Fail Quotes

[Ibrahim90]

Sigh, the top comment on that video:

you just have to love the mentality he has: it's little better than a conspiritard. I mean, he has the evidence graphically caught on tape, by doctors, and all he has is: "they're just butt-hurt fat-cats". yeah, which is why one of the sources he sights is a work by Canadian researchers, and another is some random tourist dude who recorded how his Cuban wife couldn't get into a hotel.

based on that, I'd have to say he didn't actually watch the video frankly. then again, I am assuming he is operating somehow, someway, on the more basic rules of logic. I doubt it, but at least it's out there.

[Ibrahim90]

not a fail quote, but a fail action:

-some student from a nearby room just got arrested or something because he was doing something that emitted a sickly sweet smell. I'm not sure what it is that would make that smell, but I suspect it's Marijuana or something, since this is Colorado.

yeah, I really am this clueless about drugs XD

[Altimadark]

Pretty much everything said by founoe in the comments on this video:

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He may or may not be trying to troll me; if he is, he's not doing a very good job.

One thing I had to point out was this little contradiction right here:

@Altimadark "then you shouldn't have a problem"

You'll pretty much say whatever crazy shit you have to rather than admit we need governments for certain things, don't you?

"rather than force everybody to pay for [The Large Hadron Collider] via taxation"

You see, the problem is that people are too dumb to know their own good. We need experts to tell us what we need.

I say that's a fail quote all on its own, but them I remembered this little gem:

@Altimadark "because government clearly has all the power"

No, that would be the exact opposite of what socialism strives for. Well, depending on how you put it. The people should be the government, and the power should lie with the people, so...

Who's the one saying whatever crazy stuff he has to?

[Travis Retriever]

Pretty much everything said by founoe in the comments on this video:

He may or may not be trying to troll me; if he is, he's not doing a very good job.

One thing I had to point out was this little contradiction right here:

I say that's a fail quote all on its own, but them I remembered this little gem:

Who's the one saying whatever crazy stuff he has to?

And this, boys and girls, is (one of) the contradictions of statism/socialism:  People are too stupid to rule themselves, ergo we need a state.  But who's going to make up that state besides those same stupid people.

Roughly the same idea, really.

[AnCap Dave]

"Freedom isn't about doing what you want to do, but what you ought to do." - Rick Santorum

[Travis Retriever]

"Freedom isn't about doing what you want to do, but what you ought to do." - Rick Santorum

I swear, it's taking me ever fiber of my being to not make a joke regarding lube (Click here, those of you who don't get the reference.).

[Ibrahim90]

"Freedom isn't about doing what you want to do, but what you ought to do." - Rick Santorum

but wouldn't that make Freedom=coercion by his definition?

[Travis Retriever]

but wouldn't that make Freedom=coercion by his definition?

Yes.

[VectorM]

And this, boys and girls, is (one of) the contradictions of statism/socialism:  People are too stupid to rule themselves, ergo we need a state.  But who's going to make up that state besides those same stupid people.

Roughly the same idea, really.

BUT WE WILL VOTE FOR SMART PEOPLE. AND EXPERTS.

[MrBogosity]

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It's not so much the faulty logic, it's the smarminess and the arrogance of him. This extends to the comments as well.

[Travis Retriever]

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Fail because of the constant conflation of Libertarian & Conservative and the slight tinge of Ron Paul worship near the end.

[Ibrahim90]

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It's not so much the faulty logic, it's the smarminess and the arrogance of him. This extends to the comments as well.

well, if you want my opinion, I find "theft" to be inaccurate.....

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it's too generic, and doesn't convey the violence involved.

I suggest Taxation=robbery instead. I argue this b/c theft is simply taking property without permission (granted, it's used as shorthand for things like Robbery, but still). Robbery is taking or attempting to take property by force or threat of force-which is what Government does.[/spoiler]

[Altimadark]

I'm not sure what's more depressing; that he's still going or that I am.

@founoe If you haven't measured how much funding basic research needs, how can you claim it doesn't get enough from the private sector?

Because it simply does not happen. Private enterprise does not, or very rarely, invest in something that is unlikely to yield a direct benefit. That is why we need government to do those investments for us, to open up new fields that can yield a direct benefit.

SRI International, RAND Corporation, HMMI, Monell Chemical Research Center, Bitterroot Basic Research, and Guidestar are all private firms engaged in basic research. Took me 5 minutes to look them up.

So I ask, how can you claim the private sector doesn't engage in enough basic research such that we need government to get involved?

"Took me 5 minutes to look them up."

That explains why the information is so useless.

"So I ask, how can you claim the private sector doesn't engage in enough basic research such that we need government to get involved?"

I don't know if you noticed, but all you did was to name a few organizations that handles basic research. But this says nothing. Government funded basic research is vastly bigger.

I'm getting more convinced that he's just trying to troll me, but who can say for sure?

[AnCap Dave]

[VectorM]

Some people are in to that, what cna you do?