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Alec Bald Snatch: Sep 12, 2012; by exmarx

beatlegs posted:

It's funny, conservatives pay so much more attention to what celebrities say than liberals do. They obsess over it as the true enemy of their movement, I guess as a way of distracting themselves from the reality that they're loving wrong about everything all the time.

Back when he had the 9pm slot on MSNBC Joe Scarborough had a nightly segment on "Hollyweird" news. He had the exact tone of those kids who pretend they don't care about being popular but desperatley wish for it more than anything else. And now he gives the next generation of suckups like the Politico gang a tv platform.

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Lycus: Aug 5, 2008; Half the posters in this forum have been made up. This website is a goddamn ghost town.

Conservatives go nuts with joy whenever a celebrity says something conservative. The last time I saw my uncle, he was walking around with a Duck Dynasty t-shirt on despite never having watched the show before he found out that the guy on there hates gay people too.

# ? Aug 7, 2014 01:10

BiggerBoat: Sep 26, 2007; Don't you tell me my business again.

Prester John posted:

It is a worldview ~~almost~~ totally devoid of nuance.

You could have saved yourself a whole lot of typing.

# ? Aug 7, 2014 02:05

Mercury_Storm: Jun 12, 2003; *chomp chomp chomp*

BiggerBoat posted:

You could have saved yourself a whole lot of typing.

This is why I don't give the GOP a hell of a lot of credit for being "smarter" about their messaging. Because it doesn't take all that much more effort to convince people like this of things that they are already completely ready to accept and believe in fully if it comes from the mouth of a supposed authority figure.

From Altemeyer's "The Authoritarians":

quote:

Authoritarian Submission:
Everybody submits to authority to some degree. Imagine a world in which people ignored traffic laws and sped through red lights. The cost of auto insurance would shoot through the roof (although the line-ups to buy it would become much shorter). But some people go way beyond the norm and submit to authority even when it is dishonest, corrupt, unfair and evil. We would expect authoritarian followers especially to submit to corrupt authorities in their lives: to believe them when there is little reason to do so, to trust them when huge grounds for suspicion exist, and to hold them blameless when they do something wrong.

We don�t expect absolutes here; people are much too complicated to completely, always, blindly submit, no matter what. But IF the RWA (Right Wing Authoritarian) scale truly measures the tendency to be an authoritarian follower, those who score highly on it should tend to do these things, right? So do they? Well, they will tell you that people should submit to authority in virtually all circumstances. If you give them moral dilemmas (e.g. should one steal an absurdly expensive drug to save a life?) they�re more likely to say, �The law is the law and must be obeyed� than most people are.

Mercury_Storm fucked around with this message at 02:38 on Aug 7, 2014

# ? Aug 7, 2014 02:28

jackofarcades: Sep 2, 2011; Okay, I'll admit it took me a bit to get into it... But I think I kinda love this!! I'm Spider-Man!! I'm actually Spider-Man!! HA!

Erick Erickson writing on Ann Coulter called the missionary doctor who contracted Ebola idiotic:

quote:

Not every Christian survives. Many are martyred. We, as Christians, should understand each person is called by the Lord in different ways. Ann and I are called to our keyboards to write and speak boldly. Dr. Brantly was called to Africa.

http://www.redstate.com/2014/08/06/can-christ-not-spare-one-man/

# ? Aug 7, 2014 02:44

Ninjasaurus: Feb 11, 2014; This is indeed a disturbing universe.

quote:

Not every Christian survives. Many are martyred. We, as Christians, should understand each person is called by the Lord in different ways. Ann and I are called to our keyboards to write and speak boldly. Dr. Brantly was called to Africa.

I refuse to believe someone wrote that seriously.

# ? Aug 7, 2014 02:55

Republicans: Oct 14, 2003; - More money for us

- Fuck you

jackofarcades posted:

Erick Erickson writing on Ann Coulter called the missionary doctor who contracted Ebola idiotic:

http://www.redstate.com/2014/08/06/can-christ-not-spare-one-man/

Coulter always struck me as shameless in her attempts to get attention but wow, gently caress her.

# ? Aug 7, 2014 02:56

Lycus: Aug 5, 2008; Half the posters in this forum have been made up. This website is a goddamn ghost town.

I post on Something Awful because the Lord commandeth me.

