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[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Uh, neither?

Neolibs are fucking weird

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago

There is no gray area in this debate. You either use children as chattel or kill them.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (2 children)

YOU - "You should invest in a youth centre."

MEGA RICH LIGHT-BENDING GUY - "A youth centre, huh? What kind of youth centre?"

CONCEPTUALIZATION - Come on. Tell him what he wants to hear.

YOU - "One dedicated to instilling liberal economic values in children from low-net-worth families."

MEGA RICH LIGHT-BENDING GUY - "Brilliant! Without children who'll be there to buy stuff in the future?"

YOU - "Yes. And if it doesn't work out, we can always re-purpose the centre as a shopping mall or private equity firm."

MEGA RICH LIGHT-BENDING GUY - "When life closes a door, it opens a window, yes? What's the expected return on this?"

YOU - "Highly educated, work-ready, human capital ready to be directed toward any number of your vast interests."

MEGA RICH LIGHT-BENDING GUY - "Very impressive. You've got a natural eye for unusual investment opportunities."

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd totally watch a mini-series about a class conscious grifter that sells ridiculous soul-crushing bullshit to billionaire investors.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

de-encyclopedia We have emojis to suit this kind of post!

mega-rich-light-bending-guy de-conceptualization tequila-sunset

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago

Well they wouldn't fucking starve to death if their country wasn't destroyed by exploitative mining!

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

id prefer the children just play, and fish, and make tiktoks, or whatever it is that childred do where cobalt is mined.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

id prefer the children just play, and fish, and make tiktoks

And eat hot chip and lie. sicko-zoomer

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

When I pointed out how billionaire "philanthropy" is both pocket change for them and usually is just taking money out of one pocket and putting it in the other, I got back "well would you rather those millions of dollars didn't get spent to help at all?" smuglord

When it comes to Bill Gates' eugenics shit and making public schools even worse, yes, I'd rather he didn't.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Thank you Mr and Mrs Bill and Melinda Gates for making a government funded COVID vaccine a privatized profit center during a global pandemic

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

But that protected innovation, so said the bootlickers.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

It's basically that time Andrew Tate taunted a father who was trying to raise money for his kid's surgery by saying how the surgery is a fraction of what Tate spends on his many cars.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago

Everyone in Africa starved to death before the white man got there and told them to mine, ig

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

Fuckin imperial core libs dude everything I see shit like this I take another ratchet to the maoist third worldist side

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

WORK OR DIE

CAN YOU DO ANY OF BETTER?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The children should be mining, in Minecraft.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

I rather 11:11 mine and the kids do kid things rather than dangerous labor.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So it's a child hostage situation, it's child slavery,

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Anyone who believes this shit should be composted to make community gardens for the food insecure.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Big "arbeit macht frei" energy

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

ultimatum andrew very-intelligent

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

They crave that salt mine

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Oldie but a goodie.