You are right.

The State will take the baby. I guess there are no good outcomes here. I expect both children are currently in care.

I include the latest ones in too, like Alina Habba.

Same here

I tell you what, I'll go one better, that I hope illustrates my point. I told this to every American I ever met and, so far, only 1 learnt from it.

It's OK to be hungry.

You have the "freedom to eat whenever you want, whereveryou want it", but you can eat so much that you die. You can eat as little as you like, so little that you also die. Your freedom you eat whatever you want, whenever you want is an illusion, driven by outrageous commercialism.

You do not have the freedom to eat whatever you want, whenever you want. You think you do.

Edited for autocorrect, I don't even have the freedom to type ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I keep saying exactly this. People talking about WWIII, WHOA! we're still fighting the last one.

And it had to be that way. That was the clever part. Also, the war with the Soviets was already underway, and still is.

Oh dear god, that's sad. You are the definition of typical. I've spent years working and travelling in the US, and you speak exactly like virtually everyone else over there. My dear friend, you don't have control over anything. You don't even have control over your own bowels, they will drive you to obey them. Everyone thinks they are free and in control, and you, like everyone else, control virtual nothing in your life. This is not some great conspiracy, its just the law of nature. So enjoy your free dumb, you poor fool, but try very hard not to fuck up someone else's freedom in the process 😉 or accept that there is no such thing and go with the flow instead. You are soo American, it would be funny it it wasn't so sad. Sorry.

You're a very typical US citizen that has bought into the "mah free dumbs" lie. There are 8 billion people on the planet and regulations are about those people (or some subset thereof) having a way to get along without buggering up someone else's freedom. It's all very well driving a car, but the asthma you cause in someone else necessitate regulation for many other people's freedom. USA is one of the very few places on the planet that has Jay walking laws, because most countries recognise people's freedom to walk in the street, ffs, it's not rocket science, it's a very basic freedom.

I'm always pretty happy if I have a bug last thing on a Friday. Gets me right back into it first thing on Monday. It's kinda weird, but works for me.

Yes, very similar practices here.

Yeah, this is not definitely attributed to Keynes, and earlier verions of it by other people paint this in a slightly different way as a positive point, that even nasty people work for the benefit of all. Many versions have been attributed to Keynes, both as a positive and a negative for capitalism.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/02/23/capitalism-motives/?amp=1