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Originally Posted by BucketFoot
It really hurts your guys argument when the same 4-5 guys have been defending this thread since it's inception.
lol. we could have 40-50 if we did the gimmick thing. I think that hurts your credibility much more than anything "we've" done.
btw, what's
your argument? you have a feeling? something isn't quite right but you can't put your finger on it? no potential crime isn't committed?
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And whenever somebody brings up a valid point or a couple extremely unprobable, you either divert the attention away from it, change the subject, or call them rigtards.
That's incorrect. When someone mentions a theory (never mind they often offer several contradictory ideas at once...) we ask for some sort of evidence which has never been provided.
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I thought this was the place to have intelligent discussion, but apparently being rude and close minded is more to your liking.
Intelligent discussion doesn't include making accusations about things without proof. I'm open to the idea that it could happen or even is. I would look over any evidence you or your other accounts provide. If it was legit, I'd change my mind.
Also, intelligent people don't play a game they are convinced is rigged.
I'd also like to add that many a Rigtard has complimented me on my polite manner.
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I suppose it would get pretty boring defending against the same claims day after day,
Funny, I was thinking the same thing about you. I'm not making any claims though - you guys are. I
do ask y'all to defend them, but for some reason nothing ever comes up except childish insults and "new" accounts.
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You say they haven't been caught yet so obviously they run a fair operation. Thats like saying Bonds hasn't failed a drug test, he can't possibly be on steroids.
No, that's not the same thing. Barry Bonds' steroid use didn't affect me at all. But a dishonest poker site would affect me greatly. However, in all the hundreds of thousands of hands I've put in over the last three or so years, I've not seen anything to lead me to believe I haven't been getting a fair shake anywhere I played.
Now, I saw Barry Bonds start as a skinny rookie with a regular head in Pittsburgh around '86 and become a thick, jumbo-headed behemoth in San Francisco over the years. Did I suspect him of using steroids? Yeah, I did. But I didn't post about it on baseball forums, nor did I buy his jersey or trading cards. However, people in the business of baseball kept checking and found EVIDENCE he had been using banned substances. Funny how that works, huh?
Here's a better example of your conspiracy theories - in
Salem, MA during the early 1690's there were a few folks going around blaming witches for basically anything that went wrong.
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After someone concluded that a loss, illness or death had been caused by witchcraft, the accuser would enter a complaint against the alleged witch with the local magistrates. If the complaint was deemed credible, the magistrates would have the person arrested[17] and brought in for a public examination, essentially an interrogation, where the magistrates pressed the accused to confess.
If the magistrates at this local level were satisfied that the complaint was well-founded, the prisoner was handed over to be dealt with by a superior court. In 1692, the magistrates opted to wait for the arrival of the new charter and governor, who would establish a Court of Oyer and Terminer to handle these cases.
The next step, at the superior court level, was to summon witnesses before a grand jury.
A person could be indicted on charges of afflicting with witchcraft,[20] or for making an unlawful covenant with the Devil.[21] Once indicted, the defendant went to trial, sometimes on the same day, as in the case of the first person indicted and tried on June 2, Bridget Bishop, who was executed on June 10, 1692.
Looking back, we see that there were outlandish accusations made, sham trials with shoddy evidence and innocent people suffered.
It's a lot like how you're blaming poker sites for your failure as players - it must be witchcraft! Luckily, we don't make those same mistakes anymore and convict on the fervor of zealots. The system in place requires evidence to be presented before anyone even can GO to trial. Also, there are laws in place which make false accusations punishable offenses, but I never see the rigtards calling for regulation of them.
You are welcome to find some data which supports your views about online poker. Personally, I don't feel it's as obvious the Bonds/Steroids Debacle, but if you have something to change my mind I'd love to look it over.
I might start a new account to say how brilliant a reply that was.