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Baronjutter
Dec 31, 2007

"Tiny Trains"

Weatherman posted:

Is Colorado Springs the town that went full lolbertarian and basically stopped paying for anything except police and the full staff of city hall?

Correct. Like every libertarian experiment from Sears to Colorado Springs it's been a hilarious and obvious disaster.
I'm sure there will be a free market solution any moment now. Competing street light companies that manage to do it for a tenth what the bloated government would.

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Sandwich Anarchist
Sep 12, 2008

Baronjutter posted:

Correct. Like every libertarian experiment from Sears to Colorado Springs it's been a hilarious and obvious disaster.
I'm sure there will be a free market solution any moment now. Competing street light companies that manage to do it for a tenth what the bloated government would.

Sears?

Baronjutter
Dec 31, 2007

"Tiny Trains"


You are in for some pure shadenfreude
http://www.salon.com/2013/12/10/ayn_rand_loving_ceo_destroys_his_empire_partner/

Rick_Hunter
Jan 5, 2004

My guys are still fighting the hard fight!
(weapons, shields and drones are still online!)

http://www.businessinsider.com/eddie-lamperts-sears-strategy-disaster-2013-7

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

by Fluffdaddy

Classic fencing response right there.

Takes No Damage
Nov 20, 2004

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.


Grimey Drawer

Say Nothing posted:

How is it possible to forget how gravity works?

The idea is she thought her legs were underneath the pads, not on top of them.

BrianBoitano posted:

I'm too lazy to direct link the rest: http://imgur.com/gallery/SR8jX

http://i.imgur.com/ZM4QlLk.mp4

gschmidl
Sep 3, 2011

watch with knife hands


In the end, that motherfucker is still worth $1.89 billion while the only ones who suffered are the people he laid off. Not much schadenfreude there.

Clitch
Feb 26, 2002

I lived through
Donald Trump's presidency
and all I got was
this lousy virus

Florida Man Florida Man
Florida Man hates common sense, man
they have a fight
nature wins
Florida Man

Bibliotechno Music
Dec 30, 2008


Oh god... the schad...I hope the free market thinks it's beautiful

Malachite_Dragon
Mar 31, 2010

Weaving Merry Christmas magic
The free market does not care. They always think it will, for some reason. :allears:

Regrettable
Jan 5, 2010



BrianBoitano posted:

drat. I went to read the comments for the inevitable meltdowns / outrage, but the ads on that site made my phone crap itself and die.

95% of the comments I saw were in favor of it so you didn't miss anything.

MageMage
Feb 11, 2007

I SUCK AND LOVE TO YELL PERFORMATIVE HOT TAKES AND NONSENSE LIES WHEN I GET WORKED UP. SOMETIMES AUTOBANNED IS BETTER. MAYBE ONE DAY WHEN I STORM OFF I'LL ACTUALLY STOP SHITTING UP THE SITE FOR REAL

Admiral Joeslop posted:

You mean the one with subtitles saying its a pre-mixed drink, that they put salt and a lemon wedge on? That one that they didn't hide the "switch" at all?

You and I must have watched two completely different videos but nice try

Strudel Man
May 19, 2003
ROME DID NOT HAVE ROBOTS, FUCKWIT

MageMage posted:

You and I must have watched two completely different videos but nice try

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crowtribe
Apr 2, 2013

I'm noice, therefore I am.
Grimey Drawer

Troy Buswell is a state politician from my home state of Western Australia and a known piece of poo poo. There's a controversy section on his Wiki page for crying out loud, and I for one am glad he got a family-sized lasagna in his shoe (but I doubt it was really him).

Australia has a bit of a history for Ministers with drink-driving convictions though.

crowtribe has a new favorite as of 10:49 on Jul 11, 2017

Bogan King
Jan 21, 2013

I'm not racist, I'm mates with Bangladesh, the guy who sells me kebabs. No, I don't know his real name.

crowtribe posted:

Troy Buswell is a state politician from my home state of Western Australia and a known piece of poo poo. There's a controversy section on his Wiki page for crying out loud, and I for one am glad he got a family-sized lasagna in his shoe (but I doubt it was really him).

Australia has a bit of a history for Ministers with drink-driving convictions though.

That's from a fake Troy Buswell account

Lime Tonics
Nov 7, 2015

by FactsAreUseless
Man Pranks His Friend By Wiring His Car Horn With The Brake Pedal!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPxCK3SYCtk&feature=youtu.be

Solice Kirsk
Jun 1, 2004

.

Lime Tonics posted:

Man Pranks His Friend By Wiring His Car Horn With The Brake Pedal!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPxCK3SYCtk&feature=youtu.be

That's genius.

Jippa
Feb 13, 2009
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cSl_ebjR78

A surprising number of people hit themselves in the bollocks with bottle rockets and stuff.

Sandwich Anarchist
Sep 12, 2008

Malachite_Dragon posted:

The free market does not care. They always think it will, for some reason. :allears:

They are the same people who think that THEIR illegal immigrant husband won't get deported, just everyone else's.

iospace
Jan 19, 2038


Sandwich Anarchist posted:

They are the same people who think that THEIR illegal immigrant husband won't get deported, just everyone else's.

Or THEIR WELFARE won't be taken away.

