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The Last Stand said:
Doesn't the FDA have to approve mass production of food products like "chili ice cream" to be sold?
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Yeah, and that's exactly my point. The fact that they're so strict in general makes it egregious that it happened in the first place. I agree with Johnny's post in that it wouldn't have been possible without the circumstances at the time, but I'm not convinced that there wasn't some tomfuckery going on behind the scenes. They incentivized (read: bribed) doctors to sell oxy so it doesn't seem like that far of a stretch to think there was some pressure exerted from Purdue on the FDA. Like, offering the guy who was the head of the division that oversaw the supervision of addictive prescription drugs at the time a high-paying admin job.

I'll stop derailing the thread now, I just have an instinctive distrust of the three-lettered alphabet agencies.

edit: spelling
 
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Judex Meus said:
I agree with most of your points, but I don't buy that the FDA doesn't hold at least some culpability for the opioid crisis and never faced any real consequences for their failures, given that it's their raison d'être to prevent these kinds of things from happening. Not to mention people like Curtis Wright who went from the FDA to work at Purdue Pharma in 1998 in an administrative capacity.
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Oh, I agree, but people who lay the blame on Purdue alone, or the FDA alone, or say those two are the culprits are missing a much larger context.
 
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FILTH Tourist said:
Definitely. But it's the only way I can explain how a bottom tier diversity hire from the worst admin can be 50/50 odds in every metric imaginable with the guy who actually demonstrates leadership and is practically chosen by God from his close encounter with death without the answer being that Americans are deeply retarded.
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It's a gambling system, people will vote for the lower odds on purpose on the given chance that it might work.

Then there's the people that will make "educated" opinions by googling the topic, which, you know how THAT'S going to go.

Just look at the top holders, you'll see a pattern, then activity. I'm not going to tell you the pattern because I want people to learn how to figure out how real astroturfing works.

spoilers: betting shit is not a predictive poll, it is a response to the polls instead. Meaning it's a decent aggregate for any surface-level news and polls.
 
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Absolutego said:
It's really funny when people pretend he was a moral paragon in office b/c he built a bunch of homes with Habitat for Humanity, because he was such an insufferable asshole behind the scenes his own cabinet turned against him.
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He bungled every fucking crisis and blamed Americans for an energy crisis he made worse through his shit policy and letting glow niggers act with a blank check.

Nixon is now getting rehabilitated because enough boomers and hippies are dead where you can look objectively at him. Carter had the benefit of a friendly press and Nixon being the devil for a lot of the press. He could’ve raped a child and the press would’ve softened his image still.
 
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mandatorylurk said:
Trump's town hall for da womenz is on now, he looks good, it looks like a better Oprah set than the one Kamabla was on with Oprah a few weeks ago, more warm and less fake.
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Politifact is doing live fact checking of the event, in case anyone wants to see in real-time how what Trump says is going to be spinned in the media later today


Trump continues to force angry homosexuals and jews to write cope like Trump only gave you the fourth largest tax cut, not the largest one ever, chuds
Trump repeats wrong claim that his tax cut was history’s biggest
Trump said the tax bill he signed in 2017 enacted the biggest tax cuts in history.
False. Trump has repeated this statement often. When it was passed, Trump’s tax cut was, in inflation-adjusted dollars, the fourth-largest since 1940. And as a percentage of GDP, it ranked seventh.
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edit: and as i'm writing this it looks like they covered abortion

Trump has staked his abortion position as a state-led issue​

Trump said he helped abortion legislation to go back to the states “where everyone wanted it.”
Trump’s position on abortion has been something of a roller coaster. While president, he endorsed a 20-week national abortion ban. Early in his 2024 presidential campaign, he floated support for 15- or 16-week federal abortion bans, news outlets reported.
But since April, Trump has recently repeated that abortion legislation should be left up to the states, and that it’s not a federal issue. He has said that he would not sign a national abortion ban.
Some Trump allies have discussed other executive actions outside of Congress that could limit abortion, such as enforcing the Comstock Act — a 19th century law that bans the mailing of “obscene” material — that could prohibit sending materials such as medication and surgical equipment used in abortions. But Trump told CBS News on Aug. 19 that “generally speaking” he wouldn’t enforce the law to ban mailing abortion medication.
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All legal scholars did not want Roe v. Wade overturned​

Trump said that “every legal scholar, the great ones,” including Democrats and Republicans, wanted abortion to be sent back to the states.
False. The 1973 Roe v. Wade decision inspired legions of supporters and opponents. Before it was overturned in June 2022, numerous legal scholars wrote briefs urging the Supreme Court to uphold the ruling.
Some legal scholars who favor abortion rights have criticized Roe’s legal underpinnings, saying that different constitutional arguments, based on equal protection, would have provided a stronger case. But legal experts, including some who held this view, said those scholars would not have advocated for overturning Roe on this basis.
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GunCar Gary said:
False. The 1973 Roe v. Wade decision inspired legions of supporters and opponents. Before it was overturned in June 2022, numerous legal scholars wrote briefs urging the Supreme Court to uphold the ruling.
Some legal scholars who favor abortion rights have criticized Roe’s legal underpinnings, saying that different constitutional arguments, based on equal protection, would have provided a stronger case. But legal experts, including some who held this view, said those scholars would not have advocated for overturning Roe on this basis.
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WOW dig these bigots mansplaining over RBG herself, as she was quite vocal about Roe being a shit ruling that would be overturned one day, despite literally being part of Team Roe when it was in front of SCOTUS
 
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All legal scholars did not want Roe v. Wade overturned​

Trump said that “every legal scholar, the great ones,” including Democrats and Republicans, wanted abortion to be sent back to the states.
False. The 1973 Roe v. Wade decision inspired legions of supporters and opponents. Before it was overturned in June 2022, numerous legal scholars wrote briefs urging the Supreme Court to uphold the ruling.
Some legal scholars who favor abortion rights have criticized Roe’s legal underpinnings, saying that different constitutional arguments, based on equal protection, would have provided a stronger case. But legal experts, including some who held this view, said those scholars would not have advocated for overturning Roe on this basis.
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"every legal scholar, the great ones" is a statement of opinion, that every legal scholar who in his personal opinion is a "great" legal scholar, thought Roe was shit

Reminder journoscum think you are retarded niggerfaggots they can play the dumbest of word games with, you can't hate them enough
 
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LowlyPheasent said:
Public schools have been incredibly terrible, and school choice straight up is an improvement. I liked the credit option towards a private school being offered, if a parent has a kid with particular needs or a school specializes in particular education like being more trade oriented it helps get them where they would be best suited. Ignoring all the tranny bullshit and predation, as it stands from an education standpoint the entire system is worse than useless. No child leftbehind and the standardization of our education systems have been a total failure.

The methods they are forced to teach are absurd for something as basic as fucking math are inefficent and looking at it I have to assume some of if not all of it is to make people retarded by design.
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Common Core and Social-Emotional Learning works for a few students. But for all students, hell no. This shit is pushed by the UN for their own ends. Its brainwashing basically. Not to mention a lot of teachers happen to be marxist. And even if they're not, the material they teach is marxist in nature. Why do you think paulo freire is recommended to most teachers?
 
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