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(The American Conservative)   They said it's impossible. They said it can't be done. But The American Conservative managed to write an ENTIRE article about the US opioid crisis without mentioning either Purdue Pharma or the Sackler family with a single word. Congratulations   (theamericanconservative.com) divider line
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Sexy Jesus [recently expired TotalFark]
2023-02-07 5:36:17 AM  
In my favorite timeline the Sacklers are in prison with the Waltons and Trump. They make.him dress in drag and do favors for soups.
 
baronbloodbath [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-07 5:38:10 AM  
Fark this piece of shiat Katya Sedgwick. Long on words, short on points, full of FUD. This is propaganda.
 
ybishop
2023-02-07 5:46:19 AM  
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darth sunshine
2023-02-07 5:49:35 AM  
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Floki [TotalFark]
2023-02-07 5:57:46 AM  
Got it. The fentanyl crisis is the result of China exploiting Democratic immigration policies. 🙄 What a joke. The American Conservative is propaganda.
 
leeksfromchichis [TotalFark]
2023-02-07 6:00:10 AM  
Come on, subby. It's not like they lied about their drugs and got millions of people hooked then lawmakers tried to use police on victims of a medical problem and never even punished the actual people responsible as illicit street drugs of superior strength started killing people across the na-   ooooooooh!  I see what you meant.
 
born_yesterday [TotalFark]
2023-02-07 6:00:32 AM  
Garbage link to garbage site to garbage article by garbage author
 
Floki [TotalFark]
2023-02-07 6:09:13 AM  
Fentanyl soldier, brain dead pasta
There was a Fentanyl Soldier, on the streets of America
Emboldened from China, to the shores of America
Exciting on arrival, underwriting our survival
 
Ragin' Asian [recently expired TotalFark]
2023-02-07 6:18:12 AM  
The number of casualties of the Russo-Ukrainian war are not publicized-both belligerents are naturally reticent about their losses.

They manage to start with a sentence that's untrue.
 
enry [TotalFark]
2023-02-07 6:19:46 AM  
The number of casualties of the Russo-Ukrainian war are not publicized-both belligerents are naturally reticent about their losses.

Uh, estimates are published every day.  How bad is a article when you fark up that badly in the first sentence?
 
Mr. Coffee Nerves [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-07 6:21:50 AM  
How dare you impugn American Small Businessheroes!

The fentanyl coming over our border on the backs of ANTIFA Super-Soldiers leading the caravans grew naturally in the hills of Mexico after being seeded by Chinese "weather balloons" and is so potent simply reading the name killed 1,776 Constitutional Sheriffs investigating Hunter Biden's laptop and its role in leading COBRA to our Benghazi heroes!
 
nemobeamo
2023-02-07 6:24:50 AM  

Mr. Coffee Nerves: How dare you impugn American Small Businessheroes!

The fentanyl coming over our border on the backs of ANTIFA Super-Soldiers leading the caravans grew naturally in the hills of Mexico after being seeded by Chinese "weather balloons" and is so potent simply reading the name killed 1,776 Constitutional Sheriffs investigating Hunter Biden's laptop and its role in leading COBRA to our Benghazi heroes!


You should write for Fox
 
Ragin' Asian [recently expired TotalFark]
2023-02-07 6:26:02 AM  
Why the fark did I read the whole thing? They use conjecture and anecdotal "evidence" to bash San Francisco at every opportunity. Then the piece ends with a tack toward xenophobia.

I saved you three minutes.
 
The Weekend Baker
2023-02-07 6:27:53 AM  
I realize that it was a dramatic presentation and not a documentary, but after watching Dopesick with Michael Keaton, my wife and I had two thoughts -- first, that the Sacklers are horrible, awful pieces of sh*t, and second, how in the f*ck could doctors be so stupid to believe in non-addictive opioids?
 
nerftaig
2023-02-07 6:28:43 AM  
All these years of the war on drugs aren't enough. I think the time has come for an even more drastic approach. Double declare war on drugs.

This guy is the kind of radical thinker we need.
 
Concrete Donkey
2023-02-07 6:28:59 AM  
I would place more blame on pharmacists who helped people exploit the system and get the drugs when their history showed they were going through them too fast.

We know that walmart and cvs both did this. Dont let them avoid blame
 
Resident Muslim [OhFark]
2023-02-07 6:29:31 AM  

Floki: Got it. The fentanyl crisis is the result of China exploiting Democratic immigration policies. 🙄 What a joke. The American Conservative is propaganda.


Came here to ask "But did they manage to blame Democrats?"

