rant · moment 7 of 16
The Home Depot Walker Kid and Callous Libertarian Solutions
from Episode 152 - Feral · #152
4 min
Tim discusses a viral story of Home Depot building a makeshift walker for a disabled toddler because insurance wouldn't cover one, contrasting it with the callousness of people like Ben Shapiro suggesting families 'start a hedge fund' instead of fixing the healthcare system.
- Home Depot fashioned a walker for a three-year-old out of parking lot scraps because the child's health insurance wouldn't cover one.
- Libertarian solutions to the walker problem: start a hedge fund, do currency arbitrage, incorporate the family, flip real estate.
- Tim on political labeling: calling someone a Nazi for basic observations isn't helpful and became dangerous when even thinking there are two genders made you a bad guy.
- Nobody actually believes there are an innumerable amount of genders—people are either terrified into silence or they don't believe it themselves.
- The New York Times blames YouTube rabbit holes for radicalization to the right, ignoring that the same dynamic happens on the left.
- Left-wing extremism exists on Tumblr with people identifying as cats, fairies, and pixies, radicalized just like right-wing extremists.
- Tim on both-sides radicalization: online spaces push people toward extreme identities on the left and right equally.
New York TimesBen ShapiroHome DepotDavid DukeSherman Oaks