The UK in the 19th century: Making stuff and getting people addicted to opiods
…and stealing important shit to put in museums
“We’re still looking at it”
It is the century of american humiliation
Someone should be charging admission
Careful this is only one leap away from conservative talking points. They are convinced China is sending tons of fentanyl to cripple the US.
I once heard a guy convinced that the whole weather balloon thing was actually loaded with fentanyl and dusting the US with a fine fenty coating. Because that’s how the Chinese were going to kill us or something
well, yeah, the only thing that hasnt changed is who is selling the drugs. it’s still the west, but now it’s selling it to itself.
Third Opium War is just US civil war
Did China lose some weight?
Mongolia, and a few other things, yeah
And it still got a fifth of the human population, it could afford more independent nations.
What is this even supposed to mean?
i’d agree to it but it reeks a whole lot of “moral¹ decay is gonna be the end of us” nonsense, and i can’t have that.
[1] where “morality” is defined as being a good, productive, law-abiding citizen
All it says is “Addicted to opioids” you decided to read it that way, it’s really not that deep
Also even outside of the capitalist framework of needing to be law abiding or productive citizen a drug addiction is still harmful. It harms your socialization, your body, and your psyche. Like it’s still not good for a person
Only if you read things into it that aren’t actually there.
Mass addiction to opioids was not due to any “moral decay” in China and it is also not in USA. It’s just market creating demand for their product, in other words, capitalism working as intended.
I mean, what do you expect when there is a lot of religion in a country? Religion is the opium of the masses after all.
