Fail Quotes

[Travis Retriever]

--from http://blamethe1st.deviantart.com/journal/Daily-Pony-Ponies-and-Smartphones-459652037
Nostalgic/good 'ol days fallacy at its finest.

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

[Travis Retriever]

https://kevinjdog.livejournal.com/759938.html?nojs=1
"Yay Obama!
I've got so much to say about this, that I don't know where to start. First, it was brave during an election year. Second, fellow liberals, please don't rain on the parade right now by saying "yeah, but he hasn't done X, has he?" Have the decency to at least wait a bit. And third, maybe in my lifetime I can legally bring English miceys over to be by my side. "
(He's referring to his fiance' in the last sentence.)  Oh, you naive, special pleading fool...

https://kevinjdog.livejournal.com/752179.html?nojs=1
Because drone strikes, continued war, more bailouts and more socialism and mass murder worse than Bush like the republicans/conservatives is apparently 'enlightenment'...

[Travis Retriever]

A lot of the comments here: http://washingtonexaminer.com/this-libertarian-pizza-deliverer-could-cost-republicans-the-senate/article/2549393/comments#disqus_thread

"This up coming election is a MUST WIN" Funny how I hear that EVERY election...

"Then you have the Libertarians. A party founded by a socialist Democrat, David Nolan, who was mad at the College Republicans for not allowing him to dictate how they run their organization. They claim to be socially Liberal and fiscally Conservative, but they conveniently leave out the part that social Liberalism requires a lot of taxes to pay for Sandra Fluke's birth control and other socially Liberal programs. Raising minimum wage is just as crippling to the economy as raising taxes or introducing more regulations. You are either one or the other but you can't be socially liberal while being fiscally conservative. Oh, and the opposite of "authoritarianism" is not "Libertarian"; it's anarchy. Unless you enjoy living in the hood, Libertarian is not what this country needs at all. They dangle pot legalization out there so the burned out, low information crowd gives the appearance of a growing organization. The party was only created in order to divide the Republican vote. Don't be fooled. Ironically, they are the first to call Republicans "RINO" for acting like Republicans instead of Libertarians."

And then there's all the conspiritards saying that Haugh (who is a friend of mine, BTW) is secretly being paid for by Democratic interests. Oh, if only!

Edit: My Ra, they just won't stop! "A vote for a Libertarian is a vote for a Democrat."

Especially this paperpushermj guy: "I am a Conservative and as much as I dislike the Entrenched Republican Establishment I at least believe they will listen to My concerns and be Influenced."

Every single comment by paperpushermj is a fail, that much is certain.  Love the conspiracy mongers going on about how he was funded by the democrats...So did we land on the moon or not?
And as far ad hominem, As TJ once said, an ad hominem is NOT when someone is personally insulted.  Calling a pillock a pillock is not an ad hominem, it's only when you try to use that to refute his position.  Sheesh.  He even posted a dictionary definition where the first definition was of emotional appeal not of ad hominem, so I guess he's just that fucking stupid.

[Travis Retriever]

Prodius on that libertarian pizza person article Shane's been commenting on:
"I as a Constitutional Conservative know exactly what Libertarians are.
The problem is many Libertarians do not know. When you discuss economics with a Libertarian and they have no idea who Carl Menger is then you know it's just a confused Liberal.
I have no problem with Libertarians, I do have a problem with Liberals posing as Libertarians."

>>Knows who Carl Menger is
>>Still calls himself a conservative.
Not sure if he's either really bad as processing information about the world around him, or if he's just straight up lying.
Folks, conservatives have NEVER and are NOT limited/small/anti-government.  Never have been.  Never will be.  We have *HUNDREDS* of years of evidence to back this up.  1st rule of politics--saying =\= doing.  Hell, just look at what they did to Ron Paul in the 2008 and 2012 elections.  Breaking the law, their own rules, etc.  They've made it 100% crystal clear that libertarians and libertarian ideas are not fucking welcome, much less a part of their ideology.
And really? Just not knowing who he is makes you a liberal? Non sequitor much? Here's a few more names you probably don't know about:  Murray Rothbard, Harry Browne, Ludwig von Mises, Mary J Ruwart, Lysander Spooner, Stefan Molynuex, Chrisopher Cantwell, Henry Hazlitt, Frederick Bastiat and countless others.  No, what makes a person a libertarian is whether or not they believe and adhere to the NAP and the principle of self ownership.  THAT is what a libertarian makes, you conservative tool.

At least Shane did a good job responding back:  "I as a Libertarian know what Libertarians are better than you do. And I DEFINITELY have a problem with conservatives posing as Libertarians, which is a FAR bigger problem than liberals doing so."

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

Why is it that creationist always know nothing about evolution?
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10152481739639669
There is so much fail in this video.

