I’m pretty sure I can still hear all the clumsily inserted 80's references just fine with my tv settings the way they are

We should stop giving people with diabetes insulin, then. They are clearly addicted to it, and it keep costing us all money that we could otherwise be giving to the rich use for other, more important resources...

Either that or they are trying to profit off the suffering directly, whether through private prisons, revenue driven policing etc.

Yeah, I hate to say it, but “let them fucking die” was the very first thing I thought about as well, and I think the idea of rescue workers making snap judgements about who “deserves” to be saved feels as gross here as it does when it’s about anyone else, including people who may or may not be shit-heads (whether they…

This dickhead politican is acting like people are going to his city to be addicts and get healthcare. I daresay that Middleton is the type of place that people run from.

Hmmmm, guess the Middletown City Council is that Death Panel I’ve heard so much about.

 No I didn’t. You said a firefighter was grumbling about having to do firefighter stuff. I said he needs a new job if he doesn’t like being a first responder.

My hometown.

Addition is a big problem in this country.

That firefighter needs a new job. That would like a teacher mad cuz they had to teach or a writer mad cuz they had to write.

Lol

I wanted to think it was floated as a way to create an uproar to bring attention to the problem... not as an actual proposed solution. But I read elsewhere about it and the guy is serious (and he’s not up for re-election, so he DGAF). If he thinks the 2M they’re spending now is expensive, wait until the bills for the…

“If the dispatcher determines that the person who’s overdosed is someone who’s been part of the program for two previous overdoses and has not completed the community service and has not cooperated in the program, then we wouldn’t dispatch,” Picard told WLWT.

Sometimes reductio ad absurdum is an unfair debate tactic, and sometimes it’s exactly the right way to totally shred someone’s argument. You seem to have a good handle on when to use it.

Abolish the police and fire departments entirely and save boatloads of money!

“Hey guys we’ve totally shown that addiction, and especially heroin addiction, can best be treated as a medical issue and reduce both the economic and societal cost of addiction pretty easily”

Yeah and I’m sure that the policy is not going to be influenced by socioeconomic status or race at all. Nope, they’re going to administer this death penalty regardless of whom the receiver is.

This seems like a lawsuit waiting to happen.

Why don’t we just feed cancer patients into the grinder? Make homeless people generate electricity on treadmills? Insist women wear their bust size on some sort of tag to ease ogling?

Thanks Trump