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guillaumeb

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9. I am scared of acronyms like

Tue Feb 17, 2015, 04:36 PM

Feb 2015

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The media obsession with grave threats is infotainment at its worst. Bread and circuses for the idiots.

This week measles is the existential threat. Last week was ISIS. Before that it was the Bird Flu, male pattern baldness, erection issues, obesity, Saddam Hussein, the Germans, the Japanese, the Communists hiding under the beds, the threat of nuclear holocaust. On and on until no one can think.

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Are you scared of ISIS? [View all] Cali_Democrat Feb 2015 OP

No (nt) bigwillq Feb 2015 #1

Erect Bogeyman, wave flag, declare we need protection, give more money to the MIC. Tierra_y_Libertad Feb 2015 #2

I'm more scared of ICEE than ISIS Erose999 Feb 2015 #3

LOL! Cali_Democrat Feb 2015 #8

They both give brain freeze to CNN. nt msanthrope Feb 2015 #13

this headline has been on cnn.com all day..... spanone Feb 2015 #4

Look at the front page headline at CNN.com right now Cali_Democrat Feb 2015 #6

Wow that is depressing. F4lconF16 Feb 2015 #22

OMG Tsiyu Feb 2015 #29

it's still up....link spanone Feb 2015 #30

It's just tabloid pablum designed to stir up the stupid Tsiyu Feb 2015 #32

I Don't Have Enough Information On ISIS To Know If I Should Be Afraid...... global1 Feb 2015 #41

The Islamic State awaits the army of “Rome,” whose defeat at Dabiq, Syria, will initiate . . . Petrushka Feb 2015 #42

jeebus.... spanone Feb 2015 #44

Meh. The fundamentalist Christians started it. Fawke Em Feb 2015 #49

There are forces at work within this country that are avebury Feb 2015 #57

My parents think we are in a holy war abelenkpe Feb 2015 #59

catholic tea party conservatives...never even considered that combo spanone Feb 2015 #61

We've been living in the end times for some 2000 years. Thav Feb 2015 #63

No. Turbineguy Feb 2015 #5

No, but the Koch brothers frighten me. Scuba Feb 2015 #7

I am scared of acronyms like guillaumeb Feb 2015 #9

You forgot EBOLA!!!!!!!111 bigwillq Feb 2015 #10

I still haven't taken down the plastic sheeting and duct tape. nt msanthrope Feb 2015 #15

I'm still wearing a mask. It's airborne, right?!!!111 bigwillq Feb 2015 #18

I think it's time to wash the containment suit, though.....nt msanthrope Feb 2015 #20

Oh, I'll make sure to by next Halloween. bigwillq Feb 2015 #21

Pictures, or this thread is useless......nt msanthrope Feb 2015 #25

All good things to those who wait. bigwillq Feb 2015 #28

I'm concerned about them; but not afraid. el_bryanto Feb 2015 #11

I'm scared of what ISIS will do to people more vulnerable than us. msanthrope Feb 2015 #12

+1 n/t FSogol Feb 2015 #16

These are crazy-ass fuckers.....but their reach seems limited. msanthrope Feb 2015 #17

As usual, the representation of divine energy (Isis) is turned in to something violent (ISIS) Dont call me Shirley Feb 2015 #14

Its a Push-Poll FreakinDJ Feb 2015 #19

I'm on the fence aint_no_life_nowhere Feb 2015 #23

I don't perceive any potential threat posed by ISIS as a media-driven narrative. LanternWaste Feb 2015 #24

As I said in another thread, I'm more afraid of police, and I'm not even a POC. n/t winter is coming Feb 2015 #26

No, because I don't have a TV Tsiyu Feb 2015 #27

Personally no. For those in the path of ISIS? Absolutely yes riderinthestorm Feb 2015 #31

I'm more scared of the damage that the Koch Bros and the republican party will do to this country. kimbutgar Feb 2015 #33

No. H2O Man Feb 2015 #34

Not a threat to America but we are all in this together. n/t pampango Feb 2015 #35

Not for me treestar Feb 2015 #36

Because my son is in the Foreign Service Lefta Dissenter Feb 2015 #37

I'm scared of another Republican administration to create another ISIS. nt onehandle Feb 2015 #38

Not scared, but worried. nruthie Feb 2015 #39

Congrats on 100 posts! bigwillq Feb 2015 #40

This is 2015, not 20th Century America. WhaTHellsgoingonhere Feb 2015 #55

For myself, of course not, for the region, yes Lurks Often Feb 2015 #43

Heck no! I had a crush on her as a kid! Roland99 Feb 2015 #45

As an immediate threat to me, no. geek tragedy Feb 2015 #46

kick Cali_Democrat Feb 2015 #47

Definitely not the one that Sterling Archer is a member of. Initech Feb 2015 #48

I'm not scared for my personal safety FrodosPet Feb 2015 #50

Saving the earth one carbon footprint at a time. ileus Feb 2015 #51

No. No. No. WhaTHellsgoingonhere Feb 2015 #52

I will be when I travel to Europe this spring. whathehell Feb 2015 #53

Pass: Am I scared enough to stay out of Middle East? Maybe. But then again, I wasn't planning a merrily Feb 2015 #54

Only that their savagery is going to suck us into yet another war. Warpy Feb 2015 #56

Not afraid of them - revolted by them jimlup Feb 2015 #58

No, no more scared than I was of Iraq. The war propaganda scares me far more. The neocons sabrina 1 Feb 2015 #60

They are two bit thugs Generic Brad Feb 2015 #62