ofriceandruin [none/use name]

This whole gordian knot can be sliced immediately by just having universal child support system like “Child Support for All.”

All this other talk is honestly besides the point. No need to talk about who supports who and all that stuff.

It was obviously a parody of your comment.

I think you might need hog out or log out.

Sure, but why is this rhetoric all good when it comes to things like “defund the police” or “tax the 1%” or “medicare for all” but then people turn into big time austerity Biden libs when I suggest universal child support? It strikes me that there’s something deeper going on.

This whole “this is what adults do” rhetoric is straight out of the right-wing playbook, as I’ve said many times before.

The solution is simple, state child support and no more shaming making this an individual problem. I thought we lived in a society? Not some kind of thatcherite hell-hole.

There’s so many comments in this thread that are basically carbon copies of the “listen, i want universal healthcare too, but we don’t live in that world so we need to make this an individual thing and ‘tighten our belts’” except they apply it to universal child support. It’s ok to be revolutionary and not budge when it comes to universal healthcare, education, etc. but when it’s child support they all of a sudden become incrementalist libs.

Just have the state pay if one or both partners don’t want the child. Not a huge problem.

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Jesus it is literally personal responsiblity… guess I’ll have to add Jordan Peterson to the recommended Chapo reading list.

Hmm seems like some projection going on here… hope you are ok. Might need to either hog out or log out.

So, maybe just leave the decision to the people who are directly affected and get out of their way.

Exactly, so just let the person(s) who don’t want the child to leave and not force them to pay child support.