Fail Quotes

Started by Travis Retriever, October 17, 2009, 03:00:20 PM

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That was my reply.  I asked if there was some magic rule that says you can't exchange one currency for another.
I recently heard that the word heretic is derived from the greek work heriticos which means "able to choose"
The more you know...

Which we by the way already do...with all the different currency from all the different countries that are in the world...the world outside the USA. For who's existance we have sufficient eveidence.

Quote from: Gumba Masta on February 01, 2010, 09:21:47 PM
For who's existance we have sufficient eveidence.

I call bullshit.

That different countries have different currencies at different exchange rates?

"If we want to understand origins, if we want to understand how the universe came into existence and everything that is in it, we have to look at theology, not science." --Idiotic video an idiotic creationist pointed me to.

Didn't the individual states prior to the Civil War have their own currency?
"Did you know that the hole's only natural enemy is the pile?"
"Dead Poets Society has destroyed a generation of educators."
  --The Simpsons, "Special Edna"

Or, the comments of almost any liberal (at least, the ones opposing the decision) in this discussion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_35lNmxDYI

Quote from: valvatica on February 08, 2010, 04:14:37 PM
Didn't the individual states prior to the Civil War have their own currency?

No.

February 08, 2010, 08:50:12 PM #83 Last Edit: February 08, 2010, 08:58:10 PM by surhotchaperchlorome
"I know 'authoritarian' begs the question, but you and I have similar definitions of 'authoritarian' - the violent imposition of will, in this case ownership.
Private property is the violent enforcement of a claim over an area one can effectively *homestead*. The claimed area is smaller, and the mode of enforcement is limited by explicit agreement, as opposed to whatever the fantasy of a state allows.
Though voluntarism isn't authoritarian, private property just isn't voluntarism." --Fringeelements making a fool of himself.
*facepalm*

If this is what Shane, FlowCell, and Lord T Hawkeye are talking about in terms of anarchists, then I'm in full agreement.
In fact, it was this "intersubjective consensus" attitude (which, whether Stodles/Fringeelements, likes it or not IS basically democracy:  he IS in favor of it, whether he wants to admit it or not.  "descriptive vs. prescriptive" my ass...)
As for the idea of an intersubjective consensus that he stresses, and the idea of objective morality being statist, he's full of shit.
He should see FlowCell's video on liberty to see just where THAT leads...

Don't get me wrong.
If he means that the SYSTEM would evolve and emergent via an intersubjective consesus, then I can get on board.
But if he, like AlaskanAnarchist means that freedom is an intersubjective consensus, then he's wrong, as FlowCell, has unequivocally shown.
But then, by the way he described his points in many of his videos and comments (many removed when his ConfederalSocialist account was suspended), you'd think he just wants local level states, as opposed to national sized ones.

I recall him saying that, "well, if they didn't like living in those areas with this restrictive convanent, they could just move to one that doesn't."

Basically, it's the love it or leave it argument that Shane addressed in his first constitution lectures series videos and that LTHE pointed out.
How is that ANY different from taxes, or a state?
Something I also thought was, "then DON'T use that argument against the state.  If it doesn't apply to an anarchist system, it doesn't apply to a statist system either."

I apologize for the long rant, but, as Shane said, about HTWW, and as I'll say about Spawktalk and Fringeelements:  "He [they] also said a lot of stupid things.  I don't side with stupid things."

And speaking of fail quotes,
this video is full of them:

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For those wondering, the quote from Fringeelements was in the comment section of the above horrible video.
"When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world—'No. You move.'"
-Captain America, Amazing Spider-Man 537

"The USSR wasn't socialist nor communist by definition. This isn't my opinion." - a communist by the username of itrainsinoctober in the comments of this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=angbZB2WeMQ

And speaking of communism/socialism:


"Mises' works on socialism/Marxism are riddled with straw men. He had no intellectual honesty at all. At least Austrians like Bohm-Bawerk were somewhat intellectually honest." --ZakeD3 on YouTube.

Note how he never specified any of these alleged "straw men".
I responded with, "Such as...?"

Chances I get an honest answer (assuming he replies at all): Little to none.
"When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world—'No. You move.'"
-Captain America, Amazing Spider-Man 537

Interesting how Mises's "straw man" was able to successfully predict how communism would fall.

The entire video description of this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cLkouGu8LQ

To summarise it briefly: "Anyone who doesn't think I am entitled to taxpayer's money is a fascist".

Just another example of confusing equality of opportunity with equality of outcome.

"You gaiz know what Libtards remind me of?

Children, That have been told that they must share some candy for the first time, I bet that's how they feel.
Sharing doesn't come naturally, It comes with maturity and a honed sense of responsibility." --DackIsBack

As TJ once said, "Aww how cute!  It's trying to think."
"When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world—'No. You move.'"
-Captain America, Amazing Spider-Man 537