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My mom got hooked in 99 after she slipped on ice at her house in Bluefield, WV. Became a full blown addict after getting prescribed for the subsequent back inj
by JPKab 2y ago
My mom got hooked in 99 after she slipped on ice at her house in Bluefield, WV.
Became a full blown addict after getting prescribed for the subsequent back injury.
She lost everything, disappeared, became a homeless addict drifting from DC to Baltimore to NYC and back, until she died of an overdose of heroin in a parking lot of a 7-11 in DC in December 2015. Her story and the impact on me and my 4 siblings is a drop in an ocean of suffering these smug assholes inflicted on this country.
This slap on the wrist is an insult to all of us, especially us Appalachians, who saw this starting in the 90s and got ignored because “hillbillies are genetically prone to addiction” as Purdue told the FDA.
- haltingproblem 2y agoI am so sorry to hear what happened to your Mom. This is a slap on the wrist to those who suffered and to those who loved them. How do companies like McKinsey get away with this?
- davidw 2y ago> How do companies like McKinsey get away with this? Money. Any other questions?
- hooli_gan 2y agoWhy doesnt money work for Kim Dotcom?
- wesselbindt 2y agoBecause of more money
- Cumpiler69 2y agoMoney alone won't buy your entry inside the elite circles of the people with real influence. Joe Biden just pardoned his son from crimes that would have gotten you and me in jail already. Similarly, your Clintons, Bushs, Blairs, Bidens, Trumps, none of them or their friends and family will ever see a day in jail no matter their crimes. That's influence money alone can't buy. Those are the 1% of the 1%. They can kill or pardon people, start and end wars without answering to anyone. Kim Dotcom is a nobody compared or those guys.
- snozolli 2y agoJoe Biden just pardoned his son from crimes that would have gotten you and me in jail already. The only crime there is evidence he committed is never prosecuted against regular people, so it's the exact opposite of what you claim.
- archagon 2y ago“Ex-FBI informant Alexander Smirnov pleads guilty to lying about the Bidens”: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alexander-smirnov-pleads-guilty-bidens-fbi-informant/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alexander-smirnov-pleads-guilty... It was a witch hunt from the start.
- hiddencost 2y agoNot enough of it, not hooked into the right systems. It works for Elon Musk because he has a lot more and because he controls critical piece of infrastructure (starlink, SpaceX) that the defense industry needs.
- jkolio 2y agoKim also subtly represents a flavor of (classical) liberal populism that is at odds with the neoliberal empire-making much of the ultra-rich engage in. Both make the bulk of their money by exploiting resources that they have a dubious claim to (from a humanistic perspective), but the people that the latter tend to exploit were instead the beneficiaries of his exploitation. Anyone who flips the script like that is going to find themselves in the crosshairs, because it seeds dangerous ideas about what the average person deserves in the way of dignity and material/cultural goods. He's also not old money or especially supportive of old money; he's just some script kiddy who scammed his way to the top on the back of the kind of confidence that tends to only come when you're built like an NFL lineman but can also read documentation. The seethe is easy to understand.
- onlypassingthru 2y agoThe fines are the negotiated outcome after you have directed prior sums through the right lobbyists and law firms.
- ghundur 2y ago[flagged]
- jkolio 2y agoI think it's a bit much to say that there's no advantage to being German, either in today's world or historically.
- medion 2y agoI don’t think he actually has the kind of money to be as slippery as, say, Trump, McKinsey, etc.
- oefrha 2y agoKim Dotcom’s enemies (the entire Hollywood, among others) are more deep pocketed than him. Purdue Pharma and McKinsey’s enemies are nobodies.
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- bravetraveler 2y agoOld vs new
- maeil 2y agoHe aggrieved the rich. This opioid crisis has largely hit the poor. It's like asking why money didn't work for Bernie Madoff but it has worked for Jake Paul and other crypto scammers. Bernie stole from the rich.
- Moru 2y agoNever bite the hand that feeds you
- maeil 2y ago> How do companies like McKinsey get away with this? Because of judiciary, regulatory and congressional capture, of course. This means you it's gotten away with unless someone like Luigi martyrs themselves.
- bdangubic 2y agoI am sorry to hear this. I would have gone full Luigi on someone if this happened to me
- pkkkzip 2y ago[flagged]
- hollerith 2y ago>just like the canadian billionaire couple who ran a drug company got whacked The Canadian couple got whacked by a competing drug company for selling cheap generic versions of expensive drugs. Or at least that is what most observers believe although last I heard, no one has ever been charged with the murders. Before the murders, people were worried the couple would be killed because they were so good at bringing to market drugs that are much cheaper than any of their competitors, destroying the profit margins of those competitors.
- slater 2y agoAnd you know this, how?
- Rebelgecko 2y agoVibes based evidence
- fakedang 2y ago> lot of ppl on the left mad at billionaires too Seems the left were always in favor of Luigi. I'm more surprised by the right in the US. The days just after the shooting, they were all in favor too, but after their media pundits took an opposing stance, they joined the bandwagon and are now ranting about "muh poor CEO". Bunch of sheep I suppose.
- DonHopkins 2y ago[flagged]
- NetOpWibby 2y agoJFC damn! My condolences.
- isoprophlex 2y ago[flagged]
- refulgentis 2y agoThat's probably not a direct quote, so I wouldn't go on the record with that direct response. Uncouth
- wil421 2y agoThe opioid epidemic has taken a lot of kids I went to High School with. Sorry to hear about your mom.
- tdullien 2y agoThank you for sharing this, and I am not sure if sending a hug is appropriate. Reading your post makes me angry and sad.