thats actually ridiculous because black people really intrigue the japanese and often being a black foreigner can get you like a celebrity like status.
they are also some of the most gracious hosts you can find probably. and there are some black people there but not a ton that live there. they get on fine as anyone else in such a different homogenous culture. I really dont see it being police brutality
although the japanese DO have a uniformly extremely strict justice system that at times does go overboard with some things or could be construed as unfair.
but its certainly that way for everyone equally regardless. unfortunately more japanese by far suffer that since it is pretty homogenous lol.
i wonder which prison i will die in, or if i will simply be shot in the street?
shit the machines needed to give consent? men just cant get a break can we.
flatlanders huh. I see you are a fellow hillbilly. I hear the old timers around here that actually somehow didnt leave in these hills calling em that. been awhile tho.
hurts like hell and your sick as death for quite the time. not wanting to wake up sick anymore and "need" to use drugs to function made me do it, and remembering the pain of being sick keeps me from saying "oh i can get away with it just once" again.
Sure i can get away with it just once. but id end up in the same place eventually.
honestly i did take the classic coca cola strategy of using other drugs combined with non-used medical research to assist my quit and it did help a lot. Personally I switched from the maintenance drugs to kratom to have a lighter withdrawal (methadone and suboxone withdrawal is worse/longer than heroin. subs are easier in some ways, but almost as intense as heroin withdrawal for a lot longer)
and i also utilized moderate doses of dxm twice a week while in the cold turkey phase of that for the first few weeks to give myself a suffering holiday where i could smoke a cig and eat without vomiting.
its dangerous to advise people to do things like that because you can easily misuse those tools in a greater fashion and end up more hurt than you started I guess. but in the end it worked for me and im off the shit for years now. almost a decade.
there is research on nmda antagonism, as well as how dxm lowers tolerance in pain patients in small doses and it also can erase the symptoms of opiate withdrawal temporarily in a moderate trip dose as well as help lower that tolerance in the process.
im not giving people unauthorized medical advice, i just did this to myself and it worked for me. I can definitely see it not working or being dangerous to advise, but believe it is worthy of further research.
i know it sounds crazy but what was most effective for me quitting was going over the doctor's heads by buying things without prescription i either wasnt supposed to know about, or that arguably should be illegal and not buyable OTC.
that specific ability to self-manage in the way that was claimed to never work, specifically was what did work. at least for me.
ok does lots of "stereotypical groups one might expect to use drugs" count? i was trying to imply that along with alternative lifestyle crowds, gang members, and criminals, there are also people of every stripe and color either suffering from drug addiction or using recreational drugs on some level.
I wasnt specifically trying to lump groups together, but condense these words into an understandable format.
you still dont see that it was actually a one-party conspiracy most of our history and that a few presidents like andrew jackson went rebel on those interests a couple times?
this has actually been a long-running integral power struggle thats been hidden from contemporary history about the United States for a very long time.
I could speculate it began seriously happening around the time of the two world wars and cold war, at least when it started to morph into what it is now. But really I cant tell you how deep it goes. my gut tells me at least the depression and two world wars, but it mightve started even long before that.
dont even give them a chance to escape. the warden cop dude at the trial has a gun, as do the officers bringing him in. just record the trial and shoot them in the room. let the public see the bodies on the way out the door and doctors inspect to ensure it wasnt a conspiracy for the ages.
none of this "he mightve escaped to an island" bullshit. or that "we dumped the body in the ocean" bullshit either.
youd be surprised that drug users and even former drug users are in fact a varied bunch.
there are in fact as youd suspect, a lot of pagans and hippies and such into it. but not everyone. Ive known a lot of addicts in my time as one, one was my friends adoptive mother.
she adopted tons of kids who needed homes and was actually insane but a good person. she was the type who did heroin and pain meds prescribed she shouldnt have got and talked about her visions of jesus all the time.
died of overdose sadly, a lot of my friends did.
but they were all a varied bunch. one who also quit who i still am friends with is actually from a devoted christian family who was like way hardcore devout and he was always conservative, just hit on hard times.