[ArtemisVale]

From a "stop gun violence" group

[Ibrahim90]

and trample the noticeably absent from foot thing we people here call "Liberty"

[Altimadark]

I know I'm going into semantics or aesthetics or whatever, but I do wonder, what is the likelihood of getting envenomed by stepping on a rattlesnake barefoot? I do imagine that was the point of the Gadsden flag -- you don't trample liberty for the same reason you don't step on venomous snakes.

Hmm, I kinda want to make an edit of this poster with more accurate labels. What think you of these?:
Humanity Dogmatism
Civility Ignorance
Democracy Partisanship
Reason Emotion

The snake needs a "Liberty" label, too, since at least one person has clearly forgotten what it represents...

[Travis Retriever]

I know I'm going into semantics or aesthetics or whatever, but I do wonder, what is the likelihood of getting envenomed by stepping on a rattlesnake barefoot? I do imagine that was the point of the Gadsden flag -- you don't trample liberty for the same reason you don't step on venomous snakes.

Hmm, I kinda want to make an edit of this poster with more accurate labels. What think you of these?:
Humanity Dogmatism
Civility Ignorance
Democracy Partisanship
Reason Emotion

The snake needs a "Liberty" label, too, since at least one person has clearly forgotten what it represents...

Indeed.  And considering it's from an anti-gun group, as usual, their argument fails because they special plead for the state, as usual.

[MrBogosity]

Why is it that creationist always know nothing about evolution?
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10152481739639669
There is so much fail in this video.

Because if they did they wouldn't be creationists.

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

http://billmoyers.com/2014/03/13/tackling-student-debt-and-the-privatization-of-education/

[evensgrey]

http://billmoyers.com/2014/03/13/tackling-student-debt-and-the-privatization-of-education/

Never mind that student debt is only a problem because government insists on inflating it by putting in loan support of various types so that people will qualify when they wouldn't otherwise, and then also make this a special kind of debt that you cannot clear through bankruptcy (putting it on the same footing as punitive damages, the part of a civil judgement that is explicitly applied as punishment).

[BlameThe1st]

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2014/06/11/disturbingly-true/#comments

Not so much the cartoon as the comments. Most of them are "Dur Hur! Reich-Wing Re-Thug-licans are violent thugs." Like this one:

It would have been funny if it weren't so true. I suspect the main reason behind conservatives' push to allow guns on college campuses, coupled with hideously broad stand – your – ground laws, is to enable wingnuts to intimidate faculty and fellow students, and perhaps even execute people on occasion for insulting Baby Jesus and fictional Founding Fathers by doing science or denouncing slavery or whatever.

Really? Conservatives want guns on campus to shoot people they disagree with? I take it that, if I were to ask this woman to name one instance in which a college campus shooting was motivated by "reich-wing" politics, she would draw a blank.

They can rant about them "ebil reich-wingers" being domestic terrorists, but it doesn't negate the fact that the top domestic terrorist threats are eco-terrorists, and I doubt they vote for politicans with an R next to their names.

At least one commenter is trying to instill some nuance in the comments section. However, when he argues that Obama has just as much blood on his hands through his warmongering foreign policy, most of the others shirk him off. "Nuh uh! Dubya was far worse." Never mind that more drone strikes have been launched under Obama. Let's ignore Democrat warmongering and focus on dem ebil re-thug-licans.

Really, I hate conversations like this, because it focuses on the false left-right paradigm and enforces the illusion of choice, because, really, in the end, folks like me pretty much hate the Republicans too.

[Travis Retriever]

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2014/06/11/disturbingly-true/#comments

Not so much the cartoon as the comments. Most of them are "Dur Hur! Reich-Wing Re-Thug-licans are violent thugs."

I hate to say it but I actually lol'ed at the cartoon.  It had a very...libertarian undertone...put him in a police uniform and you see what I mean.

Like this one: [insert fucktarded comment here.]

Really? Conservatives want guns on campus to shoot people they disagree with? I take it that, if I were to ask this woman to name one instance in which a college campus shooting was motivated by "reich-wing" politics, she would draw a blank.

What's with these idiots going on about "reich-wingers?" They *do* know what the full name of Hitler's party was right?

They can rant about them "ebil reich-wingers" being domestic terrorists, but it doesn't negate the fact that the top domestic terrorist threats are eco-terrorists, and I doubt they vote for politicans with an R next to their names.

I'll have to remember that for later. >:3

At least one commenter is trying to instill some nuance in the comments section. However, when he argues that Obama has just as much blood on his hands through his warmongering foreign policy, most of the others shirk him off. "Nuh uh! Dubya was far worse." Never mind that more drone strikes have been launched under Obama. Let's ignore Democrat warmongering and focus on dem ebil re-thug-licans.

And of course, the Japanese Americans put into concentration camps under FDR.

Really, I hate conversations like this, because it focuses on the false left-right paradigm and enforces the illusion of choice, because, really, in the end, folks like me pretty much hate the Republicans too.

True that.

Also, can we just rightly assume that everything PZ Myers and the statheist wankers on that site post is a super fail at this point, and just put the main/homepage of the site in this thread to make it official?
Super fail: --> http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/