China already has actual nukes, my guess is it will be used to justify military actions in central and south America.
Bruh
There's probably no group in human history that has committed more r*pe than soldiers
Death to America
The letter doesn’t provide any evidence of stockpiling but cites the 2002 Moscow theater hostage crisis, during which Russian troops released a gas believed to contain fentanyl analogs into a theater filled with hostages trapped by Chechen rebels; the gas incapacitated the rebels but also killed more than 120 hostages.
In June, Boebert introduced the ‘‘Fentanyl Is a WMD Act,” which would require the Department of Homeland Security to treat fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction. In a press release touting the bill, Boebert blamed the “porous southern border” for allowing fentanyl into the country.
Yeah, I wonder who they're trying to blame here.
It's wild because fent is probably one of the most commonly used painkillers in the country, by medical professionals.
I work on the ambulance and we give people fent every single day for all sorts of reasons. It works fast and well, and wears off quick.
If they call it a weapon of mass destruction I can only imagine it will make it harder to get and public Healthcare Is going to suffer
They are hiding WMD's in the ambulances! Every ambulance is now a legitimate target!
Chechen rebels
Nice touch. I bet the dipshit who wrote this doesn't call the people who did 9/11 "Saudi rebels".
Amazing how something initially created for medicine could end up abused by a system that values profit over lives and instead of doing something about that system, people want to go and start a literal war about its production
the Americans medical system really should just stop deliberately getting people hooked on opioids
This is mainly an American problem because one of their major institutions decided "fuck it I'll get a bunch of people addicted to drugs."
maybe sometimes physical therapy should be the prescription for back pain
maybe sometimes physical therapy should be the prescription for back pain
Part of the issue is they want people to get back to work in a typically short sighted fashion. Real treatment requires time where you cannot really work most jobs, where you do go through the slow process of physical therapy, and requires a social safety net that'll provide for you while it goes on. But if you load them up on pain killers and they can go back to work for awhile, before addiction takes too much of a toll.
Actually 1994 Crime Bill pt. 2, this looks like an updated version of how they used hysteria over crack to increase the number of black prison slave workers.
Yeah, all that copaganda about how looking at fent will kill you and fent dealers should get the death penalty sounds familiar
imperial core getting payback for the opium wars, iran contra, crack epidemic, etc
damn, sucks to have foreign countries selling a deadly drug into your domestic population, doesn’t it?
the US created these domestic markets during the first half of the war on drugs. They were useful when they could use these channels to genocide people of color and queers, but now its reached even the white cishet labor aristocracy and they’re livid.
Legalize and decriminalize drugs, assholes. You can do it tomorrow. No one wants fentanyl, it gets mixed in with everything else because it is cheaper.
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.
Not much to tell AFAIK. It's just a SUPER potent opiate used in hospitals/closely supervised and regulated ways, and has been finding its way into street drugs. You might remember the videos of cops being overly dramatic and pretending to die when they simply look at it, those were 6 months ago or so.
Basically everything you buy on the streets is laced with fent now. Makes overdoses much more likely to happen. Especially because people don't know they're taking fent, take a dose that would be fine if the drugs were "clean" and not laced, but is a deadly dose of fentanyl, so they end up dying or seriously hurt.
The American answer, of course, is to do the war on drugs again.
