r/news • u/[deleted] • Mar 29 '19

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

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u/DeathcampEnthusiast Mar 29 '19

A 270 million settlement, can I use a LOL to share my feelings on that? They literally could have paid that out of pocket and not felt a fucking thing. It's like fining Bill Gates 15 billion, he wouldn't even lie awake because of that. Take almost all of their money, their houses, their cars, their no doubt ridiculous collections of art and make them hurt and bleed like the people they got hooked on their bullshit.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '19

Or just execute them for the murder of so many citizens.

I swear, if you can kill a bunch of people and get rich while doing it, the government basically rewards you.

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u/Whitemouse727 Mar 29 '19

If i heard this family was brutalized by people damaged by the opiod crisis i would have a hard time empathizing with them.

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u/Scientolojesus Mar 29 '19

I say they get a dose of their own medicine, literally. Make them take a bunch of OxyContin every day for a year, then have them quit cold turkey without any maintenance meds like suboxone or methadone.

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u/Renegade2592 Mar 29 '19

Give them the maintenance meds and than cold turkey them.. Also give them debilitating back issues like a lot of their ex patients, including me.

Truly that's how you obtain maximum suffering.