Justice For Jaime Leigh Jones? Follow

Threads change. People acknowledged that Acorn had problems, and were fine with investigations and cutting off funding. Then they tried to get you to address Haliburton separately as that was part of the OP. You couldn't, but it's ok, we know why.

Rape is worse, you fUcking dumb piece of ****, because child prostitution is just a variety of rape.

Do you have any idea how to evaluate something political without setting it against an example with similarities from the opposite partisanship?

Edited, Oct 19th 2009 4:38pm by AshOnMyTomatoes

Sometimes I think varrus is just an experiment someone is playing on us. Either to get us to think more clearly on our own ideas and viewpoints, or to waste our time, one of the two.

We can all agree time is being wasted, whichever the case.

I think the experiment is entering a new phase, as varus is becoming much worse at ignoring his own posts. He wasn't always quite this internally inconsistent. He used to somewhat follow a thread, rather then just making everything up.

Not at all. In fact, he could be an algorithm of some kind. Someone says something like "TARP Fund" or something, and the algorithm kicks in, blanketing us in snippets from various wingnut websites. This could even explain the unorthodox quote method.

Then when you try to wield some reason at it, it gets a bit confused, and cycles onto the next talking point that's mildly related.

I bet Stubs wrote it.

I'm standing up to your tyranny. Nothing incriminating about that.

I'm way more surprised that these people were doing this legally dubious consulting pro bono.

Well, but to put the shoe on the other foot, it tells me that you're perfectly ok with using someone's rape to avoid discussing some other wrong that's being committed. As I pointed out way back in this thread, the whole purpose of this thread was to make yet another "It doesn't matter what Acorn did, look at what <some other conservatively associated group or person> did!!!" distraction.

It was childish when the thread was started, and it's gone downhill from there. Yes. This womans rape was a tragedy. Absolutely we should go after those responsible to the greatest degree possible. And yes, we should produce greater oversight for civilian contractors working for the government in foreign countries.

But the sad fact is that women get raped. Children get abducted. People homes burn down. Their dogs die. All manner of personal tragedies occur every day. That's a reality. It's one we should work to reduce, but it's utterly unfair to use a single tragedy in an attempt to change the subject from something you don't want to talk about. Also, it is fair to say that the things which affect the structure of our laws and society are more important on a broad scale than any single one of those tragedies.

This may sound callous, but it's really not. The actions of Acorn, and the ramifications for the country I live in resulting from their actions and those of other organizations operating under the same rules (or lack thereof), affect me, you, and virtually every other person on the planet more than the rape of a single women. I made a point earlier about how we're not just talking about oversight to prevent events like what happened to Jones from happening again, but are actually taking action. You just showed the proof that we are dealing with not just Halliburton, and this specific case, but with future such situations as well. I'll ask again: When do we take similar action with regard to how we hand out government funds domestically? When to we not just go after the single players involved with the various Acorn scandals, but put some kind of legislation in place to try to prevent those sorts of abuses from happening again?


There's a double standard here. That's the real tragedy. And guess what? The one that's being ignored affects us more than the one we're dealing with promptly. If that's not backwards, I don't know what is...

Huh? Promptly?

This woman was raped almost four and a half years ago, fUckstick.

Hey, there's only so many hours in the day to spend caring about shit and the time they don't spend screaming about Acorn is currently slotted for giving a fuck about which people some broad cited in a speech. Because, in Pubbie world, saying "Mao" is a greater offense than gangraping some woman and having a company attempt to cover it up and suppress it to the highest levels of corporate leadership.

Edited, Oct 20th 2009 7:19am by Jophiel