Barely Contained Rage: An Open Letter to Johnson & Johnson
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Tell Johnson and Johnson that evergreening their patent on bedaquiline, which will deny millions of people access to live-saving treatment, is a violation of...

tl;dw: Johnson and Johnson is using a legal loophole to extend a patent on a life-saving drug, preventing generics from being made. Scientists estimate this will lead to 6 million more people dying of tuberculosis over the next four years, because they cannot afford the high-priced name-brand drug.

  • ssjmarx [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Scientists estimate this will lead to 6 million more people dying of tuberculosis over the next four years

    That's literally an entire Holocaust. It's not like I'm surprised but god damn the only difference between the 20th century fascists and modern western countries is that we have the thinnest veneer of deniability between us and the murders.

      • ssjmarx [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        True 6mil was just Jewish victims, and even 11mil leaves out the millions killed in the "holocaust of bullets" carried out by the German Army on the eastern front..

        • rubpoll [she/her]
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          3 years ago

          If you include Russian casualties on the front, it's closer to 40 million deliberately slaughtered people.

          • GarfieldYaoi [he/him]Banned
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            3 years ago

            wojak-nooo: "But that's IMPOSSIBLE!!! 40 million in 12 years!? But internet told me fascism is wholesome chungus and the Soviets were the bad guys for killing nazis!"

            • Dr_Gabriel_Aby [none/use name]
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              3 years ago

              In the Soviet Union, if you enabled and helped the Nazis kill 50 million people, you got in trouble and sent to prison! Anne Applebaum told me all about it.

    • Tachanka [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      That's literally an entire Holocaust. It's not like I'm surprised but god damn the only difference between the 20th century fascists and modern western countries is that we have the thinnest veneer of deniability between us and the murders.

      Engels figured out this little trick in 1845

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      • ComradeLove [he/him, comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        Reminded that Michael Moore made this argument in some book, how both crack cocaine and the automobile companies destroyed lives in Detroit, but only one was illegal. He used to be pretty left.