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Are you more afraid of Isis, the government, or something else?

Which on are you the most worried about?

  • Isis

    Votes: 2 6.1%

  • Government

    Votes: 10 30.3%

  • Something else

    Votes: 21 63.6%
  • Total voters
    33
Jesse Booth said:
610,000 deaths a year from heart diseases is also 610,000 too many - unlike your emotionally charged nightmare, the consequences of a sedentary lifestyle and poor diet is a statistically significant number, as opposed to 5,600 in 40 years from domestic terrorism. That's up to 2009, by the way.
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Geez, Jesse. You be afraid of a ****ing heart attack, OK? Let me be afraid of domestic terrorism.

The thread wasn't, "What does Jesse think you should be afraid of? Let him tell you how wrong you are."
 
Superfly said:
Geez, Jesse. You be afraid of a ****ing heart attack, OK? Let me be afraid of domestic terrorism.

The thread wasn't, "What does Jesse think you should be afraid of? Let him tell you how wrong you are."
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I'm afraid I can't let you do that, friend. Excessive stress from emotions like fear contribute to all kinds of illnesses, including heart disease, the scourge of American health. If you go on being afraid of a statistically negligible risk that you cannot address, it'll result in more stress overall while you leave very big contributors to heart disease unaddressed. Surely you can see my issue with this state of affairs.

Also, this is undoubtedly a Jesse thread now.
 
Jesse Booth said:
I'm afraid I can't let you do that, friend. Excessive stress from emotions like fear contribute to all kinds of illnesses, including heart disease, the scourge of American health. If you go on being afraid of a statistically negligible risk that you cannot address, it'll result in more stress overall while you leave very big contributors to heart disease unaddressed. Surely you can see my issue with this state of affairs.

Also, this is undoubtedly a Jesse thread now.
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OK 12 people in this thread have said what scares them.

You are singling me out as the one who is going to die of a heart attack over things that scare me.

Why would that be?
 
Superfly said:
OK 12 people in this thread have said what scares them.

You are singling me out as the one who is going to die of a heart attack over things that scare me.

Why would that be?
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You're a fellow Georgian, so your life is automatically about twice as valuable as the rest of the participants combined. Myself not included, of course.
 
Jesse Booth said:
You're a fellow Georgian, so your life is automatically about twice as valuable as the rest of the participants combined. Myself not included, of course.
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Aw, ****, man. I thought you were giving me a hard time.

Carry on.
 
Redress said:
I am fat, out of shape, just diagnosed diabetic, had a minor heart attack(if there is such a thing). My mother is 72 and noticeably struggling with her health a little. My niece is 7 and spending too much time on the internets...I got much bigger worries than ISIS or the government.
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Sorry to hear about your health issues... :(

I hope your situation improves.
 
I think now that we have a republican president we should be worried about isis. Generally, republicans tend to be softer than democrats. Al qaeda waited until clinton was no longer president and attacked us after bush took office because they consider republicans weaker than democrats. They were right. bush was a ***** that didn't look for obl and he had 8 years to do it. Obama killed him in two. We will see if President Trump can protect us like obama did but if we go by previous republican administrations it is a bit worrying.
 
SheWolf said:
How afraid of Isis are you?
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Isis was a top 3 issue during the election. They're finally losing. It's not us that's afraid, it's Isis. And for the few stray lone wolf's in America, go **** yourself.



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SheWolf said:
Are you more afraid of Isis, the government, or something else?
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Something else. The stupidity of laziness.
(I would write more, but I can't be bothered.)
 
SheWolf said:
How afraid of Isis are you?
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By government I mean the IRS scumbags that flat out lie and steal and cops and judges that **** people over... me too... ISIS? Not a worry about them at all.
 
Cephus said:
I'm not afraid of anything.
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Lucky you! I am afraid that Swedish is in unstoppable decline because of an influx of immigrants who do not wish to integrate. The slow suicide of a nation is a miserable thing to witness.
 
SheWolf said:
How afraid of Isis are you?
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The fear of ISIS is in the far back of my mind.

I am more afraid of this growing politically correct, utopia dream. That will basically end up crashing our whole society to the ground at the moment.
 
