• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 days ago

    They’re mocking the society that is so sick and disgusting that it allows for people to become addicted to and ruined by drugs, en masse.

    They’re doing it in a way that offends your moral sensibilities, because you are seeing individual victimized people who belong to a different group than yourself.

    They’re seeing a society that is fundamentally broken and disgusting, getting worse, not doing anything to collectively better itself, of which you are just as much a member of that group as the fent head is.

    Yeah, we do actually need a bit of ‘fuck your feelings’.

    We need to actually fix things, not just complain and be offended on behalf of others whom we are not actually helping with our moral indignation alone.

    We need to do better.

    The world has run out of patience for all forms of our self-righteous bullshit.

    We already has another recent post get pretty big explaining that… nobody who isn’t American cares about American’s apologies, their perfect moral stances that… result in absofuckinglutely no change whatsoever, other than Americans having scripts by which they justify their self-centered ness and be insufferable on the internet.

    Everyone is at their wits end with all of us, the way that we have been at our wits end with our own political/ideological opponents for a decade now.

    Don’t expect sympathy or pity.

    We’ve burned through all the goodwill, none remains.

    You can say that isn’t fair, to which the rest of the world would likely laugh, uproariously.

    I don’t suggest it as a general demeanor, moving forward.

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      it allows for people to become addicted to and ruined by drugs, en masse.

      Stop exaggerating. The US fentanyl addict population is tiny compared to its overall population. I live in one of America’s largest cities and have never seen a recognizable fentanyl addict. I doubt that most Americans have ever seen a fentanyl addict.

      • That’s not what Trump claims when he kidnaps world leaders, deports citizens, and creates a private army to intimidate the whole country. He calls it terrorism it’s so bad. Trump is America, what he says and does is all that matters right now for Greenland and the rest of the world. America created all these problems, that’s what we all see. It’s another American problem he wants to spread. There were no Americans or drug victims in the clip, just people demonstrating how fucked up America is for people who aren’t rich.

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        https://www.addictiongroup.org/resources/fentanyl-statistics/

        https://drugabusestatistics.org/

        So thats roughly 3% of the population with opioid addiction and roughly 70% of od deaths involving fentanyl, within the last couple of years.

        Yeah, exact numbers are hard to come by, but if you think a million+ people doesn’t count as ‘en masse’, well then I guess I’ll try some of whatever you’re smoking.

        https://americanaddictioncenters.org/opioids/fentanyl/addiction-statistics

        The latest official count of prescription fent abusers I can find is about half a million, from 2021… but that doesn’t count people who get it without a prescription, which is quite a lot.

        And its also kind of fundamentally impossible to count homeless fent users.

        I would know, I have both been homeless and used to manage the data analytics of a large network of homeless shelters and assistance providers.

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          So thats roughly 3% of the population with opioid addiction

          You deliberately conflated fentanyl stats with those of more common opioids to make it appear that fentanyl is more commonly used in the US than it is.

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      6 days ago

      You’re jumping through a lot of hoops to justify making fun of drug addicts. Are we gonna bring back “tactical slur” discourse next?