Fail Quotes

[dallen68]

"If the kid was literally assaulted by groups of boys, I find it hard to believe that none of the offenders have been punished." I don't. That was PRECISELY my experience being bullied in school: I got punished, the bullies got off scot-free.

Mine, too.

[R.E.H.W.R.]

Ugh!

[ArtemisVale]

many of you are probably aware of the infamous "sparlock the wizard", but you might not have known that it was lesson 2 in a 10 lesson dvd for jehovas witnesses called Become Jehovah's Friend. Here is lesson 1

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If it was just the first three minutes, was about empathy rather than obediance, and did not mention religion at all i would have givin it a passing grade personally. also the vaguely european father kinda reminds me of...

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[R.E.H.W.R.]

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[Skm1091]

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So he would support all the african dictators just because they are black and not because of their policies. Can anyone smell hypocrisy?

[R.E.H.W.R.]

So he would support all the african dictators just because they are black and not because of their policies. Can anyone smell hypocrisy?

Not to mention racism.

[evensgrey]

Not to mention racism.

Fortunately, YouTube commenters are rather more on the ball than MSNBC is.

[BlameThe1st]

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I'm not sure what's worse: that a woman is only being jailed for less than a year for raping an 8-year-old boy over 50 times within two years (and she received such a light jail sentence because she has suffered embarrassment!), or that some radical feminists are actually defending her!

"Why is she the aggressor and not the victim? Why does the male in this situation get a pass for what he did? Perhaps he wanted her to do it? Men are more sexually active at younger ages according to science....It seems consensual."

I'm sorry. I have to unleash some unbridled rage. If you'll excuse me, I'm going to run around my house swinging a baseball bat and screaming obscenities until my voice goes hoarse.

[Travis Retriever]

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I'm not sure what's worse: that a woman is only being jailed for less than a year for raping an 8-year-old boy over 50 times within two years (and she received such a light jail sentence because she has suffered embarrassment!), or that some radical feminists are actually defending her!
I'm sorry. I have to unleash some unbridled rage. If you'll excuse me, I'm going to run around my house swinging a baseball bat and screaming obscenities until my voice goes hoarse.

@The quote you posted:  PLEASE tell me that's a Poe.  Christ, SJW/feminists are worse than most other statists (with the possible exception of the warmongers, but then how many of them have you seen oppose the draft?)!  Who in turn are even worse than creationists, who tend the be the worst of the religious!

[Travis Retriever]

"The Austrian School is unscientific/rejects empiricism!"--a few too many people

The few things I *have* heard from actual Austrian economists sounds less like that and more like, "If you want to do it that way, fine, but just make sure you do it right with proper regressions, and be aware of the contextual limitations too."  Which sounds rather PRO scientific and empirical.  Hell, that sounds like something you'd even hear a physicist/chemist/biologist/person in the hard sciences telling a creationist!

[MrBogosity]

"The Austrian School is unscientific/rejects empiricism!"--a few too many people

The few things I *have* heard from actual Austrian economists sounds less like that and more like, "If you want to do it that way, fine, but just make sure you do it right with proper regressions, and be aware of the contextual limitations too."  Which sounds rather PRO scientific and empirical.  Hell, that sounds like something you'd even hear a physicist/chemist/biologist/person in the hard sciences telling a creationist!

They really say it because of two things: 1) Austrian economics points out that the Economic Calculation Problem puts limits on how much we can empirically know, and therefore how much we can control; 2) Austrian economics points out that, while we can make many predictions about what the results of economic policies might be, the TIMING of these events cannot be predicted with any degree of accuracy.

So they attack it on that basis. But if that is indeed the universe we live in--where it's impossible to get enough information and the timing is too chaotic to be predictable--then that is indeed what the science needs to say. I think the Austrians have done an excellent job showing that, indeed, this is how the universe works. All anyone else seems to be able to do is denigrate the Austrians for it.

[AnCap Dave]

The comments are just as bad.

[AnCap Dave]

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[Travis Retriever]

My mom in response to doctors/etc trying to blame the mother for their kids having autism/etc: "You can blame us all you want but it is what it is."
Major cop out.

That being said, it was mainly in response to the "mother had mercury poisoning while pregnant" nonsense going around in the 1990s.  Which is complete bunk as I told her, given that heavy metal poisoning and autism are completely distinct as Shane has explained at least once.   And just so it's clear:  VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM!!!

As for the women/mothers who really *did* cause their children chronic problems (e.g. by smoking/drinking/etc while pregnant/breast-feeding/etc), saying "you can blame me if you like but it is what it is." would never hold up in a court of law (or at least a sane one), and they know it.  That's just ex post facto excuse making.  And yes, it is what it is.  But you'd be changing it with restitution in any sane court system, tyvm.  Just like any other criminal.  I mean, can you imagine a murderer saying "you can blame me all you want, but it is what it is" as his defense?  He'd be dead via the lynch mob--or at least get the book thrown at him before the day would be through.

I mean, I would bet my life that if a child pulled shit that permanently damaged the mother, they'd never accept that as an excuse either, so why should anyone else?

It's like me and Hawkeye always say: If you want to believe something, that's fine.  All I ask is that whatever you believe, you act according to it.  The thing I have no tolerance for is bullshitters.

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One of the problems with debunking those conspiracy theories is that #1 and #5 are quite similar to things that governments have done.  There was the infamous case of the black men in Tuskegee who were denied treatment for syphilis (while their government-employed doctors told them they had been treated) in order to study the long-term effects of the infection; and governments routinely dump all manner of toxic materials into the environment, for one famous example, Bill Clinton came out and admitted that there really is a secret airbase in Area 51, Nevada...so that he could declare that, as a government installation, it was covered by Sovereign Immunity from a law suit for health damage to former employees of the place caused by the pollution there.