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How Americans responded in 1955 when the invention of the polio vaccine was announced (feddit.org)
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[–] 36 points 2 years ago (11 children)

I think that is true for some of the people involved, but I think it is much more complicated than that. There are many people who think vaccines do more harm than good because they believe conspiracy theories and junk science. Not everyone against vaccines is malicious. Some must be, though, for such bullshit to keep propagating the way that it does.

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  • [–] 51 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    Most of Trump's cabinet ranges from morally indifferent to outright hostile to human beings. The only exception I think I see is RFK Jr. who is just batshit insane.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Agreed. It takes more than Trump, his cabinet, and MAGA to get here, though. It requires complicity and complacency from a ton of other people.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Hey! Whoa! Speaking as a member of the batshit insane community, don't you try to dump him off as one of us! He's clearly in the "manipulated puppet" camp. Or at the very least the Kennedys camp. Those guys were always their own bunch to begin with. I mean JFK brought us inches away from WWIII and then said "Peace out bitches! I'm dying by suicide!"

    Then he faked his own death, and moved to Boston, where nobody would recognize him.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I disagree. People are always assholes first and then look for rationalisations for their assholery. All that conspiracy bullshit always leads back to racism and antisemitism.

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