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.
The fact that McKinsey directly contributed to the untimely death of a lot of people is widely known. I don't see anything in the HN rules that suggests news of public significance are not an acceptable topic of discussion.
>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.
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".
The period when people have their own reactions, followed by a sudden reset and synchronisation once the taking points get assembled and is really quite fascinating. I would really love to know how centralised the process of defining talking points is, or if it is, itself, emergent behaviour of a distributed system resulting in coherent outcomes.
Yeah, it doesn't have to be centralized. I watched aghast at the narrative building around the Trayvon Martin murder in real-time across Reddit and The Website Which Shall Not Be Named. No one was giving marching orders; it was just a milieu of people throwing out ideas and the most convenient ones propagating outward. "He was slamming his head against the concrete," etc. (How could you possibly know? The word of the accused?)
what an amazing turn of phrase - “reset and synchronization once the talking points get assembled”
Literally describes 99 of the 100 post-jira action items coming out of the clueless PM’s mouthhole.
I think this is the first time I've seen the process of delivering right-wing talking points fail. Right wing media is talking about how bad it is to kill someone, but right wing followers are pushing back and saying they have no sympathy.
Exactly this. It happened during Covid and January 6, too. For brief moments we were united before the talking points emerged. I think this phenomenon is entirely coordinated by right wing media and party elites.
It's a fair comparison. Daniel Penney too. The main difference between the four parties is who killed people who'd killed others, and who killed people who hadn't actually done anything.
And the right wing also platforms, defends, and worships George Zimmerman, who murdered Trayvon Martin in cold blood, paints confederate battle flags, and told the manager who intervened in a violent bar incident he started that "I didn't know you were a n*gger lover".
That offends you??! Then explain why you like racism better than health care, and think platforming and worshipping Kyle Rittenhouse is justified?
The right wing are so thin skinned and hypocritical and allergic to facts, sheez.
Luigi used a gun to murder just like Rittenhouse, so why aren't you whining about his second amendment rights being violated and 3d printed gun being confiscated by the cops? He didn't even eat anyone's dogs or cats, just some McDonald's hash browns.
Get it together dude. You seem irrationally angry to the point of defending blatant hypocrisy and racism. Why does my criticism of it personally hurt your feelings, hmm? Go play Kyle Rittenhouse's Turkey Shoot game about shooting journalists to blow off some steam.
Not 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.
Kim 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.
Money 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.
> 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.
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.