Poe's Law is EVERYWHERE!

[trog.livejournal.com]

Like bobbleheads, Seattle sports fans? Try Free Compost Night!

Not just any compost, mind you, but small bags of compost made from food waste, packaging material, drink cups, utensils and other stuff discarded during past Mariners games and transformed into a garden-friendly mix by Cedar Grove Composting.

LOL Seattle!

Comments

[pacotelic.livejournal.com]

Municipal compost programs work by concetrating the refuse of a city and composting it better than individual households could. Bringing your stuff there would be fine, but this seems like a good way to make lemonade out of lemons.

This compost would be good for aeration, but little available organics aside from the food waste.

I have no idea why municipal compost, biosolids and sludge reuse is such a libertarian issue. Probably comes from the same feckless place as their heroic opposition to CFLs.

[trog.livejournal.com]

... unfuckingbelievable.

Go to a baseball game and bring home compost. Clearly leftists are mentally ill, not just ignorant.

[malasadas.livejournal.com]

Seriously?

COMPOSTING offends your sensibilities?

It's a PRODUCT. They are offering people a free sample.

Big frickin' deal.

[trog.livejournal.com]

I'm offering you free samples of my feces. How much do you want? I'll cover shipping costs.

LOL Leftards.

[malasadas.livejournal.com]

Feces isn't compost.

You don't know the difference?

[pacotelic.livejournal.com]

He doesn't know the difference. For him, Food comes from McDonalds, where they make it. Now we see the shallow footing of libertarian logic.

[trog.livejournal.com]

McDonald's? That's American sewer-meals. We eat real food here and we sure as fuck don't bring home compost from the fucking ballgames. Stupid fucking Americans are stupid.

[dwer.livejournal.com]

this is because you live in Italy, where you don't have America's Greatest Pastime.

I bet they FORCED all those fans to take home the compost, too...

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

We eat real food here...

And how do you think they made it?

That's right. With compost.

[pacotelic.livejournal.com]

I forgot your prime minister probably puts out enough monkeyspunk to feed the multitude.

[trog.livejournal.com]

Are you fucking serious? You didn't know that manure is very often one of the primary ingredients in compost? Holy fucking hell: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compost#Ingredients

[pacotelic.livejournal.com]

Um, yeah. I'm not mocking your knowledge of compost, sport. I'm mocking that you find giving it away to be ludicrous.

[malasadas.livejournal.com]

And when composted it is not raw manure anymore. And human waste is not generally used. And this stuff is not made from that anyway.

You are just annoyed that people aren't laughing at hippies with you, and you are being a prat. This is a Seattle local business offering people free samples of their product. How much more market based environmentalism could you want?

[iluvhistory.livejournal.com]

Only "leftards" garden? If not, are you saying that conservatives don't understand how soil quality greatly effects the yield, appearance, and overall health of plants?

Compost & soil are just facts of gardening. Protip: If you even have a store bought flower pot or grass on a yard, you have some percentage of compost on your property right now. GASP. SHOCK. HORROR!

[rimpala.livejournal.com]

I'm puzzled by this too, I thought that a libertarian society would want to know how to farm. If you want everyone to fend for themselves for food and other things but aren't afraid of getting a little dirty then I just don't know what to say...

[iluvhistory.livejournal.com]

I guess only foraging in the wild is the libertarian way, or conservatives are anti-vegetation as a whole. I've always thought libertarianism was childish, but if this boils down to "poop is gross, veggies are gross, ewwww dirt!", then it's even worse than I thought.

[mikepictor.livejournal.com]

anyone forcing you to bring it home?

Are you obliged to take and keep something given to you for free?

so what's your problem?

[malasadas.livejournal.com]

I have no idea why municipal compost, biosolids and sludge reuse is such a libertarian issue. Probably comes from the same feckless place as their heroic opposition to CFLs.

Ultimately, it reads less like an endorsement of "freedom" and more and more a petulant child's resentment of anyone even suggesting that their beautiful minds could consider doing, well, anything.

Which might explain the intersection with Heinlein and Rand.

[the-rukh.livejournal.com]

For 99% of libertarians I find that underneath all the fancy words, the underlying unifying theme is "what? I have obligations as a member of a society? whaaa! let me go find intellectual words to excuse myself"

[trog.livejournal.com]

Obligations to murder brown people overseas and imprison people domestically for having the wrong vegetation.

[the-rukh.livejournal.com]

Obligation to do anything, greedy bastards.

[pacotelic.livejournal.com]

OOOGA BOOGA LOOK OVER THERE

[iluvhistory.livejournal.com]

Because murder and plant legalization are totally the things that most Libertarians actually work on when they're elected instead of using them as talking points to attract 18-25 year old males & pre-LBJ democrats to vote for them, instead of you know, turning around and voting on shit like abortion & allowing businesses to refuse service based on race. Oh wait, that's totally fucking wrong.

[pacotelic.livejournal.com]

You're not describing elected Libertarians, you're describing Republicans. There are no elected Libertarians, as they are not electable

[iluvhistory.livejournal.com]

No, I'm describing Libertarians. Nationwide [US], there are 156 Libertarians currently holding elected office. (http://www.lp.org/candidates/elected-officials)