The Wow I Can't Believe That News Story Thread

[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.

[Ninetales]

what exactly would a system that "caters to skill or innovation" look like?

[The Batlord]

Whatever your masters say it does.

[Anteater]

Originally Posted by elphenor

how about a system that caters to freedom and human rights

skills can get ****ed tbh

Just wait til Google births the God AI and the Singularity passes. You'll have all the "freedom" and "human rights" you can stand.