*Offer not valid for gays, nonwhites, trans people, women, non-Christians, or kids who talk back.
Rich people > children
Ahh yes rich people eat children
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This is totes an actually super real picture, but I do feel bad for this kid. He’s lost a finger on one hand and regrown it on the other.
The wrong number of limbs seems like a very common AI mistake. Is that really hard to program/teach an AI system?
Yes, because we’re no longer at the point of “programming” by writing in instructions (in the context of AI models). We are legitimately moving towards training AI the way a child learns. These AI image generators are given millions upon millions of images with descriptions, then they learn the general features. So once it’s done and you give it a command, it does its best to create something from what it learned. And right now these AI’s don’t differentiate between the number of hands. Mainly because a good majority of images are showing clear views of hands. Most hands will be at an angle or even sideways. It also has no concept of how many fingers a person has. It’s actually an incredibly good image.
What goes next to a finger? Another finger. So they offer fingers next to fingers and don’t always stop at the right one.
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this isn’t an article it’s a forum post on the interweb
As an avid republican myself, I don’t know what this is about. We don’t even have 7 million children in this country. But Australia should not be ruled by the monarchy.
You had me in the first half, not gonna lie
“7 million pregnant people, mothers and children, including more than half of all newborns in the United States.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/09/27/food-stamps-wic-snap-government-shutdown/
Whoosh
The world needs more fact checkers and information finders like you, but in this case you missed that you’re responding to someone from Australia who was making a joke. “Haha, the Americans think everything revolves around them. Let’s write an intentionally vague opening sentence and see how long it takes 'em to notice the instance I’m commenting from or figure out that I’m Australian from context”
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Kid has a case of Simpsons hand.
Fairly certain that’s an AI kid.
Nah, he’s from Arkansas.
It’s a work injury.
They stitched the finger back on, but on the wrong hand
Knew it. Children are a liberal fabrication. It goes two people do an abomination against God, then there is a baby in the mothers tummy, and then full grown adult.
Pre-existing condition.
It’s probably all the malnutrition.
All the malk and gym mat meat
I never understood the party of life snd their disregard for… life.
George Carlin said they need live babies so they can turn them into dead soldiers.
Can’t turn them into dead soldiers if they starve before they turn 18.
Easy - just lower the age requirement to join the military :D /j
It’s pretty simple, they’re just assholes
Welcome to the GOP, where they only give a shit about you before you’re born and if you become wealthy.
If neither of those apply to you they actively despise you and want you to die…while also still wanting your vote.
The upper echelons of the party couldn’t possibly care less about “unborn children.” They care about maintaining power, and being anti-abortion is the single-greateat advantage they have.
The GOP absolutely depends on people voting against their own self-interest. They have 3 major strategies to achieve this - making voting more difficult, spreading disinformation, and targeting single-issue voters.
Pro lifers are by far the most-powerful single-issue voting group in the county - followed by pro-gun voters.
Tens of millions of people literally believe abortion is murdering a child. To them, there is no combination of issues that outweighs stopping abortion. While they may be a minority of Americans, they base 100% of their vote on abortion. I know people who are hard-left liberal on every other issue who vote straight-ticket Republican because to them NOTHING else matters.
If you think the pro-choice crowd is a powerful voice in a general election, imagine Trump and Biden having opposite positions on abortion, but otherwise being the same in every way.
How many pro-choice historically-Democratic voters would have voted for Trump instead of Biden? Pretty much zero.
How many pro-life historically-Republican voters would have voted for Biden instead of Trump? Tens of millions.
Kinda crazy being someone who lives outside of America seeing TV ads asking for donations to feed America’s starving children…
Are you from one of those socialisms that I was told about growing up? I’m so glad you managed to find enough food to survive to adulthood.
WIC and SNAP benefits will remain in effect despite the shutdown.
Source? I want to believe this but the first page of my search results is all articles saying that WIC will shut down within days and SNAP is unlikely to last much more than a month.
I heard on the news today WIC won’t be accessible
Those kids don’t matter… they’ve already been born
If anyone out there has the means, please donate directly to your local food bank in the form of cash money or whole cases of shelf-stable foods. Individual cans are fine to give, but individual cans require many times more work to distribute than whole cases because each can needs to be checked for damage, expiration date and label completeness (type of food and nutrition info have to be legible).
But really, money. A lot of the food that goes to food banks is near expiration. Money lets the food bank buy things like fresh produce, butter (food banks always need butter and never have it) and eggs that would otherwise be very hard to get.
If you’re hungry, look up your local food bank. They will give you food and if for some reason they can’t they will be able to point you to someone who can.
Time to boil your bootstraps kid
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIC for anybody else who had never heard that before.
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7 million children benefit from WIC, including getting formula to newborns. So what will he do without formula? Die, I suppose.
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That’s a pretty appropriate thing to think about when children will literally die because of this. Again- infants depend on formula through WIC. You don’t think that’s serious? Really?
Why do you types all sound the same?
Sarcastic, egocentric, emotionally bankrupt and morally repugnant and fucking proud of it like having a low IQ/EQ is some sort of accomplishment.
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No.
You literate?
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I’m no way am I excusing the Republican behavior here but most state agencies have organization been preparing for this such that they can weather a short shutdown. Anyone on WIC or other support should continue requesting and using it. These programs won’t necessarily shut down just because the gov’t does.
I keep wondering if it is possible to get a class-action lawsuit together
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