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Like, you choose to be drunk or high. No one chooses to be disabled and it's horrible that a whole demographic is treated as a joke.

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So I've been thinking about this as my community is watching reports of FBI unload heroin, cocaine, fentanyl crossing the border. As my family is talking about how they should deport all the democrats on the left, I was thinking how this wouldn't fix anything.

War on drugs will go on and on because of who? People who buys the hard drugs. Who buys hard drugs? Happy people working a regular job? No, I would think a happy person doesn't just shoot up some heroin. Homeless people, sad and depressed people, the people society treats like trash.

The war on drugs is really a war on the working class if you think about it. If we fix wealth inequality, I have no doubt that there will be less drugs on the streets. Of course, we will still want drug rehab and stuff but in the big picture, it's getting people to not even try drugs in the first place.

But you know, that's just a theory...a game theory.

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cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/20339542

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Hi guys, I'm trying to read this article my boss sent me, but I can't find a way to read it. Tried archive.org, archive.is, reader mode, incognito mode, different browsers, tried removing the paywall thing with ublock, but nothing seems to work. Would any of you be able to help me out?

I really just want to read this one article and have no interest in getting a subscription; I would then have to set a reminder to cancel it which would likely involve a lengthy phone call with their support, which I'm really hoping to avoid.

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Feels like all of a sudden every thread I open has the worst takes in the comments: religious apologists, conservative propagandists, people defending the worst abuses of power, people stanning for CEOs, middle managers and other corporate ghouls, people defending shitty landlords, etc.

Is this Reddit now? Is this going to be the death of Lemmy as a bastion of progressives?

I'm not a fan.