Random Politics & Religion #00

You actually reported that?

Topic banned for abusing the report function. That sends email to a bunch of people. Do it again and it becomes an actual suspension.

Jokes are fine. Don't abuse site functions. Your topic ban goes away when I feel like getting rid of it, and not before.

There were questions about Madoff's Ponzi scheme since 1999. SEC failed to investigate it then, so it's not like they didn't know there were questions about it.

But yeah, government agencies should be the ones to discover such frauds, not extraordinary events or outside groups...

Point is, the government's function is to protect and enforce laws to prevent such abuses and frauds from happening or occurring. This is another example of the ineptitude of the federal government.

'hostility' is highly subjective.

Let's not get into a debate about that.

And yes, this is the person who would have the biggest voice on such subject...

It should be a tandem effort, that's the whole point of watchdog groups in the first place. It doesn't matter who catches wrongdoing, so long as wrongdoing is caught.

why the hell not? the rules are too damn high!

I promised Rooks to keep my viewpoints on the old moderation staff to him and the current moderation staff only.

We all know my viewpoints in this matter. I don't want to see a shitstorm happening because there would be a lot of bans and tears from it all and nothing will have changed one bit.

I'll agree with you on that.

Now if the government can actually catch fraud, that's the question, isn't it?

you're probably one of the reasons the rules got too damn high to begin with!

I don't really get upset about discussion of moderation staff and policies. Make all the jokes and comments about me that you like - go too far and you'll get moderated but (probably) not punished. Words don't hurt me.

I do get pissed off when people abuse site functions.

Edit: nvm

We can always discuss that, we just shouldn't do it here. In general though, I try not to worry too much about the past, a policy stance you in particular should appreciate.

Here is the appropriate thread for that kind of thing, though.

Is curb your enthusiasm on 'on demand' or whatever? it's probably been long enough that I could watch those again.

This is moronic. Yes the solution for you is to murder the child because they won't be wealthy in childhood. If you are living in government housing as Jassik said and you have 5 children yes it is your fault you are poor.

Murder the child? LMAO...

It makes much more sense to punish the child for existing by forcing them to be born into poverty to parents who don't want them.

Aman literally speaks like a man who has never actually lived at or below the poverty line in his fabled 'government housing'. Where children are routinely sired by deadbeats, drug addicts and other ne'er do wells who will most certainly throw a child to the dogs because they're worried about themselves.

Please, have a seat and let someone who grew up in shitty neighborhood tell you what it is to live underneath the plate, to borrow some FFVII terminology.

So, it's preferable to snuff out life in this case?

You should be glad that your parents decided not to snuff out your life because there may be a chance that you would have grown up poor.

I did grow up poor, with a single mother no less. Guess what, my existence doesn't validate the lunacy behind the religious anti-abortion arguments.

Just look at P&R. Look at it.

This is what a world without abortion would look like.

I was born from a planned pregnancy, from parents who were in their 30s. You do see how this is different from two 16 year olds diddling around and creating a baby right? Or a single mom stuck with a lovechild from Sammy McDeadbeat. Or a rape baby. Or a one night stand.

It's not about may or may not. It's about the reality of children being born to parents not up to wanting children. And for those people, abortion should be an option. Because you don't *** phone in being a parent. And no child should be born to people who don't love them - it's an emotional dead sentence.

You can be relatively poor and raise a child but that comes with having the job and desire to *want* a child. Make the sacrifices. Instill the basic fundamentals. To do your job.

So yeah, I'm more about quality than quantity. I've seen enough oops babies running around with parents who don't care, doomed to be thrown into the meatgrinder of your local prison, insane asylum or other 'storage' facility to know that some people should just abort.

I think of them. I like them aborted. With fries on the side, thanks.

Except it's not the "lunacy behind the religious anti-abortion arguments" that you should have been worried about.

See, it's the pro-abortion argument that would have put your life in jeopardy. Because, Sparth just said:

That is his argument for abortions, if I'm reading him right.

A world of endless global warming and Hitler conversations??????????????????????????

God doesn't take kindly to all these return to sender babies. I wonder how many Katrinas it'll take for Americans to get the point.

I was fortunate enough to have a family who wanted me, but that isn't a given. And no amount of narcissism would make your argument even remotely compelling.