# ? Aug 7, 2014 02:58

Good Citizen: Aug 12, 2008; trump trump trump trump trump trump trump trump trump trump

Lycus posted:

I post on Something Awful because the Lord commandeth me.

Prepare for martyrdom.

# ? Aug 7, 2014 03:10

woke wedding drone: Jun 1, 2003; by exmarx; Fun Shoe

Some are called to catch a bamboo spear in the chest and get barbecued by taut, glistening savages; others post lens flare macros of Muscle Christ snapping the cross.

# ? Aug 7, 2014 03:19

tote up a bags: Jun 8, 2006; die stoats die

W-what's that God? You want me to write an article about how soccer is socialist?

# ? Aug 7, 2014 04:06

Centripetal Horse: Nov 22, 2009; Fuck money, get GBS

This could have bought you a half a tank of gas, lmfao -
Love, gromdul

Lycus posted:

I post on Something Awful because the Lord commandeth me.

The Lord calls everyone differently. I worked in hair replacement, swindling the bald, where very few are chosen, and fewer still are called.

# ? Aug 7, 2014 04:09

kik2dagroin: Mar 23, 2007; Use the anger. Use it.

quote:

RUSH: ...
There are three stories yesterday, today, maybe all three today, not sure which. Now, as any informed person -- and I don't mean biased, I just mean any honest, objective, informed person knows, whether you believe in global warming or not, there hasn't been any warming since, what, the last 16 years, 17 years. Almost 17 and a half years there has not been any warming, according to NASA, according to official temperature takers, according to many people who buy into and believe the crisis of man-made global warming.

They all admit there hasn't been any. They've had to come up with explanations and excuses, why, it's just on hiatus, temporary things like Sahara desert dust or volcanoes or something. Something is a temporary interruption in what everybody knows is global warming, except there isn't any and there hasn't been any for 17 years, 17 and a half years now. Nevertheless, Washington Post has a story today: "Will Climate Change Worsen Ebola Outbreaks?"

There's a theme here, and that is you take a fear -- right now the fear is Ebola. Whether it's a legitimate fear or not, there are people that fear the massive spread of the Ebola virus into places, such as the United States, outside the three nations in Africa where it's really raising hell. So you've got this fear. And, by the way, in the New York Post today there's a piece by the well-known author Michael Fumento, who is a self-described expert in mass hysteria. At the end of the piece, that's how he describes himself. There are two other descriptions, and one of them, "an expert in mass hysteria."

And his point is, there's no way that Ebola's gonna come to the US. We couldn't get it here if we wanted it here. We couldn't cause an outbreak if we wanted. It's just too hard to spread. Don't worry about it. It is an abject fear people are raising but it isn't gonna happen, and he's hell-bent on convincing people there's nothing to worry about here. I'll get to the details in a minute. I'm just setting this up. He says don't worry about it, it's much ado about nothing.

Now, remember, he's an expert in mass hysteria. He knows how it works. He knows how it's created. He knows how it's fed. And obviously he's opposed to mass hysteria, don't misunderstand. He's not for it. He's an expert in dissecting it. Anyway, until I get to the details, he says it's nothing to worry about. It is much ado about nothing. He says there are more people dying from diarrhea, mosquito-spread diarrhea and other diseases in Africa than are dying from Ebola, even now.

He says more people are dying from tuberculosis every day in Africa than from Ebola. You just don't hear about it. He says if it's that bad, why has it only killed a thousand people in three countries. How come it hasn't spread beyond these three countries? It's been around for six months and if it's so deadly, how come it's still primarily contained in three poor countries in Africa? These are the kinds of things he's saying.

Nevertheless, that's not the point. The point is you take the fear of the day, if you're the left, if you're the authors of the daily soap opera to keep people on edge, to keep people frightened, to keep people demanding government do something, you take the fear of the day, and, in this case, you blame it on climate change, so you get a twofer. You take the fear of the day, you blame it on another issue that you want people to believe. And so, Washington Post headline: "Will Climate Change Worsen Ebola Outbreaks?"

"California Governor Jerry Brown: Climate Change Will Drive Millions of People North Over the Border." Have you heard this? I think this is from last week. Moonbeam thinks that climate change is gonna cause people to flee in even greater numbers to the US. You know why? Well, it's gonna be getting warmer here, but it's gonna be a sweat box in Mexico, and El Salvador, and Ecuador and Guatemala. You go further, you get closer to the equator, it's gonna be a sauna. And so to cool off, the immigrants are gonna have another reason to flee north. Not just to get to the United States for prosperity or the safety net or what have you, but to escape the sauna.

