Speaking of weaseling, I can’t help but notice that you didn’t provide the link to the first article you mentioned. Why is that? Is it because it doesn’t, in any way, support your point?
Um, dude, I didn’t say it proved my point. I said it was delicious weaseling. I didn’t link to it BECAUSE IT DIDN’T PROVE MY POINT. Jesus!
You insist it’s not possible someone said X. I show you someone saying X. You say I had to go to page 8 (what the relevance of that is, I’ll never know). I said no, it’s the third link and ha! Here’s a funny from the first link. You decide AGAIN that no no no! It has to have been the exact terms YOU used, then you insinuate I’m lying, and then you whine that I didn’t give a link to the first hit even though I never claimed it supported what I said in the first place.
And this all starts because I used and admitted to sarcasm and hyperbole.
Seriously, did I run over your dog or something? Steal your girlfriend? Eat the last Cheeto?
No, you’ve completely failed to argue with anything resembling intellectual honesty from the minute you’ve posted your OP. You initially intended your failure to locate some Diet Coke as some kind of counterpoint to the benefits of a free market. Since you’ve been totally unable to hold that position, you’ve delved into desperate attempts to find someone somewhere who used the term “perfect” in their description of the free market.
The free market does not now, nor has it ever promised free access to any product at any time and place it is desired. If it did, we’d be able to buy snow tires in Georgia in July, Armani Suits in Des Moines at 1:00am, and any other ridiculous combination one could think of. Your failure to find some diet coke sometimes in a specific locale does nothing to denigrate the free market, as the free market has never operated at 100% efficiency. On top of that, no centrally-planned economy has operated at near the efficiency of the free market, so nobody can really tell what it is you are advocating here.
This has been explained to you several times in this thread, yet your only comeback has been “People overstate the free market’s abilities & think it’s magic.” I just don’t see anyone claiming that it’s so magic that you’ll never want for anything ever again. That is the point.
Hmm. I’ve never noticed a difference. I’d always figured that they replaced the caffeine with something else that tasted the same.
As for your intended purposes, I think that Great Debates would have been the appropriate forum, since, as you see, any post about the free market is going to wind up a “debate” anyways.
I put “debate” in quotes because already both sides are already dishonestly debating, as you are attacking each other not on the merits of your positions, but on who is arguing better. Still, as I said, perfect for GD.
It was the Cheetos, wasn’t it? Dude, I’ll buy you a bag.
It’s always the Cheetos. Patton Oswalt calls it a “big bag of orange failure” for a reason.
I don’t think there’s anything that tastes like caffeine. It’s like the delicious essence of bitterness.