Fail Quotes

[tnu]

"The High Elves are the Nazis of Skyrim."--some fucktard who couldn't understand what he's talking about even if it raped his ass.
I guess he forgot that not all High Elves in Skryim are Thalmor (but hey, it's only bigotry/painting with too broad a brush when people I don't like do it, amirite gaiz?).  While also ignoring that the interventionism and nation building they do is actually more reminiscent of U.S. Foreign policy.  And in fact, D has pointed out that in TES: Online; the Thalmor faction has as an animal symbol of, get this:  The Eagle.  Something tells me that's not a coincidence.

I can attest to this. On a personal level I BUILT my Altmer Character around being an Anti-Thalmor insurrectionist anarchist. Hell I even gave him an in depth backstory. I talked T dogs ear off about it.

[Travis Retriever]

I can attest to this. On a personal level I BUILT my Altmer Character around being an Anti-Thalmor insurrectionist anarchist. Hell I even gave him an in depth backstory. I talked T dogs ear off about it.

Yeah, I remember.

[nilecroc]

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*rolls eyes*

ratofvengence say

Why do you have to find a study to disprove what fuckface said, especially when he's a well known liar? This guy must be really fucking stupid.

[nilecroc]

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/28/bitcoin-is-evil/?_r=1&

I really don't know jackshit about bitcoin, bit the title is funny.

[Travis Retriever]

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/28/bitcoin-is-evil/?_r=1&

I really don't know jackshit about bitcoin, bit the title is funny.

Is it too late to nominate/suggest Krugman as Idiot of the Year?

[MrBogosity]

Is it too late to nominate/suggest Krugman as Idiot of the Year?

Year's not up yet...

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

Year's not up yet...

How about this moron?
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[Travis Retriever]

How about this moron?
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Yeah, Okay, if for some reason Krugman won't cut it, ZoNation gets my vote/nod/etc to Idiot of the Year as well.

[BlameThe1st]

What America Would Look Like If Libertarians Got Their Way: http://www.alternet.org/what-america-would-look-if-libertarians-got-their-way

You have to marvel at the anti-libertarian contradiction: they claim that a libertarian society has never existed, and yet in the same breath argue that a libertarian society would be hell. So which is it? Has a libertarian society ever existed? If not, how do you know it would be hell? It never existed, so you can't know.

[Travis Retriever]

What America Would Look Like If Libertarians Got Their Way: http://www.alternet.org/what-america-would-look-if-libertarians-got-their-way

You have to marvel at the anti-libertarian contradiction: they claim that a libertarian society has never existed, and yet in the same breath argue that a libertarian society would be hell. So which is it? Has a libertarian society ever existed? If not, how do you know it would be hell? It never existed, so you can't know.

Mhm.  That contradiction always annoyed me.

[dallen68]

Mhm.  That contradiction always annoyed me.

Plus, the argument itself stretches the definitions of terms a bit. There's been lots of libertarian societies throughout history; there just haven't been a lot of truly anarchist ones. There's been lots of socialists societies; there just haven't been a lot of truly communist ones. (truly anarchist and truly communist societies involve the absence of a government, which has been extremely rare. The difference between the two is one recognizes private property, the other doesn't)

[tnu]

It never stops: Close down the homeless shelters. Shut down the Salvation Army. Make it illegal to throw a starving person a coin or toss a blanket over them as they lay on the sidewalk. This logic only ends one way: in a hellish dystopia where the underclass is starving, homeless and dying in droves.

I have no fuckign idea where he's going from "don't steal money from peaceful people" to "don't donate to charities and the poor".

is hostile to collective action on behalf of the less fortunate.

Where is he getting this!? Who is being "hostile" towards these attempts. I'm pretty sure I could ask anyone here an d none of us oppose collective actions to help the less fortunate so long as they are voluntary. Yes?

Name any prominent modern libertarian—Ayn Rand, Paul Ryan, Ron Paul, Peter Thiel, Rand Paul—and they are likely to fit this description.

First note the utter lack of citation. (I have never seen Ron Paul oppose collective action to help the less fortunate so long as it's voluntary I can't speak for the others) but he lost me as soon as he tried to call Paul Ryan and Rand Paul libertarians. I can MAYBE understand Ayn Rand but that's a strong maybe.

[dallen68]

I have no fuckign idea where he's going from "don't steal money from peaceful people" to "don't donate to charities and the poor".

Where did that come from? Oops, nvm.

Wait, if we're not being robbed... I mean taxed... to provide for the poor, don't we have more to...nvm.

[tnu]

Wrong. It turns out that people who are motivated to act out of self-interest will do whatever it takes to enrich themselves, even if that means damaging the entire society—in this case, the Sears "society"—in the process. Sure, competition "works," sometimes, for some things. But the Sears experiment showed us that it works best when there is a fabric which knits the competing parts together into something more than the sum of its parts.

We call that something a nation.

and governments and government officials are immune to this how? Going under the assumption you are right why elect a bunch of self itnerested assholes and give them power over everybody else?

[BlameThe1st]

Looks like we made Mr. PZ extremely butthurt: http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/12/31/so-i-invented-a-new-law-the-other-day/

My "favorite" part has to be when he claimed that America is already a "libertarian paradise"!

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