And then the third headline, the guy that cofounded the Weather Underground website, which a lot of people like, "Climate Change May Increase the Number of Hawaiian Hurricanes." So they get you two hurricanes on track to skirt by Hawaii. It's not all that common for hurricanes to hit Hawaii. They have. But it's not common. Remember when Katrina hit, the Drive-Bys, every June 1st would go to every beach they could find and look out over the Atlantic Ocean hoping to see the next Katrina coming. The first day of hurricane season they just wanted to trumpet this crisis, horror-related news.

Do you know how many days it's been since a manger hurricane hit landfall in the United States? It's over 3,000 days. Over 3,000 days since a major hurricane hit handful in the continental United States. So a couple of hurricanes, first time in a long time headed toward Hawaii and all of a sudden the Weather Underground cofounder, "Climate Change May Increase the Number of Hawaiian Hurricanes."

Jon Sanders writing at the Locke Foundation has a piece on this today and the concept behind this, the purpose the left hopes to achieve or the objective they hope to achieve. It's constantly keeping people frightened, constantly promoting these issues, which there isn't any global warming. There isn't any. And the only thing that helps the issue survive is just low-information voters who don't know diddly-squat, who think they do, though. They buy into it. Climate change is happening, even though there is record cold weather all over this country this summer.

Why, it was just yesterday that I had a story about how the temperatures in New York are so much below normal that people are going to see psychiatrists. They're suffering psychotic depression because they don't think they had a summer. Summer hasn't shown up because the temperatures haven't gotten hot enough and they're worried about it. Even though the days are not getting shorter they feel like they are because the temperatures are not up. There is no warming!

Now, I expect some say, "Mr. Limbaugh, you must understand: Weather is not climate." Oh, really? Then how come every time there's a heat wave in January, you guys start talking about climate change? Is that not weather? Don't give me that. So it's just, to me... It fascinates me and frustrates me. I can't tell you how it does. You know, being surrounded by fools is one of the most irritating things for me. Having my intelligence insulted, it's like fingernails on a chalkboard.

Being surrounded by idiots and fools, that's the same thing, and it seems like we're surrounded by more and more of 'em each and every day. My brother made a point to me the other day. He said, "You know, whenever Obama..." It just seems this way. "Whenever Obama makes an argument about something, it's just automatically assumed to be true, without even proving it. He'll just say it and everybody just tends to believe it."

So how do we deal with that? Where do we go from that? It's the same thing here. There's a phony baloney, plastic banana, good-time rock 'n' roller headlines about global warming, and you wonder how many people buy into it.

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2014/08/06/mass_hysteria_or_no_reason_to_panic

quote:

RUSH: This Judy in Cincinnati. You're up first today, and thank you for calling. Hi.

CALLER: Hi, Rush. I'm calling about the lady's letter to your brother, David.

RUSH: Yes?

CALLER: There is another example, and that was Andrew Jackson. He disregarded the courts -- the Supreme Court -- who said he could not move the Indians out of Georgia. But he did it anyway and said, "Let's see 'em enforce it." So our Founders counted on people being honorable, and the Constitution has no recourse if they're not, and Obama is following the Andrew Jackson mode.

RUSH: Well, this is, sadly, folks, closer to true than it isn't. The honor system -- and that may be a strange way to put it. But if you read the Federalist Papers... Not very many people do, and I doubt very many people will. The Federalist Papers were written basically to explain how the Constitution came to be and the thinking behind it and to persuade people to accept it and support it. Throughout the Federalist Papers, you read of the importance of character and honor in the president --

CALLER: Yes.

RUSH: -- and the character and honor of elected officials as the backbone of the rule of law. The rule of law requires respect for the law. And, you know, it's kind of scary, Judy, to tell people that the country's hanging by such a single, narrow thread as the honor system.

CALLER: That's right.

RUSH: But the only recourse that lawlessness in the executive has is impeachment, which is why I have really spoken out against the Republicans taking it off the table. I've not urged them to do it at the moment, but to take it off the table is essentially telling criminals in any endeavor that you're gonna close down the police department in a town and there's not gonna be anybody enforcing any law there. It's a do-what-you-want free ticket.

CALLER: That's correct. But Republicans see what happened to them after Bill Clinton was impeached, and they're never gonna try it again unless there is a massive uprising among the people demanding it.

