every time i see or read a depiction of steven grant rogers as the simple cleanslicked embodiment of Truth! Justice! and the American Way! i just. get so tired. and offended. how dare you
yeah
like on the outside, steven grant rogers is upsettingly beautiful and… smooth… and gives everyone sweaty thoughts about touching the american flag
but inside, steven grant rogers is like… a wobbly shopping cart filled with rage and gallows humor and weird cats with chewed-up ears. he is that one locked wheel that won’t unstick no matter how hard you try to shove it forward, squealing, through the aisle. that wheel is immovable and furious for Justice Reasons. if it had to, if lives were at stake, that whole shopping cart would fight a wild bear or a helicopter or the devil himself. that cart would kick its own ass
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.
Thank you for explaining it
Reblogging for EXPLANATION
It’s like how “right to work” sounds friendly to workers when in reality it’s the opposite. Republicans love this game.
First of all, “…they were surrounded on all sides by echoes and images of themselves, in a world where image and object had not yet torn themselves apart” is one of the most poetic phrasings I’ve ever heard.
Did a woman say something to call out the problematic actions of a man? Do you want to comment with your opinions about the systematic oppression of women in society? Do you want to come to the defense of nice guys in this moment? Is now a really good time to point out how men are wonderful and aren’t all jerks? Want to show off your armor like the white Knight you are?
With news that Facebook shows all your friends’ data to companies
when you interact with their Facebook apps, many people are interested
in figuring out how to turn that setting off in their Facebook
dashboards.
This is needlessly complex, because of course it is.
EFF’s Gennie Gebhart has written up a howto explaining, step-by-step,
how to undo this setting that a) shouldn’t exist and b) shouldn’t be on
by default and c) should be one click to turn off.
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