Critical support is okay, but if we dismiss our wrongs to the point progress stalls and reverses because of complacency, that's something that needs addressing, along with failure to be disabused of cherished illusions and delusions.

Goodness no, I hate the Russian and Chinese government. They can all go take a long walk off a short pier.

And the fact that we can address these things, and occasionally change them (unlike China and Russia), is I suppose a bit encouraging.

But that’s small encouragement next to the mass slavery, targeted attacks, and disenfranchisement throughout our history, and so much of it by regular everyday citizens cheerfully doing terrible things to other regular everyday citizens, no (or very little) government involvement required.

And it’s still going today. The majority of people in this country refused to vote, or voted for a felon who ran on a program of destroying the constitution, over a PoC woman. Because they liked Trump’s message more, or, even more damning, figured that since they probably wouldn’t be impacted, it didn’t matter.

I know this is Lemmy, and you can also only say good things about China and Russia

That's just .ml and their alts.

Stop simping for Daddy Donald and fascism, he ain't gonna let you suck his toes.

America has never addressed those issues and we've still regressed so much since Reagan was in office. Fuck the US and fuck the Flavor-Aid about "American Exceptionalism" they pour down our throats from the moment we first enter a school. I found the pledge of undying loyalty weird when I was in elementary school, and I don't like it any more 30 years later with all the other things I now know they lied about or swept under the rug.

America has never been great and I have never been proud to be from this country.

The Natives "moved" to Texas to steal it from the previous group of natives.

Also true, but that's not the subject atm. Both can be true. The subject here is that Texas, and by extension, it's history, and Texas pride is bullshit, as are most of its people. Born into trash, continued trash, and proud of their trash existence. Fuck Texas.

Oh I know why. I've seen that show "how the states got their shapes" lol

Just because they're not willingly suffering and dying to feed the profit complex doesn't mean they're not feeding the machine. See also: Soylent Green.

Attempted smuggling makes sense. Putting oxy in the flour is really ineffective as a weapon.

No.

Butane is somewhere near 3000F, but fry bread happens at like 375F. The dope is going to survive.

e: I mean, it's a really shitty and ineffective way to get high but if there's oxy in the flour there's going to be oxy in the bread.

I imagine that other news outlets don’t agree with the allegations of this being to poison people in Gaza.

Other news outlets aren't there, they rely on feeds from the AP/AFP/Reuters cabal and their subsidiaries. So if those three don't pick the story up it doesn't get reported.

You're assuming that the uncrushed ones were the intention and not that there is far more crushed up in the flour and the ones we see didn't get processed.

Opioids are also one of the more common tools of spreading addiction in order to manipulate the people for a reason, it's effective.

Occam's razor.

There is a tremendously strong need to get painkillers into Gaza. And smuggler’s drones have been getting shot down. Aid is one of the few channels in. I would expect that someone is going to try to leverage that.

There are also addicts that are trying to have stuff smuggled in. Prime example of this is something as simple as cigarettes. There are quite a few articles about Israel stopping and intercepting people smuggling in cigarettes.

But poisoning or getting random people hooked on opioids? It was loose pills, and a more expensive opiate. If this was a scheme to poison or hook people, it’s a complex and dumb one. If you know anything about opiates, you know there are far better and cheaper to hook or kill people if that’s your goal.

If the people don’t know that they’re eating painkillers, how would they even know to seek out more to relieve their withdrawal?

You're very welcome! Always happy to spread some David Mitchell and That Mitchell & Webb Look 😁