"yeah sure their sub imploded and killed everyone inside but how much do GOVERMENT subs cost to make? lol checkmate libs"

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

also the government doesn't make subs for stupid vanity projects for dumbass CEOs and other billionaires

yeah I just like

people are talking about it like it's a libertarian success story

and I'm like "YOU REMEMBER THE PART WHERE THEY ALL DIED, RIGHT?"

"BECAUSE THE CEO WAS CUTTING CORNERS? TO SAVE MONEY? AND THAT GOT THEM ALL KILLED??"

sorry, unalived,

"libertarian success stories" have two endings; it was either a massive scam from the start, or everyone involved dies.

It is explocitly a libertarian failure story

They built their sub on libertarian ideals and then they all died horribly

"sure, the project suffered a massive catastrophic failure that killed all occupants, but at least it was cheap!"

I bet I could kill someone for cheaper

My submarine is made out of legos and grocery store produce bags

It’s even cheaper

my sub uses an Atari joystick

I fished it out of my grandparents' attic

we can go even cheaper fellas

i dug all these plastic bottles out of the trash and bought a roll of duct tape for $5, let's build a hull

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

With other*

If we could get all the billionaires to do this, I would say it would be the greatest libertarian success ever in history

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

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...

when it was a fucking atoll a bunch of idiots fought over ownership until the actual owners (the country of Togo) chased them off

with not even a single brick laid

think of the good Togo could have done by just taking away all the boats and leaving them there

come back in a year or two to collect the remains

(or real life company towns that end up abandoned or un-priviatized)