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Jesse Walker | 10.7.2010 2:38 PM

"Antipiracy lawyers pirate from other antipiracy lawyers."

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Pip 15 years ago

Hypocrite of the day? You missed by a long shot. That would be the Ed show guy who was saying that some GOP candidate for Congress was a hypocrite because the candidate is opposed to unemployment insurance has a wife who collected it when she lost her job.

A progressive saying that a woman should live up to her husband's standards takes the hypocracy cake in my book.
1. ? 15 years ago
  
  That's an all-too-common intellectual error (the morality of collecting unemployment, not the wife vs. husband thing). The victim of theft (taxes paid in order to finance the welfare state) has every right to try and recoup some of his property.
  1. CrackertyAssCracker 15 years ago
    
    ya, once the money is already stolen, I don't care if you fill out a form and wait in line to accept free money. Who the hell wouldn't do that? Just make sure you vote against future stealing.
    1. ? 15 years ago
      
      The money isn't really "free," of course. And in the end you might very well recoup your losses and then some. The confiscation/distribution mechanism is inefficient, haphazard, unpredictable and unsustainable. First it makes you a servant, and then a jealous beneficiary.
2. JD 15 years ago
  
  Was the candidate against unemployment benefits as a temporary safety net until someone finds a new job, or against extending unemployment benefits so that people can collect indefinitely after losing their job (I think you can currently collect benefits for 99 weeks).
  1. Pip 15 years ago
    
    The latter. Ed is a big fan of the 99ers, a group that says that 99 weeks of unemployment is just not enough. Two fucking years!
    1. ? 15 years ago
      
      The "99ers" are ED's answer to Bill O'Reilly's "Folks."
      Megalomania as entertainment.
Episiarch 15 years ago

Oh, lawyers. What won't you do?
1. Lawyers 15 years ago
  
  Pro bono work on piracy cases.
  1. Episiarch 15 years ago
    
    Not bad. I was thinking more like "become human".
2. Warty 15 years ago
  
  The weeping abscesses next to your mom's anus.
  
  Oh, wait, I'm wrong; they do. My mistake.
  1. sloopyinca 15 years ago
    
    Thank god there was no link with this.
3. Pro Libertate 15 years ago
  
  Give up cash flow?
Jason 15 years ago

This is pretty hypocritical.

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