Not the generations before them.

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.

He has got to build his hate arch somewhere I guess.

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.

AOC vs Erica Kirk.

The brown girl vs all that is white and right beauty pageant queen pick me. I can already call it. She will be the pied piper leading all the women into the Handmaids Tale.

More distractions, this administration thrives on the chaos.

I was wondering what they planned on doing with these increasingly fast processors. Apparently, it will be used to spy on you while providing training data to their AI. Why the hell this is acceptable I don’t know. It reminds me of those bad actors who use to mine Bitcoin covertly on other people’s computers with compromised software or web pages.

Because they are assholes losers that care more about winning than the disgusting things they have to do to win.

There is no honor or decorum left in politics, just naked greed and the concentration of power. Our politicians are the result of the corrupt environment they live in.

Until we seriously start removing money from politics we will be stuck in a ever increasing enshitification feedback loop where the only people who are represented are the wealthy.

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.

So then all modern politics are meaningless?

I have studied religions my whole life trying to understand what is really going on. I have always been open minded, but my conclusion is simply it is about control.

My father was a black sheep Mormon so I am very familiar with the pitfalls of their beliefs. On my grandfather’s death bed his sons gathered round him to pray. He pointed at my father and said he was not worthy to pray over him. Othering is always an integral part of Christianity.

The worst thing about religion is it steals the work of man to use for its goals. How many people thank God for surviving cancer when it was their fellow man that cured them. Religion is also insidious because it takes credit for morality when it clearly exists without it.

It reminds me of any loser ideology that tries to claim it does things when it has no real power and claims credit when it is not due. Everyone arguing over what Skydaddy is the best imaginary companion is beyond ridiculous.

Why are all the straight male Christian conservatives trying to fuck children!? WTF is wrong with them.

I have often theorized the same thing, they don’t want you in their party unless they can control you. So everyone that gets elevated has some blackmail that can be used against them.

Needless to say this is unacceptable. This, as you pointed out, is probably the real thing they fear. The sense the impeding doom if it ever reached the level of the average citizen’s consciousness.

I personally think we should just clean house and get rid of everyone who has the chimo stank around them and then make sure foreign money stays out of US politics closing all the loop holes they currently use.

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.

I guess the litmus test for pardons now is corruption.