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HHH_is_the_game posted...

It's true there are atrocities being committed and Israel's hands are not by any means clean but there also seems to be some propaganda and some "those evil Jews" attitudes that completely ignore the context of the reality that Israel lives in and the enemy they are facing. You wont see many accuse USA of being genocidal after 9/11 and saying USA must have their weapons taken away and be dismantled. And Israel is under much greater threat than we were at that time

If you demilitirize Israel it will be destroyed, there will be no more Jewish state, and most of the people who live there will be killed and we'll be at real threat of a legitimate genocide.

Friend, you are still under the impression that Israel wasn't committing the genocide before October 7th and is using the Hamas attack to justify even more extermination. America wasn't saying "there are no Arab nations" and keeping the entire Arab world in an open-air prison pre-9/11. 9/11 is not comparable to Israel-Palestine. This is more like if a terror cell was fighting Putin or the Nazis. Terrorism vs genocidal fascism is not a fight with good sides.

SaikyoStyle posted...

Presumably theres a Nazi mouthwash brand for them to switch over to?

This reminds me that I learned there is the "first-ever conservative" wireless provider, because these people are totally anti-snowflakes that hate politics being in everything.

Dat_Cracka_Jax posted...

If the pharmacy contacts a network with a PBM, then they fill the prescriptions for the members in that network and are reimbursed at the rate the pharmacy has contacted with the PBM.
What did I miss?

And if the reimbursement rate is "lol get all the way fucked" then pharmacies can absolutely not fill the prescription. Again, it is suggested that they lie and say the drug is not available in those situations.

Dat_Cracka_Jax posted...

Do you have this issue more with brand or generic drugs?

Sometimes brands. Certain generic C2s seem to be the bulk of the problem. The weird artificial scarcity is definitely a factor in that. It's like "aw shucks only the manufacturers that sell it at 3 times the price of their competitors are available!"

Agent_Stroud posted...

Sorry to hear that, TC. Ive been feeling the pinch as of late with my prescriptions costing a lot more than usual and my insurance doesnt want to pay as much for the co-pay, but at least Ive still been able to get my medications filled even if Im paying an arm and a leg for them at times.

I cant imagine what Id do if I couldnt get them filled since I need them to keep the more troublesome aspects of my high functioning autism in check so Im able to function normally.

Hopefully things will get better for all our sakes since this is worrisome to say the least.

Most people have high-deductible plans, so the patient is on the hook, and then the pharmacy could also get such little reimbursement that they lose money. Healthcare exists in America in 2023 to benefit neither the patient nor the healthcare providers. It's just a business flowing obscene amounts of money to drug companies and insurances.

I'm very sorry to hear you're feeling the crunch.

Dat_Cracka_Jax posted...

You actually do if you are contracted to do so. I know that there are prescriptions that the pharmacy does make money on and ones that they lose money on. You don't get to cherry pick the ones you like to fill. I hope the member complains and the pharmacy gets slapped legally.

Whatever you say, bro. Not our fault the federal government is too deep in the pockets of insurance companies and Big Pharma to stop them from fucking up healthcare more and more. We're not sacrificing the many to help the few.

Major chains, that don't need the money, get multiple times more reimbursement per fill. And like I said, pharmacies aren't ordered to sell at a massive loss. They are told to lie and say the drugs are not available. I'm gonna challenge your notion that independent pharmacies are legally required to lose money until they die. We can manage a certain amount of loss and offset it, but not hundreds of dollars per fill. That's not tenable

StealThisSheen posted...

Well, I'd never want to go to your pharmacy, then.

Not our fault the powers-that-be want to give the big guys three course meals, while forcing the little guys to fight over table scraps and shaming them for thinking they are owed more. And companies like CVS and Walgreens will still run their companies as lean as possible (by cutting corners and payroll) to maximize even more profits. They're trying to strong arm everyone else out of business to force patients to use their bullshit pharmacies, where you can get your prescriptions filled by a skeleton crew that's stressed out of its mind and is forced to upsell you on nonsense.

We're as much victims of the system as the patient.

JuanCarlos1 posted...

Its not completely unfounded at this point.

Hasn't Netanyahu even expressed admiration for Hitler?

It's insane, like if a black person said the Confederacy had the right idea.

Who was the boss?

Could Clarissa really explain it all?

Dat_Cracka_Jax posted...

