Fail Quotes

[VectorM]

No, actually, or at least not directly.  Marriage is a state affair (at least the way it's done now, with licenses and State restrictions on who can officiate) because of racism.  The real reason that governments took control of marriage in the US, at least, was to prevent black people and white people from marrying each other.

What I mean is, that the entire idea of state controlled marriage in the western world, historically, started because of religion. But i haven't really done much he research on it.

[Goaticus]

"Did you know every time you shop there you support the bombing of innocent people?"

Racist moron outside of Middle Eastern restaurant that I get takeout from.

My response was "Of course, but I don't know any restaurants that don't pay taxes."

[MrBogosity]

Good response!

[Travis Retriever]

"Did you know every time you shop there you support the bombing of innocent people?"

Racist moron outside of Middle Eastern restaurant that I get takeout from.

My response was "Of course, but I don't know any restaurants that don't pay taxes."

ZING!

[Ibrahim90]

"Did you know every time you shop there you support the bombing of innocent people?"

Racist moron outside of Middle Eastern restaurant that I get takeout from.

My response was "Of course, but I don't know any restaurants that don't pay taxes."

skip to 2:55:

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of course, since it's a must, here is more fail:

http://dinosaurtheory.com/thick_atmosphere.html

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jmor.10752/pdf

[Travis Retriever]

"@eshah100

I have read the program. not more than 5 of the 25 points are partially socialist. strasser from the NSDAP was only partly a socialist, Hitler wanted to protect the private property.

only because in the NSDAP the words "worker" and "socialist" are included does not mean that that the NSDAP was a socialist workers party."--flyingtractor
in this video's comment section:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_g6ctonQoGA

[AnCap Dave]

"Honestly, all I think they need is a good beatin'. My father did that to us and we turned out just fine." - my uncle

He said this in reference of his step kids whenever they "get out of line." This also includes his autistic step son.

[VectorM]

"Honestly, all I think they need is a good beatin'. My father did that to us and we turned out just fine." - my uncle

He said this in reference of his step kids whenever they "get out of line." This also includes his autistic step son.

Being a violent childbeater seems just fine, indeed.

So This documentary aired on the 12th Feb and I just heard about it and watched it on iPlayer. It paints a very bleak picture of the problem of poverty in the USA - the richest country in the world (tm). Where I live poor people automatically qualify for benefits as long as they make a fair effort toward finding work - that is not the case in the USA apparantly.

Here's the link for those that can view it:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode..._Poor_America/

Seems to me the USA needs a bit more socialism, except socialism means communism in the USA which is a dirty word associated with global nuclear holocaust...

Then you've got the problem of Barrack Obama being unwilling to alienate the 1% (multi-millionnaires) by increasing taxation of the richest/campaigning for worker's rights because those multi-millionnaires pick up the bill for campaign/propoganda necessary to ensure (re)election - if only there were a modest limit on campaign expenditure that wouldn't be a problem. I hear this issue is discussed from time to time but the unlimited campaign contributions angle wins out because to regulate otherwise would breach "freedom of speech". Hardly.

People keep saying "planned economies don't work." Well, unplanned economies don't work perfectly either and anyway they're massively planned/regulated already so the whole thing's a social anchovy stigmata word pickle. America needs more socialism...surely that much is true.

In the UK we've just started "employing" prisoners to work for a fraction of the minimum wage - a trick picked up by our neo-condem overlords from the other side of the pond. David Miliband's got a speech impediment - he couldn't run a pissup in a brewery. Some new socialism needed here too...it's a global problem really I bet.

http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?s=c346afaa0dc3134580f73a29949c3f7d&t=230515

[Ibrahim90]

Seems to me the USA needs a bit more socialism, except socialism means communism in the USA which is a dirty word associated with global nuclear holocaust...

maybe because communism is a particularly obnoxious variant of socialism, and that states that follow a true socialistic/communistic policy tend to you know, suck while they are at it? like Cuba, the former USSR, the People's (loln00b) republic of China, North Korea, Cambodia under Pol Pot?

oh, and because we had a 45-year cold war that involved two or three near incidents of outright nuclear war, like maybe the Cuban missile crisis?

just throwing it out there.....

People keep saying "planned economies don't work." Well, unplanned economies don't work perfectly either

apparently someone is denser than Uranium, since he seems to confuse people saying "it doesn't work" for "doesn't work perfectly". I do not primarily speak English-Arabic is my thing, but IIRC, these two essentially mean different things. or is there some unknown grammatical or lexical rule in English I'm missing?

and anyway they're massively planned/regulated already so the whole thing's a social anchovy stigmata word pickle. America needs more socialism...surely that much is true.

but wouldn't that automatically make those planned economies as well? and in turn, wouldn't that automatically ruin his entire premise that we need more economic planning? if so, why the fuck is he advocating even more planning? it sounds like a guy shooting a guy to heal said guy's gunshot wound.

I can only conclude that it's not more socialism we need-just that some people need to get a grip.....or a great big cup of STFU.

[Travis Retriever]

@Ibrahim90:  Nope, your understanding of English in this instance is accurate.

And yes, it really bewilders the mind how people can implicitly refer to a country with all 28 planks of the 1928 U.S. Socialist Party platform AND all 10 planks of the Communist Manifesto enacted for at least a decade now as a primarily capitalist nation.
They're cultists.  It's simple as that.

And yeah, I've been the route of posting bullshit from the JREF forum here.  Christ those people are fucking thick.  Some of the worst I've ever seen.  One of them (from Denmark IIRC) danced around the idea of government being force like a fucking pro.

[VectorM]

maybe because communism is a particularly obnoxious variant of socialism, and that states that follow a true socialistic/communistic policy tend to you know, suck while they are at it? like Cuba, the former USSR, the People's (loln00b) republic of China, North Korea, Cambodia under Pol Pot?

Later in the thread he said he might like it in Cuba, because the UK was such a free-market hellhole 

And I am pretty sure he has a load of excuses for the others. "But the USSR wasn't real communism; they would be fine if they didn't spend so much on the military; China has a planned economy and it works fine;" etc.

[Ibrahim90]

Later in the thread he said he might like it in Cuba, because the UK was such a free-market hellhole 

And I am pretty sure he has a load of excuses for the others. "But the USSR wasn't real communism; they would be fine if they didn't spend so much on the military; China has a planned economy and it works fine;" etc.

IIRC, there was a guy somewhere who made a video about how well Cuba is doing-at least with their truly socialist medicine:

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though frankly, I'm sure he'd accuse this guy (a Cuban-American of all people) of lying.

and of course, this asshole is going to gloss over the fact that the "gains" the USSR made cost it several million lives in the 1930's, or that China has been becoming increasingly freer in its economic policies*, and hence are ironically, increasingly more capitalist than the USA...srsly, whoever thought 30 years ago that such a thing would happen?


*of course, it's still a shit system, that will burn out sooner or later. and it's clearly not working equally: anyone here also know about the recent revolt in Southeastern China?

[Travis Retriever]

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It doesn't work.

[Ibrahim90]

try again. I made a mistake in linking it   

[VectorM]

Sigh, the top comment on that video:

are you Kidding me?
dude where I live Meds are sky high, ppl r dying 'cause they can't go to a good Hospital and all ur saying is this BS.
U wanna know why Cuba is the best 'cause they have a healthcare system similar to that of Europe or Japan.
and to be honest (and I mean no disrespect) most of the people who had fled Cuba for the US where the Fat Cats that lost everything once Castro came into power.
Viva La Revolucion Coñio!