Umm, yes. I know I answered my own question. It was rhetorical.

I mean, didn’t the whole opioid crisis come about *because* the medical community is just as racist as the general public? Blacks dodged that bullet—you know, in exchange for many of them walking around with untreated chronic pain because docs think that they’re just drug addicts, or that their blackness gives them…

BLAMMO!

Regardless what you might think about the OP’s points on this particular thread, are you seriously going to hold it against a person that they were wrong and have since admitted they were wrong?

Is there NO room for growth whatsoever?

If not, what the FUCK is the point of any of this?

You may as well tell everyone to…

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Well, true, but “bodyslam” is also a weird way to describe grabbing someone, pushing them down and punching them, but that’s the term everyone used to describe Greg Gianforte’s assault of Ben Jacobs last year. If I’ve learned nothing else from the most recent election cycle, it’s that no one who makes their way into…

Ahhh, okay. Thanks. That makes a lot of sense, then. Sorry, I’d only ever heard “narc” used in the sense of an informant or LEO. For a moment, I was wondering if you meant a drug addict.

I can’t say I understand your situation, but I empathize. I have a close friend with a toxic, narcissistic mother, and the effects…

To be fair, the original article contained only a little editorializing; it primarily reported the facts, while showing obvious but not exactly fierce bias toward Winslow and his lawyer’s claims. The commenters were far, far more indignant than the author was. But still, they jumped the gun on it by judging it to be…

He clearly has a “type”, but it’s not hard to imagine the cold, predatory thinking that might go into this too: older women are weaker and more vulnerable, so why not target them?

What do you mean by “narc”?

It’s an honest expression of the author’s thoughts and feelings, and the day makes them rise to the surface. If you have a good relationship with your father, shouldn’t this make you all the more grateful for it?

It’s the perfect time for it, and no one is making you read it.

I lose my temper and vent on Internet strangers too much as it is. I’m trying to be a little more measured.

Can you give a few examples of that?

I get it. Your post is ironic. You’re only pretending not to have actually read the article.

The article specifically states that these “hot” states have laws permitting exemptions for non-medical reasons. The “clear” states have anti-vaxxers, but exemptions are only permissible for medical reasons. The article also mentions upticks in California in supposed medical exemptions, implying that anti-vaxxers…

After reading the literature, I admit that it was improper to administer the vaccine at that time. I’d go as far as to say that the staff was negligent.

Pretty simple: they hate “Big Pharma”. They have a blind spot for scientific evidence which they think supports that agenda. It’s pretty much an anti-corporation bias—the big businesses are ruining the world with global warming, so they also have to be doing it with vaccination and GMOs. It’s infuriating for people…

The article did, in fact, mention that.

“THE US VACCINATES MORE THAN ANY OTHER FIRST WORLD COUNTRY IN THE WORLD!”

Source that, please.

“$$$ = Big Pharma.”

That’s bias, not evidence.

Yep, anti-vax is bipartisan dumbfuckery. On the right, there are religious objections and general “gubmint can’t tell me what to do” dipshits. On the left, there is some of that anti-establishment bullshit coupled with a TON of anti-corporation hysteria and acceptance of pseudoscience. Big businesses make vaccines,…

Why did you say no?