Fail Quotes

[Travis Retriever]

Also adding this, which was said in the conversation above:

North Korea doesn't pay taxes?!  Is he on mad crack or something?  They're the most economically repressed state in the world.  All they pay IS taxes.

[Travis Retriever]

And the FAIL just keeps on coming:

Yeah, that's why electrical monopolies generate more energy than they can sell...that's why DeBeers puts more diamonds on the market than they can sell...geez! I don't think I've ever seen a statist this deluded before.

When I saw him say that monopolies produce more than competitive markets, I freakin' facepalmed.  I mean, come on!  This is something even a fucking socialist would be calling bullshit to.

In light of such statements from this guy, I thought I might be misunderstanding him when he spoke about profits being zero in a competitive market, but given his behavior with you, it sounds more like he realized he was caught saying something fucking retarded and simply pulled a semantics/retrofit card to change what he said to be what I said (the crap with opportunity cost, etc).
Really, I've never seen a statist this economically illiterate.  And this is coming from a guy who has debated (or at least watches people debate) "anarcho"-communismsts/socialists/primitivists/syndicalists.

[MrBogosity]

Also adding this, which was said in the conversation above:

Just looking at NK: a 50% consumption tax, 25% Foreign Investment tax, and a 20% Dividend Income Tax all count as no taxes???

[Travis Retriever]

Just looking at NK: a 50% consumption tax, 25% Foreign Investment tax, and a 20% Dividend Income Tax all count as no taxes???

OK, so I was only 5% off.  Still better than being 95% off!

[AnCap Dave]

North Korea doesn't pay taxes?!  Is he on mad crack or something?  They're the most economically repressed state in the world.  All they pay IS taxes.

You think that's bad? When I responded to him stating that people in North Korea don't even own property since the government claims everything, he said this:


Apparently it is impossible to function with the concept of property if someone isn't stealing from you.

[Travis Retriever]

You think that's bad? When I responded to him stating that people in North Korea don't even own property since the government claims everything, he said this:

Well, it looks like this guy beat out enthalpay for the title of "most deluded statist".
So simple numbers are "big words"?  Christ, how does this guy manage to tie his shoes in the morning?  Well, I suppose that's why we have Velcro.
Not to mention he names literally the MOST taxed, most economically repressed most statist society in existence today (if not the worst in world history), and somehow this country's failure and blatant repression is somehow a refutation of NOT repressing people like this?
F-U-C-K-T-A-R-D

[AnCap Dave]

So simple numbers are "big words"?  Christ, how does this guy manage to tie his shoes in the morning?  Well, I suppose that's why we have Velcro.

No, the "big words" were "false dichotomy." Because I called it a false dichotomy that no taxes (even if the part of no taxes isn't even true) inherently means no property.

[Travis Retriever]

No, the "big words" were "false dichotomy." Because I called it a false dichotomy that no taxes (even if the part of no taxes isn't even true) inherently means no property.

Sad.  I blame public schools.

[AnCap Dave]

Sad.  I blame public schools.

I blame his family.....considering it's my family.

Yep, that's my cousin on my mother's side.

[Travis Retriever]

I blame his family.....considering it's my family.

Yep, that's my cousin on my mother's side.

Wait, wasn't he the dude who posted a photo of himself on Facebook wearing a jacket saying he refuses to be forced to learn a second language to accommodate the illegals in his country, or something lame like that?

[AnCap Dave]

Wait, wasn't he the dude who posted a photo of himself on Facebook wearing a jacket saying he refuses to be forced to learn a second language to accommodate the illegals in his country, or something lame like that?

No. That was my step cousin on my father's side, and it wasn't himself wearing the jacket. He thought it was a clever picture and posted it on his facebook. He has long since taken it down though after I gave him hell for it.

[Travis Retriever]

"Oh, another way Austrians act like creationsts:

4. Actually being creationists." --enthalpay https://www.youtube.com/all_comments?threaded=1&v=pWCQlzzFqoc

[Travis Retriever]

By the way, is anyone else unable find Shane's latest comments on those two train wrecks of videos of enthalpay's?  The ones I could find (from two hours ago) were all marked as spam...I'm not accusing enthalpay of censoring the comments but...aww, who am I kidding?  And would it really surprise anyone at this point?

[MrBogosity]

I have to say this: at least creationists go after ACTUAL BIOLOGISTS (Stephen Jay Gould, Richard Dawkins, PZ Myers, etc.), but enthalpay made a video supposedly about Austrian economists, but didn't actually reference or even mention any actual Austrian economists!

[Ibrahim90]

"Oh, another way Austrians act like creationsts:

4. Actually being creationists." --enthalpay https://www.youtube.com/all_comments?threaded=1&v=pWCQlzzFqoc

I'd dare him to say that directly to my face. a guy with a geosciences degree, specializing in paleontology (you know, involving evolution) and sed-strat.