Naw, it was the War on Drugs. There isn’t enough money in the entire world to make reparations for what the US government did to its own people.

All in order to keep minorities down. One in three people have lost someone to overdose. 99% were preventable with harm reduction.

Birds of a feather fuck children together?

Another!

I work with people in recovery, I am acutely aware that people choose to do drugs. If you speak with a someone who has a substance use disorder they will often explain it is their right to do what they want with their body.

I am not hurting anyone is something they will typically say. I have also found quite a few people on Lemmy that share this sentiment as well. Obviously this is a complex topic.

To answer you, no I do not blame everyone else. I do recognize that environment, opportunity, and healthcare play a huge role in this equation.

If you have not had the chance, look up the Rat Park Experiment. I think it highlights the concept that it is disconnection and a lack of opportunity that causes most addiction.

https://youtube.com/shorts/XVFGEDs95MI

https://www.usersnews.com.au/home/2017/4/10/the-view-from-rat-park

Yes, I think that a lot of drug use comes from socioeconomic pressure. There is also a lot we can do with harm reduction besides just trying to decrease the supply.

Every day, missed the space.

For sure the US is horrible with its healthcare and their chemical companies that have polluted the whole world. We can agree on that.

But when it comes to drugs killing people from overdoses, which is what the admin was arguing, it is fentanyl. This comes from China. Note I said we should be shutting these down not blowing them up.

I know people personally that have died from fentanyl, so I am not trying to mince words here. This is also just harm reduction because you can’t really stop this. If China agrees to crack down what is to say another country won’t pick up the slack.

This points to the need for cooperation not competition. The US promoting this pigheaded, imperialistic, and bombastic foreign policy is bad for everyone.

This has to be the most ridiculous shows of power and disproportionate responses ever. Cocaine is not the drug causing all the problems even.

Hello! The 80’s called and wants their drug war back.

Hey kids, you remember the War on Minorit…err I mean Drugs. Don’t worry, we got the Department of War to take care of that now riiiight!?

If every country invested in the health and education of their people instead of their military there would be no need for war to begin with.

Does anyone realize how much cocaine gets imported into the US everyday?

This administration has done exactly zero to stymie it. Blowing up a few random boats of accused drug dealers amounts to murder and has to be the biggest clown shows ever.

What is even worse is cocaine isn’t the drug killing Americans. If you were really trying to fix things you would be shutting down chemical plants in China.

Not at all. The only group I have ever seen that is as toxic as .ML was The Donald on Reddit. The Mods and users are literal propaganda machines and they all have alts and abuse the shit out of everyone who doesn’t boot lick authoritarians.

I honestly believe they are no different than the Alt-right. Maybe it is one of those horse shoe things, but more likely they are just disingenuous conservatives.

Oh look, someone else to block.

Your probably right.

Tankies are the worst of the worst. They ban people for nonsense, brigade people with alts, and are devoid of candor. I have talked with hundreds of people who have been mistreated and abused by them including myself.

What I say here has no bearing on anything and I am not stopping anyone from doing anything. I have no power, I am not a mod, and I don’t have alts.

I was literally having a fun fantasy in the face of someone that is without a doubt disingenuous. It is taking it to a higher place beyond what is going on. Absurdity meets absurdity. I get you don’t get it and that is okay.

"Thanks for joining us for the Militant Lemmy 2025 awards show! It is going to be a great year for autocrats boys and girls. A special thanks to all our disenfranchised westerners, remember without your misguided support tyrants everywhere might feel unwelcome.

For our first award this year we are celebrating the most hypocritical poster. We are not just talking about any old conservative hypocrite here, we are talking about people so hypocritical they don’t even remember what they actually agreed or disagreed with to begin with. People who are so contradictory they make doublethink seem like a fun meditative practice.

Alright, the votes are in. This is going to be a wild one folks! This years winner is none other than DIVA!!!"

See, this proves even if you are a lonely pusher of shitty propaganda you to can get recognized for your efforts. Congratulations, you really do deserve it.

Oh gawd that is rich, do authoritarians pay you for these sick memes!?

This guy trying to rain on our human flavored hot dog parade!

Last time I checked ground beef was $6 a pound. It is now a luxury I no longer buy.

So instead of funding USAID for 40 billion, helping hundreds of countries and tens of millions of people we take all that money to give to Trump’s loser fascist friends who squander it all.

We cut to save money to just blow it later on is not what his bullshit mandate was. In fact, he really hasn’t followed any of his supposed mandates with over 90% of deportees not violent offenders.

It was all one big bogus lie.

With the majority of drugs coming from China and often distributed through Mexico, trying to pin all this drug dealing on South America seems like a dumb move. I guess that is all they got because the real reason of regime change (aka toppling more countries) is not very palatable.