You don't get to refuse a prescription just because you lose money on it. If you are contracted with the PBM and in network, you fill the claim.

StealThisSheen posted...

Wait, a pharmacy can refuse to fill a prescription just to save money?

We don't have an obligation to go out of business by filling prescriptions that lose tons of money. We're not some multibillion dollar chain. We see the profit (positive or negative) of every fill in real time. We shop for the best deals on drug purchases every day and constantly modify inventory points to minimize the amount of drugs sitting idle on our shelves. We don't have the power to negotiate individually with PBMs. In fact, the coalition we are part of has completely cut off from one of the major PBMs because independent pharmacies aren't going to keep the lights on by hemorrhaging money. When patients ask their insurance company why independents are no longer in network, that company basically tells them that those pharmacies were given an offer and refused to cooperate.

Also, I have literally heard about PBMs suggesting pharmacies blame backorders if they can't afford to fill a drug at loss.

HHH_is_the_game posted...

Its overly incisive and possibly offensive language when they are facing a genocidal group that unleashed a horrible terrorist attack upon them and wants to wipe them from the face of the Earth.

If you ignore the fact that Netanyahu feels the same way about Palestinians as Hamas does Jews, sure. And if you also ignore the brutal, systematic mistreatment of Gaza in the years preceding the terrorist attack. You can definitely say both sides have genocide on their mind, and the Israeli government has definitely been trying to carry it out.

Again, every Palestinian death is publicly counted as a terrorist death by the IDF. And just this year there was that speech where it was said There is no such thing as a Palestinian nation. There is no Palestinian history."

But Biden squints, so he's clearly more demented

Not even the Cowboys could lose to Danny DeVito at QB

Who can it BE now?

Worry, TC. It's very good.

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lderivedx posted...

I don't think I've ever had anyone get mad at me for not being a Republican or Democrat. Have definitely had people get mad for refusing to play the "obligated to vote for the lesser of two evils" game, though.

There are only two realistic choices in 2024 and one has been promising fascism and genocide since it lost the last time.

How many millions of people are you okay sacrificing to prove your point that neither side is good? Clearly you have nothing to lose by the results of the next election, so we can safely disregard your opinion

Solid_Snake07 posted...

Are you under the impression that the way war works is by killing an equal amount of people and then calling it square?

This is sure a waste of bandwidth of a post.

Reminder that Israel counts every single Palestinian death as a "terrorist killed"

Being a Republican is a personal attack on every fiber of my being

It really sucks, man. PBMs would gladly squeeze independent pharmacies out of the industry entirely if they got their way. Sometimes I worry if I'll have a job in 10-20 years.

There is no such thing as choice in American healthcare. You get whatever insurance your job provides, go to the doctors your insurance company covers, take the medications your insurance says you're allowed to take, and fill those prescriptions where they say you can.

yemmy posted...

Also tfw when you can not get modded for saying all conservatives need to be put in camps but get modded for misgendering a mass shooter

Lmfao what a joke site

Why would you start misgendering as soon as a trans person does something bad? Do you also break out the racial slurs when a black person kills someone? Because they vacated their right to respect? Normal, good people don't do that. I've never seen anyone misgender Jeffrey Dahmer or start saying disparaging things about men when discussing him. What is it about a trans killer that makes it okay for the mask to slip?

How many dozens of videos will QuarterPounder make about Brie and The Marvels?

Let's cut all their salaries down to $1 and see whqat the gop thinks about that

Calamity316 posted...

can you give a single example of marvel demonizing hardcore fans

They race swapped someone besides Nick Fury or something

There's definitely something wrong with people like this

This site used to not let you post bad words in the good ol days, yet people get suspended for being openly racist, sexist, transphobic, bigoted and they lose their shit, lamenting how this once free speech utopia is now taking away their freedoms.

I once got suspended many years back for allegedly admitting to being a newborn. I just laughed and got over it.

punkfanalways posted...

Well thats a strawman if ever I saw one. Wdf is saying that? Not the guy you responded to.

I'm just ranting. I'm know there are Israel shills reading my posts, who have justified the IDF's actions.

And then we have people like @FlyEaglesFly24 , who has said people are lying if they say they would care what happens to innocent Palestinians if it was their family under attack. It's literally post-9/11 fear and hatemongering all over again.

Dark_Arbron posted...

