Fail Quotes

[FSBlueApocalypse]

While maybe not on property taxes, he is right on with how retirees work the system.

[AnCap Dave]

While maybe not on property taxes, he is right on with how retirees work the system.

Yeah, the fail I'm referring to is the idea that not wanting to pay local property taxes is considered "selfish."

[Houshalter]

[yt]XRv2Ymssrxo[/yt]

This entire video is a fail, but the comments are worse.

As a fellow shoplifter, I consider there to be a difference between big corporations and family-run corporations; I would not shoplift from small family-run businesses. And I wouldn't consider what I do to be "stealing". I call stealing one person taking from another person, but one person taking from a corporation is very different. Corporations (or better yet, private economic tyrannies) exist to profit. Good or bad, their motivation is money, and therefore hold no responsibility... ...or capability for remorse or humanity. That these institutions exist in the first place is stealing in my opinion. Its like the guy in the video said, "It is a way to carve out a little piece of the world for myself to act back upon a world that acts so much upon me."

the reason why stealing from a wal mart isnt so bad: if you would have millions of dollars would you care if they stole you 200$ dollars? its as if they stole you 10 cents or something like that

so feel free to steal! : )

[AnCap Dave]

[yt]XRv2Ymssrxo[/yt]

This entire video is a fail, but the comments are worse.

That was.....wow. Just wow.

[MrBogosity]

Geez...do these people have NO idea how much the price of everything increases due to shoplifting?

[AnCap Dave]

Geez...do these people have NO idea how much the price of everything increases due to shoplifting?

No, because they don't care. They think "herp derp I'm fightin' da powah herp derp."

Also, a fail quote of my own. I pointed out to a commenter on that video I put in this thread earlier about taxing the rich that taxation is coercion and therefore theft.

He responded in kind:

so you think that stealing is wrong, sometimes you have to do wrong to benifit the rest of society. Due to the fact that money is needed, we need to cut spending and keep money rolling in, we can then spend on social programs that will benifit EVERYONE

What a fucking moron.

[Ibrahim90]

[yt]XRv2Ymssrxo[/yt]

This entire video is a fail, but the comments are worse.

so anyone up for nominating that crimethInc as idiot extraordinaire for the week?

[AnCap Dave]

Geez...do these people have NO idea how much the price of everything increases due to shoplifting?

Read the comments again in that video. Funny you mention this, because one of the morons actually says something about it:

love this video...sadly i got busted and had to take some anti shop lifting class. They said all the cliche things...how people lose their jobs, prices go up...blah blah blah. Wrong. People get fired for their own stupidity. Prices dont go up. You see a DVD thats being sold for 19.99. I bet you plenty have lifted it and u go back bout a month later itll be the same price.

You know what, I'm almost thinking of nominating the supporters of that video for idiot extraordinaire. Holy shit some of them are completely mental.

The big corporations have to exist for people to steal from them. Hence, shoplifters depend on the existence of the stores they steal from. Therefore shoplifting depends on the continuation of capitalism. Get rid of capitalism, and shoplifting becomes unnesessary and redundant. Shoplifting is just more mindless consumersim.

[Ibrahim90]

You know what, I'm almost thinking of nominating the supporters of that video for idiot extraordinaire. Holy shit some of them are completely mental.

oh good, at least two people are now of that opinion.   

[Houshalter]

Another one from that video:

I think if you want to shoplift from major corporations, then shoplift. They are the greedy theivivng capatilists profiting form world hunger. Id rather burn a wal-mart to the ground with all the meaningles material stuff thats isnt really woth antything along with it. ANd too comtinue on in that fashion...WHOS WITH ME!!!!

Because Walmart's act of lowering prices for consumers causes third-world hunger. And all the stuff they sell is worthless - because it's material. And burning things we don't like to the ground is the best way to solve societies problems.

Sadly this is the top-rated comment.

[AnCap Dave]

Debunking Canadian health care myths

It is full of pure Bogosity. Shame it is a much older piece otherwise I would have nominated it for Biggest Bogon Emitter.

[FSBlueApocalypse]

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[FSBlueApocalypse]

Same guy on twitter

How can libertarians who rail against Govt choosing winners and losers justify any diff in capital gains and income tax rates?

JonLoesche

@SamSeder Why do we have either in the first place?

SamSeder
@JonLoesche because Americans insist on certain services from their Govt which need to be funded- ur turn to answer my Q

JonLoesche
@SamSeder @sunshineempire But how is giving massive subsidies and regulations that favor the politically connected not picking and choosing?

SamSeder
@JonLoesche I have no problem w/ idea of picking&choosing- I sometimes take issue w/ the choices but that's a policy debate

[VectorM]

Red is them, green is me:

Um, it's government sponsored television. You pay for it, even if you've never had a TV set in your life.
Hell, in this game, you can block the ads. Try not paying some of your taxes and see what happens then...

What? I pay for the BBC through the licence fee. If I have no tv I don't have to buy a licence. It's not a tax

It's the same here in Sweden. If you don't have a TV, you don't pay a licence fee. No tax funding.

That is indeed better than paying for it anyway, but why should you have to pay for a channel that you might never watch?

Because it's public service. Everyone with a TV has access to it, which means everyone with a TV has to pay for it. It would not be tenable to have a public service television where you only pay if you watch - they couldn't afford programming. The only way to deal with it would be ads or taxes (or those pathetic Telethons, that PBS are forced into in the U.S.). I'd argue that most people here in Sweden, at least, are very happy to have channels (five of them, one of which is only re-runs of public service programmes, and HD versions for the two big channels) where programmes are not interrupted by commercials, and taxes would be unfair to the people who don't actually own a TV.

It may not be a perfect system, but it's one that works. It even survives the a-holes who avoid paying, because most people are actually honest enough to do it.

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[yt]poT0X-JRrOE[/yt]

I can own his argument about internet speeds, by simply showing him mine. And my cost. And my completely unlimited bandwidth.

[Lord T Hawkeye]

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