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This is the guy that intentionally doxxed himself after posting some edgy calls for violent resistance, got evicted because his landlord was tired of getting death threats on the property, and throughout it all maintained his very stupid position that eviction lawyers overcomplicate eviction proceedings.

Dying to lick the very same boot that tossed him out into the streets for bullshit reasons. I want to call him pathetic but I’m not entirely convinced this isn’t a humiliation fetish.

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So why does this guy think this? How does his argument work out? I’m genuinely interested because it is so unfathomable to me that I can’t comprehend how he could come to the conclusion that lower drug prices is bad

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22 points

He claims that profits is what causes new drugs to be invented and that with less profit incentive, then less drugs will be invented. The he implies that more people theoretically die because medicines aren’t invented.

It’s profit motive, free market nonsense. It doesn’t make sense because profits go to the company owner. The people who invent drugs receive a wage. Also many drugs are invented through government research and then sold to private owners.

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11 points

Oh wow didn’t expect a proud turbo lib to be using the capitalist innovation line in such a way. the turbo libs I know don’t fall for that one anymore.

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Probably thinks the only reason the prices are high is to keep a drug shortage from happening. He’s too far gone into neoliberal propaganda

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Nah, it’s the old “if the prices are low the pharmaceutical companies won’t have money to spend on new meds” line. Clearly doesn’t know much about… You know… Subsidies.

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5 points

“The problem is there’s too much demand for medicine and some people must simply go without”

So the shortage is already here? Also, if there’s an excess of demand, what if we fixed public health to encourage more walking, time outside, and more so less people will need these rare, scarce resources in the first place. Thus the most ethical way to lower demand?

“No because then the economy would be hurt by less people buying things.”

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3 points

Any neoliberal talking point collapses once you dissect it just a little bit

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26 points

I’m not sure why the neoliberal guy is upset about Trump’s execute order. The executive order does not at all say that it will reduce pharmaceutical profits. Nor does it say how it will reduce drug prices. If anything, this executive order is intended to increase pharmaceutical profits.

Trump’s “Most Favored Nations” drug policy is not about lowering drug prices, the executive order simply says that the US should pay the lowest drug prices in the world. For Trump, that doesn’t mean lowering drug prices in the US, it means raising drug prices in other countries. If you read the executive order, it’s mostly about demanding that drug companies raise drug prices in other countries. Trump said at the signing that he wants to put tariffs on drug companies which offer lower prices in other countries. The executive order is just US nationalism applied to drug prices.

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Jesus, that’s some weird shit tbh. Putting prices up because you hate that they’re too low for someone else? Yikes…

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11 points

Ugh, JDPON Don’s a succdem revisionist. Figures….

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17 points

puttin a lil rainbow flag up there isn’t a large enough mask for them rabidly fascist takes, muh big dogg decker

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2 points

“I’m one of the good ones!”

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12 points

@grok is price controls worse than the holocaust?

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