Fail Quotes

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

This is why I dislike college students.

[Gumba Masta]

You take a statement that has been heavely simplified for comedic purpose and find faults in it? Saints alive, we're cooking with gas now. Pray tell me, where does your font of aquired wisdom lie so that I may partake of it and do as such as you do?

[AnCap Dave]

Apparently consistency is not something to be taken seriously.

[tnu]

I just got this gem.

What spending are you talking about? There's the recovery act, unemployment insurance, food stamps and I don't think much else. Recovery act probably had a net positive effect on the deficit, unemployment insurance is almost a necessity during a recession unless you want a few more million people to be living on the street because they can't pay their bills after being laid off and struggling to find work. And food stamps, I think the argument for that is pretty straightforward.

[Ibrahim90]

the final argument of statists...let's look at the same exact problem a whole other way.

[FSBlueApocalypse]

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[Skm1091]

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Straw man at it's finest.

[FSBlueApocalypse]

Its from the same people who brought us the classic Libertarian 911 video

[tnu]

Saw this on Hawkeye's Top 11 Statist arguments.

ubernoobslayer 1 week ago

You only have to look at how capitalism works today to know that that won't work. It's "dog eat dog". Through competition, a buisness not only outperforms its rivals, but also drives them out of the market. Look at Comcast with cable. Look at AT&T in the 1980's with phone service. Look at the NFL with football. Look at the U.S. Steel with the steel industry.

These "private police" will drive their competitors out of the market, and you'll have no choice or liberty.

My first question. Didn't these companies receive government backing? Specific monopoly rights in most cases.

[FSBlueApocalypse]

people like Gary Johnson only want to end the war on drugs because it will mean less taxes to fund it. Libertarians don't truly care about the disadvantaged, they don't truly care if people go to jail for doing drugs or people across seas are killed by our bombs. They only pretend to because they don't want to pay the taxes to support it. So no, voting libertarian is no better than voting for republican and you are most certainly not welcome here. You have a lot of growing to do before even thinking of yourself as anywhere close to being "liberal."

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

people like Gary Johnson only want to end the war on drugs because it will mean less taxes to fund it. Libertarians don't truly care about the disadvantaged, they don't truly care if people go to jail for doing drugs or people across seas are killed by our bombs. They only pretend to because they don't want to pay the taxes to support it. So no, voting libertarian is no better than voting for republican and you are most certainly not welcome here. You have a lot of growing to do before even thinking of yourself as anywhere close to being "liberal."

In the world of Penn Jillette, "Fuck You in the Fucking Neck!"

[FSBlueApocalypse]

Obama has gotten us out of 1 war and is ending the second.
No one wants more bailouts
Obama has actually lowered the deficit

[Ibrahim90]

Obama has actually lowered the deficit

that's news to me, considering we have almost twice the national debt we had when Bush left office (who in turn had 1.5 times more debt on him that when Clinton left, who in turn.....).

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

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I think you need to respond to this one Shane.

"The Treaty of Tripoli merely states that the government is not founded upon the Christian religion, which is true since Christianity gives no blueprint to structure a government system. But this is not the point of the topic. The point was that Obama said we are not a Christian nation, not that our government was not founded on Christianity. Those are two very different statements, and the Founders did agree that it was a Christian nation. The Trinity decision confirmed this."

[AnCap Dave]

I think this may very well be the first time The Skeptical Libertarian has left me in a feeling of disgust.

He posted this:

You don't need to be an economist to be a libertarian. And you don't need to be a libertarian to be an economist. But you do need to be an economist to be an economist, if you catch my drift.

That isn't really the fail, but the fail shows up when he was talking about Paul Krugman:

He doesn't do economics anymore--he mostly sticks to partisan hackery--but Paul Krugman is or could be a great economist, and he deserved his Nobel.