RUSH: Well, what did happen to the Republicans after Clinton was impeached?

CALLER: Well, a lot of them lost their positions, especially the man from California who led the effort. Rogan? I forget what his name was.

RUSH: James Rogan, you're right. But Lindsey Graham, who was a House manager, is now senator from South Carolina.

CALLER: Well, that's South Carolina. (laughing)

RUSH: (laughing) Now, come on! That's typical Ohio hubris.

CALLER: (chuckling)

RUSH: You people think the country revolves around you because of the presidential election every four years.

CALLER: That's correct! We determine it. (laughing)

RUSH: (laughing) You do. You actually do. Well, no, but that is the answer to the question. So the fact that we have never had... See, a Hugo Chavez could not get elected here. Obama could not have gotten elected in this country if he had campaigned on what he was gonna do. His approval numbers prove it. The polling data that we have now is a great indication that the American people don't want any part of this.

They don't want any part of this kind of statism, this type of presidency. But that's where the futility is. That's where I think there's just an incomprehensible amount of futility among people in this country. They don't know what to do about it. Public opinion doesn't matter in this case anymore. It seems to always have mattered in the past. It seems public opinion always used to shape events. It doesn't seem to, anymore.

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2...tution_shredded
Hey, so how has the whole gay marriage thing been turning out for you guys. But of course he's happy to cite polling data when it supports whatever he's babbling about and then decrying good economic data as being fudged with in the next breath :rolleyes:

# ? Aug 7, 2014 05:29

FuzzySkinner: May 23, 2012

jackofarcades posted:

Erick Erickson writing on Ann Coulter called the missionary doctor who contracted Ebola idiotic:

http://www.redstate.com/2014/08/06/can-christ-not-spare-one-man/

The truly sad thing is if every Christian was like Dr. Brantly the world would be legitimately a more awesome and better place.

Christs words are pretty powerful and very much about helping the downtrodden, helpless and poor.

If Christians had truly followed Christs words by now we would have had things like Socialized Medicine, a reformed prison system, and many other things that terrible, greedy people seem to be into doing.

Instead Evangelicals pretty much slip everyone a copy of "Atlas Shrugged', cross it out and put "Holy Bible" over it.

Sad.

# ? Aug 7, 2014 05:51

beatlegs: Mar 11, 2001

kik2dagroin posted:

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2014/08/06/mass_hysteria_or_no_reason_to_panic

I googled the phrase "Phony baloney plastic banana good time rock n rollers" because I couldn't figure out what the hell it means and it turns out Rush has been using that phrase repeatedly for years (like, pre-Obama) when describing liberals. Some of the google results were of bloggers trying to figure out what the gently caress he was talking about.

# ? Aug 7, 2014 06:12

Spite: Jul 27, 2001; Small chance of that...

The global warming people always confuse me. Most people understand that noxious smoke and poo poo are bad for them if they were breathing it in. I always ask why we should just keep pumping it into the air without thinking of better ways. The answer is always "Well, we can't for <reasons>" - to which I say "So you're saying America isn't the greatest country and can't solve its own problems?"

But seriously, it's not hard to get people thinking about breathing that poo poo in and showing pictures of places like Beijing or Mexico City. If you don't think this crap is impacting the environment, why not go live behind a coal factory then?

# ? Aug 7, 2014 09:24

Spacedad: Sep 11, 2001; We go play orbital catch around the curvature of the earth, son.

Stoat posted:

W-what's that God? You want me to write an article about how soccer is socialist?

The creator of the infinite universe commanded me to make shitpost comments on youtube!

quote:

Not every Christian survives. Many are martyred. We, as Christians, should understand each person is called by the Lord in different ways. Ann and I are called to our keyboards to write and speak boldly. Dr. Brantly was called to Africa.

And yet Dr. Brantly is the one who winds up with Ebola.

Spacedad fucked around with this message at 09:47 on Aug 7, 2014

# ? Aug 7, 2014 09:37

Refind Chaos: Sep 16, 2007; King of 'tisms mountain

GROVER CURES HOUSE posted:

Sent this to an Israeli apologist who I try to be on good terms with

She responded with strongly worded wishes to introduce the author to a tire iron.

Then she sent me this. I think I lost this exchange.

