Fail Quotes

[AnCap Dave]

And in other news, apparently words are violence...I wish I was kidding.

Because Violent force will be the first thing police would resort to? No. You're trying to justify there violence is okay because it's there right, freedom of speech. There words are cruel, violent, and they should at least be fined for there cruel words.

There is a difference between you 'Rustling my jimmies' and them spouting hate a cruel words.

[Ibrahim90]

if you're able to reply to him, let him know a guy called Ibrahim has this to say:

hey, guy who posted that, I poo on you! your mother was an elderberry, and dad was a grapist!

now go report me to the police. see how they react.

That, and they have to realize that words=/= violence: just because I say that his dad was a grapist, doesn't mean he is. And while he hates it, it's not a physical scar, and so, he can always ignore it, or even laugh back at it.

and in case you don't know what a grapist is:
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[tnu]

America lays to rest a true Hero and Statesman.

Thought this little  gem from my local boards was worth posting. not as bad as most of the stuff on here but the contradiction in terms is just jarring.

[R.E.H.W.R.]

In a video of Obama's Newtown speech, someone brought up Operation Fast and Furious.
A response was this.

Do you mean that program where private, legitimate, US gun dealers sold arms to cartel runners while we watched and attempted to follow the guns, or do you mean that you are an idiot who can't take 4 minutes to read up on what he runs his mouth about?

Its like Obamatons are trying to make our heads explode.

[Lord T Hawkeye]

Even if that were true, the response "And said private gun dealers aren't in jail for that becaaaaaaaauuuuuse....?"

First rule of leadership: EVERYTHING is your fault.

[MrBogosity]

Even if that were true, the response "And said private gun dealers aren't in jail for that becaaaaaaaauuuuuse....?"

What's perverse about it is that it was all started when private gun dealers tipped off the ATF about the suspicious purchases.

[Ibrahim90]

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fuck I wish I was dead on some days: I don't refer to the reporter himself (as much as a yippie that he is), but to the Brit he's talking to.

[AnCap Dave]

Saw this stupidity posted on Facebook.

The whole thread is silly, but one comment really irked me.

Adam was innocent. He was framed. The thugs smashed his computers that likely contained information the incriminated people who did not want to be incriminated. Your 'leads' are silly.

[Ibrahim90]

Saw this stupidity posted on Facebook.

The whole thread is silly, but one comment really irked me.

so who did it? Alien shape-shifting reptilians? the illuminati? Obama (granted, he's a scumbag, but still)?

and just because the news misreported things (which is common), doesn't mean the general conclusions are wrong (though it often is).

people like him can't be for real....

[R.E.H.W.R.]

Ok is people using the Term "gun deaths" when it comes to homicide rates, considered cherry picking?

[Lord T Hawkeye]

Ok is people using the Term "gun deaths" when it comes to homicide rates, considered cherry picking?

Yeah because they like to use it to defend gun laws and avoid the uncomfortable truth about them.

[R.E.H.W.R.]

Yeah because they like to use it to defend gun laws and avoid the uncomfortable truth about them.

True, used a Brazil as a place that has less guns than the US but has a higher homicide rate.

"There's probably less gun deaths."

[Ibrahim90]

yeah, that's what I was wondering about that video I posted earlier: I was wondering if the papers actually talked about total homicide, or just gun violence, since I can't get a hold of the sources.

[VectorM]

You are saying that money itself has no inherent properties, that it is the misuse of money which creates problems. At first glance these seems reasonable enough, but with deeper insight it is clearly false.

Monetary economics distorts the value of material things by connecting the tangible value of those material things to human desires. Since human desires are fickle, and can be so easily manipulated (social psychology 101), monetary economics distorts the value of material things and thereby unbalances the equation of life.

Petroleum is a classic example. The valuation of petroleum is a function of supply and demand. Although the consumption of petroleum functions to unbalance the climate, this reality never enters the equation for determining the value of a litre of gasoline. The money sequence of value, therefore, bears no correspondence with the life sequence of value, and as such the very basis of monetary economics is in fact erred.

While a keyboard functions only to interpret user input, monetary economics functions to decouple the valuation of material things from their real, objective, tangible worth. Inasmuch as this is true, your analogy is false, and money is right regarded is a feature of a social pathology.

A more apt analogy be would be: "If money causes problems, then depression causes suicide."

[Ibrahim90]

why is it people assume that money's value is entirely subjective?


and what of this?

Petroleum is a classic example. The valuation of petroleum is a function of supply and demand. Although the consumption of petroleum functions to unbalance the climate, this reality never enters the equation for determining the value of a litre of gasoline. The money sequence of value, therefore, bears no correspondence with the life sequence of value, and as such the very basis of monetary economics is in fact erred.

yes, it does reflect the fact that it's causing pollution: doesn't this idiot think of the technicians working on making the petrol burn more efficiently (saving money at the pump, lowering maintenance costs, and reducing pollution)*? or the fees and regulations imposed on the oil and its products, ranging from extraction to refinement to consumption--all (ostensibly) meant to reduce pollution?

most of the former (the research) often comes from consumer demands and concerns--much of which happens to be legitimate (effects of high gas prices, inefficient burning, and yes, concerns about pollution). much of the latter is exploitation and exaggeration of these concerns as an excuse to grab hold of more power for govco, but either way, the fact that burning gas causes pollution, does incur a cost, no matter how seemingly insignificant it may be.


*a lot of the products of course have additives to help the gas do so: not just Octane, but other interesting chemicals (not that you need Octane for most vehicles, but I'm digressing here).