Fail Quotes

[Ibrahim90]

Reminded me of this little gem by my conservatard former friend (the one in that thread).  It's going to be by memory, so it will be paraphrased, but the point will still be the same: "Israel belongs to the Israelitites.  It's THEIR land.  It was theirs over 2000 years ago.  They just simply reclaimed it." -- when talking about the abuse of Palestinians suffered at the hands of Israel.

that's a lot like OJ Simpson having the "right" to steal back his football paraphernalia because he used to own it a decade or more before, and it had since been bought/owned by another person. It's what it amounts to.

that, and he'd feel differently if he had his own family killed by just such people-like I did, as well as almost every Palestinian family.

of course, if any Jewish person wants to live in the holy land, that's fine, but they don't have the right to shoot us up for it. luckily, more and more people on both sides realize this. perhaps we can end this stupid game someday.

[Travis Retriever]

"Everyone needs to stop calling regulations "regulations" and call them what they are: the LAW. That way, it forces the LAW-haters, the corporate anarchists, to be on the defensive, rather than us, because it implies that THEY are always on the verge of breaking the LAW, if not breaking it already." --mphello in the comments of TheTruePooka's video on deregulation

[MrBogosity]

"Everyone needs to stop calling regulations "regulations" and call them what they are: the LAW. That way, it forces the LAW-haters, the corporate anarchists, to be on the defensive, rather than us, because it implies that THEY are always on the verge of breaking the LAW, if not breaking it already." --mphello in the comments of TheTruePooka's video on deregulation

That's inspiring me to go back and work some more on a video on the difference between laws and regulations.

[Travis Retriever]

"@asianlife53 This isn't hand wringing. It's calling the Conservatives and their supporters out on their bullshit rhetoric.

And contrary to what people think economics does not exist in a vacuum.

"The best things in life are free".

This refers to concepts like freedom, patriotism, a strong society. But these things are not free. They have to be worked at.

Conservative-free market apologists would tell you that isn't true while they shake your hand & pick your pocket." --TheTruePooka on his deregulation video

[MrBogosity]

Actually pretty much every comment of his is a fail quote.

[Lord T Hawkeye]

"Everyone needs to stop calling regulations "regulations" and call them what they are: the LAW. That way, it forces the LAW-haters, the corporate anarchists, to be on the defensive, rather than us, because it implies that THEY are always on the verge of breaking the LAW, if not breaking it already." --mphello in the comments of TheTruePooka's video on deregulation

Better yet, call them by their proper name: Opinions backed by guns.

[Goaticus]

Reminded me of this little gem by my conservatard former friend (the one in that thread).  It's going to be by memory, so it will be paraphrased, but the point will still be the same: "Israel belongs to the Israelitites.  It's THEIR land.  It was theirs over 2000 years ago.  They just simply reclaimed it." -- when talking about the abuse of Palestinians suffered at the hands of Israel.

I wonder if he would apply that logic to Native Americans living today.

[Goaticus]

 "the best things in life are free"

So are some of the worse, like cancer and herpes.

[Travis Retriever]

I wonder if he would apply that logic to Native Americans living today.

ZING!

[Ibrahim90]

I wonder if he would apply that logic to Native Americans living today.

that would assume consistency in his thoughts. I see no evidence of that here...

[Travis Retriever]

The state cultist(s) who made this comic are projecting so hard they could do PowerPoint presentations:

[MrBogosity]

It's precisely the fallacy I've been calling the Cult on for years: they think the economy is this separate thing--a robot, in this case, or some kind of Star Trek energy being or something. Of course, sensible people know that the market is just you and me and the other 300,000,000 people in the country making the decisions we make throughout the day every day. The market is US.

[Travis Retriever]

It's precisely the fallacy I've been calling the Cult on for years: they think the economy is this separate thing--a robot, in this case, or some kind of Star Trek energy being or something. Of course, sensible people know that the market is just you and me and the other 300,000,000 people in the country making the decisions we make throughout the day every day. The market is US.

Indeed.

The cultists LOVE to twist that around and say, "We are the government."  "This government is by/for We The People."

[Goaticus]

From Wages and Values, Paul Krugmans latest blog entry.

"Should we really be surprised that young men, confronting the reality that they won't earn anything near as much in real terms as their fathers did — and that they will be even further from having what society sees as an adequate income, because even Adam Smith acknowledged the importance of social norms in defining prosperity — don't marry and raise families the way the previous generation did?"

Even if the income thing was true, people in other countries and previous generations throughout history had higher marriage rates.

[Travis Retriever]

From Wages and Values, Paul Krugmans latest blog entry.

"Should we really be surprised that young men, confronting the reality that they won't earn anything near as much in real terms as their fathers did — and that they will be even further from having what society sees as an adequate income, because even Adam Smith acknowledged the importance of social norms in defining prosperity — don't marry and raise families the way the previous generation did?"

Even if the income thing was true, people in other countries and previous generations throughout history had higher marriage rates.

Not to mention the Adam Smith jab was an attempt to pin the blame on free markets.  You know, that thing we haven't had in at least a century...