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BolivarianHero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 01:13 PM
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OMG...People from my hometown are citing ALEX JONES in their anti-vaccine rhetoric...
That's one shade short of a swastika.
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LeftishBrit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 01:14 PM
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1. Alex Jones is a scary right-winger
I didn't know he was anti-vaccine (is this all vaccines or just the swine flu?) but he is certainly politically very scary.
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BolivarianHero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 01:15 PM
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3. I live in Canada...
And my hometown is very politically illiterate, so in a way I'm impressed people even know who he is.
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TrogL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 01:17 PM
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7. So I take it you're not from Ottawa originally
Difficult to be politically illiterate there.
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BolivarianHero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 03:34 PM
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22. Nope...
But I'm from close to there.
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 01:14 PM
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2. It looks like the human herd is intent on culling itself
with the antivaccination crazy people volunteering to go first.
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Jennicut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 01:16 PM
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4. It will just leave more vaccine for the rest of us. I have diabetes.
No amount of hysteria will stop me from taking it. Anyone with an underlying immune system issues desperately want to avoid being sick.
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BolivarianHero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 01:17 PM
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8. Two kids have died in the past couple of days in my area..
A 13-year-old went from being mildly ill to dead in a few hours, and he was on his way to playing major junior hockey in a couple of years.

The other one is a 10-year-old school girl with no known history of immune problems or chronic illness.
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Jennicut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 01:26 PM
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16. Yes, it is getting very worrisome. We are still waiting for it here in CT.
When relatively healthy people die it can be very scary. My daughter has asthma too. I am very worried about the two of us.
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Cessna Invesco Palin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 01:17 PM
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5. Maybe you should point them to some of Alex's other insane diatribes...
Just so they can see what he's all about.

On the other hand, maybe not. They might take those at face value, too.
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AllentownJake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 01:17 PM
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6. I don't think Nazi is an apt comparison for Alex
Crazy conspiracy theorist, yes. Nazi, not really.
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BolivarianHero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 01:20 PM
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10. The far-right analogy is viable...
I was showing a former coworker, a socially liberal Muslim who had gotten onto the anti-Obama conspiracy theories through this guy, examples of racist and anti-Muslim authors that are routinely published by the World Net Daily and other sources Alex Jones uses to "support" his arguments.
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AllentownJake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 01:23 PM
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12. Yes and Nazis use Nietze to support their arguments
it doesn't mean that Nietze was a Nazi.

The guy is a government/big business conspiracy theorist that thinks the government is planning to wipe out all but 500,000,000 people in the world. He isn't really a Nazi.

There are DUers that share his views on the federal reserve, bilderberg group and tri-lateral commission....just not his conclusions.

Alan Grayson was on his show last week.
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Echo In Light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 01:20 PM
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11. For dumb-dumb America, NAZI refers to anyone you HATE (a most popular American pastime!)
;)
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AllentownJake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 01:23 PM
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14. Silly me
I thought we were talking about an ideology.
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Echo In Light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 01:26 PM
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17. Most here likely can't pronounce the word "ideology," let alone know its definition
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AllentownJake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 01:28 PM
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18. I got unrecs this morning
Asking people to read the economic report on GDP from the government and make their own conclusions using critical thinking skills.

:rofl:
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Echo In Light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 01:32 PM
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21. Well, to clarify, by "here" I meant the U.S. in general, not DU
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JuniperLea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 01:19 PM
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9. That's a very sad self-thinning of the herd...
Nature might be finding a seriously scary way to scrape the barnacles off her hull.

I hate that I just said that... but these people are stupid to a fault, and they risk their own lives.

I'm not in any risk group, so I'm not concerned for myself.
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LuvNewcastle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 01:23 PM
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13. If the government is doing something,
Alex Jones is against it. He's sure there's a nefarious purpose behind just about anything coming out of Washington. He's probably afraid the vaccine will turn us all into lizard people -- David Icke is a frequent guest on his show. Alex has read/watched way too much science fiction.
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get the red out Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 01:25 PM
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15. That makes me wish I could get the shot
Right now it looks like I am not going to be able to in my area. Alex Jones irritates me, he is simply "anti" to be anti. Everyone is evil according to Jones. Just scare tactics. He will throw out some big story about the US getting hit in another false flag operation then when it doesn't happen he says it is because he and his ilk publicized it. I feel like he has such a negative influence that if younger people get sucked into what he is selling they won't want to participate in our Democracy or even see any hope for the future.
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MineralMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 01:29 PM
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19. OK by me, but it doesn't seem to be affecting the long lines
for the H1N1 vaccine where it's available. As usual, the Limbeckers say one thing, but do the other. They're lining up, too.
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Texano78704 Donating Member (215 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 01:30 PM
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20. Hey you! Out of the gene pool!
Oops, is that too morbid?
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and-justice-for-all Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 03:36 PM
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23. Hahahaha!!!! not Alex Jones?!!
:rofl:
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Fire_Medic_Dave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 04:28 PM
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24. Alex Jones and Glenn Beck. Nice people to be associated with.
:sarcasm:
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