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[Travis Retriever]

Made by yours truly.  I have my moments sometimes.

[Skm1091]

This definitely applies today, especially our government and the idiots that run it.

[MrBogosity]

From Patton Oswalt's Facebook Page:

I remember, when 9/11 went down, my reaction was, "Well, I've had it with humanity."

But I was wrong. I don't know what's going to be revealed to be behind all of this mayhem. One human insect or a poisonous mass of broken sociopaths.

But here's what I DO know. If it's one person or a HUNDRED people, that number is not even a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a percent of the population on this planet. You watch the videos of the carnage and there are people running TOWARDS the destruction to help out. (Thanks FAKE Gallery founder and owner Paul Kozlowski for pointing this out to me). This is a giant planet and we're lucky to live on it but there are prices and penalties incurred for the daily miracle of existence. One of them is, every once in awhile, the wiring of a tiny sliver of the species gets snarled and they're pointed towards darkness.

But the vast majority stands against that darkness and, like white blood cells attacking a virus, they dilute and weaken and eventually wash away the evil doers and, more importantly, the damage they wreak. This is beyond religion or creed or nation. We would not be here if humanity were inherently evil. We'd have eaten ourselves alive long ago.

So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, "The good outnumber you, and we always will."

[Travis Retriever]

"Government breaks your leg and then hands you a crutch and says 'See?  Without us, you couldn't walk.'" -- Harry Browne.

This one is a classic.  However, because government can't create wealth, a better quote would be:

"Government breaks your leg takes someone else's crutch, hands it to you and says 'See? Without us, you couldn't walk.'"

[Travis Retriever]

I have more.  Courtesy of the Freedom Images thread on the Mises Institute Forum:







And my personal favorite:

[Travis Retriever]

And a far less serious one:



Condescending Wonka + Most Interesting Man In The World
For.  The.  Win.
X3

[Ibrahim90]

here's a favorite (not necessarily because they're right)--from FarCry 2, from a character called "the Jackal", who is a bit psychotic, and who is an arms dealer (note: not the same as the historical "Jackal")

On him supposedly doing evil and being "sick" by selling arms:

"I'll tell you what's sick: People in the UK, or the US--Fucking Canada or Sweden--They pay their taxes and some remote piloted drone fires a missile into a public market to hit some warlord. Yeah, so maybe war doesn't happen for another six months, and the price of the Gluten-free Sorghum bread stays low. It's not sick to harm people: it's seek to bump off their crooks and dictators in protection of our interests, and then call it "international Justice". These people don't have remote-piloted drones guarding their interests 10,000 miles away. They don't have a war machine paid for with taxes: where I am, they usually don't even have a fucking government. The done is the oppressor--the Gluten free sorghum bread is the oppressor; the AK-47 is the great equalizer. I empower these people.".

on being asked how he became an arm's dealer:

"Back in the Navy we delivered guns all over the world, dropping off guys with twenty crates of rifles for the local fighters, so that they could knock over some dictator. Mind you, that's not twenty crates of factory made M16's. These were illicit weapons confiscated in some raid, and redistributed. No paperwork, right? If a crate here or there goes missing, hey, it happens. Military teaches you two things: how to deal with Bureaucracy, and how to avoid it. learning how to avoid it means learning how to deal arms. you muster out, you apply what you learned. Every gun-runner I ever met got his start that way: losing illicit weapons in transport with national militaries."

[tnu]

From the same thread as surhotchaperchlorome (what does that name mean and how do you pronounce it? that's been bugging me since came here.)

[AnCap Dave]

My buddy Matt posted this pic on his facebook:


But that isn't the only reason I putting this in Fav Quotes. When someone responded to him saying we can't mourn every tragedy and should only focus on local tragedies, he replied with this:

Except for the fact that Media all over the world, like Europe for example, will have their newspapers tomorrow all reporting the "Tragedy in the United States". The fact that within minutes people were blaming the Muslims is disgusting. It turned from a tragedy into a massive political argument. Was it Islamic Terrorists? Or could it be that there was yet another bad seed in the perfect field of flowers that is America? The media are the ones who actually blew this thing out of proportion and the entire world is mourning the few who died and the ones who were injured. But those who died in the Middle East today? The ones who died yesterday? the ones who will die tomorrow? They won't matter. Why? because something happened in America.

[MrBogosity]

My buddy Matt posted this pic on his facebook:

Actually over 40 died in Iraq alone in a string of bombings designed to disrupt the elections. It worked: several provinces canceled their elections.

[AnCap Dave]

Actually over 40 died in Iraq alone in a string of bombings designed to disrupt the elections. It worked: several provinces canceled their elections.

Damn. That only makes the point made by the image stronger.

[Travis Retriever]

surhotchaperchlorome (what does that name mean and how do you pronounce it? that's been bugging me since came here.)

Sir-Hot-Chaper-Chlorome
Sound it out.   And it doesn't have any real meaning.  I stitched it together from the results of a random word generator.

[AnCap Dave]

[yt]fasTSY-dB-s[/yt]

[tnu]

[MrBogosity]

"I'm already against Martin's Law. I don't know what they'll put in it, but I do know for sure I'm against it." —Sean Haugh