/no dog in this fight
//truly BSAB
///all actors for the corporations who paid for their way into political office
 
wozzeck
2023-02-07 6:31:12 AM  
https://www.cato.org/blog/fentanyl-smuggled-us-citizens-us-citizens-not-asylum-seekers

Summary:

o Immigrants aren't buying Fentanyl -- 99 percent of illicit opioids purchased in the US are purchased by US citizens

o U.S. citizens were 86.3 percent of convicted fentanyl drug traffickers in 2021 (10x greater than convictions of illegal immigrants for the same offense)

o 90 of fentanyl seizures take place at legal crossing points or interior vehicle checkpoints

o Just .02 percent of people arrested by Border Patrol for crossing illegally possessed any fentanyl at all

o During the travel restrictions, fentanyl seizures at ports quadrupled from fiscal year 2019 to 2021. Fentanyl went from a third of combined heroin and fentanyl seizures to over 90 percent.

o Annual deaths from fentanyl nearly doubled from 2019 to 2021 after the government banned most travel (and asylum).
 
Resident Muslim [OhFark]
2023-02-07 6:33:56 AM  

Sexy Jesus: In my favorite timeline the Sacklers are in prison with the Waltons and Trump. They make.him dress in drag and do favors for soups.


Waltons?
 
Blahbbs [OhFark]
2023-02-07 6:38:21 AM  

Resident Muslim: Sexy Jesus: In my favorite timeline the Sacklers are in prison with the Waltons and Trump. They make.him dress in drag and do favors for soups.

Waltons?


John-boy was a real a-hole.
 
Cythraul
2023-02-07 6:42:08 AM  

enry: The number of casualties of the Russo-Ukrainian war are not publicized-both belligerents are naturally reticent about their losses.

Uh, estimates are published every day.  How bad is a article when you fark up that badly in the first sentence?


Can you have two belligerents in a war between only two nations?  I thought a belligerent was the one who started the war.
 
Sexy Jesus [recently expired TotalFark]
2023-02-07 6:45:53 AM  

Ragin' Asian: Why the fark did I read the whole thing? They use conjecture and anecdotal "evidence" to bash San Francisco at every opportunity. Then the piece ends with a tack toward xenophobia.

I saved you three minutes.


The very Soviet author lives in San Francisco. Her other work is even worse.
 
NathanAllen
2023-02-07 6:51:26 AM  
Why would they smuggle a drug that is widely available by prescription?
 
Scorpitron is reduced to a thin red paste
2023-02-07 6:51:46 AM  
Conservatives worship the rich. The basis of modern conservatism are writers like Edmund Burke who sided with the royalty during the French Revolution, unable to see a reason why it happened (because conditions for ordinary people were hideous).

What they inherently want are suave demogogues, like Ronald Reagan, and are fundamentally antidemocratic, and so worship the business elite.

This is why they try to establish the rich, entrench them, by giving them more money and power. And are incapable of seeing them do wrong... unless they're engaging their antisemitism with Soros, of course.
 
Floki [TotalFark]
2023-02-07 6:52:15 AM  

Resident Muslim: Came here to ask "But did they manage to blame Democrats?"


Did the writer explicitly mention Democrats? No, but the coded phrases are regularly invoked by Republicans in their criticism of Democrats. For example:


"From China, the drug is trafficked to Latin America, where it is assembled by cartels that bring it across our undefended border and set up shop in American cities. Sanctuary cities and states are reluctant to enforce immigration laws, allowing cartels to flourish. Notoriously, the Soros-backed former San Francisco District Attorney..."

Anyone familiar with Republican talking points knows the highlighted words above are boilerplate tropes the GOP uses to smear Democrats.
 
SpectroBoy [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-07 7:00:31 AM  
While lawmakers remain focused on the Ukrainian conflict, there's a war on for the streets and for the American way of life.

American Conderpative starts out immediately with PURE dep.

Why does anyone ever speak of Ukraine when there are OTHER things in the world!?!?!

Because the defense department is who should be looking at the epidemic?
 
SpectroBoy [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-07 7:01:30 AM  

Floki: Got it. The fentanyl crisis is the result of China exploiting Democratic immigration policies. 🙄 What a joke. The American Conservative is propaganda.



The American Conservative is pants on head nonsense that aspires to be propaganda
 
johnphantom
2023-02-07 7:15:24 AM  
So we have the Dems pointing at the Sacklers and Purdue and the Repubs pointing at China. Both are right, but would rather argue over who is wrong and let this epidemic continue.
 
winedrinkingman
2023-02-07 7:16:13 AM  
The whole article is just some Putin knob licker trying to convince us we should be fighting the drug war instead of the war with the Russians.

Which BTW was many of the ways that the Soviets used to try to manipulate conservatives back in the Cold War era.  Their playbook is to have their people go on about how we should ignore overseas problems until after we fixed our domestic ones.  Sometimes there is a bit of truth to these arguments, but most of the time they are both issues we need to work on.
 
