Fail Quotes

[Travis Retriever]

Why should you expect it from government? If morality has nothing to do with the way the world is run, then why the HELL would you set up a system where people have a monopoly on force against others?

I forget who said this, but if people are moral, you don't need a government; if people are immoral, you don't dare have one!

I was the one who first posted that quote here.  I saw it in the signature of some dude at the Mises Institute forum.  I don't know where he got it though.

[Travis Retriever]

This entire video.

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Not a fail quote, would be Ladyattis' video response to that trainwreck of a video:  [yt]fktwWrLr4pY[/yt]
Also not a fail:  [yt]rAIiKw84zwg[/yt]

[Travis Retriever]

Phil says:
I don't trust the invisible hand of the free market not to crush the weak masses in the name of personal greed
D says:
(facepalm_
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Okay, that sounds like government cultist
Phil says:
I don't
I like the idea, but reality demonstrates clearly that morality has nothing to do with the way the world is run
why then should we expect basic moral tenets to exist in our economic system?

ALL HAIL THE CULT OF THE OMNIPOTENT STATE

[Travis Retriever]

Phil says:
but... doctors don't get paid particularly well for the high stress & education required

OK, this guy is a fucking moron.  The ridiculous education requirements are a PART of the barriers to entry of people in the medical profession, not a reason to pay them even more.  Same goes for a good amount of the stress.  If there was a higher supply of doctors, they wouldn't have to work > 12 hours a day with people waiting over an hour and rescheduling at a better time.

[MrBogosity]

Not a fail quote, would be Ladyattis' video response to that trainwreck of a video:

Why won't those videos show up in my ladyattis subscription or in her channel?

[Travis Retriever]

Why won't those videos show up in my ladyattis subscription or in her channel?

When did you first sub to her?  It says those videos were made in May 7, 2009 and May 27, 2009.

[MrBogosity]

Yeah, I was subbed back then. Oh, well.

[AnCap Dave]

I was watching CGRUndertow review Super Mario Land. In the review, the guy was tearing the game apart, going as far as to claim it was the worst Mario game ever. A lot of people commented showing their disapproval of the person's position on the game. Not too long after, some ditz throws this pile of vomit in the comments section.

These comments are an example of how we've lost our freedom to say what we want.

This is a review, not a place where you kiss everyones ass and agree with them. There will always be atleast one peson who disagrees.

I believe that Super Mario Land is a great game, and I don't want to shout at a guy for having a different opinion. That's just shallow.

I'm liking this as encouragement for saying something like this. You've got to have balls to say that.

This guy doesn't understand that freedom isn't a one way street apparently.

[Travis Retriever]

Public schooling at its finest!

[Travis Retriever]

From the comments of this video (fails in red, wins in blue, as usual):

Me:  "Libertarian Socialist/Anarcho-Socialist: The biggest contradiction in all of political science."

SecularNumanist:  "not by etymology"

Me:  "'Libertarian: 1789, "one who holds the doctrine of free will" (opposed to necessitarian), from liberty (q.v.) on model of unitarian, etc. Political sense of "person advocating liberty in thought and conduct" is from 1878. U.S. Libertarian Party founded in Colorado, 1971.' (Online Etymology Dictionary)
"anarchy: 1530s, from Fr. anarchie or directly from M.L. anarchia, from Gk. anarkhia "lack of a leader, the state of people without a government" (in Athens, used of the Year of Thirty Tyrants, 404 B.C., when there was no archon), noun of state from anarkhos "rulerless," from an- "without" (see an- (1)) + arkhos "leader" (see archon)." (Online Etymology Dictionary)

Even if that wasn't the case, your post would still be a bogus appeal to etymology."

[Lord T Hawkeye]

"The only school of economics that rails about "Keynsian" economics is Austrian. And its not a school, its a propaganda machine. If you honestly believe that accredited colleges only teach Keynsian economics your head is so far up your ass no light can reach you. There's a rich history in economics and dozens of schools of thought that are taught. Out of all these schools, guess what the ONE train of thought is that can't get a paper past peer review. Yup: Austrian."

Comment from this vid.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j3_Ki6R3z0&lc=In_B2P1J37rBI5OMlvzPGXnLEit-DXHRHzFdCEhiYjQ&feature=inbox

I notice he never even addresses my point about the two schools' respective track records.  Odd that...

[Travis Retriever]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15zKIlqkkhc

*groan*

[FSBlueApocalypse]

Another from The Punk Patriot

"The state's purpose is to defend the rights of individual citizens against powerful private interests. The state is supposed to serve as a citizen's union. The constitution ties the governments hands from infringing on individual liberty (or is supposed to), and the government also lifts up the poor and powerless from serfdom by protecting them from the sociopathic wealthy and powerful who seek to become even more wealthy, and even more powerful."

[MrBogosity]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15zKIlqkkhc

*groan*

Did he just invalidate the entire study of Fuzzy Logic?

[Travis Retriever]

Did he just invalidate the entire study of Fuzzy Logic?

No, but goddamn, that won't stop him from trying!