Fail Quotes

[Goaticus]

Failure from Objectivist quarters.

One votes fot the person whose election will most improve--or least destroy, one's life. Voting for someone who cannot win does neither of these. I am an Objectivist, not a Libertarian, and this issue clarifies the distinction nicely. An Objectivist believes that the standard of value is human life--more specifically his own life and acts accordingly. An Objectivist will recognize legitimate cause for government. Liberty is seen as a DERIVATIVE of the standard, life. Libertarians, by contrast, value Liberty as their standard and find life to be the derivative. So, they will vote for Liberty even as it destroys their lives.

I rip him a new one based on the fact that Ayn Rand didn't vote in numerous elections and make fun of their life qua man non-argument and how John Galt threatened to commit suicide many times in Atlas Shrugged if he had to choose the lesser of two evils.

His next volley of fail.

Congrats--I didn't vote for almost 40 years; I haven't seen a candidate until the recent increase in citizen-politicians that remotely came close to having more virtues than flaws. There is a climate now that should make the Republican nominee "better" than he might otherwise be in another time. And yes, Romney has more virtues than flaws--many of which he earns by default by not being Obama.

Yes, he's voting exactly two times in 40 years, once for Nixon's second term and once for Romney. I'm however a nihilist for not supporting the lesser of two evils a status I still maintain Romney has not earned.

Next bit of fail.

‎"No virtues." Congrats. You have described an inability to distinguish Romney from Charles Manson.

No actual virtues mentioned except not being Obama. A virtue that I maintained Manson shares and Manson didn't start Romneycare. Something that makes it impossible to argue against Obamacare.

What followed next was a lot of "collectivist", "nihilist", "sense of life" crap.

[Goaticus]

From youtube user freethinkerFTW "If you had taken Economics in college you'd know Milton Friedman is a Keynesian".

[MrBogosity]

From youtube user freethinkerFTW "If you had taken Economics in college you'd know Milton Friedman is a Keynesian".

Wow, a Chicago-school Monetarist is a Keynesians. What video did he say that on?

[Goaticus]

 

Wow, a Chicago-school Monetarist is a Keynesians. What video did he say that on?

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Oh yeah, and he claims to have a degree in Economics.

[Travis Retriever]

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I probably wouldn't take this one as seriously if I hadn't shown this to my mom years ago, and she said it was the 'sad truth'.

[AnCap Dave]

Conspiratardation is a stupid thing.

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[AnCap Dave]

My cousin Jimmy strikes again!

He posted this piece of fail in regards to this picture:

Killing someone "can" ruin your life. So if I catch you killing someone, I'm sending you to jail and ruining your life. Silly poster considering all the programs that are set up to help drug addicts and the many that are mandated through the court system that sometimes take the place of a prison sentence. Not to mention that less than a certain amount of marijuana is an infraction in many places these days.

[Goaticus]

Not to mention that less than a certain amount of marijuana is an infraction in many places these days.

Not to mention other peoples drug use are none of his business in any place on any day.

[MrBogosity]

My cousin Jimmy strikes again!

Um, he doesn't get that killing ruins SOMEONE ELSE'S life?

[AnCap Dave]

Um, he doesn't get that killing ruins SOMEONE ELSE'S life?

I'm sure he gets it. He's just making a shitty comparison.

[MrBogosity]

Change.org fail:

Petition to have a woman moderator at the US Presidential debates has over 112,000 signatures: http://www.change.org/petitions/it-s-time-for-a-woman-moderator-equality-in-the-2012-presidential-debates

Petition to get rid of the ridiculous polling requirement and allow third party candidates only has 20: http://www.change.org/petitions/ask-the-cpd-to-bring-fairness-to-the-presidential-debates?share_id=oAbsKHVnlP&utm_campaign=petition_page&utm_source=share_petition

Talk about screwed-up priorities!

[Travis Retriever]

http://www.cracked.com/article_19893_the-6-weirdest-things-that-statistically-lower-crime.html

Fair warning:  I was only able to get through the first 1 (maybe two? I can't remember.) of the items on this list.
The fail started for me when he said "crime rates are the lowest ever".  Unless he has figures to back that up, showing that applies to before, and not just after, the war on drugs, it's bogus.

[evensgrey]

http://www.cracked.com/article_19893_the-6-weirdest-things-that-statistically-lower-crime.html

Fair warning:  I was only able to get through the first 1 (maybe two? I can't remember.) of the items on this list.
The fail started for me when he said "crime rates are the lowest ever".  Unless he has figures to back that up, showing that applies to before, and not just after, the war on drugs, it's bogus.

Some of them aren't too unlikely, such as the crime rate dropping as the cost of drugs plummeted in the early 90's (no brainer that people who commit crimes to feed drugs habit will commit fewer crimes if drugs are cheaper), and Roe v. Wade coming in almost exactly 18 years before crime rates began dropping.  (The theory they point out is that since the women most likely to want abortions are poor, and/or single, and/or teenagers, and children born into such circumstances are more likely to become criminals, it follows that making it easier for women who want abortions to get them will result in fewer children born into situations that put them at higher risk of becoming criminals, and so there will be fewer criminals.)

[AnCap Dave]

Everyone who is boycotting Oreos because of their support for gay pride.

[Travis Retriever]

Everyone who is boycotting Oreos because of their support for gay pride.

Strange, why do I have this weird craving for Oreos now?