"Well," he says, "there's a lot of people on welfare who don't deserve it. Too many people are living off the government."
"But," I protest, "you live off the government. And have been your whole life!"
"Yeah," he says, "but I don't make very much."
This board's fascination with libertarians amuses me. However, I used to work at the Cato Institute, so I suppose I'm like a gynecologist who's bored of pussy.
You know how JD will do those posts where he breaks someone's quote up into a billion pieces and responds to each line individually?
Yeah, I think they're awesome too.
I think the style works well when there are multiple unrelated topics brought up in a single post. If you don't like it, don't read it. I don't really care.
Libertarians fancy themselves as "rebels". They also like to think of themselves as intellectuals when essentially they follow a simplistic dogmatic non realistic blueprint for life. Which is why they are generally worse to talk to than people who actually self identify as Republicans or Democrats. Because at least potentially there is some give and take in such a conversation. That is almost impossible with true libertarians. Fortunately there are very few of them irl.
Libertarians fancy themselves as "rebels". They also like to think of themselves as intellectuals when essentially they follow a simplistic dogmatic non realistic blueprint for life. Which is why they are generally worse to talk to than people who actually self identify as Republicans or Democrats. Because at least potentially there is some give and take in such a conversation. That is almost impossible with true libertarians. Fortunately there are very few of them irl.
Jesse Ventura vs. Sarah Palin
hmmm....
Do you usually enter in to political debates with complete strangers?
Libertarians fancy themselves as "rebels". They also like to think of themselves as intellectuals when essentially they follow a simplistic dogmatic non realistic blueprint for life. Which is why they are generally worse to talk to than people who actually self identify as Republicans or Democrats. Because at least potentially there is some give and take in such a conversation. That is almost impossible with true libertarians. Fortunately there are very few of them irl.
Jesse Ventura vs. Sarah Palin
hmmm....
People felt the need to create another term for responding to individual points?
because when the line-by-line responses don't address the core argument or posit an alternative view, it's a disingenuous and somewhat cowardly attempt by the fisker to diminish his opponent without presenting an argumentative surface of his own
fisking, unlike a proper rebuttal, often provides very little to an overall discussion
and more often still just fragments it, usually to the much-needed benefit of the fisker.
have you ever argued on the internet before?
:lol
Nah, they're all whining about people ruining their childhood in the GAF thread. People are actually pissed about them.
Boogie does it too, but if I complained he'd snap my neck
librarian girls :drool
librarian girls :drool
could be a great Weird Al song
i dunno, but that gaf thread destroyed my productivity this morning! :'( :-*