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.

  • nemmybun [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    Mercury: "Why did you decide to throw in the story of Anne Frank alongside these fictional young women whose lives are also cut short?"

    John Green: "Anne Frank was a pretty good example of a young person who ended up having the kind of heroic arc that Augustus wants—she was remembered and she left this mark that he thinks is valuable—but when he has to confront her death, he has to confront the reality that really she was robbed of the opportunity to live or die for something. She just died of illness like most people. And so I wanted him to go with a sort of expectation of her heroism and be sort of dashed."

    Still shit in full context.

    Nowhere does anyone say he is pro-Holocaust but you don't have to be pro-Holocaust to be an insensitive, anti-Semitic prick.

    Also your last point is exactly the same talking point that liberals use to defend Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, George Soros, etc. and I cannot take that seriously in a leftist space.