look at the article we are commenting under. there is your answer

without protections, you get fucked

it's kind of like antivaxxers: they have no fucking clue how horrible a world of constant deadly diseases was. so in this bubble of ignorance, created by progress, they only see the tiny "evil" in what we have to do to maintain the advance: get injections. they react to that as the evil that needs to be defeated. as if that's the only evil possible. and when enough of them allow enough attack vectors for a deadly disease to proliferate, people die. so here we have the real evil at work: ignorance

the world is not a choice between unicorns and rainbows versus shit and broken bones

the world is often a choice between various shades of bad situations

wisdom is picking the least bad situation, and comparing it versus the other bad options. rather than ignorantly comparing the least worse bad situation against uneducated perfection fantasy. so government regulations, with all of the corruption and rent seeking and regulatory capture, etc., is better than no government, or weaker government

people need to fight corruption, not government itself. in fact, those who corrupt government are often the ones loudly proclaiming government to be the enemy, rather than the corruption they create. and uneducated fools fall for their lies

another example: the FDC

like antivaxxers, certain paranoid economically illterate wackjobs see great evil in the FDC. and in their abject economic and historical ignorance, they have no clue of the historical suffering that led to the FDC. no, in their mind these controls exist because of vast conspiracies and assorted nutbag fantasy rantings about efforts to control us all, because reality is apparently an episode of scooby doo

why does the FDC actually fucking exist in the first place? study your economics and your history. don't trust the low iq herp derp hysterics of alex jones types to "educate" you

the reasons are mundane and sensible for the FDC. not dark and creepy. a world without them, the world before the FDC, is far, far worse:

every dozen years, there would be a banking panic, and people would lose their life savings

simple history. simple economic fact

that's the real reason why we have the FDC (cue paranoid historically and economically illiterate whining about "freedom")

and here we have bitcoin enthusiasts losing their deposits by entrusting them to random assholes without any government oversight, and guess what?

"oh well"

that's what life is like without "evil" government regulations in finance

Sure, theoretically. But is the currency you're getting worth the currency you're getting? And are you actually getting equal protection?

If there's missing millions then there's missing fraction-of-millions in taxes. So there's a motivation to go looking for it right there. And then, also, once it's in their hot little hands they can always decide to keep it. Even if all they do is sit on it for a while and then eventually cough it up, it can make them money.

No rush.

It means I'm fat, kind of like you're a bit of a douchebag.

people who seek to get a currency away from "evil" government control get exactly what they want: worse. no government, no accountability. no accountability, you get screwed, and the only answer you will ever get is "oh well"

you can't run from government regulation in hatred of it as a great evil, and then expect government to come to rescue you when you inevitably get fucked. you got fucked, because there's no regulations... which you *asked for* and were enthusiastic about, moron

all this episode boils down to is some economically clueless fanboys needed to learn the hard way what the rest of us already know: that a currency backed by a government is obviously better than "free" alternatives

all the evil shit a government can pull (and they do, i'm not defending government, i'm just noting there is far worse out there) is nothing compared to the evil that exists without a government backed currency and government oversight, accountability, and regulations of finance and banking. i'm not in love with government, i just recognize it as the *least worse* evil when it comes to currency mechanisms

you can petition and redress your grievances to government, and get a hearing, and maybe justice (if you actually understand right and wrong and you aren't some deranged crackpot out for "justice")

you can't do that against random assholes whom you trusted with your deposits for some ignorant reason that just basically boils down to uneducated enthusiasm

it's like the people who rant and complain about how evil the police are. and then their car gets broken into... and... drum roll please... they call the police. you want to reform the police, fix the police, fight corruption. not fight their existence. you need the police. without the police, civilization quickly falls. of course there are crooked cops and bad cops. so fight that, the bad apples in the system, rather than fight the entire system. which you need, and want, despite the fact you aren't educated enough to see or understand that far worse problems exist without them. the same with government regulation of finance and banking. it is warped and corrupt and crooked. so fight the corruption. don't fight the whole system. because without the system, far worse shit will befall you

people need to be educated enough on economics and history to know what kind of abuses exist out there without government oversight of banking

republicans were drooling over gutting glass-steagall since reagan and finally some republican congrescritters got the bill done, and clinton signed it, therefore all democrats fault

some democrats went along for the republican cooked up lying premise for war in iraq. therefore all democrats fault

do i understand your mentality accurately?

hell no!

and the police won't do shit, they'll roll their eyes at you. because it's just ugly trashtalking. so schilling responds by exposing the douchebags. low grade crime. low grade response

and you act like there's a mob with pitchforks ready to hang people!

hysterical much?

you seem to have a prepackaged, thoughtless reaction to this specific case as if you only consider crimes that rise to the level of boko haram. this is low grade crap. so tone down your overheated melodrama

exactly! what's the problem? you want a nuclear strike here?

you want the police called every time someone steals a parking spot? every time someone doesn't hold the door open for someone else? every time a kid calls another a bad name?

not every act of justice has to be at the hands of police with guns

in fact, your calls for official involvement for low level shit is the actual source of the problem of an overblown reaction. there's no mob with a hangman's noose here. YOU are the one who wants people with guns to show up. you're the one taking this way, way too far and taking the chance for a reaction way out of proportion to the low grade crime

this is every day, low grade justice by regular people. and well done. good job schilling

Double selection bias. People who are good at walking will tend to continue to do it for fun into older age. Meanwhile, while you're hiking, you tend to meet people who hike. Walking is of course great exercise, however. I have asthma and I'm a bit heavy but I'm a good walker, I can walk all day as long as the way isn't too steep.

so show me

you've spent a nice amount of time alluding to a false equivalency, but you still haven't described these mythological vast democratic crimes that equate to the republican ones

the republican crimes of tanking the economy with the wonders of deregulation, and wasting trillions of dollars and thousands of lives on a completely pointless iraq war that made things worse

i've just described republican crimes

now it's your turn

but i won't hear a single one of equivalent nature by democrats

because they don't exist

not saying democrats haven't fucked up. not saying the democrats are wonderful. they just haven't fucked up as badly as republicans, nor are they as corrupt and sleazy, by a long shot

now we will simply hear more of your allusions to

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...

that you can't actually substantiate

i am not guilty of being biased to one side. i am guilty of noting the actual proportionality of the crimes of both sides, and *objectively* seeing the truth that the republican side is much greater

is this the city that turns into a ufo?

or the one with the giant rolling stone trap?

what exactly is your moronic argument?

because people can be framed the pursuit of justice can't proceed?

people have always attempted to pervert justice. that's not an argument against justice itself, it's just another thing that justice needs to be gotten for

fair enough

but it's like pointless overheated arguments about what a "hacker" is

words evolve in meaning

troll has multiple meanings

you can't get what you ask for

low grade twitter harassment is not going to be dealt with by the police

not all justice rises to the level of police and court involvement. it's not "vigilantism" if the stakes and consequences are low

you have standards which are unrealistic and will never be met, therefore you should read my words again and understand what schilling did is 100% appropriate and responsible

No, and get a load of that poor fucker's middle name. If my parents gave me a name like that, I'd set shit on fire, too.

No, more like that.

did you hear that folks?

because someone might get framed for murder, we can't go after real murderers

because someone might get falsely accused of rape, no rapist can ever be punished

because someone might get lynched by a hysterical mob, all acts of actual justice are invalid

genius