Phanatic
Mar 13, 2007

Please don't forget that I am an extremely racist idiot who also has terrible opinions about the Culture series.

Malachite_Dragon posted:

The free market does not care. They always think it will, for some reason. :allears:

Here are more billionaires whining about the free market:

http://www.nysun.com/national/bezos-slim-and-buffett-billionaires-pleading/90026/

quote:

It’s the sort of brazen move that might ordinarily trigger a front-page news story or an outraged editorial — a bunch of rich individuals asking Congress to write them a law that would give them better negotiating power against other rich individuals.

Yet in this case, the rich individuals wanting special treatment are the newspaper owners themselves. Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos (worth $83.9 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaire’s Index), New York Times owner Carlos Slim (worth $61.1 billion), and Buffalo News owner Warren Buffett ($76.9 billion), publicly pleading poverty, are asking Congress for a helping hand in their negotiations with Google, controlled by Sergey Brin ($45.6 billion) and Larry Page ($46.8 billion).

In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, David Chavern, president and chief executive of the News Media Alliance, whose board has representatives of Bezos-Slim- and Buffett-backed papers, complained about what he called “an economically squeezed news industry.” The Times, in a column sympathetic to the effort, likened the news providers to “serfs.”

They're literally asking for an exemption from antitrust law.

Dewgy
Nov 10, 2005

~🚚special delivery~📦
https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/884789418455953413
https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/884789839522140166

:smug: Hell yeah I committed espionage and colluded with a foreign government! Triggered now, liberals?

chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

The Trump family might be the single stupidest family in the world.

toplitzin
Jun 13, 2003


A local beer joint has started replying to reviews with anger, lawsuit threats, and general stupidity.
It's a small source of some schaden watching the owner and their friends melt down.

https://www.facebook.com/pg/pourworks/reviews/?ref=page_internal

toplitzin has a new favorite as of 16:42 on Jul 11, 2017

Sandwich Anarchist
Sep 12, 2008

toplitzin posted:

A local beer joint has started replying to reviews with anger, lawsuit threats, and general stupidity.
It's a small source of some schaden watching the owner and their friends melt down.

https://www.facebook.com/pg/pourworks/reviews/?ref=page_internal

All I see are people claiming that this is happening, and others saying its bullshit.

Random Stranger
Nov 27, 2009



Dewgy posted:

https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/884789418455953413
https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/884789839522140166

:smug: Hell yeah I committed espionage and colluded with a foreign government! Triggered now, liberals?

https://twitter.com/andymoney69/status/884800341086265344

toplitzin
Jun 13, 2003


Sandwich Anarchist posted:

All I see are people claiming that this is happening, and others saying its bullshit.

They've been editing and alas i missed some screencaps. The original review was on yelp, then some other people commented about how they were responding to the "fake" review and then they started blaming a supposed disgruntled employee and then the owner posted some muslim rants on his personal wall. local drama is local drama i guess.

BrianBoitano
Nov 15, 2006

this is fine



Jippa
Feb 13, 2009

Burning_Monk
Jan 11, 2005
Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to know

This is some pretty solid schadenfreude.

chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014


This farce of a presidency will one day have to be taught to bored teenagers.

Strudel Man
May 19, 2003
ROME DID NOT HAVE ROBOTS, FUCKWIT

chitoryu12 posted:

This farce of a presidency will one day have to be taught to bored teenagers.
Ever heard of damnatio memoriae?

Zamboni Rodeo
Jul 19, 2007

NEVER play "Lady of Spain" AGAIN!




Clitch posted:

Florida Man Florida Man
Florida Man hates common sense, man
they have a fight
nature wins
Florida Man

I love you.

OBAMNA PHONE
Aug 7, 2002

Shalkore posted:

LA Beast cools off by eating the ocean

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjaDrmrlLo4

ughghhghhghghg bottle of fish sauce

Decrepus
May 21, 2008

In the end, his dominion did not touch a single poster.


Shalkore posted:

LA Beast cools off by eating the ocean

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjaDrmrlLo4

Warning: Dumb

CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK
Sep 11, 2001




He was doing fine until he decided to turn. The final shot of him drying off is just beautiful

CommissarMega
Nov 18, 2008

THUNDERDOME LOSER
You sure he drove off? Water that deep, odds are a particularly strong undertow might have just pulled the car off the road. Still a stuuupid move to drive into the water anyway though.


Man, America truly has become the entertainment capital of the world.

Bird in a Blender
Nov 17, 2005

It's amazing what they can do with computers these days.

CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:

He was doing fine until he decided to turn. The final shot of him drying off is just beautiful

I don't think he intentionally turned. Looks like the water was pushing him over to the edge of the road, probably hit the edge where the ground dropped off and he lost all traction and the water just pushed him down river. If he had steered against the current the whole time, he might have made it, but he tried to correct too late.

Elizabethan Error
May 18, 2006

CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:

He was doing fine until he decided to turn. The final shot of him drying off is just beautiful
he's not turning at any point there, it's all the current. you can see him nearly getting back on track but then the current goes "lol nope" and he slides off the road completely

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Saint Freak
Apr 16, 2007

Regretting is an insult to oneself
Buglord

https://twitter.com/JYSexton/status/884816540473995264

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