Fail Quotes

[Travis Retriever]

The botttom two are not fail, but the top one is major epic fail:



Actually, Finland does have mandatory testing. It also has higher standards for hiring teachers. And most European countries allow parents the autonomy of where their children attend school. (And yet, "school choice" here in the states is considered regressive!)

@middle pic--actually, last I checked, addiction rate is independent of policy.  It's because of how people are wired.  It's been around 1.3%, regardless of the gov't is doing.
@bottom pic--Is this person fucking retarded?  We DID bail people out.  Has he not heard of the wall street bail outs?

[AnCap Dave]

Excuse me while I vomit.

[AnCap Dave]

[dallen68]

Are the Christians admitting Jesus is behind 9/11?

[Skm1091]

Excuse me while I vomit.

*Barf*

[MrBogosity]

Pretty much everything MegaAstroDude has said ever, especially on this video, culminating with the claim, "buying a product [is] essentially one form of investing."

How economically ignorant do you have to be not to realize that consumption and investment are two entirely different things?

[tnu]

Outside of Libertarian la-la land in which everyone would be lovely to each other if only the government would leave them alone - Britain has a real problem.

When I posted my utter "SHOCK!" that the Brish government was overstepping its boundaries and abusing its power. one of our regulars decided to post that. nevermind the fact that I never in my statement MADE such a claim.

And TNU, you can toot your armchair philosophy, but I'm pretty damn appreciative for the way my government preemptively handled a potential commercial train derailment (which required keen monitoring based on tips about radicalism and intent).

I also got this form one of our more openly statist members. is it just me or is he saying "I approve therefor the government is justified in forcing it onothers who don't"?

[Dukect45]

From Dim I mean Dem Senator Dick Durbin

"But here is the bottom line – the media shield law, which I am prepared to support, and I know Sen. Graham supports, still leaves an unanswered question, which I have raised many times: What is a journalist today in 2013?

We know it's someone that works for Fox or AP, but does it include a blogger? Does it include someone who is tweeting? Are these people journalists and entitled to constitutional protection. We need to ask 21st century questions about a provision that was written over 200 years ago."

Well my response

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[MrBogosity]

From Dim I mean Dem Senator Dick Durbin

Well my response

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Indeed. Constitutional protections aren't things people are "entitled to." They're rights that we have, and that government is not allowed to take away from any individual, for any reason. You and I are part of the press.

[Travis Retriever]

@Shane & Dukect45:  Or as someone who wrote that article at Mises.org "The Fight Against Intellectual Property" put it, those rights come from self ownership and precede the formation of government--it didn't create them.  This is clear in the wording of the Bill of Rights itself "X shall not be infringed".

[MrBogosity]

@Shane & Dukect45:  Or as someone who wrote that article at Mises.org "The Fight Against Intellectual Property" put it, those rights come from self ownership and precede the formation of government--it didn't create them.  This is clear in the wording of the Bill of Rights itself "X shall not be infringed".

Indeed. Also, check out Jim Babka's comments when I had him on the podcast. He made this very same point about how you and I are a press.

[BlameThe1st]

The ironic thing is that the free market will ensure that the XBOX One fails. Consumers do not want to buy a system that tracks their every movement, that prevents them from playing used or borrowed games without paying a fee, and which is not backwards compatible with previous systems. No. Theses consumers are going to buy from the competitors whose systems don't pull that crap. This will force Microsoft to either revise their system due to consumer demands, or pull out of the home console market. That's how the market works.

[BlameThe1st]

Excuse me while I vomit.

Not sure why this is fail. Seems pretty moving to me.

[BlameThe1st]

I confess that I actually love Chris Hedges' columns. This is the same man who sued the Obama administration over the indefinite detention provision within the NDAA 2012. So this man deserves our respect.

However, although I love it when he rails against the state and military-industrial complex, his opinions on capitalism are little to be desired, as is the case with his recent column:

There is nothing in 5,000 years of economic history to justify the belief that human societies should structure their behavior around the demands of the marketplace. This is an absurd, utopian ideology. The airy promises of the market economy have, by now, all been exposed as lies. The ability of corporations to migrate overseas has decimated our manufacturing base. It has driven down wages, impoverishing our working class and ravaging our middle class. It has forced huge segments of the population—including those burdened by student loans—into decades of debt peonage. It has also opened the way to massive tax shelters that allow companies such as General Electric to pay no income tax. Corporations employ virtual slave labor in Bangladesh and China, making obscene profits. As corporations suck the last resources from communities and the natural world, they leave behind, as Joe Sacco and I saw in the sacrifice zones we wrote about, horrific human suffering and dead landscapes. The greater the destruction, the greater the apparatus crushes dissent.

Gentlemen, prepare your pwnage.

[tnu]

Gentlemen, prepare your pwnage.

Too easy the bolded statement pretty much explains how little he knows about the subject. Human behavior doesn't structure itself around the demands of the marketplace. The marketplace structures itself around the demands of human behavior. Shane also has a recent video on why companies move themselves overseas and what most people don't consider int hat regard. If it were possible to compete in today's corrupted market without moving over seas then the companies would instead keep both domestic and overseas prodeuction instead of shutting down the domestic production entierly as that would maximize profits. (I think I'm getting that right. If i'm misudnerstandign the poitns in your Video Shane pelase correct me.)