GhostOfSavageHenry
2023-02-07 7:16:56 AM  
Oh don't worry, being conservatives they found someone else with almost no power in society to pin it on. They always need a scapegoat group to deflect from the fact that they helped create those problem by supporting the transfer of wealth and power in this country to corporations and billionaires.
 
OtherLittleGuy [BareFark]
2023-02-07 7:21:09 AM  
"Yes sir, I know it's your pharmaceuticals, but that doesn't mean you can kill Americans who overdose on your pharmaceuticals. That is why you are in jail awaiting trial--- wait, you have more power and money than anyone in the known world? Carry on, and drop your loose change for a 'fine'."
 
OtherLittleGuy [BareFark]
2023-02-07 7:21:55 AM  

Sexy Jesus: In my favorite timeline the Sacklers are in prison with the Waltons and Trump. They make.him dress in drag and do favors for soups.


It was never about a War on Drugs.

It was about eliminating the competition.
 
jso2897
2023-02-07 7:23:26 AM  

johnphantom: So we have the Dems pointing at the Sacklers and Purdue and the Repubs pointing at China. Both are right, but would rather argue over who is wrong and let this epidemic continue.


It's not a matter of blame - it's a matter of what sort of problem you perceive it to be.
Conservative perceive it as a problem of crime and undesirable minorities and poor people.
They want to solve it with nightsticks and guns and cops and prison bars.
Progressives see it as a medical problem.
They want to solve it with doctors and medicine.
And we already know from a century of trying that the first approach does not work.
Could we at least try the second for a few years?
 
Turbozutek
2023-02-07 7:24:23 AM  
Ah yes it's the war in Ukraine distracting lawmakers that's the REAL reason there's a drug problem! It all makes sense now... If you have a brain injury.
 
enry [TotalFark]
2023-02-07 7:35:45 AM  

Cythraul: enry: The number of casualties of the Russo-Ukrainian war are not publicized-both belligerents are naturally reticent about their losses.

Uh, estimates are published every day.  How bad is a article when you fark up that badly in the first sentence?

Can you have two belligerents in a war between only two nations?  I thought a belligerent was the one who started the war.


Good point. I completely missed that.
 
NephilimNexus
2023-02-07 7:35:48 AM  
"The supply source for this huge underground economy is now concentrated in three areas: Afghanistan, South-East Asia (mostly Myanmar) and Latin America (Mexico and Colombia). Together, they supply nearly all the world's illicit opium and heroin, but Afghanistan stands out among this group, accounting for around 90% of global illicit opium production in recent years."

1996: OxyContin is invented. It is an opiate.

2001-2020: US occupies Afghanistan.

2001-2020: The US Opioid Epidemic continuously escalates.

2018: Purdue finally stop promoting Oxycotin.

2019: The first lawsuits against Purdue begin, and things get ugly for their owners, the Sackler family.

2020: Donald Trump announces deal with the Taliban in Afghanistan.

2021: Yhe US leaves and Taliban takes full control of Afghanistan in a matter of days.

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payattention
2023-02-07 7:36:25 AM  

Scorpitron is reduced to a thin red paste: Conservatives Americans worship the rich


FTFY

/there is no political side to this... the entire country does it.
 
johnphantom
2023-02-07 7:39:46 AM  

jso2897: johnphantom: So we have the Dems pointing at the Sacklers and Purdue and the Repubs pointing at China. Both are right, but would rather argue over who is wrong and let this epidemic continue.

It's not a matter of blame - it's a matter of what sort of problem you perceive it to be.
Conservative perceive it as a problem of crime and undesirable minorities and poor people.
They want to solve it with nightsticks and guns and cops and prison bars.
Progressives see it as a medical problem.
They want to solve it with doctors and medicine.
And we already know from a century of trying that the first approach does not work.
Could we at least try the second for a few years?


How 'bout we don't go to extremes, like we always do? It needs to be a criminal problem at the distribution level and a medical problem at the user level. Holding people like the Sacklers and countries like China responsible for what they do is REQUIRED.
 
Permanent Solutions For Permanent Problems
2023-02-07 7:39:56 AM  
The only way to win the war on any drug is to attack the demand. You need to find an effective way to prevent people from wanting to use drugs and an effective, reliable to permanently get people off drugs if they start.

As long as there is demand someone will find a way to supply. Law enforcement will never effectively interdict enough product to really make a difference.

Perhaps the bigger underlying problem with the war on drugs is the ideological contradictions necessary to fight it.

Republicans can't fathom the idea of attacking white people because to most of them fighting crime is just a dog whistle for attacking minorities. Trying to reduce demand is also antithetical to the Republican fetish for capitalism. They only want to increase demand while manipulating supply for greater profit.

