Offer an economist two identical candy bars and he will freeze in place, unable to make a decision, as there is no possible way to make a rational decision. This is how we defeat them.
What is rationality? Rationalists: operating on universal reason. Empiricists: the combining together of ideas. Pragmatists: successfully acting on your ideas. Economists: dumbasses, it's trying to become as rich as possible, obviously.
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Centrists: criticising anyone who has any ideas for being biased/ideological
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You left out the "skeptics" who define rationality as "telling everybody who will listen my conspiracy theories about how feminists are trying to destroy western society"
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In other words: economists are thrasymachus
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Economists: if we just assume externalities are free, then our models work flawlessly
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Economists: a British gentleman stranded on a island
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This might be your best one yet. I could retweet this every day.
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