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March 11, 2008
Tuesday
 
 
Guardianistas go nuts
Samizdata Illuminatus (Arkham, Massachusetts)  Globalization/economics

Hysterical Guardian readers are getting absurdly upset. The reason? A member of the Samizdata team suggested that a new tax on prestige cars was more about the politics of envy than saving the planet.

Comments

Well I'd really like to read the "Deleted by moderator"
stuff, considering the moonbattery that was fit to print!


Posted by RAB at March 11, 2008 04:51 PM

"It is our sacred duty to upset these people".

Rest in peace A.W.


Posted by Paul Marks at March 11, 2008 04:54 PM

They really are a loopy bunch.


Posted by Andy H at March 11, 2008 05:14 PM

It's like being savaged by a sheep - to borrow an expression.


Posted by JezB at March 11, 2008 05:58 PM

Yes, it reminds me why I despise the middle class as much as I do.


Posted by Michael Jennings at March 11, 2008 06:35 PM

It scared me. I am used to reading and speaking to rational people who don't believe that people/things should be highly taxed just because they aren't "the APPROPRIATE THING" (as decided by whoever is in charge of those things), even if the tax wasn't particularly helpful. I knew those people were out there, but I've apparently been too sheltered from real exposure to them.

Scary.


Posted by Kimberly at March 11, 2008 09:55 PM

Fuck 'em.


Posted by Jack Maturin at March 11, 2008 10:59 PM

Is there a Samizdata/Guardian axis developing?! ;)

Samizdata was voted 39th most powerful blog by the Observer:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/mar/09/blogs
(its an utterly awful list)

Supposedly Samizdata is on the border of fringe and nutter opinion. Congratulations Perry et al - that's a heck of a compliment given the source.


Posted by moonbat nibbler at March 12, 2008 05:24 AM

I noticed a few commenters hoping that oil prices would make SUVs obsolete and unwanted ... I don't suppose they want to hear about my ideas concerning Nuclear-Powered SUVs....


Posted by Kristopher at March 12, 2008 10:31 PM

I love the comment about "It was good enough for your grandparents wasn't it..." (refering to walking rather than riding a car).

A lot of things were "good enough" for the grandparents because they didn't have any choice in the matter - higher childhood mortality, lower life expectancy. It was "good enough" for people living in ancient times as well - who didn't usually get past 35 or so.


Posted by Ian at March 13, 2008 05:53 PM

Whilst looking at the newspaper front pages late Wednesday night, a B.B.C. ("News 24") man seered at the Daily Telegraph for "looking out for its readers" by complaining about the increase in taxes on "big, luxury cars".

One of the four cars shown was Ford Mondeo - not previously known as a big luxury car.

The same B.B.C. man sneered at the front page of the Daily Express.

The newspaper attacked the Labour party politician Ed Balls for shouting "So What?" when David Cameron complained about the vast increase in taxation over the last few years.

The B.B.C. man pointed out that Hansard reported that Mr Balls had really said "So Weak".

If the B.B.C. man had bothered to read the front page of the newspaper he was sneering out he would have seen that they reported this is what Hansard said - and that evidence from people who heard Mr Balls showed that the report in Hansard was a lie.


Posted by Paul Marks at March 14, 2008 02:04 AM

Those Guardian readers are terrifying. Eco-puritans. I was going to file a comment myself saying that I love Thunderbirds, Caddies, DeSotos, Ford V-8s, mega-gass guzzlers. And that I love guns, big nasty ones, and knives. But I lost the will to live after reading the Greenie Guardianists moralising...

Even though I love all the above (except the Guardian, which I despise with a vengeance), I'm actually greener than most of the greens, the fascist Friends of the Earth, and so on.

But only because I've always liked to walk. When I used to play in bands, for example, I'd cart a heavy Gibson Les Paul to rehersals rooms miles away on foot. And I've never used supermarket carrier bags because I can never open them - trying just leads me into supermarket rage and I kick a shelf down (you can see why I don't read the Guardian). So I've always carried my own bag.

Most greenies I've ever met moralise and are rarely as green as me. Not that I try to be eco.

Okay, that's that. I've lost my sheer crazed rage at reading those Guardian comments...


Posted by Jimmy Lee Shreeve at March 14, 2008 09:37 PM

Oh dear god...... The guardianistas should not be considered "middle class human beings" anymore than a cancerous tumor be considered "a bodily organ".

They are at best an embarrassment, and at worst they will bring the destruction of Britain (and anywhere else they infect)

Churchill summed it up best with the words, "They are the most disagreeable of people...Their insincerity? Can you not feel a sense of disgust at the arrogant presumption of superiority of these people? Superiority of intellect! Then, when it comes to practice, down they fall with a wallop not only to the level of ordinary human beings but to a level which is even far below the average."

lol


Posted by wattsie at April 26, 2008 05:11 PM
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