Making profit off of medication (or any other basic survival need, for that matter, and especially if they’re publicly funded) is and always will be immoral.

Yeah, I wasn’t really paying that much attention, and went off of OP reply’s 30 x 1000 and then missed out a zero lol

But yeah, it only gets more despicable the more accurate the numbers are…

I understand they need to recoup research costs, but…

Except they don’t even need to do that, because, as is with most pharmaceuticals, the research was almost fully funded by the taxpayer.

And the 30% profit is for a generic product, so the research has already been done.

So yeah, 30% profit is of course much better than 3000%, but both are still obscene profiteering off of a lifesaving product paid for by, and then essentially withheld for ransom from, the general public.

I’d also challenge “unhinged” - the oppressive systems we all live under are designed to make this shit the norm, they not only breed and encourage racism, misogyny and the rest, but reward those with the privilege and sense of entitlement it gives who do them “best”, it’s why people in such positions can and do say such things, and suffer absolutely zero consequences.

(to be clear, I’m not condoning the behaviour or saying it’s ok in any way, just that these people are not “unhinged”, they are acting exactly in the way white supremacist patriarchal capitalism normalises and encourages them to)

You’re not. There has not been any room left for doubt for nearly a decade that he is anything but an opportunistic racist misogynistic queerphobic ableist christofascist grifter. Those who already support him will continue to cheer him on because he feeds directly in to their need to feel superior to “others”, and no one still on the fence is going to suddenly have an epiphany…

Bahahahahahaha… 😂

Yeah, no.

And just to very briefly elaborate

the most pro labor, pro union, and pro worker in recent history

Even if this were true, then he’s all that and still not even on the left side of centre, what the fuck does that tell you (it tells me that at the very least you don’t understand what political left actually looks like, but the epitome of maintaining the capitalist status quo isn’t it)…

he was swinging left.

Bahahahahahaha… 😂

Yeah, no.

He’d definitely switch to a pro-LGBT stance if he thinks he’d make more money doing so.

That doesn’t make him an ally, or any less dangerous.

going to a grocery store that is not fully stocked and only the self-checkouts are open because the pay is so low no one can afford to work is more than normal now in the US

Look at the upside - easier to shoplift.

On a more serious note though, this is all a feature, not a bug. As the meme goes - everything they threatened would eventually happen under communism is already happening under capitalism. At it will never get better until capitalism is abolished and a hierarchy free, horizontal society is built on its ashes.

In other words you think it’s reasonable to criticise homeless people for not giving up and abandoning their companions and dependants, who provide comfort and love in the bleakest of times, as soon as times got hard… Classy.

Shouldn’t have fucked raped those kids.

FTFY

Depression and mental illness leads some to want to go with a bang

No, they really fucking don’t, privilege and the sense of entitlement it gives do.

Like seriously, beyond the bullshit that is scapegoating mental illness because it’s easier than facing reality, that’s literally not how depression works, nor “mental illness” in general, especially when you consider that mentally ill people are significantly more likely to be victims of violence than perpetrate it.

Stop perpetuating this lazy counterproductive bullshit.

Widening Protests Kill 39

That’s a really fucked up victim-blamey way to say the police have killed 39 protestors.

Meanwhile a couple of links down on my feed there’s an article about one of the Heritage Foundation guys claiming most political violence is committed by the left… 🙄

The projection never ends…

I also really appreciate the article talking about the bullshit myth that trans athletes have some kind of advantage in sports. I don’t usually see that.

Sadly that really is note worthy.

This quote comes to mind:

Nice people made the best Nazis. My mom grew up next to them. They got along, refused to make waves, looked the other way when things got ugly and focused on happier things than “politics.” They were lovely people who turned their heads as their neighbors were dragged away. You know who weren’t nice people? Resisters.

― Naomi Shulman

Yeah, it was not intentional, just a representation of the keyboard smashing that might go with that kind of comment, but I’ll take the accidental Fibonacci lol 😂

bUt ciViLitY!!1123

How much more blatant does it need to be before you actually are a threat to democracy?

They already know, it’s the one thing the blue no matter who crowd has been promising all along - that Biden will sAVe dEmoCrAcY, but now that someone actually tried to get rid of the threat to democracy (even if that wasn’t his motive), the only thing they have to cling on to is their “civility” aka “the rules” (written and enforced by authoritarians looking to maintain their position), because the truth is, they never gave a shit about “democracy” (one never really existed anyway) only about their “team” winning, because to them it’s still just a game, that’s why they stand by Biden despite him clearly posing no threat to fascism whatsoever…

Yes. It is literally licking the boot stomping on their necks, the man has spent years actively acting against the community and contributing to a hostile environment that costs lives.

Pretending like being civil to a literal nazi is reasonable is bootlicking too.

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/romeo-kokriatski-respectability-politics-or-you-gotta-be-nice-to-monsters