Fail Quotes

[MrBogosity]

Also, the Soviet Union is apparently Happy Funsville:
"Have you honestly never spoken to anybody who lived, or had family in the Soviet Union? I've spoken to a couple of Lithuanians, and Russians about it, and all of their family agreed things were better in Soviet Times. These are people who LIVED in the Soviet Union."

Yeah, they don't even have bread lines anymore!

[AnCap Dave]

Yeah, they don't even have bread lines anymore!

The hilarious part is that was a direct response to my comment about bread lines.

[MrBogosity]

The hilarious part is that was a direct response to my comment about bread lines.

Wow.

[AnCap Dave]

Wow.

You think that's bad. It gets worse...

"Did you know every year Mao was in power the life expectancy in China rose by a year? Mao also didn't have sweat shop labours, and worked pretty hard on gender equality. Most likely killed a few million people however, that may be a negative."

I then mention how sweatshops weren't around during Mao's great famine. I think get to hilarious responses:

"Would rather die than live life as a sweatshop worker." (Says the guy who doesn't have to ever worry about working in one to feed his family)

"People had enough to feed themselves under Mao after the famine."

Oh, now this guy is going to explain to me how communism can work without the use of force:
"PRIVATE property is owned by the commune and controlled democratically. Your house and such are personal property, not private property. The role of the state was supposed to be a transitional one and much more democratic than the USSR, China, etc. Rosa Luxemburg on the phrase "Dictator of the proletariat", "This dictatorship consists in the manner of applying democracy, not in its elimination, but in energetic, resolute attacks upon the well-entrenched rights and economic relationships of bourgeois society, without which a socialist transformation cannot be accomplished. This dictatorship must be the work of the class, and not of a little leading minority in the name of the class — that is, it must proceed step by step out of the active participation of the masses; it must be under their direct influence, subjected to the control of complete public activity; it must arise out of the growing political training of the mass of the people."

[Ibrahim90]

"Did you know every year Mao was in power the life expectancy in China rose by a year? Mao also didn't have sweat shop labours, and worked pretty hard on gender equality. Most likely killed a few million people however, that may be a negative."

18-32.5 million sure is a few million....

and why is it that sweatshops are a bad thing in and of itself? I mean, between starving and living, I'd pick the living, and if it means a sweatshop, well...

EDIT: oh, 1 year every year. riiight. and what was the starting point exactly?

[MrBogosity]

"Would rather die than live life as a sweatshop worker." (Says the guy who doesn't have to ever worry about working in one to feed his family)

If he lived in a country with sweatshops, he'd have that choice: not to go get a job at a sweatshop and starve to death. In fact, for millions, that IS their only choice!

[evensgrey]

If he lived in a country with sweatshops, he'd have that choice: not to go get a job at a sweatshop and starve to death. In fact, for millions, that IS their only choice!

As I understand it, the usual other options are to go work as a prostitute, for less money and all the usual risks of being a prostitute in a society that tries to not have them, or be a domestic, for even less money and likely get raped by your employer anyway.

[AnCap Dave]

An oldie but a shitty.

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[AnCap Dave]

SUPPORT NASA OR YOU HATE WOMEN WITH BREAST CANCER

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

SUPPORT NASA OR YOU HATE WOMEN WITH BREAST CANCER

And who was it that developed the Software? Was the software in existence before NASA used it?
These are the questions people should be asking.

[MrBogosity]

Notice how it says the same algorithms were used for both. It sneakily avoids claiming that the algorithm was directly developed for and used first by the Hubble.

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

Does it never end?!?

[VectorM]

And The Last Supper was commissioned by a guy named Ludovico Sforza, yet nobody credits him for anything. In fact, people think that profits ruin the arts.

But to make a more obvious point: How many technological and medical innovations were done in Nazi Germany? "Solving problems on the battlefield, helps us solve problems at home", amiright?

Hell, fucking Wernher Von Braun, anyone? DON'T CUT the FUNDING FOR NAZIS!!@^!@% HERMAGERD

[evensgrey]

Does it never end?!?

Of course not.

Also, the only real improvement made to this process since the 1950's (and this is a process that has been around for just about a century now) is the little detail of continuously replacing the dialysate with fresh solution.  This makes the process more efficient by requiring a much smaller volume of dialysate than if you just had a big tank of the stuff (the whole process works by diffusion gradients and pressure differentials), but that's a rather obvious improvement to just having a large tank.  Other than that, the technology has only had one other major improvement since this form was invented in 1946, that being improvements to the design of the shunts used to get blood in and out of the patient's body that allow dialysis to be used a a long-term treatment.

And The Last Supper was commissioned by a guy named Ludovico Sforza, yet nobody credits him for anything. In fact, people think that profits ruin the arts.

But to make a more obvious point: How many technological and medical innovations were done in Nazi Germany? "Solving problems on the battlefield, helps us solve problems at home", amiright?

Hell, fucking Wernher Von Braun, anyone? DON'T CUT the FUNDING FOR NAZIS!!@^!@% HERMAGERD

Most of the innovations that were made in Nazi Germany either don't rally work in any useful way, or were based on Forbidden Experiments and have thus been intentionally forgotten (and not many of those actually existed).

Incidentally, von Braun could hardly have done more damage to Nazi Germany's war efforts.  Instead of a cheap, simple, effective war rocket, he delivered them a complex, expensive, hard to build, hard to use research missile with a rather small warhead and poor aiming characteristics (although it did seem to be rather good at striking German bases when the guidance went wrong).  Putting the same resources into conventional bombs and bombers would have netted far more effect.

[AnCap Dave]