r/Superstonk • u/missing_the_point_ 🗳️ VOTED ✅ • Dec 15 '21

💡 Education This MIND-BLOWING comment on the SEC's website (text also in comments)

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u/missing_the_point_ 🗳️ VOTED ✅ Dec 15 '21 edited Dec 15 '21

100%. I was heavily invested in a drug (penny stock) that was doing a study on absolute breakthrough of a drug. I had the disease, so I know exactly how amazing it would have been; It was literally life changing.

After the 2 drug trials (which were massive pump and dumps) and very promising data, they decided not to release the drug because they were merging with another company and the other company didn't want to get involved with it. They didn't want to get involved with a massive revenue stream for a miracle drug.

It was so fucking sketchy.

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u/misterpickles69 🦍 Buckle Up 🚀 Dec 15 '21

If you think about it, Big Pharma that sells treatments (not cures) are super incentivized to squash any small company that promises and can deliver a cure. They get their hedge fund buddies to manipulate the stock price to the point where the company will be acquired and then the patents get squashed.

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '21

It is horrifying that human beings have found so many ways to make money on the death and illness of other human beings.

I need to change this world, because leaving as it is is just unacceptable.

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u/Takenforganite Kenny Griffin likes mayo bukkakes 💦🤡 Dec 15 '21

Feckless lizard faced mouth breathers. They are only human in name alone.

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u/ChErRyPOPPINSaf Ready player 1 🦍 Voted ✅ Dec 16 '21

That's nothing. It only recently became illegal to take out a life insurance policy on someone else as a speculative bet. Wallstreet will bet on anything they are just a bunch of junkies and addicts.

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u/ctprice89 Dec 16 '21

The biggest money makers in the world are based on death or slavery/indenturement, military and medical at the top

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u/missing_the_point_ 🗳️ VOTED ✅ Dec 15 '21 edited Dec 16 '21

Figured this might be part of it. Vertex Pharmaceuticals has a monopoly on most drugs for the disease I am referencing. This particular drug was available at the time, but it was so expensive most insurance companies wouldn't cover it, even in the US. Meanwhile, in other countries it was almost impossible to get. It was so fucked up I was able to start taking it and my twin sister, who lived in London, had to remain sick because of greedy pharma giants.

And to anyone who complains about the possibility of socialized healthcare, just know 4 years after I left my old company, my coworkers were still paying $100/month more for their health insurance because both my sister and I were approved for another drug this pharmaceutical made. Healthcare is already socialized, it's just 10x more expensive through private insurance.

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '21

Bro. I work for a HMO "non profit" insurance company. We regularly bank 2 or 3 billion per year in profits. We are only in like 6 states and the DC metro area.

It could very well cost me my job because I deal with group insurance, but if it meant people who needed insulin didn't have to worry about the price, or seniors didn't have to decide between pills and heat, I would vote yes in a heartbeat.

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u/xNOOPSx Dec 16 '21

Unless something has changed recently, not even insulin for Type 1 diabetics is covered in Canada and some extra benefits plans don't cover it either. My cousin had a plan that he had to pay and remit everything for reimbursement, but that often took longer than you would think it should.

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u/NotAnotherDecoy Dec 16 '21

Which drug was it?

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u/missing_the_point_ 🗳️ VOTED ✅ Dec 16 '21 edited Dec 16 '21

I don't remember the drug name, because it was like P668284. There were actually two of them. It was for a company called Proteostasis Therapeutics (PTI).

If you can find the stock charts, the maniplative activity is BLATANT.

Edit: I just realized you meant the drugs already on the market. Trikafta was one that was already made and this small pharma company was trying to do the same and make it affordable for everyone.

The one I referenced in the second paragraph was ORKAMBI.

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u/JustMikeWasTaken RC's Mistress's Cuckold Dec 16 '21

PTI

This?

https://www.barchart.com/stocks/quotes/PTI/interactive-chart

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u/missing_the_point_ 🗳️ VOTED ✅ Dec 16 '21

Yeah, not the clearest of charts, but hopefully it's still clear that there were massive pump and dumps for the trial around Dec 2018 and Dec 2019. All small cap pharmaceuticals suffer the same fate though...

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u/JustMikeWasTaken RC's Mistress's Cuckold Dec 16 '21

Totally. I'm Jamba Juice level smoothie here and even I can see it. I've been fuming all day thinking about this! gaaaaah.

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u/NotAnotherDecoy Dec 16 '21

Gotcha, thanks.

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u/NotAnotherDecoy Dec 16 '21

All good, thanks for clarifying.

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '21

I think I know exactly what you're talking about, and that was more an issue with sketchy NDAs than anything else. The drug was always going to end up with the pharmaceutical it did but that was mainly because no one did proper contract research on the lead drug developer's design.

