We’re going to find out that some lunatic Christian dominionists in the CIA are the ones who actually laced all the recreational drugs with Fentanyl aren’t we
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well 90% of the fentanyl that crosses the border is brought by a US citizen
FFS...
60yrs ago, I was proud and counted myself lucky to be both an American and a Texan... Now, I'm just embarrassed to be either one of these.
How far both have fallen. I'm just devastated, chastened, sorry, and personally hurt I've lived long enough to witness the complete demise of both entities.
🤡 🖕 💩 💩
Texas has always been America's skid marked undies tho. Always. Ever since Americans moved there to specifically steal it from Mexico. This is why Republicans call Mexican immigrants "invaders", because they're worried Mexico is doing the same thing we did to them.
The Spanish "moved" to Texas to steal it from the natives though
Also true, but that's not the subject atm. Both can be true. The subject here is that Texas, and by extension, it's history, and Texas pride is bullshit, as are most of its people. Born into trash, continued trash, and proud of their trash existence. Fuck Texas.
What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim.
To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade, and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy—a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.
There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices, more shocking and bloody, than are the people of these United States, at this very hour.
-Frederick Douglas
We’ve never really been great, unless you were White and Male. But we have been good at selling the grift.
Good on you for seeing past the lie.
Well done the both of you
I'd argue that a nation which has slowly and tediously addressed those things is great.
I know this is Lemmy, and you can also only say good things about China and Russia, so don't feel obligated to find any good in the US.
Goodness no, I hate the Russian and Chinese government. They can all go take a long walk off a short pier.
And the fact that we can address these things, and occasionally change them (unlike China and Russia), is I suppose a bit encouraging.
But that’s small encouragement next to the mass slavery, targeted attacks, and disenfranchisement throughout our history, and so much of it by regular everyday citizens cheerfully doing terrible things to other regular everyday citizens, no (or very little) government involvement required.
And it’s still going today. The majority of people in this country refused to vote, or voted for a felon who ran on a program of destroying the constitution, over a PoC woman. Because they liked Trump’s message more, or, even more damning, figured that since they probably wouldn’t be impacted, it didn’t matter.
Press X to doubt this wasn't just someone trying to smuggle drugs in to sell through aid shipments.
But how could you possibly make money by smuggling almost anything into Gaza especially right now? What are you going to sell it for, a ration of pita bread?
Just because there's a food shortage doesn't mean people don't have cash savings
They didn't put crack in black neighborhoods for short term profit...
Smallpox blankets all over again
It's even better. With smallpox blankets they die and are freed of this mortal coil. With opioids they can get addicted and feed the machine until they are no longer useful. Capitalism baby!
I don't think they can really feed the machine. I think they just die an excruciating death
Ah man. I wasn't making a suggestion when I said I was surprised the food aid wasn't being poisoned. 😮💨
You gotta be fucking kidding me with this. I’ve got room for like, 4 people, if any Palestinians can get out and need shelter. I wouldn’t want to come to this country, but it might be slightly better than Israel right now. Although that probably won’t last much longer.
They cut off the Internet and cell service back when this all started unfortunately
Opium Wars II, Electric Boogaloo
I've seen evil before, but what the actual fuck?
They’re like the microplastics of American society.
Assuming they made it into food, would it be potent at all after being baked at 325 for 30 minutes?
I'm sure on the outside of the bread most of it would be vaporised off or whatever but surely more in the middle of the fluffy bread it would still be an effective opiod.
This is the most evil act I've heard of yet and I thought that blowing up all of the hospitals was as bad as it could get.
Yup. Lots of addicts "smoke" the pills by heating them on foil and inhaling the vapor
Once it burns off it’s not really effective though. This seems like smuggling that got caught up in humanitarian aid.
So then they would vaporize in the oven?