You only lost the exchange in so far as your, would be reformed, person is capable of comprehending what is going on between the Gaza Strip and Israel. Honestly, so many of the Israel apologists only seem concerned in so far as, if you aren't for Israel you are against Jews/Christianity; the facts be damned. Naturally, you understand this, but they are incapable of comprehending that, whatever they believe about Hamas, Israel's actions are deplorable in the extreme. They can't comprehend that "warning" people of an impending and devastating, missile strike with a mortar shell is less of a kind and fair warning than it is a deadly preemptive attack on what is likely just an innocent household making ends meet. The Hamas shield argument is an empty headed means of justifying an attrocity.

Edit: :argh:

That's what I get for not refreshing the page before posting.

Refind Chaos fucked around with this message at 09:54 on Aug 7, 2014

# ? Aug 7, 2014 09:47

Listerine: Jan 5, 2005; Exquisite Corpse

Spite posted:

But seriously, it's not hard to get people thinking about breathing that poo poo in and showing pictures of places like Beijing or Mexico City. If you don't think this crap is impacting the environment, why not go live behind a coal factory then?

Every year when the first year med students come in and see the cadavers' lungs in gross anatomy, they all think they have someone on the table that was a smoker/died of lung cancer, and I have to walk around and tell group after group that no, those are just the lungs of someone who lived in the city. Which is what drove me nuts about the reports of those guys outfitting their trucks to "roll coal"- for me the biggest appeal in living in a rural area would be that I wasn't inhaling a constant, low grade density of air pollution.

# ? Aug 7, 2014 11:05

Bar Ran Dun: Jan 22, 2006; war crimes enthusiast

Prester John,

Authoritarianism pops up from time to time and "The Authoritarians" is worth reading. Somebody posted an except here's the whole thing:

http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~altemey/

# ? Aug 7, 2014 14:22

quiggy: Aug 7, 2010; [in Russian] Oof.

BrandorKP posted:

Prester John,

Authoritarianism pops up from time to time and "The Authoritarians" is worth reading. Somebody posted an except here's the whole thing:

http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~altemey/

I read this last week and it is excellent. Seriously, if you have a few hours give it a read, I don't think there's ever been a more illuminating look into the minds of authoritarians than this.

# ? Aug 7, 2014 14:25

Prester Jane: Nov 4, 2008; by Hand Knit

BrandorKP posted:

Prester John,

Authoritarianism pops up from time to time and "The Authoritarians" is worth reading. Somebody posted an except here's the whole thing:

http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~altemey/

Thanks. I've see this linked before but always forget to actually sit down and read it. Now that I've got time I'm gonna give it a go. I suspect its gonna be a bit like staring into the abyss for me, but tying together the threads of the bizarre people I was raised around has been sort of a hobby of mine for some time now.

# ? Aug 7, 2014 17:07

Sir Tonk: Apr 18, 2006; Young Orc

jackofarcades posted:

Erick Erickson writing on Ann Coulter called the missionary doctor who contracted Ebola idiotic:

http://www.redstate.com/2014/08/06/can-christ-not-spare-one-man/

Her article was typical Coulter, I'm sure she will generate a bunch of page hits off of it.

quote:

Coulter called Dr. Kent Brantly�s humanitarian work in Liberia nothing more than the efforts of an ego-driven Christian and �the first real-world demonstration of the economics of Obamacare.�

She called the work he did in Africa incomparable to the amount of money spent by Christian charities that paid to fly him home. Coulter also questioned why the doctor had to go to Africa in the first place when he could have just served his faith in the U.S.

�About 15,000 people are murdered in the U.S. every year. More than 38,000 die of drug overdoses, half of them from prescription drugs. More than 40 percent of babies are born out of wedlock,� Coulter wrote. �So no, there's nothing for a Christian to do here.�

She suggested American Christians are simply tired of fighting the �culture war� in the U.S., which is why they �go on �mission trips� to disease-ridden cesspools.�

Coulter then said Brantly left the country to provide health insurance for Liberians because he wanted �his membership in the �Gold Humanism Honor Society.��

�There may be no reason for panic about the Ebola doctor, but there is reason for annoyance at Christian narcissism,� she wrote.

I like the first one, it's adorable. :allears:

# ? Aug 7, 2014 17:57

MaxxBot: Oct 6, 2003; you could have clapped

you should have clapped!!

