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This is the best thing they've done since they named me person of the year 2006

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[-] Parzivus@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not gonna lie, the John Foster Dulles name-drop made me do a spit take. This author has gotta be one of those old as fuck Kissinger types. Let's check his Wikipedia:

In Patient Zero (2003) and Narcotic Culture (2004), Dikötter posits that the impact of the prohibition of opium on the Chinese people led to greater harm than the effects of the drug itself.

what-the-hell

[-] VILenin@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago

Every “China watcher” is a satanically racist imperialist

[-] Omegamint@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago

What the fuck, lmao

[-] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

prohibition of drugs in the countries i'm familiar with has been worse than the drugs shrug-outta-hecks

And those prohibitions didn't even result in Britain invading, which can't have been good for anyone's health

[-] Tabitha@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago
[-] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

to be fair to my mom's musical taste the war on drugs didn't ramp up until after that period

[-] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

There's zero chance this guy applies the anti-prohobition argument to the imperial core

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