Fail Quotes

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

Such ignorance... The recession we're living in today is basically due to a completely unregulated system that collapsed on itself. Anyone who understands the basics of economics will tell you that.
It's easy to say private schools are better when they're not required to keep poorly achieving children like the public sector. Learn to analyze before you criticize... I went to public and will bust your brains any day I can guarantee that based on your current level of logic, or lack thereof.

Socialist are hilarious!

[VectorM]

That was absolutely laughable. Talk about trying to hide complete ignorance with fake confidence. (or I guess just plain delusional)

[AnCap Dave]

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What happened with Jovan Belcher was tragic and horrific incident, but regardless of that, Bob Costas has no business throwing his political agenda out during half time of a football game. It's unprofessional, to say the very least.

[Goaticus]

Because Rapists only rape because no one showed them how not to rape.

[Ibrahim90]

an obvious subscriber to the chimpanzee theory of society.

[Goaticus]

"Romney is the most Libertarian candidate Republicans have run since Calvin Coolidge." Ann Coulter.

[MrBogosity]

"Romney is the most Libertarian candidate Republicans have run since Calvin Coolidge." Ann Coulter.

The sad part is, she's probably right.

[AnCap Dave]

It pains me to have to put John Stossel and Andrew Napolitano in Fail Quotes, but I don't have much of a choice with this:
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They were basically pulling the same Supreme Court argument about why Romney is the lesser of two evils.

[AnCap Dave]

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The United States ran up big debts during the global financial crisis and the recession in the aftermath trying to stimulate the economy and make sure that we didn't deep dive into an even deeper recession than where we already were.  That makes sense because if you're in the middle of a downturn it's not a good time to put on the brakes with fiscal austerity, raising taxes to raise more money,and cutting spending to tighten the government's belt.
It especially doesn't make sense if you can borrow at low interest rates.  And during the recent crisis, the United States could borrow at some of the lowest interest rates in its history, and that's why our debt problem is not as urgent as a lot of people may say.  Right now the debt service that we pay, that's the interest payments that we pay all the time, are at a very low rate.  In fact, they were much higher during the Reagan and first Bush Administrations.
This may not last forever because interest rates can rise, just as they can fall.  And if interest rates do rise, which typically happens when the economy recovers and there's more demand for credit, then we will have to start paying a little bit more and we'll have to start thinking more about how we're going to close that big debt gap.
We have several years before that happens, though, so we can phase in a nice gradual solution without making any sharp cuts to spending and without making any sharp increases in tax rates.  But over the long term, there's no doubt -- we need to cut spending a little bit and we need to have higher tax rates because right now we have some of the lowest effective tax rates since the 1940s and at a time when people expect more than ever from their government.  We'll have to deal with Social Security and Medicare, too, but we typically do that by extending the retirement age a little bit, cutting benefits a little bit, and maybe we'll even remove benefits from some higher earners.
All of these things together will help us to close our debt gap, but we don't have to do it in a sharp shocking way today.  We have a few years of runway to do it. It's definitely not a good idea just to kick the can down the road and let the next government deal with it.  It's tempting to do that because people in this government are more concerned about re-election than what might happen ten or 20 years from now, but we can use the time that we have to phase in these changes so that there aren't abrupt dislocations in our economy.  A responsible Congress would act now setting a plan that would phase in these changes over the next five to ten years.

GOTTA RAISE THOSE TAXES

[Lord T Hawkeye]

Ah, adblocker haters.  Here's something we haven't covered a ton.

Daniel Hale in this vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v-iAFyVQPw&lc=iJ6xm0KgYazMw843cb_tym_lBOsiG63vpp38i09HqDQ&feature=inbox

Started with someone mentioning using adblocker if you don't like the ads and this flaky fanatic comes in with

Daniel Hale: Why would you use an adblocker? These people aren't celebrity famous, it isn't like downloading the odd song every so often, youtubers rely on ads to keep their channels going and when you use an adblocker you are stealing from these people you cunt."

Me:

Because he doesn't want his computer bogged down with malaware snooping on him?

Yeah, sorry to all the honest advertisers out there but thanks to a few of them who just can't restrain themselves, adblocker is a neccessity. This is why we can't have nice things folks.


Daniel Hale: ..Wow, that's just awful. Not even going to admit it's a dick move? Just going to attempt to make up some lame excuse for it? I've never gotten any kind of malware and neither has anyone I know, that's a TERRIBLE excuse and you should feel bad. Feel free to write back whatever you want, you only deserve one response and this is it. Wow, just wow.

As I responded to him:

"I've never gotten any kind of malware"

ooh, so your argument is "Because X has never happened to me, that must mean X never happens at all." Someone took the 5$ debating class instead of the 10$ one here.

First rule of debating: Personal anecdotes are worthless.

[MrBogosity]

I must be the only guy on the internet who doesn't mind ads. Sure, I mind if they put 50 flash ads on a page and it bogs down my computer, I mind if there's malware, but a basic adblocker with a blacklist (not one that blocks everything) and virus protection will prevent that.

But I don't block ads as a matter of course. In fact, if I like the video or site, I'll give 'em a click, even if it's nothing I would buy.

[Lord T Hawkeye]

I must be the only guy on the internet who doesn't mind ads. Sure, I mind if they put 50 flash ads on a page and it bogs down my computer, I mind if there's malware, but a basic adblocker with a blacklist (not one that blocks everything) and virus protection will prevent that.

But I don't block ads as a matter of course. In fact, if I like the video or site, I'll give 'em a click, even if it's nothing I would buy.

Well, I didn't get my security program for the purpose of blocking youtube ads.  It just happened to and I saw no reason to tinker with it.

But this guy shooting his mouth off about how that's stealing from people is just retarded.

[AnCap Dave]

In this week's Naruto chapter, Naruto gives this stupid line while having a discussion with the bad guy after all of the Shinobi Alliance shows up.

[VectorM]

I bloody knew it. People are already saying that adblocks are immoral. It's just one stupid idiot, sure, but as more people start making money off the internet, more of these idiots will pop up. I wonder how long untill someone wants us to pass a law against adblocks. "But we need to ban adblocks, so people could keep making content on the internet! Just like with copyrights"

[MrBogosity]

They need to make the ads in such a way that we won't want to block them. Simple as that.