is a good barometer of the lefty lunacy in this country in real time.  Plus it provides a small glimpse into the psyche of the lefties who seem hell-bent on totalitarian control and Judgement of their fellow Americans.  

Thank you for validating my sub-text and reinforcing the point I was making.
   
Take solace in knowing that your persistent anger is not entirely your fault.

Your point is well taken. I couldn't agree with you more. This board is toxic, destructive and full of hyperpartisan disinformation, projection, and insult. Nothing good will ever come from these types of malicious exchanges. I'm out.

The right to express your opinion,  it does seem you too like to throw around a little snark yourself from time to time, and who knows how much of what you complain about you do under your other name…..  more than you are willing to admit I bet.

If I wasn't out I'd say you are deaf, dumb, blind and a few more insults. You are proving the original poster's point. What's the value of insulting each other ad nauseam? I have more important things to do than that. Don't you? If not here's some advice: don't drown in your self-imposed sewer or in the overestimation of what you think you know.

So you are repeating the advice I gave you once upon a time. How unoriginal of you. For someone who accuses others of repeating themselves, I find your plagiarizing regurgitation ironic at best and hypocritical at worse. Nevertheless, this thread was started as commentary and critique about arguing repetitiously which is exactly what you can't stop doing. How apropos and how pathetic. I announce I'm done with this pettiness, but you can't control yourself and have to continue with the insults and the abuse. Why am I not surprised.  Continue without me. I urge other reasonable members to do the same. Let the lunatics run the asylum.  

You announce that you are out. A few hours later you post again…. no doubt that you forgot that you said you are out…..then a few more hours later you post again announcing you are done and to continue without you. Just my opinion but you will be back posting. I’ll not predict how long it will take but I think sooner or later you will be back.

I'm trying, Ringo, I'm trying real hard to be the Shepherd.....and put this waste of time board in my rear view mirror....but you, and your redneck buddy, just keep it up with the insults and the vile comments inviting a retort. Show a little class, STFU, and I go away and you have this board all to yourselves.

Not everything here is hyper partisan. There’s intelligent and reasonable debate available, if you choose to debate that way.

Intelligent and reasonable, huh. I must have missed that debate.... or I missed out on what you are smoking.

Then two days later jizzy says  
“They pull me back in”

At least 74 years old.  And he's an ageist about another guy's age?  ROFLMAO!!  followme is the oldest fart on this board!

The poster in the link is an alias, with one and only one post ever

It was a nice post.  Why would anyone "spoof" your alias by posting something nice?  The post did not "smear or lie" about you.  YOU wrote it.

Jane, you ignorant slut. Why do you want to start up with this shit again? Ivermectin is an anthelmintic not antiviral. Ivermectin is effective in treating intestinal worms not viruses. I won't read any of your links or stories to the contrary, nor will I respond any further to you unscientific claims.

The post you wrote, using a spoofed alias, does lie by stating my wrong age. Perhaps to set up future attempts to  lie and smear me…….perhaps?.... Hmmmm you just did….how about that.

I'm just responding to another poster. What business is it of yours? If you would just STFU, I'd be happy to go away. But you can't control yourself, can you? Get yourself to a MAGA rally, or go see your congresswoman MTG, if you need to feed your brain with hate.

Get yourself educated on famous movie quotes and pop culture. There's a whole other world out there outside of MAGA world.

And the other article you linked says, "Ivermectin proposes many potentials effects to treat a range of diseases, with its antimicrobial, antiviral, and anti-cancer properties as a wonder drug. It is highly effective against many microorganisms including some viruses."  
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NONE of that is proof that it is a safe and effective therapeutic for any of those things. You can piss into a petri dish and find activity against whatever is growing there (bacteria, viruses, cancer cells, fungi, ...). Now do the rest of the work to turn your piss into an FDA approved (safe and effective) drug for specific conditions.  
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Now do the rest of the work and find the clinical trials on ivermectin. They continue to be mixed, depending on what is being studied and how the studies are done ... and, sometimes, who is doing the trials. E.g.,  
http://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36807465/
"Conclusions and relevance: Among outpatients with mild to moderate COVID-19, treatment with ivermectin, with a maximum targeted dose of 600 μg/kg daily for 6 days, compared with placebo ***did not improve time to sustained recovery.*** These findings ***do not support the use of ivermectin*** in patients with mild to moderate COVID-19."