the absolute truth is that literally everyone in wide sects of society does these things and its not necessarily the most prevalent, visible group that signifies the majority.
thats the same as this political situation where only one side is presented. stuff like marijuana and drug use is a much wider problem (or imo non-problem in the case of marijuana but im up for debate and discussion and not getting my way i guess)
it really isnt just hippies being stoners. the uses of the plant and its basic use as an almost universal medicine with few to no side effects and being the least harmful intoxicant, with the lowest level of intoxication, of any drug including alcohol with literally 0 death potential except maybe lung problems from smoke inhalation.
that all is actually true. and it was known for thousands of years. even the queen of england was prescribed alcohol hash oil tonic for her PMS (marijuana extract in basically everclear which was sold in pharmacy forever).
this literally has the longest history of use of any substance known to man probably. with the largest body of research suggesting most "official" research was always a cherry picked lie.
if trump issued executive order to remove it from the schedule list AND solved election fraud he would literally go down in history as the MOST POPULAR and best politician in us history. it would be the best thing to re-legitimize the system and restore faith in its honesty as one of the most obvious pieces of fraud legislature which makes people question the dangers of other drugs which are serious threats.
look you see hunter biden, just understand there are some middle and lower class people who struggle to survive the same way as hunter WITHOUT MONEY and live on the streets or do terrible shit. some do turn to crime to get that several hundred dollars a day for a fix.
some of them are truly bad people who cannot be rehabilitated. but others arent. sadly rehab is a joke and prison doesnt help either, so its up to the individual and their own strength of will to endure the suffering and choose to quit on their own. its not easy, and not everyone succeeds.
but i disagree with NA and AA. it is in your own will. you can decide to do it and do it, if your in the rare 1% with the will and strength to make it. but thats between you and the real god to achieve, not some random higher power that you have to depend on, but something that has to be within you and part of you at all times. you have to do it. you are not powerless.
no tbh, i quit all drugs except pot years ago. I defeated heroin addiction actually.
the thing is im always like this and super annoying normally ive only had coffee today. Thats what made me such a bad heroin addict since the downers counteract that and for me work as a "perfect drug"
but anyway im clean except for pot and a rare drink of alcohol. exceptionally rare (I dont like being drunk). Id take a drug test any time with the qualifier i will fail for thc. for that i need prep time.
i honestly wouldnt care about drug testing if all companies would switch to saliva testing for THC.
tbh, if you're in a position you use it as medicine regularly its a pain in the ass. even if you do quit for "just a month" you suffer from your disorders badly in that time (as long as you dont have seizure disorders you'll be fine), and if anything happens that they just test you later it doesnt even matter that you were sober during work.
the test goes back too far to be fair or indicative of current use at all. you could literally use 25 days ago and still not pass that test.
whereas heroin, meth, crack and coke users only wait few days to few weeks to pass test at max. people are literally shooting up in ur work bathroom and sniffing pills in there then pissing clean 2 days later and keeping their jobs, getting that disability payment, and actually BEING HIGH AT WORK on hard drugs fucking shit up and they barely EVER get caught.
mostly 99% of people who fail those tests, fail only for pot. unless they are a hardcore addict to the extreme or alcoholic and literally cant keep their shit together anymore because they are past the point of hiding it.
whether you like pot or not, you have to realize how significantly unfair it is, regardless of how many claims they get to deny and how much money is saved specifically because of it.
insurance costs are artificially low on business, hate to say. that is one risk that should be forced into the cost whether its liked or not by anyone.
a test like saliva goes back like 2 days so it becomes equivalent to most other standard tests and is much closer to proving the individual was high before the interview, during the interview, or at work.
a piss test for thc proves nothing as far as exposure within past 2 weeks. it couldve been past 2 weeks. or past 3. couldve been at any time and such a test is no verification of potential workplace intoxication.
it does not work like a breathalyzer. at all. if pot was legal and you smoked 2 days before driving and the cop decided to test you -- you would fail the test dead sober and get a DUI for no reason -- which is why in those states anyone with a lawyer always gets that charge thrown out unless there is literally a joint in their mouth when they roll down the window for the officer definitively proving it.
this is what im saying though.