I've always wondered what sort of crazy poo poo Coulter would have to say to actually piss off the right and I think I've found the answer, if Erick Erickson takes issue with your writings being too cruel and heartless you know you have some issues.

http://www.uscatholic.org/news/201408/ebola-comments-prompt-christian-backlash-against-coulter-trump-and-carson-29231

quote:

�St. Thomas should have never gone to India and Jim Elliott should have never gone into the jungle. Sigh,� conservative columnist Erick Erickson shot back at Coulter on Twitter.

Denny Burk, a biblical studies professor at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, said Coulter was dishing out �pagan foolishness� and shouldn�t be a go-to source for the theology of mission work. Andrew Walker from the Southern Baptists� Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission called her remarks �absolutely reprehensible, Christ-denying vitriol.�

Russell Moore, the head of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, tried to restrain himself on Instagram: �I have no words for this. Actually I think I do but the Holy Spirit won�t let me say them.�

# ? Aug 7, 2014 19:22

Tender Bender: Sep 17, 2004

So why is Ebola being used as a partisan issue? Is it really just "Obama and the Democrats should be blamed for anything bad that happens anywhere."?

I wasn't even aware this was a thing, but last night my mom mentioned that we shouldn't have brought the doctor back because now Ebola is spreading in the US and six people have it already. This sounded alarming if true so I googled it and (I thought) innocently informed her that that didn't seem to be true. She rolled her eyes and started railing off talking points with the annoyed "My loving liberal son" tone she usually reserves for political arguments. I dunno why "False reports of a deadly virus" are now something that conservatives need to defend but this seems to be the case and I can't figure it out.

# ? Aug 7, 2014 19:29

Dr Christmas: Apr 24, 2010; Berninating the one percent,
Berninating the Wall St.
Berninating all the people
In their high rise penthouses!
🔥😱🔥🔫👴🏻

MaxxBot posted:

I've always wondered what sort of crazy poo poo Coulter would have to say to actually piss off the right and I think I've found the answer, if Erick Erickson takes issue with your writings being too cruel and heartless you know you have some issues.

http://www.uscatholic.org/news/201408/ebola-comments-prompt-christian-backlash-against-coulter-trump-and-carson-29231

Ann Coulter recently had a twitter freak out over Catholic priests advocating help for the border refugees. Too many American Christians forget that there's more to their religion than hating on gays, women who have sex, Muslims, and atheists.

People talk a lot about Christians trying to work their religion into politics, but not nearly enough talk about people trying to make Republican policies part of Christian dogma.

Edit: One hell of a typo

Dr Christmas fucked around with this message at 19:38 on Aug 7, 2014

# ? Aug 7, 2014 19:30

bedpan: Apr 23, 2008

Tender Bender posted:

So why is Ebola being used as a partisan issue?

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obungler is importing african diseases in yet another attempt to destroy america

# ? Aug 7, 2014 19:34

MaxxBot: Oct 6, 2003; you could have clapped

you should have clapped!!

Dr Christmas posted:

Ann Coulter recently had a twitter freak out over Catholic priests advocating hell for the border refugees.

I'm assuming you meant "help" because that seems like something Ann Coulter would wholeheartedly support :v:

# ? Aug 7, 2014 19:36

Dirt: May 26, 2003

Tender Bender posted:

So why is Ebola being used as a partisan issue? Is it really just "Obama and the Democrats should be blamed for anything bad that happens anywhere."?

I'm just waiting for them to start calling it Obola.

# ? Aug 7, 2014 19:37

WoodrowSkillson: Feb 24, 2005; *Gestures at 60 years of Lions history*

Dirt posted:

I'm just waiting for them to start calling it Obola.

http://beforeitsnews.com/opinion-conservative/2014/08/100-fatal-the-obola-virus-2889958.html

# ? Aug 7, 2014 19:40

bedpan: Apr 23, 2008

You can make the word 'ebola' with just the letters found in names of Obama's parents. Coincidence? I think not

# ? Aug 7, 2014 19:41

Cythereal: Nov 8, 2009; I love the potoo,
and the potoo loves you.

Tender Bender posted:

So why is Ebola being used as a partisan issue? Is it really just "Obama and the Democrats should be blamed for anything bad that happens anywhere."?

I wasn't even aware this was a thing, but last night my mom mentioned that we shouldn't have brought the doctor back because now Ebola is spreading in the US and six people have it already. This sounded alarming if true so I googled it and (I thought) innocently informed her that that didn't seem to be true. She rolled her eyes and started railing off talking points with the annoyed "My loving liberal son" tone she usually reserves for political arguments. I dunno why "False reports of a deadly virus" are now something that conservatives need to defend but this seems to be the case and I can't figure it out.

