Dick's is a bunch of *****.

[Yourself]

...and I forgot to offer a gift at his feet for protecting our consumer rights. All hail!

 

[HumblePie]

So those of us who value our time and money more than crusading are sheep?

Ahh, tell that to the family of MLK, or even to those that hand out food at a soup kitchen. Tell them their causes are a waste of valuable time and money better spent elsewhere. We all pick our battles differently and for different reasons.

 

[Yourself]

Ahh, tell that to the family of MLK, or even to those that hand out food at a soup kitchen. Tell them their causes are a waste of valuable time and money better spent elsewhere. We all pick our battles differently and for different reasons.

MLK and soup kitchen references? Have you no shame?

 

[brigden]

Ahh, tell that to the family of MLK, or even to those that hand out food at a soup kitchen. Tell them their causes are a waste of valuable time and money better spent elsewhere. We all pick our battles differently and for different reasons.

You're going to spend hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars on a "battle" no one gives a shit about. Worst of all, regardless of outcome, absolutely nothing will change.

Truth be told, the only benefit from this needless exercise I foresee is learning when to pick those battles.

 

[HumblePie]

MLK and soup kitchen references? Have you no shame?

Lol, you are trying to take a moral high ground against someone doing something for not only a personal good but a greater good when all you want to do is throw out vitriolic remarks at others? And you dare to take moral umbrage?

 

[HumblePie]

You're going to spend hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars on a "battle" no one gives a shit about. Worst of all, regardless of outcome, absolutely nothing will change.

Truth be told, the only benefit from this needless exercise I foresee is learning when to pick those battles.

Plenty of people "give a shit" about consumer laws and protections. Maybe not you specifically, but there have been TONS of people who have commended me for standing for this. So I have no problem doing so both morally and legally. Also, I am far from the only one doing this in standing up for consumer laws.

 

[Yourself]

Lol, you are trying to take a moral high ground against someone doing something for not only a personal good but a greater good when all you want to do is throw out vitriolic remarks at others? And you dare to take moral umbrage?

Vitriolic? Funny! Just responding in kind to the "sheep" comment? I never claimed to be taking a higher moral ground anyway as I think you're full of shit. If you would just get off your high horse and flat out say "This is about me getting my way", you wouldn't get half the negative responses. However, when you associate the things you are trying to accomplish in the same breath with MLK and volunteering in the community...oh my.

 

[preslove]

Ahh, tell that to the family of MLK, or even to those that hand out food at a soup kitchen. Tell them their causes are a waste of valuable time and money better spent elsewhere. We all pick our battles differently and for different reasons.

Fuck you for comparing your hobby to people who've actually helped better this world.

You just like your toys and are pissed off that a company didn't follow through on selling you one.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Ahh, tell that to the family of MLK, or even to those that hand out food at a soup kitchen. Tell them their causes are a waste of valuable time and money better spent elsewhere. We all pick our battles differently and for different reasons.

ROFLMAO!!! Of all the delusion douchebaggery you've spewed forth here that has to be the most entertaining. MLK? ROFL!!! Mt Rushmore just called, they want your official portrait.


Gotta ask, why are you not dancing atop piles of money? Did Dick's see the letter from the lawyer you found advertised in the back of a comic book and collapse in the same throes of derisive laughter as those of us here?

 

[brigden]

I can't believe you've equated buying a gun at a discount price to the civil rights movement.

You're completely out of touch with reality, friend.

 

[zinfamous]

Ahh, tell that to the family of MLK, or even to those that hand out food at a soup kitchen. Tell them their causes are a waste of valuable time and money better spent elsewhere. We all pick our battles differently and for different reasons.

MLK and the homeless....that's just precious.

 

[HumblePie]

MLK and the homeless....that's just precious.

Certainly is. I'm standing up for consumer rights, my own, yours, and everyone else's on this board with my little bit. Without someone to do this then everyone could be preyed upon by those with the most muscle or bigger bank accounts to do so.

Am I stating what I'm doing is of the same overall effect as say what MLK did? Nope. But are there similarities? Yes. He saw something wrong, both morally and legally, and fought against it. He went against naysayers, and mud-slingers and opposition. Just as I seem to be doing on this board. In both MLK's work and my own in this instance, the outcome will be for a greater good as well as a personal good.

This goes for anyone that contributes their time, resources, and energy into making things better for everyone. But I can tell people here are too blind to see how analogous this can be.

Oh, and there were many a battle before mine over establishing those consumer protection laws that people enjoy today without thinking about them. But without people to continue to fight to enforce those laws and rights, then they can go away.

 

[zinfamous]

Alright, well, have fun storming the castle, then.

 

[shortylickens]

Alright, well, have fun storming the castle, then.

Think it'll work?

 

[zinfamous]

Think it'll work?

Not a chance.

 

[iRONic]

Trollolololol!

 

[HumblePie]

Alright, well, have fun storming the castle, then.

Thanks miracle max.

But this is neither for fun nor for frivolousness. I saw something wrong, I was personally effected by it, and I have the means to address the problem. Instead of turning the other cheek and letting bad things happen, I decided to fight back. Whether you or anyone else disagrees with that isn't my concern.

 

[preslove]

Am I stating what I'm doing is of the same overall effect as say what MLK did? Nope. But are there similarities? Yes. He saw something wrong, both morally and legally, and fought against it. He went against naysayers, and mud-slingers and opposition. Just as I seem to be doing on this board. In both MLK's work and my own in this instance, the outcome will be for a greater good as well as a personal good.

Go fuck yourself.

 

[brigden]

Thanks miracle max.

But this is neither for fun nor for frivolousness. I saw something wrong, I was personally effected by it, and I have the means to address the problem. Instead of turning the other cheek and letting bad things happen, I decided to fight back. Whether you or anyone else disagrees with that isn't my concern.

I'm convinced if the item was a video card or lawn mower you wouldn't "crusade" for consumer's rights.

 

[HumblePie]

When you have to resort to name calling you've already lost the argument

 

[HumblePie]

I'm convinced if the item was a video card or lawn mower you wouldn't "crusade" for consumer's rights.

I'm convinced you don't know me very well as I have done so for other items. Just because you can't picture yourself doing an action, or others you know, doesn't mean that there aren't people passionate about doing what is right.

 

[preslove]

When you have to resort to name calling you've already lost the argument

You lost it when you compared yourself to civil rights leaders, you stupid piece of shit. There is no reason to continue after that. You'll think up whatever idiocy to justify yourself.

 

[HumblePie]

Consumer laws and rights are civil liberties. People had to fight for them, just like people had to fight to establish other civil liberties. And people have to continue to always fight for what has already been established. This is the moral founding doctrine of our country. Vigilance for freedom and justice. Without vigilance for what is right and good, others will eventually seek to take that away.

I'm sorry you fail to comprehend such a simple concept and resort to baseless name calling as a form of argumentative debate.

What Dick's did in this instance can have wide ramifications. Without people constantly fighting for consumer protection laws, we have shit like laws being passed that make it illegal to change the OS on your phone or tablet.

 

[Yourself]

When you have to resort to name calling you've already lost the argument

Like when you called people "sheep" earlier?

 

[HumblePie]

Like when you called people "sheep" earlier?

Anyone that lets others roll over their rights and the rights of others are sheep. Nice try at hyperbole there, but it isn't a logical equivalent at all. Putting a generic set of people in a category with a label to describe a behavior is far from the same thing as direct name calling at the person you are trying to have a conversation or debate with. It's just one of those nuances you may one day learn.