Worst of all is that this probably will end in a settlement where the US government gets to claim they were right in exchange for just a "small" donation to the US government
this post was submitted on 28 Oct 2025
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That's what colleges and networks were doing for a while, but since Kimmel stood up to them and won BIG, potential victims have been pushing back. Colleges are refusing money with strings, for one thing.
If J&J is smart (and it's not clear that they are, although they are well-established to be evil), they'll refuse to settle.
I hope they bankrupt the fucking state of Texas. Someone should sue him for wasting taxpayer money. Toss-up on whether I feel bad enough for progressive &/or sensible Texans to care how those two thoughts play-out.
Yeah like if Johnson and Johnson counter sued Texas for their bet worth saying they are intentionally trying to smear and kill their company. It would be like $450 billion.
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This is upsetting to me.
I’m barely grasping my spot on the AuADHD space, and now it’s been politicized into a single dimensional disease Republicans are using to virtue signal, like the whole vaccine “debate.”
And I’m in freaking Texas. It’s not as Republican as y’all think, especially in the big metros, but somehow we got Paxton in.
And apparently you guys forgot about previous frivolous lawsuits. Huge media conglomerates, and other institutions, settled with the Trump DoJ because they saw them for what they are: a shake down. “Pay us, or you will find political trouble.”
That’s what’s happening.
The merits do not matter. There is no “fight” here.
J&J is going to settle with Texas and maybe others so MAGA doesn’t persecute them outside the lawsuit.
I feel ya, and feel for ya. Good luck and help it together, looking forward to cleaning up with you all after this Cheeto colored fuck dies.
I mean, that’s not going to change anything. We’re in the misinformation era.
Even some Democrat parts of my family share weird shit they get from cable TV or Facebook or influencers or what have you. Frankly, a disturbing amount of Lemmy.world's front page is clickbait from literal tabloids, too discredited for Wikipedia to even cite, that mods do nothing about because information hygiene only matters when it’s against their ideology.
Meanwhile, my other internet communities have withered away or got swallowed into Discord black holes
Sorry for that mini rant, but as far as I’m concerned the world had shown me attention, not truth, is all that matters. It’s not getting better. And that’s just how things will be from now on.
Hence I don’t like ‘personal’ issues getting dragged into the US two party food fight because it blows out any nuance away, forever. Tylenol will forever be a autism meme no matter how much it’s disproved, especially in the face of small grains of truth.
Well.. your "rant" is both correct, & could be the kind of thing that we all need to work together on.
Keep in mind, we dumbass apes figured out RF technology to communicate across the entire globe much faster than we evolved past "strange ape from other city = bad".
Things are going to improve, it must for our species to survive. But there are no guarantees we will without sine communal effort.
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I got a feeling of recognising a potential Eco's ur-fascism element here, since probably the people that fuel these conspiracy theories have a different idea of what autism really is given their obsesion with this particular issue: someone that behaves not like us or incapable of blend in as we consider the standard society... also probably those pharmaceutical companies do not fund those politicians
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If this were about cars it would be like they are suing one car company for having windshields.
This is so fucking stupid. I wouldn’t root for JJ for some of the shit theyve done in the past but I hope they put all their weight into fucking up RFKjunior for being so fucking stupid.
OK! Good! FINALLY! Now that they're pulling this shit, big companies have reason to fight back. I was wondering when Proctor and Gamble and Johnson and Johnson would start campaigning to get these psychos out of office, and this should do it.
Don't count on companies fighting back. Something tells me that, the moment a company actually fights the govt, they'll magically remember that said companies are actually violating several state and federal regulations and laws
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this is funny as fuck. what's next, allergy medicine causing ADHD?
Shhhh, don't tell them. It will ruin our plan of infecting all kids with neurodivergence to increase Linux marketshare...
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Johnson & Johnson should just say "Our bad. We'll stop selling all our products in your state!"
Then sit back & watch the fallout
Your tax dollars at work, Americans
Luckily it's just Texan taxes in this case
So glad I left that shithole state. Tired of Ken "Securities Fraud" Paxton wasting my tax dollars on frivolous bullshit like this.
Holy fuck, facts don't care about your feelings has turned into let's litigate on my feelings
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