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"I don't have a lot of respect for talent;  talent is genetic.  It's what you do with it that counts."—Martin Ritt

"Cerebration is the enemy of originality in art."—Martin Ritt

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“If someone doesn't value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove that they should?"—Sam Harris

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Everytime some statist or other religious nimrod pulls an ad hominem/argument from authority or other such fallacy, I'm reminded of this win quote:

"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."—Eleanor Roosevelt

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"I swear, if men spent HALF as much time obsessing about breasts as SJWs do..."—Shane Killian in the Bogosity Co-Host Discussion

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http://shanedk.deviantart.com/journal/The-Truth-About-NC-HB2-605351498
http://shanedk.deviantart.com/journal/My-opinion-on-bathroom-legislation-605357218

Shane knocking it out of the park, as usual.

[MrBogosity]

http://shanedk.deviantart.com/journal/The-Truth-About-NC-HB2-605351498
http://shanedk.deviantart.com/journal/My-opinion-on-bathroom-legislation-605357218

Shane knocking it out of the park, as usual.

Just for everyone's info, these are based on a recent video that's pissed off MANY a bigoted regressive:

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[Travis Retriever]

Just for everyone's info, these are based on a recent video that's pissed off MANY a bigoted regressive:

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Thanks for sharing.

And as I posted on your video:

As long as no one is initiating force against anyone else, who cares?  This hoopla on bathrooms is about as 1st World Problems as it gets!

More proof that the left is more reggressive than the libertarian movement ever will or could be!

Also the bit about deflecting blame onto others reminds me of that bit in the South Park Movie:

"We must blame them
and cause a fuss
Before someone thinks of blaming us"

In the "Blame Canada" song. 

These SJWs/Reggressive Leftist really are the modern day Puritans, aren't they?

[MrBogosity]

Egyptian President Nasser being awesome:

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(I'm assuming the translation is correct. Ibrahim?)

Yes, just half a century ago these ideas were laughable. The problem is not Islam, the problem is the US's murderous foreign policy that has radicalized the people.

[Travis Retriever]

Egyptian President Nasser being awesome:

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(I'm assuming the translation is correct. Ibrahim?)

Yes, just half a century ago these ideas were laughable. The problem is not Islam, the problem is the US's murderous foreign policy that has radicalized the people.

Something to share to the anti-Muslim and anti-Arab bigots.

[Ibrahim90]

Yeah, it's basically correct.

It's even funnier if you're an Arab--especially an Egyptian, or one who at least knows about the Fatimids (the comparison to Al-Hakim bi-Amr illah would have been very humiliating to the Muslim Brotherhood: he's basically calling them insane--really insane, like, "I am God" insane. Having people work only at night was the least form of madness he had).

EDIT: actually, I did quote him here earlier--August 30th of last year, and it was about this clip (though no subtitles):

anyways, I found this funny quote: obviously the guy who said it isn't going to be very popular here, but it was still a good line:

The director of the Brotherhood made several requests. What were they? he first asked "you must impose the Hijab on Egypt", and let every woman walk the street wearing a "tarha"*: every one of them! and I told them "if someone told me we did this, then I'd say we returned to the days of Al-Hakim bi'amr illah**, who wouldn't let people walk out in the day, but at nights, And it's my opinion that it's up to the individual in his own house to implement this.

    So he replies: "well, no, you as the ruler are responsible.". So I told him "Professor: you have a daughter in Medical School...she's not wearing a tarha or anything...Why didn't you dress her in one? If you can't get one girl--your own daughter--to dress in a tarha, how do you want me dress 10 million people in a tarha?"

*it's like an Egyptian version of the Burka, only lighter.
**a Fatimid ruler of Egypt: he was a bit of a fanatic...

Obviously the translation is different, but that's partly because I speak a different dialect of Arabic, and often tend to be more literal.

[Travis Retriever]

"Many critics complain that the free market, in casting aside inefficient entrepreneurs or in other decisions, proves itself an 'impersonal monster.' The free-market economy, they charge, is 'the rule of the jungle,' where 'survival of the fittest' is the law. Libertarians who advocate a free market are therefore called 'Social Darwinists' who wish to exterminate the weak for the benefit of the strong...The free market, in fact, is precisely the diametric opposite of the 'jungle' society. The jungle is characterized by the war of all against all. One man gains only at the expense of another, by seizure of the latter’s property. With all on a subsistence level, there is a true struggle for survival, with the stronger force crushing the weaker. In the free market, on the other hand, one man gains only through serving another, though he may also retire into self-sufficient production at a primitive level if he so desires. It is precisely through the peaceful co-operation of the market that all men gain through the development of the division of labor and capital investment. To apply the principle of the 'survival of the fittest' to both the jungle and the market is to ignore the basic question: Fitness for what? The 'fit' in the jungle are those most adept at the exercise of brute force. The 'fit' on the market are those most adept in the service of society. The jungle is a brutish place where some seize from others and all live at the starvation level; the market is a peaceful and productive place where all serve themselves and others at the same time and live at infinitely higher levels of consumption...In the jungle, some gain only at the expense of others. On the market, everyone gains. It is the market—the contractual society—that wrests order out of chaos, that subdues nature and eradicates the jungle, that permits the 'weak' to live productively, or out of gifts from production, in a regal style compared to the life of the 'strong' in the jungle. Furthermore, the market, by raising living standards, permits man the leisure to cultivate the very qualities of civilization that distinguish him from the brutes. It is precisely statism that is bringing back the rule of the jungle—bringing back conflict, disharmony, caste struggle, conquest and the war of all against all, and general poverty."—Murray N. Rothbard, Man, Economy, and State, with Power and Market, p 1324-1326

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"The four peace treaties of Versailles, Saint Germain, Trianon, and Svres together form the most clumsy diplomatic settlement ever carried out. They will be remembered as outstanding examples of political failure."—Ludwig von Mises, Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War, p 211

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"Socialism, which requires a total state, is not a viable alternative to capitalism. Any step toward socialism is a step toward economic irrationality."—(parapharased)
Last part of Austrian Answer to question 9 on the Are You an Austrian? quiz:  https://web.archive.org/web/20110303022113/http://mises.org/quiz.aspx

[Ibrahim90]

Not so much for the content (yet to be filled), as for the prior warning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IyFe0ePki4

I sent a request to join in future hangouts--having (I hope) figured out how to do so.

[Travis Retriever]

"Of course not! 'Fair Use' means nothing until the DMCA is DOA."—Our own, DukeCT