War Room Lounge V35: Doomsday. Everything is fine until it isn't.

What is most likely to bring the Doom? Pick 3!

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holy shit that guy is one of the biggest idiots on the conservative talk circuit
 
Jack V Savage said:
Don't know if you remember 2016, but the guy was the most passionate defender of the idea that the election should be decided by arresting the frontrunner on bullshit charges. If you're supporting the end of democracy and the rule of law in order to put a party in power, it's your damned party. You gotta own that shit.
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I wasn't (passionately?) around in 2016, so I'm not familiar with that. But I neither think (a) that necessarily reflects a blind allegiance to the GOP so much as an outsize hatred of Clinton, nor (b) a position on one race/event, no matter how large, should be borne for all times.

And that's without even getting into his pathetic defense of hypocrisy in this thread...
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Tbh, I thought it was phrased kind of confusingly. But I would agree that it's stupid to say that it's hypocritical of Democrats to merely point to the Republican hypocrisy re information security, as opposed to....you know, launching countless investigations into it, making it out as the end of the world, and making it a centerpiece of a national election.
The narrative seems to be:
(1) GOP says A is a massively huge deal
(2) Democrats say, "yeah A was wrong, but it's not a huge deal"
(3) GOP does A
(4) Democrats: Seriously? Didn't you say that was a huge deal that disqualified our candidate?
(5) GOP: "lol you guys are partisans!"
(6) GOP continues doing A.​
 
Trotsky said:
The narrative seems to be:
(1) GOP says A is a massively huge deal
(2) Democrats say, "yeah A was wrong, but it's not a huge deal"
(3) GOP does A
(4) Democrats: Seriously? Didn't you say that was a huge deal that disqualified our candidate?
(5) GOP: "lol you guys are partisans!"
(6) GOP continues doing A.
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This is exactly right, though for (3) it should be GOP does 2A. And then we have Cubo with

(7) Only partisans are saying (4), and the precedent set shows that A is not a problem. It's utterly shameless. I can't see how someone gets to such a degraded, slavish state. And he seems to be aware of it, as he begged me not to respond to him (as if everyone else wouldn't notice how bad he's getting without my help).
 
It was rough and it was not good, but like in the same way as glancing over down an alley and seeing a dude wearing no pants, relieving himself from multiple parts of his body and acting indignant that people are noticing.
 
Trotsky said:
While it may well have been appropriate before and at the time of that exchange, I don't think it's really fair to currently say the GOP is "his party," since he doesn't reflexively support or defend it here (like others like Heretic, Farmer, Mick, etc.). He may well be biased toward the GOP and looking for an excuse to support the party since their platform is more favorable to his most passionate self intersets (gun ownership), but that's still different than it being *his* party.
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I appreciate it, but you're wasting your figurative breath. The dude is married to his (unsubstantiated) narrative.


Higus said:
@Cubo de Sangre
When's the last time you voted for a democrat in a national election?
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Probably this last one. I could be confusing that with state Legislature. If we're talking President then it would be Obama 1. Before that I'm pretty sure I voted for Gore and Slick Willy (once). Last election was the Constitution Party. Libertarian Party the election prior. Perot when he ran. That's all I've voted in.
 
Fawlty said:
It was rough and it was not good, but like in the same way as glancing over down an alley and seeing a dude wearing no pants, relieving himself from multiple parts of his body and acting indignant that people are noticing.
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Re: teh Pole

Not surprising that natural disease and impact event are 1 & 2. If you add together intentional nuke exchange and unintentional, that would be number 1. Not surprised to see drought make the top 5, seems reasonably likely too.

The one that surprises me is people thinking some lab-grown disease will get out and wreck our shit. Have there been comparable close calls between nuke almost-accidents and lab disease almost-accidents?
 
Fawlty said:
Re: teh Pole

Not surprising that natural disease and impact event are 1 & 2. If you add together intentional nuke exchange and unintentional, that would be number 1. Not surprised to see drought make the top 5, seems reasonably likely too.

The one that surprises me is people thinking some lab-grown disease will get out and wreck our shit. Have there been comparable close calls between nuke almost-accidents and lab disease almost-accidents?
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https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/05/when-viruses-escape-the-lab/371202/

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Accidents involving lab-grown pathogens aren’t just the stuff of sci-fi movies. A Singaporean lab worker was inadvertently infected with SARS in 2003. In 2004, a Russian scientist died after accidentally sticking herself with a needle contaminated with Ebola at a Siberian lab. In April, Paris’ Pasteur Institute lost 2,000 vials containing the SARS virus. And in March, the Galveston National Laboratory in Texas lost a vial containing Guanarito virus, which causes "bleeding under the skin, in internal organs or from body orifices like the mouth, eyes, or ears.”
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Nature is more than capable of making a disease that could wipe out humanity without help from scientists.
 
Higus said:
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/05/when-viruses-escape-the-lab/371202/


Nature is more than capable of making a disease that could wipe out humanity without help from scientists.
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Holy shit, you can lose 2,000 vials of SARS?!

The only experience I have with accountability for really dangerous small things is working in munitions. Anything that was highly explosive which was also small enough that you could misplace it or put it in your pocket was only accessible under armed escort by a third party who also controlled the alarm systems. You literally could not move something, even if your organization "owned" it, without command and control of both your org and security forces knowing about it and getting real-time updates. Even stricter protocols for destruction/disposal of such things.
 
Mueller report submitted

I had wanted to stay off Sherdog while on vacation, but no way I'm doing that now.
 
Gregolian said:
Person in the cubicle next to me is probably in her 40s... and it's decorated in a bunch of Twilight road signs and shit... like..... Isn't that book series for teenagers?
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2 posts down and you are seriously discussing comic book movies pal
 
Gregolian said:
The Marvel movies compared to the Twilight movies is like comparing Shakespeare to Ayn Rand.
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I'm going to make a new friend who posts in this thread very soon...
 
Gregolian said:
The Marvel movies compared to the Twilight movies is like comparing Edgar Allen Poe to Ayn Rand.
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Anung Un Rama said:
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LOL @ the Marvel movies being Shakespeare.

Those movies are bubble gum and popcorn garbage. I legitimately couldn't believe how bad Infinity Wars was after all the hype.

Only good marvel movies have been the GotG movies.
 
Trotsky said:
LOL @ the Marvel movies being Shakespeare.

Those movies are bubble gum and popcorn garbage. I legitimately couldn't believe how bad Infinity Wars was after all the hype.

Only good marvel movies have been the GotG movies.
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I'm not saying that the Marvel movies are like the second coming of say the first Godfather flick or things like Gone with the Wind or other movies that have "stood the test of time" so to speak... they're dumb fun action movies...

But Twilight as a universe and their movies are SO BAD it makes Marvel by comparison look God tier.
 
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