Fail Quotes

[Travis Retriever]

Huh? How is Firefox communistic?

They probably think that because it is not made for profit, and is open source.

[Travis Retriever]

"Dude, no matter how correct or incorrect your points are, you're so incredibly full of yourself. No one will ever listen to you if you spend a full minute lecturing everyone on how sad it is that 'we're so wrong'." --obamamaniac42

Because, as we all know, there's nothing hubristic about wanting to use the most violent monopoly ever to organize society as you see fit, and thinking yourself and/or your cult leaders to be smart enough to know where to set interest rates despite no one knowing or being able to know that, etc.
Yup, nothing arrogant about that at all.

[MrBogosity]

So's a mutual aid society. Are they communist too?

[Travis Retriever]

So's a mutual aid society. Are they communist too?

Hey, I was just the messenger here!
But no, they are not.

[Travis Retriever]

*EDIT*  OK, so maybe the stefbot video wasn't as awful as I might have thought.  Certainly not compared to those attempting to justify mass murder.

From the comments of this video:  [yt]dwhaNU9t4R4[/yt]

"Rofl - your ignorance hurts my brain. So because we bombed one country, once, who was a far more volatile poltical state than even the middle east is now. All bombing of all civilian areas is legit. Are you a fucking serious? I'm washing my hands of your down syndrome. See ya." --Rangerfury144

[Travis Retriever]

By contrast, this next one is an unequivocal fail quote:

"Jacob Weisberg writes in Slate that just as the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989 finally proved for good that communism was an unworkable ideology, the financial crisis of 2008 proves that libertarianism is also dead." --Puppycow

[VectorM]

And people on a freaking sceptic forum actually agree with that. Seriously.

[MrBogosity]

What's sad is how they say that Libertarianism BOTH failed AND was never tried! Geez, are we tall AND short, too?

[MrBogosity]

Fail quote from Geni in the thread:

Not so you are indeed free to trade with people in gold should you so chose

Oh yeah? Then why did the government confiscate mine from the Asheville warehouse it was in?

From Highly Selassie:

False dichotomy. The only reason the alternative is starvation is because there are no labor laws in these third-world countries.

Amazing how they think that laws are magical incantations that can change the laws of economics. And they wonder why we call it the Cult of the Omnipotent State!

I'm sure there'd be lots more if I went through the (currently) 11 pages of the thread, but it'd just be a colossal waste of time, like it always was trying to talk reality to them.

[Gumba Masta]

Wait, you had gold?

[VectorM]

Gold Statue, that is.

[Gumba Masta]

It wasn't that golden Idol that Indy found in Raiders of the Ark, was it?

[Travis Retriever]

I'm sure there'd be lots more if I went through the (currently) 11 pages of the thread, but it'd just be a colossal waste of time, like it always was trying to talk reality to them.

http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=156056  Get read to facepalm:  I hope this thread can take the overload of bogons.
I honestly face-palmed when they gave answers of "bioshock" and "lord of the flies".

In my digging around that forum, I found a thread called, "Why the Derision for AnCap and Libertarianism Here?" http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=136113

It's 67 pages long.  I haven't read any of the replies, nor am I going to, but the first things that came to mind for me on seeing the length were: "Guilty conscience" and "lots of Libertarian and an-cap bashing".

[VectorM]

Bioshock doesn't make much sense even as a fictional criticism of libertarianism/objectivism.

From what I remember, the world was fine, until those highly addictive plants were discovered. Highly addictive plants that would give you X-MEN powers, mind you. And then the Armageddon clock started ticking.

So what is the argument here (if any)? That a libertarian society couldn't contain such a threat? We are talking about an extremely addictive drug, that can turn you in to a telepath. How the hell would a socialist society handle that exactly? They will ban it and start raiding basements that produce it? Because we all know how effective that was historically, right guys?

And besides, the government DID interfere in this case, by granting that Atlas impersonator a monopoly on the drug.

Also, some of the other stuff are nothing more than moronic caricatures, like the ammo vending machines.

"But if we let everyone have guns, then we would have ammo vending machines everywhere, and there would be chaos!!".

Yeah, the same way we let gays marry and then people start marrying their dogs and daughters . I think I know what game I'll be making one day.

[Virgil0211]

Bioshock doesn't make much sense even as a fictional criticism of libertarianism/objectivism.

From what I remember, the world was fine, until those highly addictive plants were discovered. Highly addictive plants that would give you X-MEN powers, mind you. And then the Armageddon clock started ticking.

So what is the argument here (if any)? That a libertarian society couldn't contain such a threat? We are talking about an extremely addictive drug, that can turn you in to a telepath. How the hell would a socialist society handle that exactly? They will ban it and start raiding basements that produce it? Because we all know how effective that was historically, right guys?

And besides, the government DID interfere in this case, by granting that Atlas impersonator a monopoly on the drug.

Also, some of the other stuff are nothing more than moronic caricatures, like the ammo vending machines.

"But if we let everyone have guns, then we would have ammo vending machines everywhere, and there would be chaos!!".

Yeah, the same way we let gays marry and then people start marrying their dogs and daughters . I think I know what game I'll be making one day.

Can I get any special deals if I preorder now?