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User Info Ready For Tanks In The Streets In Greece?; entered at 2012-07-15 12:13:38
Infidel
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Registered: 2007-08-27 between here and there
"I wonder how long it will take after Greece defaults for people to figure out that the US is just like Greece but bigger?"

"The assumption that is made in the case of the normalcy bias is that since a disaster never has occurred then it never will occur. It also results in the inability of people to cope with a disaster once it occurs. People with a normalcy bias have difficulties reacting to something they have not experienced before. People also tend to interpret warnings in the most optimistic way possible, seizing on any ambiguities to infer a less serious situation"
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2012-07-15 12:13:38