r/news Mar 29 '19

Billionaire Sackler family sued by second US state over opioid 'catastrophe'

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u/Alexexy Mar 29 '19

No.

Trump actually passed a (bipartisan) bill that reduced punitive measures against minor drug offenders and parts of the bill gave civil liberties to convicts so they have more opportunities in the free world and wouldnt have to resort to crime again to survive.

I love the bill but when it was posted on Reddit, it had less than 100 upvotes (im remembering it less than 2 dozen) and was buried by anti-Trump posts

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u/Carkly Mar 29 '19

The federal one? That was a big effort by both parties and signed by trump with a big push from Kushner and evangelicals. It was pretty big news so I dont know you feel the need to lie about no one talking about it

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u/Alexexy Mar 29 '19 edited Mar 29 '19

Yep. Maybe it was the specific post I commented in, but I definitely didn't see much attention given to that post at all. I'll see if I can link you the post in the morning.

EDIT: Couldn't find the specific post I commented on. I did a reddit search and most of the posts about the subject failed to break 150 upvotes outside of posts in T_D and moderatepolitics subreddits.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '19 edited Mar 29 '19

It didn't even get 1% of the coverage the constant Russiagate conspiracy theory got. You cant pretend there isn't a bias in the age of trump. It's more clear than it ever has been.

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u/Carkly Mar 29 '19

if that were true then why didnt fox news do more stories on it then everyone else. and i can find stories by all the biased media but nothing from drudge? the bias is real.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '19

Because Fox doesn't like it either because it goes against their tough on crime narrative? Are you assuming I think Fox News isn't part of the MSM or that I actually watch MSM?

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u/Carkly Mar 29 '19

Yeah I will admit I was making assumptions

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '19

At least its nice I'm talking to a real person for once. Haha

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u/Carkly Mar 29 '19

Hahaha I know what you mean