I’d just argue that your point of view is a war on drugs bullshit take that only started to give a shit about the addiction crisis once vice and youtube dummies starting making fentanyl a buzzword.
Okay I’m not even reading past this incredibly insulting and unnecessarily hostile crap. You know how to run your mouth but you have a lot to learn about being heard.
I will note that I did not personally attack you, I did say that your point of view is bullshit and based on fearmongering, but you’re the one that has taken this to personal attacks and name calling.
your point of view is a war on drugs bullshit take that only started to give a shit about the addiction crisis once vice and youtube dummies starting making fentanyl a buzzword.
You said my point of view is just parroting social media influencers. Where in this is any discussion of ideas? You’re calling me a thoughtless buzzword regurgitator. What the fuck do you know? This was totally unnecessary and uncalled for.
Your little lecture here is just you trying to make it to the door with your dignity after you damn well know you overstepped and behaved like an asshole. This is the refuge of someone who cannot be accountable for their own behavior, and I have no ideas to exchange with a child like that, who slings barbs and then lectures about ideas. You have your orders and I expect you to carry them out.
Respectfully disagreed but it appears we are at an impasse. The discussion of ideas was in the rest of the post that you apparently refused to read per your own words. I point out the documentaries not because I think you got your ideas from them (maybe you did, I don’t know) but because that is what has popularized the villainization of fentanyl (which is why I literally said that and did not say that you got your ideas from them). Nice job ascribing motive and intentionality to my words to portray me as a villain. I don’t have a fun pop psychology word for this though
My final attempt to expand upon this will be to say that your rhetoric of focusing on fentanyl as a big spooky drug and pouring more resources into an endless fight of prohibition, which has been attempted and is literally already the policy, is foolish. I apparently have to put on kid gloves here and say that I do not necessarily think that you are dumb because I am attacking your position, because you apparently cannot differentiate someone attacking your stance between someone attacking your intellect
The idea of continued focus on fentanyl prohibition is the policy of people who are invested in perpetuating systems of oppression and preventing systemic change. Drug addiction is vile and most people hide away from it. I know because I have worked in rehab centers, mobile therapy, and homeless outreach. But it makes for salacious content and easy views, and by extensions makes for easy “quick fix” political solutions. “Why are these people on the street?” “Fentanyl” “well we should do something about that!” It is a stupid and short sighted way to approach the issue that we have tried time and time and time and time again, only to fail miserably.
This is why I do not simply ignore you. Your rhetoric is frustrating and sets us back. It enables our political leaders to deflect onto “the fentanyl menace” rather than address the underlying societal rot that creates unsafe use and cycles of addiction. It further stigmatizes use. All the bad things
Also please dont ever get surgery bc fyi they will 100% give you spooooky fentanyl, sometimes in fairly heroic doses relative to recreational dosages. I promise you wont get instantly addicted or die.
Okay I’m not even reading past this incredibly insulting and unnecessarily hostile crap. You know how to run your mouth but you have a lot to learn about being heard.
Okay, keep vilifying substances instead of systemic issues because someone wasn’t kind enough about it
GFY
I will note that I did not personally attack you, I did say that your point of view is bullshit and based on fearmongering, but you’re the one that has taken this to personal attacks and name calling.
Attack ideas, not people
Gaslighting rejected. This is a personal attack:
You said my point of view is just parroting social media influencers. Where in this is any discussion of ideas? You’re calling me a thoughtless buzzword regurgitator. What the fuck do you know? This was totally unnecessary and uncalled for.
Your little lecture here is just you trying to make it to the door with your dignity after you damn well know you overstepped and behaved like an asshole. This is the refuge of someone who cannot be accountable for their own behavior, and I have no ideas to exchange with a child like that, who slings barbs and then lectures about ideas. You have your orders and I expect you to carry them out.
Respectfully disagreed but it appears we are at an impasse. The discussion of ideas was in the rest of the post that you apparently refused to read per your own words. I point out the documentaries not because I think you got your ideas from them (maybe you did, I don’t know) but because that is what has popularized the villainization of fentanyl (which is why I literally said that and did not say that you got your ideas from them). Nice job ascribing motive and intentionality to my words to portray me as a villain. I don’t have a fun pop psychology word for this though
My final attempt to expand upon this will be to say that your rhetoric of focusing on fentanyl as a big spooky drug and pouring more resources into an endless fight of prohibition, which has been attempted and is literally already the policy, is foolish. I apparently have to put on kid gloves here and say that I do not necessarily think that you are dumb because I am attacking your position, because you apparently cannot differentiate someone attacking your stance between someone attacking your intellect
The idea of continued focus on fentanyl prohibition is the policy of people who are invested in perpetuating systems of oppression and preventing systemic change. Drug addiction is vile and most people hide away from it. I know because I have worked in rehab centers, mobile therapy, and homeless outreach. But it makes for salacious content and easy views, and by extensions makes for easy “quick fix” political solutions. “Why are these people on the street?” “Fentanyl” “well we should do something about that!” It is a stupid and short sighted way to approach the issue that we have tried time and time and time and time again, only to fail miserably.
This is why I do not simply ignore you. Your rhetoric is frustrating and sets us back. It enables our political leaders to deflect onto “the fentanyl menace” rather than address the underlying societal rot that creates unsafe use and cycles of addiction. It further stigmatizes use. All the bad things
Also please dont ever get surgery bc fyi they will 100% give you spooooky fentanyl, sometimes in fairly heroic doses relative to recreational dosages. I promise you wont get instantly addicted or die.