Democrats want unlimited doses of narcon so drug use has fewer consequences. They also want freedom to do whatever you want. Marijuana isn't by itself going to lead you to harder drugs, but the people using marijuana (or alcohol) to numb their pain will turn to harder stuff if the pot and booze aren't strong enough.
 
replacementcool
2023-02-07 7:41:56 AM  

Ragin' Asian: The number of casualties of the Russo-Ukrainian war are not publicized-both belligerents are naturally reticent about their losses.

They manage to start with a sentence that's untrue.


yeah I also liked how the article about fetanyl started with biatching about how ukraine is just as bad as russia.
 
Rapmaster2000
2023-02-07 7:45:58 AM  
They thrown in a good bit of red meat about the horrors of Chicago, San Francisco, and Seattle.

Meanwhile, two years ago my cousin OD'd on some opiate in a trailer in the middle of nowhere in Indiana.
 
thedumbone
2023-02-07 7:45:58 AM  

Cythraul: enry: The number of casualties of the Russo-Ukrainian war are not publicized-both belligerents are naturally reticent about their losses.

Uh, estimates are published every day.  How bad is a article when you fark up that badly in the first sentence?

Can you have two belligerents in a war between only two nations?  I thought a belligerent was the one who started the war.


No, I think that anyone fighting a war is a belligerent, regardless of who started it.

::the more you know::
 
Discordulator
2023-02-07 7:50:14 AM  

Resident Muslim: Sexy Jesus: In my favorite timeline the Sacklers are in prison with the Waltons and Trump. They make.him dress in drag and do favors for soups.

Waltons?


Waltons, who own Walmart.
 
Discordulator
2023-02-07 7:54:20 AM  

Cythraul: enry: The number of casualties of the Russo-Ukrainian war are not publicized-both belligerents are naturally reticent about their losses.

Uh, estimates are published every day.  How bad is a article when you fark up that badly in the first sentence?

Can you have two belligerents in a war between only two nations?  I thought a belligerent was the one who started the war.


I has to look this up, too. Per Encyclopedia Britannica:

belligerency, the condition of being in fact engaged in war. A nation is deemed a belligerent even when resorting to war in order to withstand or punish an aggressor. A declaration of war is not necessary to create a state of belligerency. For example, the United States and the People's Republic of China were belligerents during the Korean conflict, though both parties avoided characterizing the hostilities as war.
 
NINEv2
2023-02-07 8:10:24 AM  

Mr. Coffee Nerves: How dare you impugn American Small Businessheroes!

The fentanyl coming over our border on the backs of ANTIFA Super-Soldiers leading the caravans grew naturally in the hills of Mexico after being seeded by Chinese "weather balloons" and is so potent simply reading the name killed 1,776 Constitutional Sheriffs investigating Hunter Biden's laptop and its role in leading COBRA to our Benghazi heroes!


I read that in Butthead's voice.

"It is in these hills that Hunter Biden and his trusty goat, grow the finest fentanyl beans in the world"
 
elaw [BareFark]
2023-02-07 8:21:44 AM  

winedrinkingman: The whole article is just some Putin knob licker trying to convince us we should be fighting the drug war instead of the war with the Russians.


Probably not as much "instead of" but "in addition to".

Republicans love their wars: the war on drugs, the war on education, the war on reproductive rights, the war on poor people, the war on blacks (and all other non-lily-white-western-European types), the war on Jews...
 
elaw [BareFark]
2023-02-07 8:27:08 AM  
Snarkitude aside, here's the other reason conservaturds would not want to mention Purdue or the Sacklers: they can't stand the idea of manufacturers being held responsible for the societal effects of their products.  Example: guns.
 
MythDragon
2023-02-07 8:30:41 AM  

NathanAllen: Why would they smuggle a drug that is widely available by prescription?


A dose of insulin in Canada is $60. In the US, the street value is $600.
I don't think even cocaine has those profit margins.
 
AnotherDeadBard [TotalFark]
2023-02-07 8:36:53 AM  
It's worse than worthless, yet I'm sure the "conservatives" in this country probably had big old wank session over it.
It also seems to fail to mention that fentanyl itself is pretty damn important in medicine. As in it has grown up uses, that might be over the capability of the GoP to understand. And the fact that our treatment programs are a freaking joke at best case... we're not big on evidence based treatment. Much easier to pray about it or blame the victim.

I do realize the left is just as bad on those two points (no, in this case they really are, stupidity is stupidity despite the intentions), but they haven't annoyed me for a few hours...
 
born_yesterday [TotalFark]
2023-02-07 8:42:22 AM  

Concrete Donkey: I would place more blame on pharmacists who helped people exploit the system and get the drugs when their history showed they were going through them too fast.

We know that walmart and cvs both did this. Dont let them avoid blame


I had an orthopedic surgeon prescribe me oxy in anticipation of an upcoming surgery.  Like...I hadn't even committed to the surgery yet and he prescribed it.

I did not get the surgery.  The pharmacy accidentally filled the prescription with my others. I returned it immediately.
 
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