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merrily

(45,251 posts)
19. Thanks for providing a side of offensive overreaction with your Henny Penny entree.
Fri Oct 31, 2014, 08:46 AM
Oct 2014

Not a hallmark of leftists.


My statement was extremely mild, yet you had to be dismissive and come as close to calling me an idiot without risking a hide. Just couldn't let it go. Had to over the top overreact. And you're doing the same to other posters on this thread, implying that everyone on the thread who is not joining in your shenanigans is an idiot. For example:

"3. He's an expert on risk, only an idiot would ignore him."



Now, idiot this:


Yes, I understand pandemics.

I also understand facts.

I also understand hysteria. I also notice who is banging the drum for the hysteria and who is not.

Jon Stewart been mocking the hysteria pandemic for weeks. So have a lot of other people that I consider both highly intelligent and eminently sane. If you want to tell Jon Stewart he''s an idiot, please give me a head's up. I love to laugh.

And that's before we get to all the doctors telling us not to panic.

Meanwhile, your view, and your kind of response when faced with even the mildest resistance, is aligned with those of the geniuses at FOX News.




BTW, did you actually rec your own thread? And still get only two recs?




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The original pdf's are in the wayback machine (archive.org) bananas Oct 2014 #1
wayback machine is my standard PatrynXX Oct 2014 #27
Ebola! Ebola! Ebola! Shadowflash Oct 2014 #2
Two things need to be done about Ebola. bananas Oct 2014 #6
Here is a pic to go with that. yellowcanine Oct 2014 #22
Thanks! Shadowflash Oct 2014 #26
Here's the DU thread mentioned in the article bananas Oct 2014 #3
We'd save a lot more lives getting people to stop smoking. merrily Oct 2014 #4
Thanks for providing another example of "the empiricism of the idiots." bananas Oct 2014 #7
Luckily Taleb is not an epidemiologist. Warren Stupidity Oct 2014 #10
He's an expert on risk, only an idiot would ignore him. nt bananas Oct 2014 #13
he is not an expert on epidemiology or ebola. Warren Stupidity Oct 2014 #28
He didn't say "quarantine" bananas Oct 2014 #21
No he didn't use the "q" word. Warren Stupidity Oct 2014 #29
Thanks for providing a side of offensive overreaction with your Henny Penny entree. merrily Oct 2014 #19
They are hiding the massive outbreak here by secretly transporting all the infected people Warren Stupidity Oct 2014 #5
Over at conservativecrackpots.com, they hate unions and nurses. bananas Oct 2014 #8
Well, that certainly explains leftynyc Oct 2014 #9
But the information wasn't wrong, and now they make it look like they're hiding something. bananas Oct 2014 #11
Agree leftynyc Oct 2014 #12
That's what the Surgeon General is for - and why it's important to get out the vote. bananas Oct 2014 #14
I don't understand why Democrats aren't leftynyc Oct 2014 #15
You are probly right about riversedge Oct 2014 #16
Yes. They look stupid. 840high Oct 2014 #24
Why is it always "quietly" removed? cactusfractal Oct 2014 #17
They need to post this for a day before changing items on their webpages sharp_stick Oct 2014 #25
It was causing confusion so it has been updated KMOD Oct 2014 #18
. stonecutter357 Oct 2014 #20
Pretty much because sharp_stick Oct 2014 #23
It needed to be removed because it was taken out of context. cynzke Oct 2014 #30
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