The Lief Reservoir of Simple Truths and Smart One-Liners

[Antonio the Sixth]

If you're afraid of having your identity stolen, your only solution is to avoid healthcare entirely and to just accept the cold embrace of death the next time you get sick. Cause, you know, Russian mobsters.

[Antonio the Sixth]

I'm glad to see that after almost 20 years of Berlusconi-led Italy,the world has found a new joke country.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Why don't you use actual quote tags like everyone else?

[Antonio the Sixth]

Why don't you use actual quote tags like everyone else?

Haphazard multi-tasking rush, that's why.

It takes less time to copy-paste the entire quote than it takes to copy-paste the text of a message, then add "handmade" quotation marks, the name of the poster and the thread it's from...

[Antonio the Sixth]

As a staunch republican, this:

At times the hardcore republicanism of some people get tiring. Is monarchy an archaic and depraved way of being? Duh. By the standards of his time, however - especially compared to such charming adversaries as Francisco Lopez of Paraguay, who managed to end up killing 90% of the population - he was a relatively enlightened and morally good ruler, who recognised the failures of monarchy as a power structure.

[Antonio the Sixth]

The person who gets to the door first should hold it open for those behind them.(Not a reactionary)

[Antonio the Sixth]

Why did Politicus post my line on the "Greece suxx" thread and then immediately delete it?

[Antonio the Sixth]

historical experience also shows us that whites and men of all economic strata can come together, and do come together literally all the time, to trample on minorities and women.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Nah, this is more Sulfur Mine material.

[Antonio the Sixth]

For once, BRTD totally nails it.

If amount of government spending is the primary metric by which policies should be measured in accordance to how left/right wing they are, then Reagan and George W. Bush were some of the most left-wing Presidents in US history.

[Antonio the Sixth]

I haven't been following the discussion, so I wasn't commenting on a relevancy. Still, a true statement is true regardless of its relevancy to a specific discussion.

[Antonio the Sixth]

87.3% of the posters here are "known creeps".

[Antonio the Sixth]

Truer words have seldom been spoken:

Golden rule of politics: If old men oppose something and young women support it, it's the right thing to do.

[Antonio the Sixth]

round up the MRAs and put them in camps

[Antonio the Sixth]

My posts are hyperbolic and condescending.

Ha.

[Antonio the Sixth]

About Tender:

The scary thing is that I think he counts as a tolerant progressive in Austrian terms.

[Antonio the Sixth]

You know that rhetoric that conservative/hawkish Americans like to use about us being "the world's policeman" or "a beacon of justice and freedom to the world" or how we're special and unique and above the fray and have an obligation to spread our heaven-sent values to the four corners of the globe and root out evildoers and all that?

Well, uh, this news almost makes me believe it for a moment.  USA!  USA!  USA!

[Antonio the Sixth]

True regardless of the party or country:

It doesn't matter what the country is, whenever someone loses two straight elections, some people act like it's the apocalypse. Spending 8-10 years in opposition is pretty normal

[Antonio the Sixth]

Roof probably does not deserve to live, but deciding who deserves to live is not an appropriate role for the criminal justice system.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Knowing what it's like is not particularly difficult if one has empathy and isn't ignorant. Of course, experiencing something is a different thing but I don't that is required for basic understanding.

[Antonio the Sixth]

just wow

language barriers take a while to get though

[Antonio the Sixth]

DISCLAIMER: I'm making this post more as an apologetic for certain members of my extended family than anything else.

It's possible, probable even, that at some point in the relatively near future the principle that couples should have access to civil marriage regardless of the combination of their sexes will be widely understood to be grounded on first principles in such a way that nobody can argue otherwise in good faith. At that point we'll indeed be able to say that people who oppose same-sex marriage are a distasteful fringe and can't possibly hold their position for well-intentioned reasons. I don't think we've yet reached the point where that grounding on first principles is self-evident or self-explanatory. I kind of hope we do (mostly because I think that if opposition to same-sex marriage becomes completely socially unacceptable then there are people whose opinions and morals I otherwise respect who will feel obliged to come around on it), but I don't think we have. It's still possible for somebody to oppose same-sex marriage and not be a generally bad person.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Yeah, but it's not exactly an effortpost either, and in ambiguous situations I'd rather err on the side of the Silver Mine than the Gallery.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Imagine if every time the an American state ended up in economic trouble, all 50 governors had to get together and hash out a solution. This is a farce.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Men are a plague on society.