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Comment author: satt 22 January 2015 02:12:59AM 2 points [-]

The fact that the disease was first detected in the gay community is only attributable to the marginalization they already lived in.

And yet the disease has never broken into the straight community, despite decades of predictions that it was on the verge of doing so.

Whoa, déjà vu.

Comment author: CellBioGuy 28 January 2015 12:09:43AM *  0 points [-]

I have a prediction...

EDIT not overwhelmingly likely given further examination.

Comment author: JoshuaZ 28 January 2015 12:21:18AM *  0 points [-]

Huh. I had not located that hypothesis. However, /u/alienist started posting about two months before Eugine's last sock /u/Azatoth123 was blocked. So possible, but difficult to tell for sure. I suspect it is more likely that the user is simply someone who shares similar views.