Oh sure, that shit used to be legal and common.

Yeah, fuck that guy, he has no idea what he’s talking about. Bourdain is being mourned all over the world because after he and his crew got trapped in Beirut for a week after Israel opened fire, he decided to focus on more than just food. He spent the latter half of his career humanizing “the other” and championing…

Coastal elites, hipsters, and all the people from all across the world who have been publicly mourning the loss of someone who spent the latter half of his career humanizing “the other” and championing marginalized people.

Oh, you don’t need to tell me. I was on narcotic painkillers for years, because I didn’t have insurance that would allow me to get treatment for what caused the back pain caused by a drunk driver, until I finally lost everything and became poor enough to be covered by the state.

Oh, sure, and the use of young, attractive, female drug reps who worked on commission, kickbacks to insurance companies, there’s just tons of scummy shit.

Yeah, all those family matriarchs that he treated with such reverence and respect were on the skinny side, weren’t they?

Well, that makes one of you, as he later regretted saying that.

No, this is not the education patients need. Everyone knows OxyContin is addictive now. This just stigmatizes addiction by framing it as the fault of the former patient, which is not surprising, because that is what Trump has explicitly said. He has said, “that’s all you have to do, just don’t take them.”

What part of “they lied and told people it wasn’t addictive” did you not understand? You’re saying that patients should have done enough research to find out that their doctors were lying to them because they had been lied to.

No, one of the biggest drivers is the manufacturer throwing millions into sponsoring research and initiatives to get pain considered as a vital sign as measured by that scale with frowny and smiley faces on it, which they created, then flat-out lying about it working for 12 hours to make it different enough from…

Never underestimate the power of the placebo effect and confirmation bias.

Some of the best deep dives about Trump’s corrupt business empire appeared in Newsweek during the campaign, written by Kurt Eichenwald. He has epilepsy, and so trolls sent him flashing visuals that were designed to trigger seizures.

Fun fact: the official American flags that fly over government buildings are made in prisons, mostly by people of color.

Can you explain what is “insane” about a series of articulately written paragraphs that do not contain errors of spelling, punctuation, grammar, or excessive inflammatory language, that make ample reference to well-documented facts about the inner workings and history of Congress?

Can you dispute any of that with substance rather than snark? Are any of the statements of actual fact untrue, irrespective of the differences in how you and I interpret the consequences of them?

Oh, there’s plenty elsewhere on the thread. Enjoy.

Can you refute anything I just said with words rather than a snarky gif?

There is a reason why the comment section on The Root always has a lot more “fuck Bernie Sanders” posts on it.

That is not what most analyses have found. An awful lot of Trump voters would have been happy to vote for someone who talked about their economic concerns without the burden of being a pro-choice woman who represented a continuation of a black president and all the culture wars that were Fox News stoked during his…

Bernie Sanders marched a few times and made a record, and pointed to that whenever he was criticized for not actually doing much beyond talking a good game.