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Originally Posted by AdamSchwartz
except that we don't live in the USA and won't feed from the liquidity pool likely ever again so that isn't it.
Look, all political systems have serious flaws. It's not like were sitting back saying how great our system is vs the USA. There's a long list of things that don't make any sense here in Canada, but since that has f all to do with poker (for the time being) there's no point in talking about it.
IIRC, we were talking about the laughable hypocrisy in Adleson's position on online gaming. Surprised nobody cares enough about that to write long posts about it.
If you were commenting under the assumption that the US liquidity will never be available again then my specific objection to the comments was unfounded.
True, Adelson's hypocrisy is quite clear and it is a specific human hypocrisy that is probably borne in great part out of our capitalistic economic/political system. In the end, Adelson is a 80 year old college drop out whose Dad drove a taxi and Mom ran a knitting shop. Our system does tend to build these types of folks who end up being incredibly hypocritical just so they can make every last dime.
I guess it is likely that Americans are more used to seeing this kind of capitalistic unreasonable hypocrisy up close so it is less striking to us. I understand how much, much more reasonable Canadians faced with an Adelson's actions would be more outraged by them than we are. I honestly wish that our US people were as reasonable and thoughtful as the Canadian people are, we would have a much better country.
Understanding where you guys were coming from, your thoughts make more sense to me. I think some of the rhetoric was clearly not aimed at Adelson, but I get it. Remember, anyone would have the freedom to use the same system in the same way on the other side of the issue. But I was wrong to jump to such a hard conclusion that you were being disingenuous, I apologize for that.
I wouldn't give up on internet poker in the US, the one thing that matters more than money is votes. And it may take awhile but if the voters want internet poker, it will happen. We didn't want a President Gingrich and we don't have one.
In a clear case of massive schadenfreude, I think the work you guys do on Black Friday and all the various fallouts is some of the best commentary I have ever heard on any medium. So ya, I am probably the hypocrite for being so offended by something I enjoy listening to so much.
Last edited by Svadhyaya; 04-06-2014 at 02:13 PM.