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I enjoyed the irony that the same arguments to buy gold actually work better when convincing people not to buy gold, but I'm pretty sure that the video wasn't trying to do that.

Doom · Post by **Doom** » Sat Aug 20, 2011 7:15 pm

K wrote: I enjoyed the irony that the same arguments to buy gold actually work better when convincing people not to buy gold, but I'm pretty sure that the video wasn't trying to do that.

Wow, that's a truly amazing interpretation, almost as good as anything Charles Manson or Ted Kaszinski has to say.

Lighten up, dude.

K · Post by K » Sat Aug 20, 2011 7:44 pm

Doom wrote:
K wrote: I enjoyed the irony that the same arguments to buy gold actually work better when convincing people not to buy gold, but I'm pretty sure that the video wasn't trying to do that.
Wow, that's a truly amazing interpretation, almost as good as anything Charles Manson or Ted Kaszinski has to say.

Lighten up, dude.

No, I do get that the video is trying to mock people who don't buy gold as morons, but if you just use the same script and reverse the two roles it actually would work a lot better as humor mocking the irrationality of gold-bugs and/or buying a commodity at peak prices when that commodity traditionally booms and busts.

But I do appreciate the irony of you thinking that people who don't share your viewpoint are serial killers and terrorists.

Josh_Kablack · Post by **Josh_Kablack** » Sat Aug 20, 2011 8:08 pm

That video also misrepresents their group of "well-known economists" as all having had the same views in during the real estate bubble - which is a flat out lie. If you actually paid attention, those guys disagreed at the time.

So it's using at least one outright lie to make its pitch.

Doom · Post by **Doom** » Sat Aug 20, 2011 10:28 pm

K wrote: No, (followed by more confusion),.

Your delusions are getting the better of you...the video gives exactly one reason, sort of, to buy gold, in the first few seconds, and it's impossible to reverse that reason, so there's nothing to 'reverse', as you claim. Note title of video.

But I do appreciate the irony of you thinking that people who don't share your viewpoint are serial killers and terrorists.

Your delusions make you a nutjob, again, but now there's aggression towards that which you do not understand, which means 'dangerous' is a possibility, now. Sorry to be unclear by indicating you might be a terrorist or serial killer, my bad.

Josh, there's NO pitch beyond a single statement in the first few seconds (and even that one is arguable)...but which named in the video "famous economist" said there was a disastrous housing bubble coming? Keep in mind, they're all on the record as saying otherwise, I'm just curious if anyone were talking out of both sides of the mouth. If you honestly have something, take it to another thread, it would please me greatly to see this, bu this just isn't the thread for it.

Gold is a terrible, terrible, investment, for many good reasons, only good in very unusual situations (which resemble the current situation). The video highlights the bad reasons people have, nothing more.

Again, note title of THIS thread. You don't see the humor in a video, that's fine...just no reason to rage and misrepresent like this. Back to videos, eh? Lighten up, lighten up, lighten up.

K · Post by K » Sun Aug 21, 2011 1:37 am

Doom wrote:
Josh, there's NO pitch beyond a single statement in the first few seconds (and even that one is arguable)...

The whole thing is a very long and boring gold advertisement filled with false information that ends in a weird libertarian joke about how people not smart enough to buy gold also hate private property.

It's actually super creepy and I don't know why you felt the need the share. It's almost as bad as the blatantly racist shit PR posts in these kinds of threads.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sun Aug 21, 2011 9:47 am

Doom wrote:why gold is a bad investment

That "female" sounds like GlaDos

Count Arioch the 28th · Mon Aug 29, 2011 5:32 am

EPIC RAP BATTLES OF HISTORY!!!!

Josh_Kablack · Post by **Josh_Kablack** » Thu Sep 01, 2011 11:40 pm

Thanks Count, I missed the last three or so, and
Epic Rap #12 is pretty awesome;

http://www.youtube.com/user/nicepeter#p/u/0/l3w2MTXBebg

Dominicius · Post by **Dominicius** » Tue Sep 06, 2011 4:11 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLCEXtpTNYU

...and by connection his entire channel. Probably the most intelligent Anarchist I have encountered (not that I have encountered many Anarchists mind you).

CatharzGodfoot · Post by **CatharzGodfoot** » Tue Sep 06, 2011 5:51 pm

Dominicius wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLCEXtpTNYU

...and by connection his entire channel. Probably the most intelligent Anarchist I have encountered (not that I have encountered many Anarchists mind you).

It's a nice fantasy, but he doesn't address the problem of rejecting all social contracts: that other people will sign on without you.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Tue Sep 06, 2011 6:04 pm

I'll have a video soon. I helped prank some 16-year-old guys over the weekend.

They screamed like little girls. And my cohorts

Avoraciopoctules · Post by **Avoraciopoctules** » Fri Sep 09, 2011 1:53 am

"NOoo, now you've got my weapon."

Count Arioch the 28th · Fri Sep 09, 2011 2:47 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6I8Fc3kw60

EPIC MEAL TIME! This is my new favorite channel.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Sat Sep 10, 2011 2:44 am

Pentatonic Scale, on stage.

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Sat Sep 10, 2011 9:15 am

K wrote:
Doom wrote:
Josh, there's NO pitch beyond a single statement in the first few seconds (and even that one is arguable)...
The whole thing is a very long and boring gold advertisement filled with false information that ends in a weird libertarian joke about how people not smart enough to buy gold also hate private property.

It's actually super creepy and I don't know why you felt the need the share. It's almost as bad as the blatantly racist shit PR posts in these kinds of threads.

Pretty much. The central argument is that the government defaulted on bonds in the 1970s. Which is sort of true. Between April 26 and May 10 in 1979, the government was late in paying their treasury bonds. That is in the 1970s (by several months), and it is sort of a failure to pay. I mean, it's a failure to pay on time.

But... they do pay dividends and have never actually defaulted. There has never been a treasury bond that was not honored. Ever. As opposed to e-bullion, where one of the operators killed his business partner and ran off with a bunch of the money and is now in federal custody leaving a whole bunch of people with scripts that are supposedly "worth gold" that they cannot redeem anywhere.

Buying gold almost never gives you actual gold. You buy some shares in some cranky libertarian's vault and then hope that you can sell those shares to someone else before that cranky libertarian flips out and breaks enough laws that the vault gets shut down or gets raided by pirates.

There is an FDIC for banks. There is no FDIC for shifty eyed anti-government fanatics trying to pass virtual ownership of shiny metal around "off the grid". Once you go off the grid: all the risks are yours.

-Username17