Fail Quotes

[AnCap Dave]

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[BlameThe1st]

Because austerity is teh ebil and has never ever helped an economy recover from a recession...except of course for Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Switzerland, Canada, Chile, Ireland, New Zealand, and Post-WWII America.

[dallen68]

Because austerity is teh ebil and has never ever helped an economy recover from a recession...except of course for Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Switzerland, Canada, Chile, Ireland, New Zealand, and Post-WWII America.

Except post-WWII America (1949-early 1960's) was on a spending spree after years (1942-1947/8) of enforced austerity.

Also, austerity programs don't really affect people who can't afford to buy whatever it is the austerity program is telling people not to buy. For example, if you do not have a car, it does not affect you if you're only allowed one set of tires and 5 gallons of gas a month.

[evensgrey]

Except post-WWII America (1949-early 1960's) was on a spending spree after years (1942-1947/8) of enforced austerity.

Also, austerity programs don't really affect people who can't afford to buy whatever it is the austerity program is telling people not to buy. For example, if you do not have a car, it does not affect you if you're only allowed one set of tires and 5 gallons of gas a month.

You're confused and using the wrong words.  1942 was the start of a WILD spending spree by the Us government called World War II.  What you're describing isn't austerity, but RATIONING.  And rationing certainly does have an impact on those who cannot use certain of the rations they are allocated:  They can sell them on the black market for things they can use.

In the immediate post-war period (starting promptly in 1946 when the military draw-down began in earnest) government spending fell precipitously, for pretty much the only time in US history.  Had there not been a convenient enemy to defend against (Stalin, who's incompetent intelligence system managed to send an order to kill someone who knew about almost all espionage against the US at the time directly to him, allowing him to escape and trade his knowledge for protection) it would have been difficult to get things going again.

[AnCap Dave]

[Travis Retriever]

...Um, why wouldn't white lives matter? Shouldn't all human life matter?

[Altimadark]

...Um, why wouldn't white lives matter? Shouldn't all human life matter?

Paraphrasing from a tweet (which would be another Fail Quote if I could find it), if you respond to #BlackLivesMatter with #AllLivesMatter or #HumanLivesMatter, you're not paying attention, because racism!

[AnCap Dave]

Paraphrasing from a tweet (which would be another Fail Quote if I could find it), if you respond to #BlackLivesMatter with #AllLivesMatter or #HumanLivesMatter, you're not paying attention, because racism!

They claim that's the same thing as going to someone's funeral and saying "I LOST SOMEBODY TOO"

I don't get it either.

[Ibrahim90]

...Um, why wouldn't white lives matter? Shouldn't all human life matter?

you're putting more thought into it than he is.

btw, just got notice: the total losses that day were 16 in number, of whom four were Jews, as well as a policeman or two.

[AnCap Dave]

[Travis Retriever]

So what's the story/deal with that hashtag?

[evensgrey]

So what's the story/deal with that hashtag?

The SJW's are pretending we shouldn't build support for free speech around an attempt to silence Charlie Hebdo because what they say is crap.

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

The SJW's are pretending we shouldn't build support for free speech around an attempt to silence Charlie Hebdo because what they say is crap.

Why do SJWs defend the worst people?

[evensgrey]

Why do SJWs defend the worst people?

They're claiming that they AREN'T defending the worst people, that's what they're labeling Charlie Hebdo as.  What they're ignoring is the fact that the most despicable are the people who must have their rights defended most vigorously for rights to be meaningful.

[Lord T Hawkeye]

So what's the story/deal with that hashtag?

Basically he's hoping nobody points out the fact that feminists have ignored Islam for years because they were too busy crying about shirts, hurty words and sitting postures.

Oops, I just pointed it out.  Guess his plan was a failure.