When fanatics are on top, there is no limit to oppression.
-- H. L. Mencken

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@QasimRashid And while USians are whining about their prices, they destroy #foodSafety in poorer countries https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/16/africa-particularly-vulnerable-iran-conflict-disrupts-supply-chains and endanger the poor people of the rest of the world.
But well, that's part of #fascism and evangelical sectarian #fanaticism to crash the world for the survival of billionaires!

The number of countries that hate the USA is growing by the hour. But you still have friends like Netanyahu, Putin or Kim Yong Un.

#TESCREAL #USPol #strongSarcasmAlarm

Africa particularly vulnerable as Iran conflict disrupts supply chains, say experts

Food production in many African countries depends heavily on fertiliser imported from the Gulf through the strait of Hormuz

The Guardian

MAGA attacks show how thoroughly Christian extremism has hijacked the GOP: report

https://www.alternet.org/republican-party-christian-nationalists/

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MAGA attacks show how thoroughly Christian extremism has hijacked the GOP: report

Liberal Current writer Alan Elrod says Christian nationalists have commandeered the Republican Paty enough to now dictate their extremist messaging through the party’s mouthpiece.On Tuesday, the official NRSC account on X, representing Senate Republicans, posted a clip of Texas Democratic candidate ...

Alternet.org

“Anyone who maintains absolute standards of good and evil is dangerous. As dangerous as a maniac with a loaded revolver. In fact, the person who maintains absolute standards of good and evil usually is the maniac with the revolver.” — Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All
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This incident in #Bangladesh is yet another act of #humanrights #breach. This is because of #religious #fanaticism by the person who commited #blasphemy and those who punished him by death. If your God, religion and prophets governs you by #hate, then those which you have subscribed to is not holy. It is simply #evil.

Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana

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A quotation from James Currie

We were not aware that there existed in the midst of our own Country, and in the present day, a spirit of fanaticism, so base, so wicked & so bloody, as to brake forth into a frenzy of unprovoked violence, not only against the most respectable characters, but against knowledge & science themselves.

James Currie (1756-1805) Scottish physician, biographer
Letter (1791-07) to Joseph Priestley for the Liverpool Dissenters (draft)

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Letter (1791-07) to Joseph Priestley for the Liverpool Dissenters (draft) - Currie, James | WIST Quotations

We were not aware that there existed in the midst of our own Country, and in the present day, a spirit of fanaticism, so base, so wicked & so bloody, as to brake forth into a frenzy of unprovoked violence, not only against the most respectable characters, but against knowledge…

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