99percenter said:
I think now that we have a republican president we should be worried about isis. Generally, republicans tend to be softer than democrats. Al qaeda waited until clinton was no longer president and attacked us after bush took office because they consider republicans weaker than democrats. They were right. bush was a ***** that didn't look for obl and he had 8 years to do it. Obama killed him in two. We will see if President Trump can protect us like obama did but if we go by previous republican administrations it is a bit worrying.
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Not so. They attacked on 9/11 because they thought we would do nothing like the previous attacks while Clinton was president. They were emboldened.

February 26, 1993 - first World Trade Center attack.

August 1998 - bombings of the U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania,

October 12, 2000 - USS Cole was bombed.

We did nothing. Who was a *****?
 
99percenter said:
I think now that we have a republican president we should be worried about isis. Generally, republicans tend to be softer than democrats. Al qaeda waited until clinton was no longer president and attacked us after bush took office because they consider republicans weaker than democrats. They were right. bush was a ***** that didn't look for obl and he had 8 years to do it. Obama killed him in two. We will see if President Trump can protect us like obama did but if we go by previous republican administrations it is a bit worrying.
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This is saying a lot but this has to be one of most uninformed highly partisan hack posts ever.
You have a right to your opinion but this is so far from reality. A democrat is good, a republican is bad theme.
 
Common Sense 1 said:
This is saying a lot but this has to be one of most uninformed highly partisan hack posts ever.
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This has to be a joke. I've seen very partisan posts. BTW I am not a democrat so I don't know how its partisan.
 
holbritter said:
Not so. They attacked on 9/11 because they thought we would do nothing like the previous attacks while Clinton was president. They were emboldened.

February 26, 1993 - first World Trade Center attack.

August 1998 - bombings of the U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania,

October 12, 2000 - USS Cole was bombed.

We did nothing. Who was a *****?
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They attacked because they knew bush was a *****. They were right. Bush did nothing to find obl. Only obama a democrat found and killed him. Republicans have a history of keeping us unsafe. Bush let 3000 americans die in on 9-11 despite having intelligence it would happen. The terrorists were right when they picked a soft president to attack. As a result they were able to effectively destroy the US economy and tax the greatest military on earth. That was their goal all along. Things didn't get better until obama was president and herefocused the military on killing obl.
 
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Hrmm...voted before I read the OP, the poll said "concerned", but the OP said "afraid"... I wouldn't have chosen that I am "afraid" of ISIS, but I'm not particularly "afraid" of the government either...concerned, yes, and far more concerned than I am about ISIS...
 
Sweden said:
Lucky you! I am afraid that Swedish is in unstoppable decline because of an influx of immigrants who do not wish to integrate. The slow suicide of a nation is a miserable thing to witness.
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That's what happens when liberalism takes over. Conservatism builds nations, liberalism destroys them.
 
Cephus said:
That's what happens when liberalism takes over. Conservatism builds nations, liberalism destroys them.
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As long as we are building this nation its cool. Bush wanted to build middle eastern nations.
 
ISIS? No.

The Trump swamp, the degradation of government ethics, corporate lobbyists/the donor class, and Putin's Russia pose the greatest interior/exterior dangers to the United States and her people.
 
99percenter said:
As long as we are building this nation its cool. Bush wanted to build middle eastern nations.
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It applies to all nations. Europe is in a serious decline because liberalism has taken over. The U.S. isn't far behind because people want things for free, which liberalism promises them, instead of working hard to earn it themselves. Personal and fiscal responsibility are barely remembered concepts these days. We are in social freefall unless something serious is done to change society.
 
It is pretty easy not to be afraid of ISIS when they've been all but destroyed, now.

If nothing had been done about them and they'd taken over a large chunk of the mideast, and become the prime exporter of terrorism, it would be a bit different.


They were knocked down while still small-ish, which was the correct choice.
 
Goshin said:
It is pretty easy not to be afraid of ISIS when they've been all but destroyed, now.

If nothing had been done about them and they'd taken over a large chunk of the mideast, and become the prime exporter of terrorism, it would be a bit different.


They were knocked down while still small-ish, which was the correct choice.
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And most of the ones who did the work knocking them down were other Muslims...
 
PoS said:
And most of the ones who did the work knocking them down were other Muslims...
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Yes. Whether they would have done so successfully without encouragement and support from us and other nations is a question mark however.
 
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