You are really losing it dude. Not that you had that much to begin with, but man are you spinning out of control at breakneck speed. You just can't stop yourself and have to highjack a thread on an unrelated topic just to insult, attack, and spread your venomous hate.  Ageist. Bigot. Cultist.

Anyone and everyone can read what is posted and there are no rules that I know of that restrict anyone from replying to any post they want.  

It's remarkable how you twist and misrepresent everything to fit your personal agenda. Remarkable. No one is restricting anyone's free speech, but the first rule of the board is to stay on topic. When your Southern buddy replied to a post, totally not on topic, but solely with personal insults and antipathy, I called it out. And when you and your Dixie buddy continued the personal attacks, I informed you two that unless you two STFU with the insults, I will not exit this forum. Apparently you and your peach state buddy want me to stay after all. For me to leave this board all you two have to do is stop the personal  attacks and move on. The question is do you two have the impulse control to keep your invectives to yourselves?  I suspect you don't.  Prove me wrong. I dare you because I really want to get as far away from you two as I can.

http://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2023/press-release/
"2023-10-02
The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institute has today decided to award the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19."

Twists distorts misrepresents, lies and  makes up your own version about what is said.

"I'm out,", or "I'm done with this," it's just their way of trying to look a little butch.  We all know a couple of bold bluffs does not turn an empty vessel into a Type-A, and they eventually figure it out, too.    

I knew you couldn't do it. You have no self control and are so easily triggered. All I requested was for you to stop the personal attacks and the personal insults. And how do you respond? With personal attacks and personal insults. You are so immature, so incorrigible, and so full of hate.

You can have all the "counter thoughts" you can hold between your ears.  But what you'll never have are any coherent thoughts.  

I do not take orders from you and I do not cave to ultimatums from you. I thought I made the clear to you.

The more you express yourself the more obvious it is that you are consumed by malevolence, hate, cruelty, and delusions of grandeur. Your words strongly suggest that you have an antisocial personality disorder. Unfortunately, sociopaths rarely recognize their pathology or seek the psychiatric help they so desperately need. A forum like this only exacerbates your sociopathy. What I am about to write is not an order or an ultimatum because we all know how you feel about that, but I would encourage you to stop ranting on this board and to get the mental health care that you need.

Willy you are the biggest pseudo expert on this forum with your own personality disorders. No amount of white knighting will change my opinion of your buddy's antisocial and narcissistic behavior.

Jazz is really good about pulling shit out of his ass and then refusing to let go of it. He’s completely derailed multiple threads here. I don’t think he’s got ASPD, but it’s possible he has an afflicted family member.

Actually personality disorder patients can, and often do, display traits of more than one disorder or psychiatric pathology.  

That's rich coming from you who is always feigning subject matter expertise about everything. So what's the story on your reverse metamorphosis from bleeding heart liberal to wacky, right-wing, contrarian, conspiracy theorist? Did that happen when you went off your meds?

I guess it is because I've been over this many times. I'm only leaving when the insults and personal attacks stop. Until then I'm here to retort. Nothing would please me more than you spewing your extreme right-wing agenda and wallowing in the hate without me.

I could ask the same question of you. Are you obsessed with my posts or do you have way too much free time? Get a job. Get a hobby. Get a life.

And again no one is going to cave to your ultimatum. No one is going to comply with your demands. No one is going to take orders from you. You jizzy the pinko are trying to get others to stop posting, trying to suppress free speech.  

Yeah, right. 18 quotes to find and to repost in 3 minutes. Sure everyone believes that. Not only are you obsessed with me you lie about your obsession.  Get a life.  

