@EveKeneinan Oh man that's a tough one! I voted to free him so that his progeny, should he have any, would be born free. I weighed the lives of subsequent generations as more important than one man's happiness.
@GREHG12@AntiquarianMuse@nicksortor It's less about what's "good" and more about what the job of government should and shouldn't be. Maintaining public spaces in our nation's capital? Governments job. Providing free childcare to the entire country? Not government's job, and honestly not even a good thing.
@GREHG12@VeryLargeDino77@AntiquarianMuse@nicksortor Lol, not only do I have 3 kids, I'm also a teacher. If you think the need to develop social skills warrants spending the majority of a child's waking hours being cared for by a stranger, you clearly have no kids, or are a terrible parent.
@VeryLargeDino77@GREHG12@AntiquarianMuse@nicksortor The real barrier to having a stay at home mom is cost of living vs wages. Fix the economy, remove barriers to constructing more housing, encourage marriage and families etc. Those would actually fix this. Having the government use tax money to subsidise single moms would not
@VeryLargeDino77@GREHG12@AntiquarianMuse@nicksortor It's almost like I don't actually want the government to solve all the problems. One because the free market does it better, and two because every problem like this the government tries to fix inevitably gets worse. By making dysfunction easier, you get more dysfunction.
@VeryLargeDino77@GREHG12@AntiquarianMuse@nicksortor That's the thing you leftists never seem to understand. Whatever you incentivise, you get more of. Always, without fail. If there are barriers to having a stay at home parent, then focus on those. You want a bazillion dollars to fix all the problems, then at least understand this
@VeryLargeDino77@GREHG12@AntiquarianMuse@nicksortor I'm a piece of shit because I understand that kids are better served by being home with a parent than spending 12 hours a day in daycare, and thus would rather incentivise that? No of course it's not that I'm a piece of shit, it's that you are a retard.
@GREHG12@AntiquarianMuse@nicksortor You dumb fuck, I don't actually think it's good to rob successful people and use their money to incentivise putting kids into childcare rather than being at home with a parent. The last thing I want to do is give a bozo like her money to screw things up even more. FFS π€¦ββοΈ
@SilentSkyZero@TheChickyLittle@AFergusonFTC@elonmusk@FTC You don't have to take Grok's word for it. Every systematic review of the evidence, of which there have been many recently, has come to the same conclusion. Look them up yourself if you want. Go directly to the source, you'll find the same conclusion.
@SilentSkyZero@TheChickyLittle@AFergusonFTC@elonmusk@FTC It's not a logical fallacy. You support you claim by using the "it's standard practice" claim. It's a direct attack on the weight we should give that argument. It's a poor unsupported argument, and not even true. https://t.co/xpUQV6JKek
@SilentSkyZero@TheChickyLittle@AFergusonFTC@elonmusk@FTC Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it. I bring up Lobotomies because they're direct irrefutable evidence that medicine can get something considered standard care very wrong. When the evidence you use to support GAC is "it's standard care" it's pertinant.
@SilentSkyZero@TheChickyLittle@AFergusonFTC@elonmusk@FTC Are you suggesting that modern medicine is somehow immune from error? In the 1940's and 50's lobotomies were considered standard practice, and widely accepted. The reason I compare lobotomy with GAC is that they both represent a failing of medicine due to poor evidence.
@AntiquarianMuse@nicksortor I would much rather cheer for somebody attempting to do something good, and potentially failing, then cheer for their failure. But that's just me.
@Kylypso@monsterhunter45 Correct, your cities are decaying because you think you need to be providing services for people on the street rather than providing a service to law abiding citizens. Every attempt you make to fix the problem, entirely predictably, only makes it worse.
@SilentSkyZero@TheChickyLittle@AFergusonFTC@elonmusk@FTC Only 0.03% of the population received a lobotomy, so I guess you're probably in favor of those? I mean, it's such a small number who cares? GAC, like lobotomies, is unfit for people no matter how few.
We're gonna make those numbers 0% btw :)
@SenWarren I don't want the government to pay for childcare for all three and four year olds you crazy bitch! I want Elon to spend his own damn money because he earned it! Of course we'll all benefit far more from what he does with it than what you'd do with it, but that's secondary.