Fail Quotes

[Travis Retriever]

Oh yeah, they don't print money.  They'd NEVER do something like that...  -_-

Yeah, what you had in a quote was DEFINITELY a fail quote.

[Gumba Masta]

Is'nt that what the Nintendo DS is for?

[Lord T Hawkeye]

This guy has put me down one too many times.  Where can I find indisputable proof that politicians DO in fact print money and do it a lot?  I want to send him that along with a subtly nasty comment to drive it home because I've frankly had enough of trying to be civil with him.

[MrBogosity]

Try http://www.shadowstats.com/.

[Lord T Hawkeye]

Thanks, I'll take a look even though we all know the reply is going to be "It's biased therefore it's wrong."

Seriously, sometimes I don't know why I bother.  They've completely taken the challenge out of it.

[Travis Retriever]

Thanks, I'll take a look even though we all know the reply is going to be "It's biased therefore it's wrong."

Seriously, sometimes I don't know why I bother.  They've completely taken the challenge out of it.

There's a reason why me and Shane call them "dogmatists", "cultists" and "members of the cult of the omnipotent state".

[Gumba Masta]

Is that some sort of sex cult?

[Lord T Hawkeye]

Is there no cure?  Gotta be something...

[MrBogosity]

Is that some sort of sex cult?

Well, we're certainly getting f***ed because of it...

[Travis Retriever]

Well, we're certainly getting f***ed because of it...

Well, I guess we all need to stock up on lube.

[Travis Retriever]

"Rights come from society [people]." --Thunderf00t, AronRa, etc.

[Travis Retriever]

"They dropped a lot of energy in Hiroshima and Nagazaki, and they didn't organize anything!" --Kent Hovind, from Chaos511

[Lord T Hawkeye]

Ooh, mr "Government doesn't print money" just gets better and better.

So the site is invalid cause "Well no [censored] the Federal Government prints money, but your insinuation that any individual who happens to be a politician can just print more was vastly misleading. The Federal Government also destroys old money. But they don't just get paid a visit by the Secretary of State who says "Hey guys, I need 20 grand, can you print me some money?" Which is what your statement made it out to look like."

I showed him Shane's vid on money and explained that not only can politicians print money any time, there is no mechanism whatsoever stopping them.

Why's that invalid?

"I know quite well what the gold standard was, how it worked, and how money works now. The Dollar is NOT backed by "politicians", it's backed by the fact that we're a sovereign nation. And unless you've got some evidence aside from youtube OPINIONS that politicians just print money whenever they want to, this argument is over."

Yeah, anything that disagrees with you is just an opinion.  That's kind of a one sided set of rules don'cha think?

Now I've asked him "If it's backed by the people and not by politicians, why aren't competing currencies allowed?"

Taking bets on what the excuse is going to be this time...

[Lord T Hawkeye]

Ooh, got the answer and it's...

"Lets see, because if you had competing currencies, you could earn a wage in one place and be worthless in another place. How would that be beneficial to the nation? Oh, right, it wouldn't.

So bug off already, I'm tired of listening to your ignorance."

Hey, why stop there?  Let's have one universal computer format so this won't happen.  One universal format for everything.  Perfect!  No more confusion, no more mishaps!  Why didn't we think of this before?

Oh yeah...BECAUSE THAT'S A REALLY BLOODY STUPID IDEA!  ><

[MrBogosity]

"Lets see, because if you had competing computers, you could buy software for one and it wouldn't work in another. How would that be beneficial to the nation? Oh, right, it wouldn't."

"Lets see, because if you had competing cars, you could buy parts for one and they wouldn't work in another. How would that be beneficial to the nation? Oh, right, it wouldn't."

"Lets see, because if you had competing game consoles, you could buy a game for one and it wouldn't work in another. How would that be beneficial to the nation? Oh, right, it wouldn't."

"Lets see, because if you had competing grocery stores, you could get a discount card in one place and be worthless in another place. How would that be beneficial to the nation? Oh, right, it wouldn't."

Anyway, is this guy in any way aware of the term "exchange rate"?