Why would you even buy the most expensive, most powerful car, get a license plate that points out how fancy your car is, and the fucking drive it 10mph under the speed limit?
- Well, that was a depressing story.
- This reminded me of something that happened in one of my calculus classes. It was like the second or third class of honors calc 3, and a large chunk of the class clearly had no reason to be there. They kept laughing and chatting, because they had no clue what was going on, and didn't care to figure it out. This pissed the professor off so much he turned around and yelled at them for like five minutes before storming out of the room. He came back a few minutes later, apologized, and mentioned that he'd be perfectly fine with helping people transfer out of the class if they wanted. The next class had about half as many people in it, but ended up being one of the best math classes I've ever had. I checked, and this professor is not the same one.
- This story is just wrong. A) voting for a libertarian is the same as voting for a delusion. B) his three main points against Obama are largely foreign affairs issues, which I would argue probably aren't the most important issue after four years of recession. B.1) yes, this is a bad policy, but the alternative is to pretend that we can deal with the Pakistani government as if they were our allies. That's pretty much demonstrably not true. B.2) also a bad policy, but it is far from some sort of indiscriminate murder. Again, working from a policing policy would require that local governments have some sort of power over their territory and are willing to be cooperative. B.3) I would argue that going to a known obstructionist Congress to ask for a declaration of war in Libya would have basically doomed any intervention to wallow in bureaucratic nonsense longer than would be reasonable. Given that our input into the conflict was largely logistical, with the majority of the work done by European forces, I'm less sure that this actually lives up to the definition of "war." C) "His plans include cutting Medicare and Medicaid by 43 percent and turning them into block grant programs, with control of spending in the hands of the states to create "fifty laboratories of innovation".[84] He advocates passing a law allowing for state bankruptcy and expressly ruling out a federal bailout of any states.[77] Johnson has expressed opposition to the Federal Reserve System, which he cites as massively devaluing the strength of the U.S. dollar, and would sign legislation to eliminate it." Fucking really? You want to vote for a guy who fundamentally misunderstands the modern economy, and hates old people and poor people so much that he wants to basically destroy the programs that would help keep them alive? You're also an asshole, Conor Friedersdorf.
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