A Big New Report on American Children Is Out. It’s Horrific.
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“Protect the children” is a popular modern rallying cry. If only.

NSFW for: Potentially challanging your narrative and worldview.

I recently found this article summarising important findings.

Breaking out of ones own bubble is important. And I would like you to remember this the next time you are at a ballot.

If you really think of the children, vote according to reality.

And if you FEEL personally attacked by this article and bash me in the comments, whataboutism away from the subject or bothsides-ing the issue; Thanks for making my point for me and seek help.

  • Dissasterix @lemmy.world
    625·
    10 months ago

    Government allows questionable laws to exist on the books Government spends money in misguided places More government will make it better.

    There’s a Thomas Sowell book called ‘Conflict of Visions,’ its pretty neat. Ultimately he breaks Left/Right into two philosophies: The Anointed believe everything can be solved with infinte money, and the Blighted believe that some problems are inherintly hard and cannot be solved without an impossible level of force. Basically P vs NP but with people.

    I dont think giving more money to the government will save the world. Tax revenue is up, government spending is up-- but the problems persist… Then consider that an endless national debt may destroy the economic enviroment of today’s children as they grow up. I dont know about you but this ‘9% transitory inflationy’ has cut my buying power nearly in half!

    The only answer provided ever is give the government more money/power. Its pretty silly. No thanks. They’ll just use to pedal soft-power to sketchy Eastern blok nations again, lol. Uncongressional wars for two decades. Create a spying apparatus that makes Stalin blush… Its a joke.

    • irmoz@reddthat.com
      241·
      10 months ago

      Are you joking? Did you even read the article?

      It talks about child marriage, child labour and forced birth. None of these problems in particular require money, just laws to be passed. The solution to two of these issues is to just ban them. The solution for the third is just to unban something.

      • Dissasterix @lemmy.world
        322·
        10 months ago

        No, ‘Think of the children’ is a meme :p

        Laws are written by government lawyers. Laws are revoked and rescinded by government workers. These laws still exist. Unpopular laws still exist… In many States a law can be petitioned into existence-- to get broken and watered down in beaureocratic double-speak. Worse, laws dont just go away, they’re written over. Wherein §512.765 still reffrences the ‘removed’ §218.231(A)(2) verbiage. Its a clusterfuck.

        Do you really think more taxes/government will end the ageless problem of shit parenting and poor parents?

            • irmoz@reddthat.com
              61·
              10 months ago

              You would need police to force people into jail for marrying children or officiating said marriages, and taxes to fund said police

                • irmoz@reddthat.com
                  21·
                  10 months ago

                  In our current system, yes, only the state (and capital) have the right to force

                  • Dissasterix @lemmy.world
                    24·
                    10 months ago

                    Well… Thats lame :] But does that make it good? Do you really trust law enforcement thaaat much? ACAB? You’re not a bootlicker, are you?!

                    /s But you see what Im doing.

        • irmoz@reddthat.com
          72·
          10 months ago

          I think you meant to *reply to a comment that asked for higher taxes or more government power, because that wasn’t what mine said.

          Also, i am quite happy letting the government have the “power” to stop child labour and child marriage. If that’s an overstep in your book, then i don’t like your book. What seems an overstep in government power to me is regulating what people can do with their own bodies. Why isn’t that offensive to you?

          • Dissasterix @lemmy.world
            212·
            10 months ago

            The implication of all left/right ultimately boils down to taxes/force. I dont like force or taxes. This extends to bodily rights. However if you mean abortions issues, there is a true coin-flip on who’s body gets priority. (The solution is to not regulate it so that people that want it can do it and people who dont dont have to fund it. No force, no taxes. Consistency).

            • irmoz@reddthat.com
              2·
              10 months ago

              The implication of all left/right ultimately boils down to taxes/force

              That’s not even close to being correct. The left/right spectrum is basically anti/pro capitalism and hierarchy

              But I agree with how your comment ended anyway. But “no taxes” seems untenable, unless you’re also arguing for abolition of the state… in which case I’m curious where you fall on that

              • Dissasterix @lemmy.world
                13·
                10 months ago

                Eh, I see how you got there but I dunno about that. In my terms, a Communist (far left) State redistributes all wealth (~100% tax) and in a Minarchist system (far right) there is virtually no tax because there is virtually no State to fund. Thus no reason to employ force to gain said funding. The game theory is clear either way; A small State can only inflict small tyranny. A (mid to) large State typically has a war-machine.

                I am more Right-skewed than typical Conservatives. I identify as Libertarian, but the LP itself is/was a mess. Mises Caucus seems legit tho. I believe that the State has limited rightful duties. As enumerated in the Constitution, the feds only need power to 1)Make and maintain currency shit (shit job), 2) Enforce or sovereignty (shit job), and 3) Enforce and promote popular law (shit job). But they want to do everything else…

                Do you think your taxes are well spent? I know you dont, lmfao. If they reallocate spending then maybe I’d be cool with (some) taxes. Here and now, no. Im being misrepresented and it’s tantamount to theft. The problem isnt lack of funding, its more a lack of budgeting and prioritizing the wrong stuff. Making another committee or council only worsens the issue. They must be starved.

                • irmoz@reddthat.com
                  3·
                  10 months ago

                  Dude, I’m sorry, but this just demonstrates a bizarre misunderstanding of the left and right spectrum, and a complete misunderstanding of communism.

                  The left-right dichotomy most certainly represents opposition or favour toward liberal capitalist democratic states. Here’s a rough outline.

                  Where on Earth did you hear that communists want to redistribute all wealth through a 100% tax? Seriously, wtf is that all about?

                  Communists want workers to control their work and work their own way without a boss taking all the profit.

                • HipHoboHarold@lemmy.world
                  1·
                  10 months ago

                  Technically communism should be a moneyless, stateless society. No government to give taxes to. No corporations to take your money. No money to take. No one to force things. It’s all for the people by the people. The idea that you’re pointing to communism as force in order to defend your decision to vote republican on an article about pedophelia is pretty telling. This is why some people assume libertarians want to fuck kids.

                  • Dissasterix @lemmy.world
                    11·
                    10 months ago

                    Same questions as to the other commenter:

                    If my [labor] is the peoples’ labor, what recorsue do the people have if I want to horde? Force. What if Im a [widget] maker and the people want [widget]… What happens if Im done from making [widget] and the people still need [widget]? The dynamic of owing the State community for your forced labor is pretty… Statist sounding to me.

                    We can talk about theory until we all feel gooey, but it just doesnt seem to go that way. I know, I know. The meme, it’s never been tried, lol.

                    People doing bad things IS a facet to freedom. People do bad stuff. Do you think selfish animal nature can be regulated away with enough tax? Maybe, but gosh you’ll need a big community State.