... I mean, we did? He did win the election, and Ford did pardon him...

The claim floating around isn't just that she cheated, but that the cheating tipped the primary. The first part is feasible, the second part is not. I wasn't excusing any cheating, only pointing out that the wild-eyed claims that Bernie would have won the primary and then dominated the election are utter nonsense designed to divide and conquer.

Is a straw man argument still a straw man argument if it's a gigantic run on, nonsense sentence?

RE China, they also have little need to disrupt the rest of the world in order to continue gaining power. Economically, militarily, and geo-politically, they've been gaining ground since before the right wing of the US started fighting with the rest of the US. Russia is the world power whose only chance for gaining power is the rest of us voluntarily losing it through insanity. They have a declining population, an aging military, and an economy that is almost entirely oil.

I'm aware you're half trolling but there are enough delusional slashdotters here who have trouble distinguishing reality from fiction coming from the government ruling party.

Trump was more disliked.

Hillary presented her vision in sane, reasoned tones and was utterly ignored by the media as it wasn't zany enough. Trump rallies were marked by threatening journalists and yelling at enemies.

Trump pandered exclusively to whites.

HRC got 3 million more votes than Trump. Factually, she lost because we don't live in a democracy.

She also colluded with the majority of the democratic primary voters.

OR we could have everyone keep time on their phones and have the phones automatically change the time by a few seconds every day!

This is probably my greatest idea ever.

Again, it's a reflection of how complex medicine is. Look at anti-vax movements, the public is way too dumb and uninformed to be treated as rational consumers, able to determine which treatments for illnesses are the best one.

This is not elitism BTW. I include myself in the group of "incompetent to treat self" group, I'm a biologist and know a thing or two about pharmaceuticals and health, but I wouldn't fuck around with picking out my own prescription drugs independent of an MD's recommendation.

It makes perfect sense that companies shouldn't be able to say "this is for treating X illness" without FDA approval. Sure, this means that prices are going to be higher for drugs, but we also spend less on hospitalizing people for incorrectly treated diseases they too over the counter remedies for.

But they're very resistant to inconvenience in transportation, which this would be. "I don't want to take the fucking bus! It'll take like 15 minutes longer!!! I'd rather belch out my carbon dioxide, spend 20 minutes finding parking, and potentially get in a fatal accident than put up with public transit!"

I would be surprised if UberFree doesn't end in literal bloodshed.

Yeah, I read that part. The ACA mandate and health insurance isn't what keeps market forces out of medicine, safety is. It was so idiotic it wasn't worth responding to.

No, not really, that was sarcasm. Ajit Pai is guilty of bribery on top of cult-like devotion to licking the boots of big corporations screwing over the country. Pai and the executive board of Sinclair and others should be jailed for this.

That's not at all what it's like. Renewable energy sourced from the neighboring state doesn't run up the carbon in the atmosphere.

Well, one, that's not how economics work. CA buying renewable energy and making it known well in advance that they're going to be increasing renewable energy doesn't mean all the renewable energy gets used up, it means people start building up renewable energy.

For another they're rapidly increasing their in-state renewable energy

It seems to boil down to "I DON'T LIKE CALIFORNIA AND WILL FIND A WAY TO MOCK IT!" Did California beat you up and take your lunch money in grade school?

I mean you acknowledge that Cali is part of the country. Then make fun of it for doing interstate commerce which is something that states do. Then point out it can't survive separate from the country (is there any part of the lower 48 that could?). All this from a statement that CA wants to be separate from the US based on... what exactly? I'm sure they dislike the government behavior right now as do most Americans, but I haven't seen any serious proposals to break away. Puerto Rico has a big independence movement and got shafted by the government during the hurricane. If anyone is going to break away, it's going to be PR, and they're not. So seriously, what are you on about?

What reality? What's the conspiracy theory here?

Lets not blame the patients. You go to a licensed, extensively trained doctor because medicine and pharmaceuticals are too complex to understand unless you get paid to do it full time. Not knowing that this is a brand name of something you can get dirt cheap is not being "clueless" in any meaningful sense of the word.

Or maybe there's just no sane manufacturer who sees a point in spending ANY money going through FDA approval when there's absolutely no need FOR the FDA approval on it.

Sure, but worth pointing out there's no patent here in this specific case. They bought the brand name and the exclusive rights to sell it as a prescription, not exclusive rights to sell it whatsoever.

It was discovered in 1873 at a public university.

I'm really flabbergasted at the trolls on this story. I mean for fucks sake, how do you imply capitalism was responsible for vitamins being "developed?"