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Originally Posted by SmokeyJ
Basically, people either didn't care enough to research more or just assumed everything would be ok. It was fairly common knowledge (or easy to stumble upon if you read a bit of 2p2) that payment processors were getting owned, and people didn't connect the dots for one reason or another.
I'm not really voicing my opinion of the PPA, but what Skallagrim says here is true. When the 15 month blackout period was being discussed TheEngineer and Skallagrim were both saying that the status quo is unacceptable and SOMETHING needs to be done. They were attacked on 2p2 for a variety of reasons (one I remember was that they were only supporting the legislation because of political reasons, there were others obv), and now **** has actually hit the fan (like they said it might) and everyone is blaming them for not doing anything!
This. Some of you guys are so delusional it's hilarious. The PPA couldn't even get clear support from within the online poker community on issues of federal legalization. And yet some of you morans are bitching about how come they didn't just magically get matt damon or some other celeb to tell the public to make poker legal. Or why didn't they magically fix all this, like they should have if they worked harder. Lol, grow up. You guys sound like little children who are so naive and clueless you can't even comprehend the basics of the political struggle going on here and you haven't even paid attention enough to know even the basics for the last few years(not to mention likely done nothing about it and donated none of your time to helping). But like a child who has his toy taken away, you just need someone to cry and yell at.
If I was skallagram or the Engineer i would have quit a long time ago, online poker players as a community are way too clueless and delusional. This thread case in point.