Posted on 08/04/2019 5:50:16 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Does this mean the ChiComs have stopped blaming the UK and France for the Opium Wars?
Can’t totally disagree with this. No sense blaming OUR drug problem on China. We’ve never been able to solve it here, until we do, there will be a supplier somewhere.
Many years ago when the US was going through the motions (at least in public) of fighting the “War on Drugs” they spoke to Latin American representatives about dealing with their drug problem; they politely responded that the upheavals in their countries were caused by AMERICANS’ drug problems - and they were right.
A big problem with legalizing drugs, which is very obvious with alcohol, is the root of the reason WHY people take them. A sober/clean person will work on solutions, while the buzzed/stoned person simply retreats - and nothing gets done/fixed. Maybe a sweeping generalization, but definitely a lot of truth in it.
Pot (like alcohol) isn’t a “gateway drug” because a physical addiction leads to stronger stuff; it is a gateway drug because the causes that lead people to use it will generally lead them to something stronger.
We can’t fix the war on drugs because of the war on drugs bonanza.
I agree with you. Blaming China for our “opioid crisis” is like an alcoholic blaming Budweiser for his drinking problem.
Fentanyl is not coke. It is a synthetic drug and might be produced anywhere.
“What the Chinese have effectively said is we should forget what they said just a few months ago. If they don’t like the trade situation, the fentanyl and related products will continue to flow,” he said.
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Needs to be repeated.
A lot.
Every regular user of recreational pharmaceuticals I’ve ever met was a Democrat. Maybe except one.
Getting rid of the drug problem in the US is easy, get rid of Democrats
Or guns for gun crime. But the modern trend is to always go after the substance, never the criminal who abuses it.
Chicoms have a point. We have become a popultion of self indulgent weaklings whose problems are medicated instead of confronted. The opioid crisis is Darwinism via another path.
That's true.
A nation that can put a man on the moon, end polio epidemics, and save Europe from suicide cannot prevent drug pushers from preying on its children in their grammar schools?
Of course that's ridiculous.
It's a lack of will. It's part of the decadence of Western Civilization, the fundamental evil of which is contempt for TRUTH--TRUTH for its own sake.
And the fact that the American People are responsible for their own opioid crisis is the truth.
There is NO excuse for it.
100% tariff tomorrow. Bastards.
This is a spiritual issue. Remove God from your society and something will fill that void. Drugs, sex, food, violence, really bad music, etc..
The Chinese are just supplying a demand. Just like they supply practically everything else.
Chinese culture is very long-sighted... and very petulant and vindictive. The CCP usually reacts to slights in the exact same way that a grumpy 9 year old girl would. I would say that their reactions to these accusations are very much linked to their memories of the Western World forcing the Opium Wars and all of the related problems that they caused... but they would never say that.
This recent flood of Chinese fentanyl is a deliberate attempt by the communist to destabilize our society.
Just another tool by intelligence agencies across the globe.
Yes. We didn't bomb the fentanyl factoriess in China already.
See?
They think it’s JUSTICE.
They think it’s PAYBACK for the old Opium Wars of old.
Their primary aim is money, but make no mistake about it, there is also the power of Victimhood Ideology behind this.
RE: They think it’s PAYBACK for the old Opium Wars of old.’
I don’t think so. If they want payback for the Opium Wars, then they should be targeting the Brits, not us.
It’s time for all Americans to sober up from all drugs and alcohol and become alert and aware like never before. With foreign enemies like China, Russia, islamic countries, and south American countries secretly aligning against us, along with tyrannical supernatural forces.. we are going to need every man, woman, and child, to rise to the occasion and UNITE and defend AMERICA. We don’t have time for drugs, alcohol, and domestic drama bull. This should excite Americans. To be living in times when the whole world led by the devil is coming to try and defeat you and your freedoms and what an opportunity to prove your worth to God.
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