Princess Emily
xwitter discourse I honestly did NOT expect: people defending oceangate
Princess Emily
"yeah sure their sub imploded and killed everyone inside but how much do GOVERMENT subs cost to make? lol checkmate libs"
moontouched
THEY COST THAT MUCH TO MAKE BECAUSE IT'S EXPENSIVE TO PUT THINGS IN THE OCEAN THAT WON'T FUCKING EXPLODE AND KILL EVERYONE INSIDE
moontouched
Friendpatine
also the government doesn't make subs for stupid vanity projects for dumbass CEOs and other billionaires
Princess Emily
yeah I just like
Princess Emily
people are talking about it like it's a libertarian success story
Princess Emily
and I'm like "YOU REMEMBER THE PART WHERE THEY ALL DIED, RIGHT?"
Princess Emily
"BECAUSE THE CEO WAS CUTTING CORNERS? TO SAVE MONEY? AND THAT GOT THEM ALL KILLED??"
Princess Emily
sorry, unalived,
Friendpatine
"libertarian success stories" have two endings; it was either a massive scam from the start, or everyone involved dies.
Where Is Harkan
It is explocitly a libertarian failure story
Where Is Harkan
They built their sub on libertarian ideals and then they all died horribly
RobotApocalypse
"sure, the project suffered a massive catastrophic failure that killed all occupants, but at least it was cheap!"
dragon time
I bet I could kill someone for cheaper
Where Is Harkan
My submarine is made out of legos and grocery store produce bags
Where Is Harkan
It’s even cheaper
Friendpatine
my sub uses an Atari joystick
Friendpatine
I fished it out of my grandparents' attic
RobotApocalypse
we can go even cheaper fellas
RobotApocalypse
i dug all these plastic bottles out of the trash and bought a roll of duct tape for $5, let's build a hull
A Grinning DM
I mean, I for one consider the result a resounding success and think that billionaires should do this sort of thing was other billionaires more often
A Grinning DM
With other*
A Grinning DM
If we could get all the billionaires to do this, I would say it would be the greatest libertarian success ever in history
CJ
i think, really, the only argument that needs to be made here is that these new images we're seeing to spark this whole round of discourse is a government sub taking pictures of the imploded libertarian sub
CrowsbeforeBros
god "Libertarian Success story" just makes me think of Girl Who Owns a City where the main girl talks about the "Republic of Minvera" being a successful example of a privately owned city...
CrowsbeforeBros
when it was a fucking atoll a bunch of idiots fought over ownership until the actual owners (the country of Togo) chased them off
CrowsbeforeBros
with not even a single brick laid
Friendpatine
think of the good Togo could have done by just taking away all the boats and leaving them there
Friendpatine
come back in a year or two to collect the remains
CrowsbeforeBros
(or real life company towns that end up abandoned or un-priviatized)