Fail Quotes

[evensgrey]

Except she wore heels in Brawl and nobody bitched then. Besides it was already explained that these heels have an explicit purpose. They provide power for her character and act as jet boots.

Not to mention, other game characters have worn heels, including male characters.


This is just another case of social justice dipshits trying to make something out of nothing.

Heels (of moderate height) are also kinda useful in any sort of fantasy or pre-modern setting to keep you feet from slipping out of stirrups.

[Travis Retriever]

No, you can't--because he doesn't exist!

This is true. :3

[Dallas Wildman]

I just found this:
George Washington, THE one and only, is not to be outranked by ANYONE!
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Public_Law_94-479

Thank you congress!

[evensgrey]

I just found this:
George Washington, THE one and only, is not to be outranked by ANYONE!
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Public_Law_94-479

Thank you congress!

This left open the question of whether he should have six or seven stars, since it was never officially determined how many Pershing has (as the next-highest grade officer).

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

http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/we-denounce-the-koch.fb71?source=s.fb&r_by=10349867

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

[tnu]

[MrBogosity]

http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/we-denounce-the-koch.fb71?source=s.fb&r_by=10349867

Interesting how they don't do the same with the labor unions... http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/

[Travis Retriever]

http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-problems-you-cant-blame-how-you-were-raised/
Stef would have a field day with that tripe.

[Travis Retriever]

So I'm pretty sure this article:  http://www.christophercantwell.com/2014/03/15/violently-overthrow-the-government/ is an epic fail.
It was linked to me from Hawkeye and what follows is our thoughts and deconstruction on it (will remove if Hawkeye insists; I would ask him but he's not online ):
Hawkeye:  Yeah, I think this is why this guy is kinda considered a black sheep among anarchists
Me:  O_O Indeed.
Hawkeye:  "Wow, these guys violently overthrew the government, they must be the good guys" said no one ever
Me:  Indeed.  As I said before and as D said to me when reading his last article on 10 reasons why libertarians aren't nice--it never makes me comfortable when violence is threatened...ever.
Wait..."Democracy" was supposed to be a solution to the state/tyranny? Since when?!
>>Education and peaceful parenting
Haven't even had a chance to work fully yet.  How long have those even been a thing?
Hawkeye:  Like....he IS aware you need at least one generation to see the results of it.  And so far they're quite promising.
Me:  *nod* Yeah.  Probably two as it's usually the second generation (grandparents rather than parents) who are in political power.
Hawkeye:  The state's going to just kill them?  How?  They don't even know who they are.
Me:  Either way, violence is NOT an option. Unless it's in self defense it IS an initiation of force; and thus a legitimizing of it IS a legitimizing of the state. End of.
Hawkeye:  I mean, I hate to keep score but...Stef's convinced thousands of people to stop spanking.  Exactly what kind of successes do you have to boast there Chris?
Me:  >>The state's going to just kill them.
And what, dare I ask Chris, is preventing the state from doing that to you when you run at the capitol offices with a gun? Idiot.
Hawkeye:  Indeed, why does that argument invalidate their argument but not yours?  If anything, they're far more likely to do it to revolutionaries than passive aggression.
Me:  Absolutely. Hell, if anything that would only STRENGTHEN the state's legitimacy and worsen ours."See? You DO need us to protect you from those violent evil anarchists!" "You're an anarchist? Like THOSE assholes? Fuck off."  He IS aware of the ideological state, right? That is, the horizontal slave-on-slave attacks are what keeps the state existing, yes? Hell, he even hinted at it in his previous article. You do not convince people by threatening them...you do not get respect by being as asshole (thinking of that Dr Phil quote).
Hawkeye:  Yeah, we're at the stage where now they're trying to mock us and doing a pretty bad job of it.  They can't shoot us, they'll just make martyrs.
Me:  Not to mention him saying that opens up cans of worms like, "You mean like the Spanish Anarchists who took over parts of Spain during the Spanish Civil War? The one that was just as bad as communism?" Because that IS an actual rebuttal against anarchism I've gotten.
Yup.  Hell, we need only look at history to refute his bogus claims. "Anarchists" HAVE tried killing politicians (about a dozen or so in the past 150 years) and lo and behold: the state is still here! And with people looking to them as examples of the evils of anarchy...funny how that works, huh?
Hawkeye:  Oh yeah, he has an answer to that, let them think we're terrorists!  He really doesn't get it; our enemy is not the politicians.  They're just people profiting from the situation.
Me:  Indeed. Our enemy is dogma; specifically the illusions of the state's legitimacy.
Hawkeye:  It's like arguing that we'd have atheism if we just burned down all the churches.  It doesn't work that way.
Me:  Damn it. Beat me to it. lol Yeah, exactly.
Hawkeye:  What we're trying to do is create another cultural enlightenment.  It DOES work, it's been done before.  Once slavery was morally accepted, now you can't sell the idea to people.  It's dead.
Me:  Yup. Enlightenment era before that too. And before that, the Renaissance.  And even *if* Cantwell and his supporters were to succeed on that (and that's a HUGE if), all it would do is legitimize the idea that the initiation of force is golden to achieve what you want. If even children have bullshit detectors for hypocrisy, you can bet they do as adults.  As a wise man once said: Be the change you want to see in the world, or GTFO.

[Altimadark]

Anger as Stonegate hedge fund fare dodger 'buys silence'

Southeastern, a rail company in the UK, caught a man who dodged rail fares for some 5 years. The man, who happens to be a hedge fund manager, paid back the estimated fares and legal fees in an out-of-court settlement in order to avoid the courts and remain anonymous. TSSA, a rail union, is outraged, not because the settlement wasn't enough or something like that, but because the man didn't go to court and remained anonymous.

Highlighted fail is that of Manuel Cortes, leader of the TSSA, though he's not alone on this:

"There seems to be one law for the rich and one law for the poor when it comes to criminal prosecution.

I admit, I don't know the UK rail system OR the UK legal system, but what "law" did the hedge fund manager break here which requires him to go to court?

"The rich seem to be able to walk away and claim secrecy while the poor get hauled up in front of the local magistrates court and publicly ridiculed.

"This guy can buy silence, but that isn't offered to most people who are caught fare dodging."

Pardon my simple-mindedness, but maybe the problem is less that "the rich" can walk away, and more that "the poor" are getting hauled up and ridiculed. Did you even stop to consider that, Cortes?

[dallen68]

Pardon my simple-mindedness, but maybe the problem is less that "the rich" can walk away, and more that "the poor" are getting hauled up and ridiculed. Did you even stop to consider that, Cortes?

I wouldn't be surprised if that was his point.

[Altimadark]

I wouldn't be surprised if that was his point.

Oh definitely, it's just from the statists' POV.

[Skm1091]

head desk X1000000000000000000000000000000

[Travis Retriever]

head desk X1000000000000000000000000000000

False dilemma up in this bitch...
Fact--each regulator hired by the government costs us 150 jobs.  Solution: fire all the regulators and get rid of government (no more 'government debt' because no more government) and solve both problems.