Fail Quotes

[Ibrahim90]

I talked about this issue in my Idiot Extraordinaire thread, but after looking at more clips from Letterman, he has exceeded douchebaggery that I thought only Bill Maher could go. Bill Maher, while he did make snide jokes, didn't get anywhere NEAR as bad as Letterman did. Letterman nearly gets to the point of bullying.

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I wouldn't call this fail. I would call this douchebaggery.

[AnCap Dave]

The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

I hate that god damned quote. Religitards use it all the time.

Sorry, if you can't provide evidence, I have no reason to believe your claim. Simple as that.

[Fixed quote --MrB]

[MrBogosity]

Sorry, if you can't provide evidence, I have no reason to believe your claim. Simple as that.

Not to mention the fact that absence of evidence ABSOLUTELY IS evidence of absence, when you look where the evidence should be and it isn't there.

[Ibrahim90]

Not to mention the fact that absence of evidence ABSOLUTELY IS evidence of absence, when you look where the evidence should be and it isn't there.

that is indeed the case, though I would argue (facetiously), that it's better to have no evidence of sth where it ought to be, then to have that very evidence, where it ought not to be.

ok, so it is a cynical reference to a recent incident with one of my subscriptions (Dawahfilms), but you get the idea. needless to say, it left me seriously disturbed-and a little bit wiser.

[MrBogosity]

TCupUK in these comments: http://www.youtube.com/all_comments?v=-9ZAEUyBATw

If he's not one of those League of Reason yahoos, he'd fit in very well there!

[Ibrahim90]

TCupUK in these comments: http://www.youtube.com/all_comments?v=-9ZAEUyBATw

If he's not one of those League of Reason yahoos, he'd fit in very well there!

he would.

the first comment in particular made me laugh:

1:03 Mass is a measure of matter. Weight is a measure of force.

We weigh less on the moon in KG, or (N) but our mass remains the same.

100 kg measure in (N) on earth would = 980 newtons. The conversion is 9,8 to convert KG in to (N). Fact! fact! fact!

he just contradicted himself: kg is in fact the unit of mass, yet at the same time he is saying that it changes, depending on the location. so is mass synonymous with weight, or is it indeed the measure of mass?

and of course, converting kg to newtons is not done that way. it is simply F=m.a, with a being gravitational accelaration. it only happens to be 9.8 m/s^2 on Earth. of course, he only needed to watch your video, or if he was so set against you, just crack up a physics book: it's not going to say anything different.

[MrBogosity]

Full of fail: http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/10/libertarians_and_partisanship.html

Context: He's responding to claims from Reason Magazine writers that he's "partisan."

Examples:

"Obviously, being a conservative or a liberal makes you far more likely to agree with one party most of the time. It's important, though, to distinguish between ideological agreement and partisanship. My views tend to place me close to the center of the Democratic Party. I'm in favor of universal health care, education reform, more progressive taxation, lower deficits, hawkish internationalism—the principles generally advanced by figures like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama."

Um, sorry Chait, but it's neither one. Partisanship applies equally well to someone blindly following the PRINCIPLES behind a party even when individual members of that party--including the party leadership--go against them. What makes one not be a partisan is not whether he blindly follows the people or the principles, but that he blindly follows either one, as opposed to reaching his conclusion from a rational examination of reality.

Why do you think they called their magazine "Reason"?

"It's certainly true that libertarians are not going to be partisan. Yet the mere fact that your views are too marginal to find representation in a political party does not make them independent."

Um, yeah, it does! In fact, it's hard to get any more independent than that! Besides, he seems to be saying that there's something wrong with Libertarians because our views are "marginal." Which must mean that more mainstream views are ipso facto more acceptable--isn't that just further evidence of his partisanship?

"If you're going to automatically oppose any military intervention, new spending programs, or regulation, and automatically favor every tax cut, you're hardly unbound by dogma."

Let's rephrase it a bit: "If you're going to automatically oppose any act of mass murder, theft of money, or prohibitions on peaceful people trying to find work, you're hardly unbound by dogma." Seems to me he has a peculiar definition of what "dogma" is! Apparently, to him, dogmatists are people who don't use newspeak.

Major fail alert: "In the same way, communists, UFO conspiracy theorists and followers of Lyndon LaRouche are very non-partisan, but this doesn't tell you anything terribly flattering about their ability to think for themselves." But wait, I though you were trying to claim that you WERE non-partisan? Now it seems like you're trying to defend being partisan! Which is it, Chait?

And he ends with the inevitable deflection: "People like Welch and Gillespie want their readers to judge arguments by using the heuristic of which person is more "partisan," as opposed to which makes the more compelling and intellectually honest case. Their motivation for doing so is obvious."

Maybe they think that you're partisan BECAUSE you don't make the more compelling and intellectually honest case! Ever thought about that, Chait?

[Travis Retriever]

In the comments of Shane's "Are you a libertarian?" video, this comment:

"No, as I'm not a fucking moron."--maersklandro

More douchebag than fail, but I think it deserved mention for being a nice, concise fail.

[AnCap Dave]

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Pat Condell: DEY JUST DUN LYK JEWZ.

[AnCap Dave]

The basic premise of this video is fundamentally flawed. Libertarians always rail against the government for supposedly curtaining "liberty" through economics, but then seem oblivious to the fact that individuals and corportations can abuse economics just as badly. It's really amazing how they are so paranoid about the gov and so naive about big business. Libertarians are really just communists who have replaced "big government" with "big business." Real liberty means balancing between both.

That comment was in this video:
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[Lord T Hawkeye]

When asked about the legal issues with the social contract, what's ol' Billburns got?

"@lordthawkeye

Your stance on these issues is childish - always has been. The SC is no different to private contracts. This inconvenient fact isn't going to change however much you stamp your feet and shout NOT FAIR.

I'm done with you - get back to your computer games"

Craven, fascist gas bag...
Fuck you Billburns.  You make VenomfangX look clever.

[FSBlueApocalypse]

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Starts with, "Its the government's job to protect the people" and goes full speed ahead

[Travis Retriever]

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Starts with, "Its the government's job to protect the people" and goes full speed ahead

Check out HowTheWorldWorks critique to it.  It's far from perfect--a C- to Lord T Hawkeye's A+, but it's still better than the F- that is "The Story of Stuff".

[AnCap Dave]

This is a bit old now, but I the fail is just so strong that it has to be posted:

I do warn you ahead of time though that this fail contains Janeane Garofalo so be warned.
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By the way, if this was posted already....well it deserves to be posted again.

[AnCap Dave]

From steelhamster on Shane's latest video:
"I'm scratching my head, do the libertarians REALLY think the government is the Great Satan?

They are all bought and paid for by corporations and special interests such as the Koch Brothers.

The fallacy that government decides anything without consulting their paymasters is rather insulting.

Libertarians and those on the left should be actively trying to get back their government, so it truly is of the people."