Fail Quotes

[nilecroc]

So I just went onto his Twitter account.  I can't find a post like that at all.  Unless the screen-cap was done poorly *and* Neil deleted the post right after the shot was taken, I think it's safe to say that we've been had.

EDIT: Also, good eye nilecroc, you just earned your first cluon/anti-bogon for that.

Thanks  . Someone on BlameThe1st's DeviantArt pointed it out first.

[nilecroc]

Words are cheap. But Putin surely has spoken good words. The time has come for crusades against Islam once again. Europe was saved from Islam long years ago by crusades. If we are wise we will again rise up to defend freedom throughout the world. Islam demands submission to their religious leaders. If we do not fight against Islam, we will lose our freedom.

I was bored and decided to see if there was any connection between Christian beliefs and the gay persecution going on in Russia, so I googled it. I came across an article on christianpost.com and found this fallacious piece of shit in the comments.
http://www.christianpost.com/news/vladimir-putin-vows-to-defend-christianity-worldwide-69002/

[Ibrahim90]

Words are cheap. But Putin surely has spoken good words. The time has come for crusades against Islam once again. Europe was saved from Islam long years ago by crusades. If we are wise we will again rise up to defend freedom throughout the world. Islam demands submission to their religious leaders. If we do not fight against Islam, we will lose our freedom.

I was bored and decided to see if there was any connection between Christian beliefs and the gay persecution going on in Russia, so I googled it. I came across an article on christianpost.com and found this fallacious piece of shit in the comments.
http://www.christianpost.com/news/vladimir-putin-vows-to-defend-christianity-worldwide-69002/

wow...just...wow. Putin is an idiot. So is this guy.

I'm not sure how he came up with this conclusion, when:

1-the Muslims won the Crusades
2-victory did not lead to some mass invasion of Europe by the Mamelukes...Who Frankly even if they wanted to (and they didn't) had other, more dangerous enemies to deal with (i.e. the Mongols).

[evensgrey]

wow...just...wow. Putin is an idiot. So is this guy.

I'm not sure how he came up with this conclusion, when:

1-the Muslims won the Crusades
2-victory did not lead to some mass invasion of Europe by the Mamelukes...Who Frankly even if they wanted to (and they didn't) had other, more dangerous enemies to deal with (i.e. the Mongols).

It would be much more accurate to say that the Mamelukes saved Europe from the Mongols.  Not by defeating them as such, but by delaying them so much that before they could get past Eastern Europe, they had pressing political problems in their home region (specifically, the Emperor died and everything went up in the air) and they never bothered to come back and conquer what they viewed as little better than a system of cesspits filled with religious fanatics.  (And, if you look at Europe at the time, that's not an unfair assessment.)

[ArtemisVale]

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=217823435008242&id=172932662830653&aymt_tip=1

Fail is from Ryan Llewrick

and then there is bear lizard at the bottom but thats just bear lizard

[Travis Retriever]

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=217823435008242&id=172932662830653&aymt_tip=1

Fail is from Ryan Llewrick

and then there is bear lizard at the bottom but thats just bear lizard

The best rebuttal I've heard to that crap would be from Hawkeye's journal here (NOT a fail): http://lordthawkeye.deviantart.com/journal/So-how-s-that-statist-working-out-for-ya-224810132
Then there's the bit Ryan talks of corporate welfare isn't a complaint about the free market, but of the government...Nevermind the fact that corporations, by definition are a creation of the state.

[MrBogosity]

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=217823435008242&id=172932662830653&aymt_tip=1

Fail is from Ryan Llewrick

You know, a MW advocate who says a burger flipper should be paid $60k a year would at least be consistent and have an ounce of intellectual integrity. The fact that they get so defensive when you mention it smacks of cognitive dissonance.

[nilecroc]

So apparently, my brother thinks that the genesis account of creation accurately describes the big bang. He claims that passage saying let their be light is in order with the big bang when light came, and he claims that the passage that says  "and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters." is supposedly describing God being over the plasma that was present in the beginning of the universe. He went on to say that I can't debate creationists without a full understanding of the big bang. I was stumped by this when he first told me this. How would you respond to this.

[MrBogosity]

Ask him why plants came before the sun.

[nilecroc]

Ask him why plants came before the sun.

Why didn't I think of that?

[nilecroc]

http://www.cato-unbound.org/2013/09/09/pascal-emmanuel-gobry/libertarian-case-national-military-service

[AnCap Dave]

Ben Swann unfortunately joins the conspiratards by spewing more "Building 7" garbage.

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Well, there goes any respect I had for Swann.

[tnu]

When someone pointed out that subsidies always do more harmt hen good somebody else decided to respond with this gem.

Unless it's SNAP, Head Start, TANF, or the old AFDC. That makes careers!

[MrBogosity]

Everything posted by the TWENTY spammers I just banned (check out TFZ). Geesh.

I've put some extra anti-spam protection on the forum.

[MrBogosity]

Notice how they don't mention the waiting list he'll get put on, during which time his cancer will progress...

At any rate, that isn't what's going on. He has LOTS of people offering to pay it; it's just his pride that makes him want to pay for it himself (and this could easily be the case in the UK as well, where one can pay for private care). But mostly it's because he wants to leave a nest-egg for his family when he goes.