Fail Quotes

[Travis Retriever]

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Every single comment by Maersklandro on the above video is an epic fail.  He seriously is saying that everything is a part of the free market. I wish I was making that up.

[evensgrey]

This fail is just too funny for words...

from the Detroit 2014 NasFic bid page http://detroitin2014.org/:

Prime downtown location in the center of a revitalized Detroit

Is anyone taking book on whether there's still going to BE a Detroit in a year's time?

[Travis Retriever]

I suspect this is bullshit, but can't quite pin my finger on it:

[evensgrey]

I suspect this is bullshit, but can't quite pin my finger on it:

Well, the summer stuff is obviously crap.  The 'continuing education' cited is actually the stuff DURING the school year.  You only have to do all that planning and preparation full-scale once if you do it properly, then just adjust it a bit to cover any curriculum adjustments each year.  Lesson planning and preparation is the same deal:  You do it once PROPERLY and you only have to tweek it afterwards (unless they dump a major curriculum change on you).  Almost no teachers provide out-of-class help sessions.  Meetings are actually pretty rare, home visits are unheard of, parent-teacher meetings (other than for major issues that normally go at least up to the school administration level) are no more than three a year.  Oh, and school days are six to seven hours long in most places in Canada (with at most 6 hours of instructional time, often about 5), often only 6 hours in the US, not eight.  Grading is mostly done during classes (while students are working on in-class work) or during recesses, lunch breaks, and free periods or while supervising areas that aren't apt to be rowdy.

I notice they list training twice for the summer, including the blatantly false claim that teachers keep up on the latest research in their field.  University professors are the only teaching personnel who do that, and not for the purpose of teaching (although I recall twice in microbiology courses having the proff come back from a conference just about bursting with excitement to tell us how some basic features of microbes we'd been taught earlier in the course were actually completely different after all). There are many fields where things haven't changed in decades.  English literature courses are usually static on a multi-decade level.  Math is the same.  Science courses change faster, but mostly because what was bleeding-edge stuff a century ago is high-school level now because of all the new stuff.

Oh yes, there's another obvious error:  Where do the teachers who teach summer school do all that stuff in the summer if they're busy teaching summer school (which is filled mostly with two kinds of kids, the ones who had a failing year and the ones who really excel and want to get ahead of their peers, both of which need more attention)?

There, that should be enough to be going on with.

[BlameThe1st]

The comic is called "Capitalism":

[AnCap Dave]

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[AnCap Dave]

[Altimadark]

Welp. More internet arguments, this time with one kitsumekat on deviantart. The thread starts here in response to this video/article: The Upward Spiral of Capitalism and the End of Poverty

More in there than I want to quote here, so here's a snippit; theirs in red and mine in blue:

Even in countries where free market is allowed to function, you still can't buy a piece of fruit because the price is too high.

Name first the countries where the free market is allowed to function and the poor are unable to afford food.

You're living in one. The US is still ranked in the top 10 of free market countries but have a crap load of programs to try and free the poor.

The US govt colludes with businesses to give competitive advantages to the politically connected. That's corporatism, not the free market.

By your standards? www.heritage.org/index/ranking The US is still in the top ten of being a free market country.

...the US (76/100) doesn't even fall into [the index's] "free" category, which supports my point that the US leans more towards a corporatist economy than a free market.

I guess Capitalism is Corporist (sic) then.

Gog it, why do I even bother with these kinds?

[Ibrahim90]

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yeah, Forward into the machine guns...

[evensgrey]

Welp. More internet arguments, this time with one kitsumekat on deviantart. The thread starts here in response to this video/article: The Upward Spiral of Capitalism and the End of Poverty

More in there than I want to quote here, so here's a snippit; theirs in red and mine in blue:

Even in countries where free market is allowed to function, you still can't buy a piece of fruit because the price is too high.

Name first the countries where the free market is allowed to function and the poor are unable to afford food.

You're living in one. The US is still ranked in the top 10 of free market countries but have a crap load of programs to try and free the poor.

The US govt colludes with businesses to give competitive advantages to the politically connected. That's corporatism, not the free market.

By your standards? www.heritage.org/index/ranking The US is still in the top ten of being a free market country.

...the US (76/100) doesn't even fall into [the index's] "free" category, which supports my point that the US leans more towards a corporatist economy than a free market.

I guess Capitalism is Corporist (sic) then.

Gog it, why do I even bother with these kinds?

If you actually look at the information on the page (which clearly the cultist didn't) it shows that the US is still in the top ten not because of changes in US policy (which actually lowered the rating from last year) but because the old number nine, Ireland, lowered its' rating by much more than the US did, dropping to eleven and leaving the US in the tenth place when it dropped behind DENMARK, of all places.

[evensgrey]

OK, here's some economic data I expect everyone here is at least passingly familiar with, the listings of debt to GDP ratios around the world:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_public_debt

Check out Finland.  The IMF and the CIA can't even agree whether Finland is in debt or not!  I'm leaning towards this being fail from the IMF, not just on the general principle that the IMF is fail in general, but because so many (although not all) of their numbers are substantially rosier than the CIA's.

[Travis Retriever]

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All pulled right out the ass, as is blatant to anyone who actually *watched* the show.

[Travis Retriever]

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15, 14, and 9 are epic fails.

[Altimadark]

Welp. More internet arguments, this time with one kitsumekat on deviantart. The thread starts here in response to this video/article: The Upward Spiral of Capitalism and the End of Poverty

And here's an update full of fail. Again, theirs in red and mine in blue:

Thanks for providing evidence that you don't care about anything which doesn't support your belief. Either you're saying the free market caused the starvation [at Plymouth Plantation], which means you're ignoring the fact that the socialist model was in place during that time, NOT the private property model, OR you're ignoring the substance of the argument entirely.

You keep bring up the free market model while failing to realize that in a free market, there would be no communial efforts. You think your fellow man will feed and clothe you just because?

Thanks for providing further evidence that you don't care about facts when they don't support your belief. Plymouth Plantation started off as a forced communal effort and nearly died out. When they switched to a free-market model, they thrived, in the face of worsening conditions, no less. You've been given the opportunity to ask why, and instead chose to again say it can't, contrary to the evidence.

Dogmatism at its finest.

[BlameThe1st]

Excuse me, I think I may be suffering from an aneurysm out of sheer stupidity.