#Extremists

[tomorrowusa]

A colleague of anti-vaxxing extremist RFK Jr. named Aaron Siri has asked the FDA to revoke approval for the 1950s polio vaccine which has likely prevented millions of Americans from getting polio.

In the years before the vaccine, many people were paralyzed or even killed by the virus. President Franklin Roosevelt, afflicted at age 39 in 1921, is probably the most famous victim of the disease.

RFK Jr. and his wacko conspiracy buddies aren't content just to bring back polio. They are also eager to take away your tetanus, diphtheria, and hepatitis A vaccines.

RFJ Jr. is just one of the dangerously unqualified nominees Donald Trump has put forth. If you wanted to destroy America, you could not find more evil people to put in high level positions to accomplish that.

On a practical note, make sure you are caught up with all your immunizations by January 20th. And if you don't live too far from Canada or Mexico, make sure you have a US passport card so that you can easily hop across the border to get vaccines if another Trump pandemic threatens the US.

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Wanna know how bad polio is?

Paul Alexander contracted polio when he was 8, just before the polio vaccine became available. His infection was about the worst case of polio you can get without dying. He died early this year but spent most of the past 70 years encased in what is known as an iron lung.

‘Polio Paul,’ who spent most of the past 70 years in an iron lung, dies at 78

[hezigler]

Quiet Majority - John Cleese on #Extremism 1987 - restored audio & video...

[kleptozoology]

How Pro-Hamas Leftists sound when throwing bricks through random Jews' windows.

[odiabonecessario]

I really appreciate actual discussions here, I really really do and I should thank everyone who spent their time showing me a different perspective without wanting to convince me I'm wrong. I'm always in a certain danger of falling for unfairly dehumanizing discourses like I did but meeting people (especially here) who genuinely tried to explain it to me without being cocky or assuming I'm trying to do evil still gives me a bit more hope we can improve as a society

[sjerzgirl]

Oh Idaho! You've lost your frigging mind!!

[eretzyisrael]

Source

[cosmicsponge2004]

To those who feel like they're seeing a RISE in Fascism, or a RISE in Communism. Especially online

Yes. You're seeing a rise in extremism

have fun!!

[nodynasty4us]

In a second Trump White House, the dueling power centers won't be the Establishment right vs. the right-wing crazies. It'll be multiple varieties of right-wing crazies competing with one another. The rest of us will be rooting for injuries.

No More Mister Nice Blog: A SECOND TRUMP TERM: DUELING EXTREMISTS?

[truth-has-a-liberal-bias]

The murder of six people at a church school in an affluent, largely white enclave of Tennessee’s largest city one year ago sparked a mass protest movement for gun control by Nashville parents. The Republican-dominated legislature met that movement with some spending on school police officers as a gesture to the outrage, a law shielding gun and ammunition manufacturers from liability as a gesture to Tennessee’s powerful gun lobby and the expulsion of the two Black lawmakers as a gesture of warning to people causing too much trouble.

Other antidemocratic displays over the last year would be just as outrageous, if people outside of Tennessee were still paying attention.

The temporary expulsion of Representatives Justin Pearson and Justin Jones was only the first cautionary tale in a saga of retribution that has continued apace, activists say.

Conservative domination – maintained by gerrymandered districts, disenfranchised voters and an increasing sense of political despair – insulates Tennessee Republicans from political consequences for unpopular decisions.

Challenged in public by increasing activism on the left and apocalyptic rhetoric on the right, Tennessee Republicans stopped just chipping away at democratic norms and began hammering full-on like coalminers on Rocky Top. [...]

[eggos-esper]

A Tracer doodle I gifted to @judedeluca

[kaze-no-yurei]

Always remember this. There are two types of Muslims. Extremist Muslims and those that silently support the extremist actions while celebrating at their homes protected by the ones they commit these extremist acts against.

For any Muslim triggered by this, I'll believe your words the day one of you publicly condemns actions like these. Until then, anything you say is null and void.

For any keyboard activists crying Islamophobia, THIS IS WHAT EXTREMIST ACTS LOOK LIKE. TALKING ABOUT YOUR CULTURE AND YOUR HISTORY ON A SOCIAL PLATFORM IS NOT EXTREMISM YOU ABSOLUTE FUCKING MORONS.

Trigger Warning Blood and Violence in the video attached below.

[miss-strang3]

[mental-food]

What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.

-Robert F. Kennedy

[elegantzombielite]

"The decent moderation of today will be the least of human things tomorrow. At the time of the Spanish Inquisition, the opinion of good sense and of the good medium was certainly that people ought not to burn too large a number of heretics; extreme and unreasonable opinion obviously demanded that they should burn none at all."

Maurice Maeterlinck, poet, dramatist, and Nobel laureate (29th August 1862-1949)