They think we're living in a Tom Clancy novel. Weaponized Ebola for a biowar attack on the US was a plot in a couple of his books - once by a "United Islamic Republic" and once by a hippie megacorporation that wanted to exterminate the human race to preserve nature.

# ? Aug 7, 2014 19:41

rkajdi: Sep 11, 2001; by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Tender Bender posted:

So why is Ebola being used as a partisan issue? Is it really just "Obama and the Democrats should be blamed for anything bad that happens anywhere."?

It's an incredibly dangerous disease coming out of Africa, and it has so far primarily infected people who aren't like the right wing base. You can see some parallels with the early AIDS messaging. Keep "them" away and don't bother trying to solve the problem.

At least a decent amount of the Christian GOP base isn't falling for it. It's kind of hard when one of the more commonly used lines in the bible directly tells you to do the thing this guy is doing.

# ? Aug 7, 2014 19:42

Slaan: Mar 16, 2009; ASHERAH DEMANDS I FEAST, I VOTE FOR A FEAST OF FLESH

Cythereal posted:

They think we're living in a Tom Clancy novel. Weaponized Ebola for a biowar attack on the US was a plot in a couple of his books - once by a "United Islamic Republic" and once by a hippie megacorporation that wanted to exterminate the human race to preserve nature.

So how, exactly, does Clancy weaponize the Ebola in these books? It is really, really hard for Ebola to spread in human populations. The only reason its a major thing right now is because 1)West Africans are highly undereducated and 2)there are no resources (like latex gloves, nonetheless impermeable clothing) at the hospitals. All you need to not get ebola is to follow a basic set of hygiene rules. The only western physicians who have contracted ebola have done so only because they worked on patients who had ebola before they knew it was ebola.

# ? Aug 7, 2014 20:07

Shear Modulus: Jun 9, 2010

Slaan posted:

So how, exactly, does Clancy weaponize the Ebola in these books? It is really, really hard for Ebola to spread in human populations. The only reason its a major thing right now is because 1)West Africans are highly undereducated and 2)there are no resources (like latex gloves, nonetheless impermeable clothing) at the hospitals. All you need to not get ebola is to follow a basic set of hygiene rules. The only western physicians who have contracted ebola have done so only because they worked on patients who had ebola before they knew it was ebola.

I only read two Tom Clancy books and played Splinter Cell in high school but the basic gist of every evil threat in the books is that they just do: The Terrorists or The Soviets develop magically advanced technology that makes subs completely silent or explodes the internet or turns deadly diseases airborne.

Shear Modulus fucked around with this message at 20:16 on Aug 7, 2014

# ? Aug 7, 2014 20:12

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Slaan posted:

So how, exactly, does Clancy weaponize the Ebola in these books? It is really, really hard for Ebola to spread in human populations. The only reason its a major thing right now is because 1)West Africans are highly undereducated and 2)there are no resources (like latex gloves, nonetheless impermeable clothing) at the hospitals. All you need to not get ebola is to follow a basic set of hygiene rules. The only western physicians who have contracted ebola have done so only because they worked on patients who had ebola before they knew it was ebola.

It's a book plot, dude.

# ? Aug 7, 2014 20:17

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A Clancy one no less. Literally the only thing he understood was submarines.

# ? Aug 7, 2014 20:18

Shear Modulus: Jun 9, 2010

SedanChair posted:

A Clancy one no less. Literally the only thing he understood was submarines.

And insurance.

# ? Aug 7, 2014 20:20

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SedanChair posted:

A Clancy one no less. Literally the only thing he understood was submarines.

Give credit where its due, The Hunt for Red October was an awesome movie.

Not gonna lie though, airborne ebola is the stuff of nightmares.

# ? Aug 7, 2014 20:20

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Slaan posted:

So how, exactly, does Clancy weaponize the Ebola in these books?

The evil environmentalists in 'Rainbow Six' run a multinational that does security and biotech, which gives them the resources to develop a very robust strain and infect a bunch of people at the Sydney Olympics. Following the pandemic they would then release a 'vaccine' that would kill more people than the initial infection.

I like how people get huffy when you question their mass media / end times panic.

# ? Aug 7, 2014 20:21

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