imperial core getting payback for the opium wars, iran contra, crack epidemic, etc
Hardly. Fent is just the cheapest current iteration on the market. This is backlash from the Oxycotin pill mills of the 90s/00s and only really enriches the same elites who have always profited from traffic. Its overwhelmingly produced and trafficked domestically. Trying to blame this shit on Mexico, much less China, is just another fascist-driven effort to occlude the real source of the nation's problems.
Legalize and decriminalize drugs, assholes.
Poverty, drug use, and the carceral state all play a role in the oppression of the proletariat. The proverbial Opiate of the Masses is made literal. And the war against it - like religious wars of prior generations - serve to divide the population into moral tranches such that even your own family, friends, and neighbors can't question the violence inflicted against you.
Hardly. Fent is just the cheapest current iteration on the market. This is backlash from the Oxycotin pill mills of the 90s/00s and only really enriches the same elites who have always profited from traffic. Its overwhelmingly produced and trafficked domestically. Trying to blame this shit on Mexico, much less China, is just another fascist-driven effort to occlude the real source of the nation's problems.
Poverty, drug use, and the carceral state all play a role in the oppression of the proletariat. The proverbial Opiate of the Masses is made literal. And the war against it - like religious wars of prior generations - serve to divide the population into moral tranches such that even your own family, friends, and neighbors can't question the violence inflicted against you.