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Re:How the Sacklers shifted $10.8B of an opioid fortune buil... by anigbrowl on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @02:23PM (#24285532)
That's a nice sentiment, but it's built on the idea that one should just ignore the crazies and they'll automatically be marginalized. It doesn't address the situation where one big group decides to weaponize its finge contingent, or where an angry fringe forces itself into what was intended to be a less heated conversations, as in this recent example: https://www.npr.org/2020/08/25/905785548/unmasked-protesters...

They repeated the stunt approximately yesterday but one of the organizers was arrested this time; he handcuffed himself to a chair but didn't consider that it was on wheels, so they just rolled him out of the building. https://www.npr.org/2020/08/25/906046911/ammon-bundy-is-arre...

Re:How the Sacklers shifted $10.8B of an opioid fortune buil... by ashtonkem on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @03:02PM (#24285977)
It’s only tangentially related to the point you’re making, but I think it’s hilarious the difference between how tough Bundy thought he was being, and the sad image of him being wheeled out of the legislature on the cheapest office chair Office Depot has to offer. He looks like a child that’s just realizing that holding his breath might not be an effective way to get what it wants.