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  • Neptium@lemmygrad.ml
    17·
    1 year ago

    I hate medical insurance companies and the MIC (medical industrial complex) consisting of all the shitty Western pharmaceutical companies (GSK, Roche, J&J, Bayer, etc).

    Fuck you all.

    I wonder how many have died because of their “intellectual property” and “risk-taking”.

    Edit: used wrong word, pharmacology instead of pharmaceutical. Annoyed me too much so had to change it.

    • knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml
      13·
      1 year ago

      I work in a small niche industry which makes some of the machines these horrible conglomerates make their drugs on. The sales people are always so excited about large scale systemic health issues, because it means the get to sell more. Just the other month the sales manager complained that order volume in Brazil has gone down since Lula got elected, and nobody can possibly know what China will do in terms of foreign business. It’s so sad how out of touch with reality most people are, but that’s ultimately a choice people make (consciously or not) based on their material conditions and their private material interests.

    • Neptium@lemmygrad.ml
      11·
      1 year ago

      Also of course another Malaysian Chinese guy that blew up in anglosphere internet (Nigel Ng) has to lean onto anti-Chinese sentiment (social credit, cancelled, Taiwan province etc) meme to woo over Western simpletons.

      I read a comment months ago about how “overseas Chinese” are meticulously planning for the downfall of socialist China and you know what this only gives credence to that.

      Obviously I don’t believe that wholeheartedly but ffs these people make it too easy to think that way.

      I mean comedians are petty bourgeois anyways so what am I really expecting.