Johnson & Johnson is openly planning to murder 6 million people over the next four years (good post by well-meaning liberal John Green)

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.

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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.
- well the holocaust killed 11 million but yeah
  
  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..
  
  If you include Russian casualties on the front, it's closer to 40 million deliberately slaughtered people.
  
  : "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!"
  
  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.
- 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
  
  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.

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