• justhach@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    How about we start at home like, I dunno, actually punishing the people responsible for the opioid epidemic (Purdue, the Sacklers, etc.)

      • gornar@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Pfft and get rid of legal in-the-constitution slavery and harm for-profit prison’s income? No way!

    • pensivepangolin@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Because the Sacklers pay our politicians.

      Also because we totally won when the Sacklers’ business entities had to pay a fine but left the people themselves…still rich beyond reason and at liberty.

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      1 year ago

      The right tenor is about fighting corruption and organized crime with financial reform, and sanctions relating to money laundering and manufacture is exactly that

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    1 year ago

    weird how it works By the way, it’s not that I am pro-China on this one. Just weird how it all goes.

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    1 year ago

    I personally feel that we should do nothing. maintaining the status quo in regards to international trade is far more crucial than some junkies ODing, regardless of which cartel is importing the drugs

    • t0lo@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      I think that sometimes but a lot of opioid addicts started as patients receiving legitimate treatment for things such as car crashes and back injuries with poor off-ramping practices

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    1 year ago

    Please no more provocations, I don’t want an all out war between America and China in my lifetime.

    • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
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      I severly doubt China would be able to get the US to treat it like an all out war. Remember China struggles to influence its neighbors militarily, the US can run a war in a land locked and very hostile nation for twenty fucking years. The fact of the matter is that a war between the US and China would probably resemble a seal clubing more than anything else, unless China does the funny and makes my username weirdly relevant.