Not an ultimatum. Not a demand. Not an order. Merely a simple request. However, in your warped mind, being civil to a liberal is acquiescence.  Always insult and attack your enemies on the left. Where have we seen that before?  In your warped mind it is you who is acting like you are being persecuted and victimized  .... just like the leader of your MAGA cult who radicalized you to act like that.  Lastly, using the label "pinko" speaks to your fascism. #followmeintofascism.

You may be lost but you found fascism.  

Actually I found the greatest amount of hypocrisy in the MAGA cult formerly known as the Republican party.  As for the name calling, that's a deal. I only insult in response to being insulted and attacked. I'll even stop calling you a redneck although you said once that was a name you were proud of. Whatever. The question is are you a man of your word?

willy doesn't know jack shit about "the scientific method."  The first step of the scientific method is to QUESTION.  willy always trashes mainstream/"legacy" media but he never QUESTIONS his own links from righty media to see if they're not bullshit.
Not very scientific, willy.

So much bullshit to unpack here. However I have neither the time or the interest in doing so point by point. Suffice it to say I think you are full of shit about everything.  No surprises there.  

jizzy is not smart enough to comment on any of it.

And backpedals in a desperate attempt to save face now he is begging by getting on his hands and knees saying he is making a simple request.

You're a fascist.

I'm sure you are knowledgeable about being on your knees, but you know nothing about civility. What I do know is that you're a fascist but that's nothing to laugh about.

It is difficult and they could be mistaken to be the same and that is because they are actually twins. They are the bag twins, douche and scum.

For all his pretentious pontificating, willy doesn't know jack shit about science.  You can't form a hypothesis unless you  
first QUESTION what you are observing.

In fact, you know less about EVERYTHING than everyone on this board.

...on the scientific method since you seem to be so interested in it.

"What's so bad about fascism?" You can't be serious. Have you heard about Hitler or Mussolini?  

I think Willy aka Ward Cleaver is just trolling us now because he can't be serious. Both fascism and communism are illiberal, non-democratic forms of government that have brought on orgies of violence and repression. Only a fascist would make a case that fascism is acceptable and communism is horrific. They both are horrific.

First you ask what's so bad about fascism. Now you try to parse the word horrific. What's wrong with you?

The threat to democracy in the US is from right-wing fascism not communism.  The left does not support communism. The very progressive fringe of Democrats does prefer democratic socialism. However, democratic socialism and communism are very, very different ideologies despite the efforts of the right to try to equate the two. Surely you must remember this from when you were a liberal which wasn't all that long ago.

Of course you make this claim without any justification or supporting evidence. Maybe you should read, and try to understand, my entire post. There's a huge difference between democratic socialism and communism. I'd be happy to explain the differences if your mind wasn't so closed.

Weasel out of what? You are intellectually incapable of articulating, much less proving, whatever you allege so you revert to bullshit by saying my words prove your point. What a lame and ineffective argument. Engaging with you is a waste of my time.  Go ahead make some stupider reply.

In your miniscule little mind engaging with him is a waste of your time, why are you engaging with him?
Guess at your age you have a lot of time to waste.  

Listen, fascist, I'll engage with whomever I choose whenever I choose. Even if it's a waste of my time (and it most certainly almost always is), I'll do it if for no other reason than it triggers you. You are so full of hate and anger that you erupt at the slightest provocation. Get to an anger management class ASAP. Now repeat after me 'Goosfraba'.

I never said that you cannot engage with whomever you want whenever you want. And by implying I did, you are a lying pinko. Now if you remember, though at your age that might be difficult, it is you jizzy who told me to STFU wanting to suppress my free speech.  Yeah that was you jizzy the pinko  Then when confronted you cowardly backed down begged for forgiveness and said it was a request. So jizzy the pinko how is telling me to STFU working out?

Follow me to fascism is losing his shit again. Such anger. Such rage. Repeat after me: GOOSFRABA.