Seriously?
I mean, really. Seriously? For true? Someone actually tried to claim private liquor stores lead to more deaths than public controlled ones?
Yeah. Right.
"We need to make informed decisions as a community about what can be done," Stockwell said.
"We may choose the extra convenience but we need to know what the cost is."
Right.
I need a gin tonic.
No one argued it, they observed it. There's a difference.
ReplyDelete@ Bret: And prohibition in the United States following the ratification of the 18th amendment resulted in fewer alcohol related deaths and less alcohol consumption. So what? That is not an argument for returning to prohibition, and this isn't an argument for prohibiting private liquor stores. (Not saying you're saying that though, Bret, though with your love of government, I wouldn't be surprised to see you take such a position).
ReplyDeleteI have no idea where you guys are coming from, sometimes... a guy analyzed statistics, he reported the results, and he even says in the article:
ReplyDelete"We need to make informed decisions as a community about what can be done," Stockwell said.
"We may choose the extra convenience but we need to know what the cost is."
Seeing you guys cry wolf so often... it's really sad. One day something actually oppressive is going to happen and no one is going to listen because a bunch of whiney, snivelling cry babies couldn't hold their shit together.
Instead of distorting everything to fit a narrative of tyranny, maybe coming up with some creative solutions would be more productive (like increasing public transportation or cutting a few breaks for cab drivers to ensure people can get home safely). But I guess that would require thought, critical thinking, that stuff you guys are always bitching about being absent from society today. It's so much easier to just politicize something by warping it to fit paranoid delusion.
I used to think there was a redeeming quality in the rebelliousness of conservatives, anarchists, small government advocates, etc. I'm slowly coming to the conclusion they're simply the result of the use of lead paint during the generation before me.
Not that you checked, but the study is flawed from A-Z.
ReplyDeleteThat's the point.
I used to think there was a redeeming quality in the rebelliousness of conservatives, anarchists, small government advocates, etc. I'm slowly coming to the conclusion they're simply the result of the use of lead paint during the generation before me.
ReplyDeleteOh, bullshit, Bret. You never thought any such thing. You call yourself a liberal, yet you hate liberty and what you call "rebellion", yet true liberalism in the classical sense is all about rebellion against unjustified authority.
"Slowly coming to the conclusion" my ass! That was your foregone conclusion all along, and you distort the facts and use strawman arguments to rationalize your uncritical acceptance of your own status quo positions (pro exploitative state-capitalism, pro-corporate copyright and patent law, pro-Federal government over state's rights, pro-police, pro government solutions for everything).
@T.C. Yeah, studies done by phony pro-state "liberals' usually are deeply flawed, and even when they aren't they draw the wrong conclusions from them.