If I decided to give Joe blow a million dollars it's legal. If I gave Joe blow a million dollars for having a better hand then me in poker it's illegal. WTF is wrong with this picture?
@TehGalt Of course, in recent decades the word "conservative" has come to be associated more with small government and low taxes, maybe because libertarians have chosen to align themselves with the GOP, but traditionally, "conservative" has meant enforcing traditional and "patriotic" values. It's really a shotgun wedding between these social/cultural conservatives and small-government advocates. Liberals have always promoted and defended liberty more than conservatives.
@TehGalt Yes, libertarians are more absolutist on liberty than American liberals. What I'm saying is that the freedom to play poker is not a conservative issue. Conservatives are hostile to liberty -- they want to ban sexual acts between consenting adults, to restrict the rights of gay people, to punish you for buying, selling, producing or using certain drugs, to curtail freedom of expression (flag desecration, porn, etc.), to impose their religion on everybody through force of law.
A point of clarification: -Libertarians- believe in liberty and personal freedoms. Liberals may claim to, but their actions generally indicate otherwise.
I'm not trying to turn this into a political debate; research it yourself & decide if I'm full of it or not.
She is a bimbo, and the quality of the video is even worse, but the message is clear. I am very angry that I can not get ready for the WSOP by playing in the PokerStars SCOOP. We live in a nanny state. Many other countries are now freer than we are.
poker is played by losers in denial.
yuddda 10 months ago
If I decided to give Joe blow a million dollars it's legal. If I gave Joe blow a million dollars for having a better hand then me in poker it's illegal. WTF is wrong with this picture?
Ramel34 10 months ago
fffffff
TheHumanAgenda 10 months ago
is the inteviewer drunk?
OZcafehead 10 months ago
@TehGalt Of course, in recent decades the word "conservative" has come to be associated more with small government and low taxes, maybe because libertarians have chosen to align themselves with the GOP, but traditionally, "conservative" has meant enforcing traditional and "patriotic" values. It's really a shotgun wedding between these social/cultural conservatives and small-government advocates. Liberals have always promoted and defended liberty more than conservatives.
AGiantSloar 10 months ago
@TehGalt Yes, libertarians are more absolutist on liberty than American liberals. What I'm saying is that the freedom to play poker is not a conservative issue. Conservatives are hostile to liberty -- they want to ban sexual acts between consenting adults, to restrict the rights of gay people, to punish you for buying, selling, producing or using certain drugs, to curtail freedom of expression (flag desecration, porn, etc.), to impose their religion on everybody through force of law.
AGiantSloar 10 months ago
Good job Greg.
iamsomeone44 10 months ago
@AGiantSloar
A point of clarification: -Libertarians- believe in liberty and personal freedoms. Liberals may claim to, but their actions generally indicate otherwise.
I'm not trying to turn this into a political debate; research it yourself & decide if I'm full of it or not.
TehGalt 10 months ago
She is a bimbo, and the quality of the video is even worse, but the message is clear. I am very angry that I can not get ready for the WSOP by playing in the PokerStars SCOOP. We live in a nanny state. Many other countries are now freer than we are.
Arbatious 10 months ago
Fight the good fight, our backs are against the wall now...
doubleshotofjd 10 months ago