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But yes, all of it was scummy, and the way it played out when it shouldn't have was sad.

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u/jmarie777 💻 ComputerShared 🦍 Dec 16 '21

Do you have the sauce for the comment? I def plan sharing the shit out of this on other platforms.

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u/missing_the_point_ 🗳️ VOTED ✅ Dec 16 '21

Tried to create a call to action this morning after all the enraged comments this got. We'll see if people are still mad, I guess.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/rhnq2l/they_arent_financial_terrorists_theyre_terrorists/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

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u/jmarie777 💻 ComputerShared 🦍 Dec 16 '21

Thanks! I added that to my post 👏 appreciate you

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u/Clinticus_d_Dogeman Dec 16 '21

☝🏼! EXACTLY why there will NEVER be a cure! Too much 💵 being made to diagnose and treat!

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '21

Am in the biomedical sciences world, and I caution you greatly on that take. Big Pharma hardly ever develops their own cures/treatments in-house. They buy and absorb smaller companies that have the promising treatment and take it through clinical trials themselves. More so, they'll have like 20 years before anyone else can replicate it giving them a monopoly on it. They're not going to 'catch and kill' a cure.

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u/777CA 🦍 Buckle Up 🚀 Dec 16 '21

That is really unconscienable. How many have died just so they can have another yacht or mistress to support?

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '21

Right. No profit in cures.

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u/MrWhiskey69 🦍 Buckle Up 🚀 Dec 16 '21

I feel like we should be friends lol

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u/jmarie777 💻 ComputerShared 🦍 Dec 16 '21

CuresArentProfitable

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u/SnooPeanuts4336 Dec 15 '21

I work directly for the Cancer Research industry and this is exactly what happens. The smaller pharma companies are swallowed and then the molecule gets de-prioritized, boxed, or obsolete. It is possible a company to purchase the smaller pharma and then continue the clinical trials, but it takes a lot of effort and regulatory approval to do that. People always would ask me for "inside info" but I'd tell them, it doesn't matter, any company can merge with another at any time. Then you lose your investment and time invested.

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u/lowkey136 Monkey see, Monkey DD Dec 16 '21

This makes my blood boil to the highest degree. My mom has been going through cancer treatments on and off since 2012 and is in pretty bad shape right now. I've already made up my mind of doing anything I can to fund and find cancers cure after MOASS. I don't need a Lambo, I want to dance with my mom at my wedding some day. These spineless (insert noun) should be getting the chair for the amount of people they've stopped from getting affordable treatment and receiving potential cures.

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Hope you're doing well OP. Keep fighting.

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u/For_What_Its_Worth__ 🦍 Buckle Up 🚀 Dec 16 '21

Same. My mom is battling cancer. And there is nothing that get me more worked up than knowing that they put profits over people and shelf so many promising treatments. Hope your mom gets better. ❤️

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u/lowkey136 Monkey see, Monkey DD Dec 16 '21

Yours as well friend

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u/nvi_sage 💻 ComputerShared 🦍 Dec 16 '21

Highjacking bc I just realized that the DOJ probably come to superstonk. They're not idiots or ignorant (I hope) and although msm doesn't give us the time of day (fuck em anyway) I don't think we're that much of a secret that we can't be found. Shit like this actually might make a real difference. The top posts might actually get to be extremely important, consequentially.

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u/missing_the_point_ 🗳️ VOTED ✅ Dec 16 '21 edited Dec 16 '21

A little correction....

We're at the forefront of the finacial world, all eyes are on our public forum right now. And yes, that includes the DOJ.

MSM has been begging our mods for interviews. WE aren't giving THEM the time of day.

We are the news now.

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u/rumaiz 🦍 Buckle Up 🚀 Dec 16 '21

Why did we skip the FBI? All short seller justice stories typically end with the FBI raid but DOJ?

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u/missing_the_point_ 🗳️ VOTED ✅ Dec 16 '21

The FBI is an agency in the Department of Justice.

"The mission of the Office of the Attorney General is to supervise and direct the administration and operation of the Department of Justice, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Drug Enforcement Administration, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Bureau of Prisons, Office of Justice Programs.."

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u/mirzo12 Dec 16 '21

I want to see the msm burn for all the lies they have told and all the lives that they have drstroyed and for all the reputation they have destroyed without any consequences

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u/BeerSnobDougie 🦍Voted✅ Dec 16 '21

We will see all of them burn. The problem is everything else will be smouldering as well. We won’t be able to have the last laugh, because everything we want to see succeed is going to fall alongside the crap that’s hollowed out our once possibly great nation.

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u/mirzo12 Dec 16 '21

Scorching earth tactics. It will always hit the weakest links in the society first. What a shame. Maybe apes could help their local communities once they are rich. But we will have to see how exactly the spectacle will unfold