• Cheburashka@lemmygrad.ml
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    The cause of opioid addiction was already revealed by the famous Rat Park experiments of the 1970s. The results were clear: opioid addiction is someone’s “self medication” to cope with a miserable environment (generally from poverty & mental illness); happy rats with socialization and positive environments refused to take heroin-laced water. The literature gave us the solution to the opioid epidemic: eliminate poverty, and uplift our fellow brothers and sisters.

    The US quickly labeled that approach “communism.” Disregarding the scientific consensus, it resorted to military action to kill even more people (inventing the bizarre label: “narco-terrorist”).

    The results? No progress made, but the US now boasts the world’s highest prison population (despite being 5% of global pop).

    Decades later, it’s 2025. The republicans are pushing harder than ever to continue the killing, and democrats stand idly by, ready to do… nothing.

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    amerikkka is literally starting a war with an innocent country to distract everyone from the president’s close affiliation with a known child sex trafficker amerikkka-clap

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      The 40% of the population who think that Trump and the rest of the republicans are white-hat pedophiles, plus about half the liberals.

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    You know, I thought it was a bunch of rich bros razzing each other, but the more Trump tries to distract us with this shit, the more I’m going to think he actually gave Bill a blowjob.