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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40382510

posting in worldnews instead of !usa@lemmy.ml because of the international implications

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[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 37 points 1 day ago

...I'm like 90% sure my grandmother had a fentanyl patch to deal with the pain of her cancer. Guess doctors just hand out weapons of mass destruction... Interesting.

[-] JustSo@hexbear.net 17 points 1 day ago

yeah before my friend died from neglect (thanks america, let a thousand luigis boom) he was on so much fent, he had fentanyl lollypops and patches and shit.

that was before it became so widely distributed on the black market. the best way to combat fent would be to let the heroin market rip again IMO.

[-] The_hypnic_jerk@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago

heroin market

Send the troops back to Afghanistan, there's another type of tar we're after this time

[-] StarkWolf@hexbear.net 36 points 1 day ago
[-] FishLake@lemmygrad.ml 32 points 1 day ago

The meme of the boomer guy with the 1984 calendar but it says 2003 instead.

[-] WashedAnus@hexbear.net 24 points 1 day ago

Dang, can't believe the doctor prescribed my mom WMD's for her cancer pain

[-] Boognish_Rising@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago

Or epidural during child birth

[-] microfiche@hexbear.net 24 points 1 day ago

fent is a big issue. It kills those who seek it out intentionally, and those not seeking it out because it's now cheaper to cut everything by with fent instead of the real fucking thing.

but all this is going to do is affect the poor, those with habits to feed daily, kids selling dime bags on the corner, and anyone who gets caught with fent and isn't white.

and it'll probably allow him to continue killing Latin Americans in boats.

I'm too stupid to think much further than that.

[-] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 28 points 1 day ago

and it'll probably allow him to continue killing Latin Americans in boats.

This is why he's doing this, I think, despite the fact that the fent isn't coming from LatAm.

[-] unaware@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago

Didn't he say it was coming from China just a few months ago?

[-] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago

That's always been the line, but recently I believe he claimed it was coming from Venezuela.

[-] hotcouchguy@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago

It's actually a complex global supply chain involving every official enemy and nobody else.

[-] StarkWolf@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago

This will likely be used as the basis to go beyond just attacking random boats, grounds for escalation, acts of war

[-] BeanisBrain@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago

I thought the whole thing about fentanyl being super-lethal was made up by cops?

[-] microfiche@hexbear.net 1 points 1 day ago

I'm more talking about folks getting bags of something cut w fent, then being injected or snorted and dying. Or fake pills pressed w fent, that sorta stuff. The whole 'touch three grains of fent and drop dead instantly" is horseshit, tho.

[-] facow@hexbear.net 19 points 1 day ago
[-] JustSo@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

ay pass that shit homie

edit: inb4 its a pic from the anthrax scare. I'll still take it.

[-] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I believe that this is Rubio photoshopped (or maybe AI generated) to look like the famous photo of Powell lying to the UNSC about WMDs in Iraq.

[-] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 22 points 1 day ago

All I can think, other than the obvious Venezuela implications, is when fentanyl became widespread up here it was all about how china was selling the precursors.

This will be used for more than just right now

[-] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day ago

The war on drugs is used for everything except actually stopping issues related to drug addiction.

[-] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago

Much like every action this country takes, all I can think is how it will be used as a cudgel against outgroups

[-] JustSo@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago

Yeah and the labs doing the synthesis were all in mexico (eyeroll)

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 21 points 1 day ago

Is he gonna start invading hospitals now?

[-] JustSo@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago

don't be ridiculous, what kind of monster would attack a hospital?

[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago

This is the 592 dimention chess play to achieve universal health care. angry-place Everything burns.

[-] Llituro@hexbear.net 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

there's this old quote in hegel... i know it's in marx, i think it's in hegel too... "once as tragedy, once as farce" fool-me-once

[-] facow@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago

Tragedy me once shame on you. Farce me twice, can't get farced again

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago

Venezuela, Mexico, Columbia, China. Who else is going to be in the firing line with this?

[-] larrythecabalguy@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)
[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Hmmmmm. I suspect not. lol us-foreign-policy

[-] Krem@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago

Not a weapon: weapons (everything from guns to cruise missiles)

The most dangerous weapon: a painkiller

[-] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago

Oh this is what they meant by Lethal aid

[-] plinky@hexbear.net 12 points 1 day ago

veteran of veterinarian wars

[-] whiskers165@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago

Deep web fentanyl dealers are about to go wild with this one. Weapons grade fent 99% pure

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago

Can’t wait for the new style of cop fent overreaction

[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Donald Duck Dynasty Absorber Bush Whopper Jr. a-little-trolling mission-accomplished

[-] kristina@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

damn thats wild i had a weapon of mass destruction injected into me by medical staff when i was in the ER last time, maybe trans people can kill god

[-] LeninWalksTheEarth@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago

Trump: "medicine is a big word, you hear it everywhere, i know everything about it."

[-] GoodGuyWithACat@hexbear.net 2 points 1 day ago

WMD, GOT THAT WMD

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