Dumb and Stupid Quotes Thread: Idiotic Source and Context are Key.

[Cutlass]

"If the Democrats want to insult the women of America by making them believe that they are helpless without Uncle Sugar coming in and providing them a prescription each month for birth control because they cannot control their libido or their reproductive system without the help of the government, then so be it."
—

Mike Huckabee

 

[classical_hero]

That is not stupid or dumb.

 

[ReindeerThistle]

Yes it is.

 

[Cutlass]

That is not stupid or dumb.

It is extremely dumb. Both in what was said, and that a major political figure would say it at all. He just reduced the number of women who might vote for him by 20%.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

That is not stupid or dumb.

So can I claim that agricultural subsidies mean the government thinks farmers suck at doing business?

Anyway, get a load of this filthy casual. Since the game is too difficult, the proper recourse is to think the game sucks.

This game is legitimately hard.

Expeditions: Conquistador is billed as XCOM set in an Age of Explorers historical fiction. And as far as that goes, it is accurate. Expeditions: Conquistador is in fact substantially more complex than XCOM, and also quite a bit more unforgiving. The moment you leave the first island fort-town in Hispanola, you will end up fighting outnumbered, outgunned, and outclassed. To wit, I have yet to win a non-tutorial fight.

Am I merely doing it wrong? Have I utterly failed to do some basic this-or-that which would make the game play more smoothly? Perhaps so. I don't know what it would be off-hand. To the extent that there is immersive schadenfreude in getting run off by spear-waving Caribbean natives, this game is effective. But is it too much to ask for the newbie levels to be a little more forgiving? It's one thing to sally forth into the jungle with your caravan laden with equipment and supplies only to return a couple weeks later starving, robbed, and bleeding; and quite another to have at least some success early on.

I suspect I'll give Expeditions: Conquistador another run in time. But for now, I'll suck my thumb and play something that won't flay me for having the temerity to hit the New Game button. Hello Kitty Island Adventure was certainly not on the island of Hispanola.

-Cindare's Steam customer review for Expeditions: Conquistador

 

[Dachs]

It is extremely dumb. Both in what was said, and that a major political figure would say it at all. He just reduced the number of women who might vote for him by 20%.

hey there are still FOUR of them left don't be so dismissive

admittedly they are all related to him BUT STILL

the huckabee juggernaut CANNOT BE STOPPED

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

So can I claim that agricultural subsidies mean the government thinks farmers suck at doing business?

You could claim it is beneficial for everyone, and the people involved in particular (women and farmers) for us to regulate these things in a way which produces the most desirable benefit for society instead of simply standing aside and hoping that they do.

Now that I've said it, I've realized just how silly it is that we have to actually say such an obvious thing; but hey, this is the level of discourse the Right has reduced us to: stating and arguing about the tautologically obvious.

I didn't do it.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Now that I've said it, I've realized just how silly it is that we have to actually say such an obvious thing; but hey, this is the level of discourse the Right has reduced us to: stating and arguing about the tautologically obvious.

I wouldn't call it obvious, as the societal benefit is attained in an indirect manner. What is obtained directly is control of the reproductive system. I don't want to generalize, but it seems to me that many conservative views arise due to missing (whether this is intentional or not I cannot yet say) considerations of complexity in human societies and economies.

 

[Antilogic]

That is not stupid or dumb.

It is dumb because hormonal birth control medications are also used for medical purposes like limiting the formation and growth of ovarian cysts.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

It also suppresses things like heavy periods, which cost billions a year in absence from work (to say nothing of the improvement of livelihood women get from not having them).

 

[classical_hero]

Well he said that with regards to the issue of sex, not of health, which is why the majority of women use contraceptives.

EDIT. WRT the corn subsidies, I never knew so many liberals were for handouts to corporations.

 

[Cutlass]

Well he said that with regards to the issue of sex, not of health, which is why the majority of women use contraceptives.

EDIT. WRT the corn subsidies, I never knew so many liberals were for handouts to corporations.

Even then it was still a stupid thing to say. It was stupid in terms of what he actually said, and it was stupid in terms of a politician saying them.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

EDIT. WRT the corn subsidies, I never knew so many liberals were for handouts to corporations.

The vast majority of recipients of ag subsidies are small family farms. The vast majority of the money, however, goes to the small number of corporate farms.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

On the topic of miscarriages...

Now this is the woman's body making the choice. The female body knows when something is wrong and will thus get rid of the unborn baby. The body knows how to make the choice and will never get rid of a healthy baby.

 

[ReindeerThistle]

More Teahadist Wisdom!

New Yorker WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report
)—Dr. Stephen Hawking’s recent statement that the black holes he famously described do not actually exist underscores “the danger inherent in listening to scientists,” Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minnesota) said today.

Rep. Bachmann unleashed a blistering attack on Dr. Hawking, who earlier referred to his mistake on black holes as his “biggest blunder.”

“Actually, Dr. Hawking, our biggest blunder as a society was ever listening to people like you,” said Rep. Bachmann. “If black holes don’t exist, then other things you scientists have been trying to foist on us probably don’t either, like climate change and evolution.”

Rep. Bachmann added that all the students who were forced to learn about black holes in college should now sue Dr. Hawking for a full refund. “Fortunately for me, I did not take any science classes in college,” she said.

Oh mah Gawd!

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

More Teahadist Wisdom!



Oh mah Gawd!

This belongs in the other Quotes thread, but the response to this is relevant:

"One is thus compelled to draw the paradoxical conclusion: in the opposition between traditional secular humanists and religious fundamentalists, it is the humanists who stand for belief, while the fundamentalists stand for knowledge." - Slavoj Zizek, In Defense of Lost Causes

 

[ReindeerThistle]

I'm using that one, Cheezy!


Edit: No one on CFC caught that this story was a satire!

Teahadists not as smart as they appear...

 

[Cutlass]

"The world is literally about to blow up."
—

Sen. Lindsey Graham

 

[Antilogic]

Well, it's been a couple days, Lindsey Graham. If that's even your real name.

 

[Borachio]

Which direction, I have to ask, in this context, is "up"?