Bullshit. You have repeatedly inferred that you think Hamas is the only party with agency here and that Israel's indiscriminate harassment and murder of civilians (which it's been doing for seven and a half decades) is something they are inevitably forced to do. That the apartheid treatment of Palestinian people will magically end if Hamas surrenders. You and other shills have gone on record saying exactly that.

Hamas deserves no sympathy. The Israeli government also deserves no sympathy.
Until you acknowledge both these facts I will not accept your claim to care about civilians.

I wish I'd kept a list of the people here who literally said Israel has zero responsibility for anything that happens post October 7th.

FlyEaglesFly24 posted...

Dont worry about it. Ive been putting up with that nonsense since the whole thing began. For some strange reason on the board the statements Israel has the right to defend itself and I dont care what happens to Palestinians mean the same thing. And you didnt even go that far, and they still jumped down your throat.

You don't really care what happens to Palestinians. You think it's a shame what is going on, but at the end of the day, you believe "Israel has a right to defend itself"

whitelytning posted...

It isnt about where bad people live.

I mean, no shit terrorists are going to hide amongst populated areas. And you know what? Calling their bluff and bombing right through the civilians honestly makes the "defenders" just as bad. It's like opening fire on a crowded bank because the robbers are deliberately using it as cover. And it's even worse since Israel never cared about Palestinians before the recent attacks. They love having an excuse to not even pretend to worry about civilian casualties. I mean, look how they count every single dead Palestinian as a "terrorist killed".

Keep forking!

Sony sometimes wins baby

whitelytning posted...

No. Thats just what the term actually means. It doesnt mean they are literally strapping kids to themselves. It means they are launching military operations against Israel from civilian areas or centers like schools and residential communities. There have been verified reports of this activity.

And that is a shoddy justification for killing innocent people. There are billions of people on earth. Of course most of the bad people will be living near other people.

Fandom is the worst and some of the biggest idiots on CE could probably run things more competently.

AltAccount3 posted...

The "human shield" narrative keeps getting tossed around constantly but I have yet to see anything from verified sources showing or describing Hamas actually using babies as human shields. Only random people getting killed without Hamas even being in the area.

The IDF says there are 30,000 Hamas in Gaza. There are roughly 2.3M people in total. That's 1.3% of the population who are Hamas. Gaza is 140.9 sq mi in size, or 365 sq km. Meaning there are at least 213 Hamas members per square mile/82 per square kilometer at any given moment throughout the entirety of Gaza.

All that laid out means actually hitting ANY Hamas member per sq mi/km is actually pretty damn unlikely, compared to a citizen.

I'm pretty sure idiots are just saying that Hamas existing near civilians is "human shields". Like, apparently the US military could start indiscriminately bombing New York City if they learned that terrorists are somewhere in it. And all those dead innocent people would be 100% the fault of the terrorists for not hiding in "Terrorist Central" in some remote forest or desert.

TC the kind of person to call a black criminal the n-word

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But that's okay because Duncan said the human race will continue to exist whether or not we all die at work.

The man who used to spend every waking minute afraid of nuclear holocaust is suddenly too cool for school.

Lorenzo_2003 posted...

Youre missing the point, although Im not sure if its intentionally or otherwise.

Nobody wants to talk about this shooters background and motivations. Why is that exactly?

And you want to blast to the heavens because "See? See? The liberal woke agenda is just as toxic and dangerous!!!"

Amazon taking over healthcare is not the change we're looking for.

Pretty much never true

Why doesn't Congress just go run for office in Israel if they love it so much? They can lick Netanyahu's feet all day long.

GOP: "Leave abortion up to the states"

Also GOP: "The pro-murder Democrats are manipulating people into supporting abortion. We'll fix their asses when Trump is in office!"

Ricemills posted...

Wtf. Did they inject the whole pen? And jt didn't kill them?

My doctor keep giving me insulin pens despite my blood sugar been normal for a year, now i got like 50 of them on the fridge and half of them expired in 2024 >_>

No, they just dialed their dose, injected once, and threw the rest of the pen out

"You guys aren't giving me enough insulin pens. I run out in less than 2 weeks."

*throws out each pen after single use*

Glaive >

We're gonna need even more taxes to fund my agenda.

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As a radical woke lib, I feel so owned right now. LMAO

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lmao Youngkin got owned

So Harry is now in even worse shape than he was before the symbiote ?

And Norman blames the Spider-Men for some reason?

Goblin Time , baby!