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the problem I have with star wars being like “the force must be in balance” is that the movies don’t seem? to offer much of an argument for the dark side? like ethically? It’s not even a thing of like serving yourself versus serving others, it’s like “there must always be balance in the force. you know. you gotta have your monks and the guys who blow up whole planets. an even 50/50 split.”

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Okay. This seems pretty insane if you don’t know what the existing state of terminally ill patients’ options is. So let’s go over that.

Terminally ill patients can sign up to be part of pre FDA approval trials for treatments which might potentially cure them. As these treatments are experimental, untested, not guaranteed to get results, and intended to provide profit to the medical provider in the long run, patients cannot be charged for these experimental treatments. As it should be. It’d be pretty unethical to get people to pay you to be your guinea pig for treatments which may not even help them.

This “right to try” law changes that. It makes it legal for terminally ill patients to be charged for experimental treatments. Furthermore, it removes FDA testing restrictions from the process. Currently a company which tries an ‘experimental’ treatment they know won’t work will get the hammer dropped on them by the FDA. But under this new process, medical providers would be legally allowed to provide ‘treatments’ they know won’t work, without oversight. This would legalize medical predation on terminally ill patients.

Labeling this bill ‘right to try’ makes it seem like terminally ill patients aren’t allowed to seek out experimental treatments right now. But they are! All this bill does is make a terminally ill patients more financially burdened and more vulnerable to predation.

That’s why the Democrats blocked it.

nyxserpent

Thank you for explaining it

jabberwockypie

Reblogging for EXPLANATION

bassiter

i have nothing but contempt for people who make jokes about rape or pedophilia out loud in essentially public space, and then, when called out on it, they make the excuse that “i’ve been assaulted/molested before” as if that makes it okay?????????

if you want to cope that way in private space, fine. but you really think that being a survivor yourself gives you the RIGHT to potentially trigger other people??? you think that whether or not you’re “justified” in making incredibly insensitive jokes actually makes a fucking difference as to whether or not they may seriously affect people around you???????

maybe hearing rape jokes as a rape survivor doesn’t make you particularly uncomfortable. fucking good for you. recognize that not everyone is as lucky, and not everyone can cope the same way! have some sympathy for people who are literally in the same boat as you, what the fuck!!!!!!

and you know what? fucking FRANKLY? i’d bet that something like half of those people are just fucking lying! i have a hard time believing that you could experience something like that and then proceed to clearly not give a shit about other survivors.

sistertaxon

i have a mouth

and i can scream :)

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imagine explaining this post to your grandmother

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i had a dream last night that i was a werewolf, but when i tried to use my claws they were still clipped down and all i could think was “damn my useless lesbian hands”

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why is the only #relatable media for people trying to navigate their 20s about rich self absorbed idiots who live in new york

quoms

guess who makes tv shows

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rey: (uses her lightsaber to slice a hole into her pbr, shotguns it, and smashes the can on against her forehead with the force)

luke:

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GUYS NO SPOILERS

troisenator

“I’ve seen this raw strength only once before… It didn’t scare me enough then. It does now!”

theheartoftheocean

“Jar Jar Binks is the true villain of the star wars saga” I say into the mic.

The crowd boos. I begin to walk off in shame, when a voice speaks and commands silence from the room.

“Sheesa right” they say. I look for the owner of the voice. There in the 5th row stands: Jar Jar Binks himself. He ignites his red lightsaber and kills us all.

pochowek

i love that one old timey 1910s trans dude who has a tiny wikipedia page for himself that he earned entirely due to him starting fights in bars and being the city’s hottest casanova

pochowek

i mightve remembered it wrong but it still feels like half of this page is “I’m A Man For Fucks Sake” and the other half is “That Motherfucker Is In Jail Again And Also Bit A Cop”