Yea, it turns out that in the throes of grief we’re pretty fucking vulnerable to conmen - this is why elder theft often takes place right after the loss of a spouse when someone falsely offers comfort.
That’s a funny way to say “Trump campaign manipulates emotions of grieving parents”
Instead of downvoting because you think the title makes the article pro-Trump, people should actually read the article
Instead of downvoting based on leaning it’d be much healthier for the community if people just downvoted based on truthfulness… granted I feel like that ship has fucking sailed but some of us do want to fight against the echo chamber.
Leave it to the neoliberals to be both somehow too hard and too soft on drugs and piss off the majority of the country.
They won’t decriminalize the harmless stuff everyone wants legalized, but also won’t crack down on stuff like the opioid epidemic.
For what it’s worth, cracking down on drugs only makes it harder for people struggling with addiction.
The war on drugs only wasted shit loads of money to fuel the prison labor industry.
The war on drugs only wasted shit loads of money to fuel the prison labor industry.
Sounds like we need to do it better.
For all the gun deaths liberals like to talk about, these newer drugs are more dangerous and are the #2 killer after COVID-19 (and now that vaccination is widespread, Fentanyl is probably #1 now).
This can very well become a Democrat / Liberal weakness if y’all let it faster. Some kind of acknowledgement or even policy to address this large scale killer of Americans is needed.
What exactly do you think the democrats are trying to do?
The GOP are pissed because they don’t get to be assholes with harm reduction and other actual solutions.
To the GOP goobers helping people, isn’t the goal.
The article points out that not a single fentanyl speaker was at the DNC.
So there currently is an appearance where it looks like Democrats don’t care.
Saying that you’re against the war on drugs in a decade where Fentanyl/ illegal drugs is the #2 killer after COVID-19 is a bad strategy that’s all I’m pointing out.
The war on drugs created the current crisis.
Being “against” a failed “solution” that was designed to incarcerate and create recidivism in a system that profited off the only legal form of slavery, is not stupid or a bad “strategy”.
Morally, ethically, and pragmatically, it’s the right call to move to an actual solution.
And there are a lot of issues that didn’t have speakers at the DNC.
Morally, ethically, and pragmatically, it’s the right call to move to an actual solution.
Cool. Name the DNC’s solution.
I promise you its not as well named as “War on Drugs”.
We don’t need catchy names. We don’t need more kids in jail.
We need progress and the GOP’s platform is anti-progress.
But fentanyl activists say Trump is at least drawing attention to the issue, whereas the Biden administration, they say, is not.
“We don’t feel seen, we don’t feel heard,” said Allen. “I’m surprised that somebody hasn’t realized or figured out that this is a huge population of people, that if we believe that you were going to respond to this and do something about it, you could very easily earn our favor.”
Who do so many people say fentan-all instead of fentan-ill?
