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"Merchants of Death." The Big Three lobby groups highlighted by this 2006 dark comedy, where Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms vie for the most deadly lobbying interest. I don't think it's an accident that Big Pharma was left out of the Merchants of Death club. Given that the body count it's responsible for exceeds the entire Big Three - combined.

Ban Smoking!

Ban Guns!

Ban Alcohol!

Mandate Big Pharma!

Not an accident.

"Merchants of Death"

Thank You for Smoking

https://youtu.be/ss0jLHvMO20

Making a 'Smoking' Satire of the Lobbying Industry

NPR, March 17, 2006

https://www.npr.org/2006/03/17/5283837/making-a-smoking-satire-of-the-lobbying-industry

The MOD Squad in “Thank You For Smoking”

Sitepoint, May 7, 2006

https://www.sitepoint.com/the-mod-squad-in-thank-you-for-smoking/

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And you call yourself Freedom Fox!

What, freedom for you, but bans and mandates for all others? Puh-leese.

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LOLOL! You just spun yourself up for no good reason, looking for a fight where there is none. Just because I shared the movie clip and backstory doesn't mean I agree with the politics of it. I'm all about individual choice. You missed the sarcasm font.

As for Big Pharma, they are evil incarnate. They murder, torture and kill hundreds of millions every single year. Alcohol, tobacco and firearms are penny-ante pikers in merchandising death compared to Pharma.

Do you know how many Pharma poisons are forced into a single child's arm? Seventy-two (72). Just to go to school in many parts of the country. Forced into babies!!! Not just the DeathJab/ClotShot! Into the arms of our military, mandated. Into the arms of health care workers, mandated. Not just the DeathJab/ClotShot!

Nobody *needs* a single one of their poisons. Not one. Nature provides all we need. Herbalists, homeopaths, ayurvedics, naturopaths, all of the natural holistic healers do better healing than allopaths and their Pharma prescription pads. But they've indoctrinated so many people - like you - to believe they need pharma poisons.

I'm for so much radical freedom that you'll expose yourself as a tyrant yourself in your response when I say that true freedom means freedom from manipulation, coercion and duress to make decisions about your health. That means television and movie programming, school education, all the sources you took in to believe Pharma poisons save lives has been coercive programming. Edward Bernays, Harold Laswell, Joseph Goebbels Mad Men psychological manipulation advertising campaigns, funding for series like ER, MASH, General Hospital, et al that normalize death medicine as the only health option, demonized natural healers as "quacks." Are you free when everything you believe was placed there by those you really control you and your thoughts, making you roll up your sleeve for injections of poisons or popping poison pills?

That's not freedom. That's Rape of the Mind. If you believe in Big Pharma/Allopathy your mind has been RAPED! As bad or worse than that mandate about one poison jab you care about. Because it's insidious, it's systemic, it's done against your will because you're not even awake and aware of it to assert your will. At lease people know the dangers of alcohol, tobacco and firearms. And choose to use them or not of their own free will. Only politicians get in their way. The same ones who mandate pharma poisons.

The rape of the mind; the psychology of thought control, menticide, and brainwashing

1953

https://archive.org/details/rapeofmindpsycho0000meer

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I don’t drink or smoke, but I do believe in an individual’s right to do those things if they want. Even though I find smoking to be disgusting. Even though I grew up raised by alcohol abusers. And I am personally a proud gun user, so don’t try taking those away, either.

Big Pharm certainly has some issues that should be addressed, but like your other three issues, no one is forcing their products on you. Except for the COVID vax, and I and millions of others avoided it. It’s your perfect right never to take any meds or Pharma pills if you don’t want them. Others need some of them.

But your right to do or not do does not give you the right to mandate what I should or shouldn’t do, much less what I can or can do. It’s my choice.

Ban tyrants.

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Brilliant reporting!

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No job offers yet! haha

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Dang! Unbelievable. There’s such a dearth of good, honest journalism out there. But The Powers That Be are insulated in their bubbles.

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