So tell me how it works then, and let's figure out how to keep religious leaders from covering up some of the worst crimes imaginable.

PS. I don't think ANY religion will be found to legally aid and abet child molestation, rape, murder and torture. I do not think that will be found constitutional.

I guess the kids could challenge on the basis of constitutional protections too, but they'd have to do that after the fact and all the damage. The churches get to cover up the abuse in a proactive fashion.

Fine, maybe a court would throw it out, but until that moment there'd be that much more protections for the children.

And a huge fuck you to Sen. Dick Sears, D-Bennington too for putting the rights of big, organized, world-wide religion ahead of the rights of children to not be molested, raped, murdered, tortured or other.

Organized religion .... it makes child molestation, rape, murder, torture and more a question of constitutional protection for religion.

I'm for the kids - fuck the churches.

Reading the room - 2K views and a handful of downvotes.

Direct enough?

Your math sucks and is incomplete.

Worst case scenario is there is only one upvote on this post (mine) and any other votes are downvotes. I'm looking at 10% upvote rate, which would mean 9 down and 1 up .... (ready for this?) ... on 2000+ views.

9 downvotes = approximately 0.45% of the viewers. Double the number of up and down votes? You're still under 1%.

So yeah, you and your little band of Rama-haters is just that - little.

You think I would "imply" me? Really? I'm now going to get grief for not being direct and blunt enough? Fuck me.

Have you come up with a percentage of r/vermont posts are mine?

What's too much? Once a week? Month? Day?

I'm not responding because I really care about the outcome of all this redditing in r/vermont thing; but I'm always curious as to how people (including myself) come up with views.

Suggestions as worded above are so amorphous as to meaning that at least to me they are meaningless.

Maybe, just maybe, folks who make comments like yours just aren't in my bucket of people I'd like to associate with.

On the other hand, I've made the offer before and I'll leave it out there: I'll sit down in a public social meeting with ANYBODY in the sub and talk about the issues and not how much you don't like Rama.

The prior are meaningful, the latter is your issue to deal with.

The object is to shut me up. Period. I don't care what their rationale is, the object to censor what others get to see and read.

And as a mod, then, you can confirm that folks can get around others trying to censor what they see by clicking on "new", right?

Sure you can, its how Reddit is designed to operate.

We should add that you need something better to do with your life then tell others they need to do something different with their lives.

And you're correct - "censor", not "censure" ... although censure sure as hell fits too.

[Edit] And what is "shitposting" about explaining how folks can use Reddit? That's a very strange approach.[/Edit]

Vermont provides some really good family opportunities regardless gay or straight. Vermont is an overwhelmingly accepting place, but be aware that like any other place there are the haters - but you'll get community support to overcome them.

Williamstown or Northfield. The Paine Mountain School District is great, Northfield has a fun, small downtown, and Williamstown provides more open space [edit] for home construction[/edit].

I live in Williamstown - been here for almost 31 years. It's been a great fit for the family and me. Daughter is putting up a new home just up the road from my place.

Stay on the paved roads. You'll be showing up in the prime mud season, which also means the no outdoors thing will work for you.

What are your particular interests? Vermont offers a lot of indoor activities including water theme parks, restaurants, night life/musical entertainment and a lot more. Small towns offer quite a bit but on a more subdued tone.

I am going to posit here that this FTX topic is indeed an important Vermont story of ongoing importance, and part of that argument goes to my refrain regarding no magical borders to protect Vermont.

I picked that "no magic borders" up as a concept and phrase through discussions regarding Vermont's sales taxes. It was one of those phrases that I heard from those folks who pointed out how a higher sales tax on one side of the Connecticut River would result in more business for the other side where a sales tax didn't even exist. (Yes, Vermont and New Hampshire)

The massively corrupting influence of big money in ALL of our politics, just like the sales tax, knows no magical borders that will protect us.

You can shut me out all you want. I honestly couldn't care. But don't shut out the corruption of big money in our politics. (And yeah - if you've reached this point - I've won, because you'll remember the big money out of politics thing.)

Rama's take: it is a Vermont story, and it is an important story for Vermont.

I'm happy to interact. In fact that's why I post and comment.

This subreddit was in the top 5% of numbers well before I came along. I didn't make this sub, and I don't mod it. At any time folks can down vote my stuff into a single, pathetic little line that let's one know somebody posted something there. Hell, the mods can boot me out.

This isn't my place.

Just don't expect me or even yourself to respond to comments who's only value is to express dissatisfaction with the poster.

Yes, I think.

And therefore, some might add, I exist.

Your point is?????

I think "corrupt politicians" is referring to specific individuals; and "corrupt politics" refers to the system we all, corrupt politician or otherwise, inhabit.

So the prior is individual centered and the later is system centered.

You ARE finding out the details.

I have seen ZERO evidence that Balint acted or would have acted in any way corrupt regardless the exposure of the FTX cash.

Your statements of fact if asked as questions would make fair questions that demand answers. You gratuitous assertion of fact regard Balint and her motivations truly demand you go back and find answers to the questions.

But that's just my opinion.