The Wow I Can't Believe That News Story Thread

[[MERIT]]

► Australia To Fine Parents $14/Week For Not Vaccinating Their Children


► 8 Big Pharma Execs Arrested For Bribing Doctors To Prescribe Opioids


► 21+ People Killed As Gas Pipeline Explodes In Mexico

Word on the internet is that factions looking to oust Mexican President Obrador are fucking with the pipelines in an attempt to destabilize the nation and foment an uprising to get him out of power. Obrador is trying to follow the Donald Trump plan and "clean out the swamp" down in Mexico. Obrador is going against the grain and supposedly refuses to be coerced by TPTB into doing their bidding, so he has a huge bullseye on him. Mexico invested in a national pipeline system to deliver gas and oil throughout the country. They don't have a massive railway system or well-kept highway infrstructure to help accomplish this task like the U.S. does, so any holes in the pipeline could spell disaster for the country and its citizens.

[Lucem Ferre]

Originally Posted by [MERIT]

[B]► 8 Big Pharma Execs Arrested For Bribing Doctors To Prescribe Opioids

Do you have another source with this information? I can't take a news site seriously when it claims to have proof that leftists are scientifically illiterate.

[[MERIT]]

Originally Posted by Lucem Ferre

Do you have another source with this information? I can't take a news site seriously when it claims to have proof that leftists are scientifically illiterate.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/f...d-racketeering

https://nypost.com/2017/10/26/billio...-opioid-scheme

[Lucem Ferre]

Originally Posted by [MERIT]

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/f...d-racketeering

https://nypost.com/2017/10/26/billio...-opioid-scheme

Thank you. That's some bull****. Not surprising but still upsetting.

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by Lucem Ferre

Thank you. That's some bull****. Not surprising but still upsetting.

What’s bull**** is the ****ing witch hunt on people who make pain killers and claiming there’s an opioid epidemic when nicotine products killed ten times as many people as opioids last year.

This is about delivering fentanyl to cancer patients. It’s a ****ing godsend not a crime.

[Anteater]

Originally Posted by elphenor

but also Trump is more dangerous to democracy than Bush was in that he has no ideology other than his narcissism

He definitely has an ideology of some kind beyond "I want more money": there just isn't a particularly accurate political label for it. Just remember that Trump has always believed that he had all the answers (especially on trade), just that he professed them with better vocabulary as a younger guy. Going back a few decades, he's given some surprisingly consistent answers in regards to issues he was passionate about.

[The Batlord]

Originally Posted by elphenor

Patriot Act is pretty damn authoritarian and unconstitutional

and was supported by both parties

but also Trump is more dangerous to democracy than Bush was in that he has no ideology other than his narcissism

Which is exactly what I was thinking of when I made that post congratulations.

[Anteater]

Originally Posted by elphenor

you got it right when you say he thinks he has answers, it's narcissism from someone who's been a loser their whole life

there are no answers in these clips, and no ideology other than a vague espousing of fascist tendencies, that America just needs someone to come in and chest puff

we're talking about a guy who still doesn't understand what a trade deficit is

Eh, everything in politics is about establishing something like a cult of personality. JFK, FDR, Reagan, Obama, even Lincoln all told America at one point or another something along the lines of "I'm the guy with all the answers". Doesn't mean any of them actually did, but most of them are remembered better in retrospect than they were at the time of their actual presidencies.

I'm sure if you tried you could even come up with something nice to say about Nixon.

[windsock]

EPA! EPA! EEEPAAAAA!!!!

[Lucem Ferre]

Originally Posted by Anteater

Eh, everything in politics is about establishing something like a cult of personality. JFK, FDR, Reagan, Obama, even Lincoln all told America at one point or another something along the lines of "I'm the guy with all the answers". Doesn't mean any of them actually did, but most of them are remembered better in retrospect than they were at the time of their actual presidencies.

I'm sure if you tried you could even come up with something nice to say about Nixon.

It's because our current system doesn't cater to skills or innovation. It caters to sociopaths and sociopaths are really good at convincing people they have all the answers.