Fail Quotes

[tnu]

I finally decided to bite and inquire as to what people mean when the y talk about how the flaws and corruption we bring up with government never happens in a "functioning democracy" and how "functioning democracies" never become oppressive or its impossible for them to become oppresive. I decided to finally bit and ask what a "functioning democracy" was.

Functioning democracy = absence of corruption, democratically elected representatives, lack of lobbying and ownership of political power by private capital, leaders that have integrity, effective checks and balances that curtail any abusive power, law enforced such that no one is ever treated as above the law due to money/political power etc etc

[Ibrahim90]

so basically "functioning democracies" are a myth, and a pipe-dream, for a variety of reasons.

and they call us unrealistic...

[MrBogosity]

and they call us unrealistic...

And say that OUR system has never existed!

[Travis Retriever]

And say that OUR system has never existed!

While talking about the "flaws and problems that occur when you have a free market".

[ArtemisVale]

http://anarchism.pageabode.com/anarcho/the-austrian-delusion

[BlameThe1st]

I'm not sure what else to expect from a website called "Forward Progressives":

The Conservative March Toward a Society of Sociopaths

If you think that was vomit-inducing, the comments in the reddit thread will make you vomit blood.

[Dukect45]

I know this is old but Man the fail in this is strong

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

[BlameThe1st]

No guns? LOL! Chicago. Enough said.

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

#1. Let's just forget the people the UK UHC killed.
#2. like BlameThe1st said, Chicago. Enough said.
#3. To steal more of our money.
#4. Anyone noticed that how they use a very vague term here?
#5. Who was it that has deported more immigrants than Bush? Oh, that's right, Obama.
#6.  Ya, because pointing a gun at someone and demanding more money, because they make more, is "fair"
#7. So, where is the money for that going to come from?
#8. Ya, band-aid solution.
#9. A ban on biology? Can we just Dihydrogen monoxide while we're at it?
#10. I'm sorry. Where does that car get its electric power? Oh, that's right! Coal!
#11. Ya, let's make it harder to fire bad workers.
#12. Ya, let's get employers less incentives to hire women.
#13. Ya, let's make so people are less likely to get jobs.

[Ibrahim90]

And say that OUR system has never existed!

two words for them: Catal Huyuk.

[tnu]

agentssith PM'd me on YouTUbe with THIS gem.

I mean you know you can live like Grizzly Adams and avoid all that shit, right? What is stopping YOU?

I am SO fucking sick of this argument. SOmebody really needs ot make a video addresisng htis perticular strand of "love it or leave it"

[Travis Retriever]

agentssith PM'd me on YouTUbe with THIS gem.

I am SO fucking sick of this argument. SOmebody really needs ot make a video addresisng htis perticular strand of "love it or leave it"

Didn't govco actually stop a mountain man kind of guy from teaching people survival stuff not too long ago?

[BlameThe1st]

Detroit, the New Greece

There are influential people out there who would like you to believe that Detroit's demise is fundamentally a tale of fiscal irresponsibility and/or greedy public employees. It isn't. For the most part, it's just one of those things that happens now and then in an ever changing economy.

It's Paul Krugman. What else do I need to say?

[Travis Retriever]

Detroit, the New Greece

It's Paul Krugman. What else do I need to say?

I hate it when people pull out that "well it just happened" card with this kind of stuff.  Funny how it doesn't "just happen" when you have a free market...