I think instead of pointing out flaws if we got a group together to make designs, collaborate and compete similar to a hackathon, we could bypass that and get public response to our designs to create the push to implement them that we cannot.
we cannot get them to accept such a system, but if the internet was literally overflowing with different designs, comparisons, and youtube videos showing the competitions, more people would become interested and participate in the discussion.
right now nobody is looking at solid alternatives, just some guys hacking the computers and they dont even understand that in the mainstream to them its like "lol nothing computer is secure but thats life now bye"
so if we show them lots of alternative possibilities, publicize it ourself by our own means, and bring the debate out in a software/security standpoint rather than a "voting debate, implement my system because yours is corrupt" standpoint.
At that point, if it was popular enough, people themselves would clamor to adopt the standard -- at least outside of the people benefitting from the fraud.
dominion was meant to be fraudulent. Ive tried to establish there is actually no money in creating the simplest machines and code ever at all unless you specifically implement fraud as a product feature. if you think about it -- aside from some few APIs they made that do basic shit, essentially the only parts of the code/algorithm worth copyrighting are fraud algorithms. literally nobody will pay for candidates.name.AddVote(); which only gives a variable in that class or struct or whatever depending on language +1 to a variable and thats it. or more accuratly itd be like candidtates.AddVote(candidateID) but this isnt even full pseudo code, the fact is a voting app working properly ONLY TAKES VOTES +1 and allows the initial setting of candidates for basic features. there is NOTHING proprietary or complicated about the base algorithm that should be being run, nothing that is valid for copyright, except some design and probably API stuff that you could easily implement yourself in better ways or just... skip on implementing at all because its just fraud features you dont even want.
ive said a million times, first year college students could write a better more secure voting program and build a better more secure machine without even learning about security in code really yet
thats just like with basic web development knowledge and some systems programming not even a ton.
im not saying that itself should be the universal standard -- but better people than that could just come in and create a better system "for fun" as a hobby. and it would be that simple, cheap, almost even free aside from hardware.
the fact is there is no job in the industry for a person who can only write +1 tally vote apps. like ive said, writing old arcade clones in C is much harder IMO.
im literally making the argument that owning a "voting machine company" is ONLY PROFITABLE because of fraud and their ONLY ASSET is fraudulent code. if it wasnt, their product would have literally no value and be equivalent to some toddler's homebrew project making a potato battery.
this is literally almost the real-world equivalent of charging for a Red dot sight as dlc in a game -- something that cost 50 cents of one guys salary for one day and thats it, being sold for $20 a pop. legitimately should be free, even in capitalism since it has such little actual value.
i know the problems have been solved but im talking about the nature of proprietary voting machines and the lack of any ability for thorough knowledge on what the machine is actually doing. we need to know what the code does specifically and how it works.
Ive been a big proponent of telling people we CAN design and use a system that works, however, that is not what is being done.
it is intentionally kept in black-box format to assure we can never know the algorithmic details of how the machine works or if its doing anything its not specifically supposed to do.
ive been on other posts suggesting someone start security competitions about building new open source machine designs that ensure security to the best ability of the designers instead of merely pointing out flaws in existing designs.
I know it can be done -- even by a somewhat amateur using consumer parts for a prototype could be easily done in a basement.
my whole point is that you need the source and engineering designs to be public, so they can be analyzed by security professionals, criticized and fixed if necessary, and everyone knows for certain exactly what happens at all times to the data in the machines.
the problem now isnt that digital cannot be trusted, in fact you are correct it COULD be trusted more if implemented properly, but right now theres an even BIGGER system of trust in that you have no knowledge of how the machines work and they essentially are software black boxes.
its like a commercial video game or a slot machine. you dont really visibly see the underlying code logic. it could be counting your vote as .75 or 1 or anything really. it could be doing any number of things in the logic without having absolute assurance of what the algorithms actually are, where the data goes, and any other potential points of interference either by the administrators, or men in the middle.
I never was the one saying "stop using machines" instead ive wanted to start more initiatives on actually designing and engineering open source designs of machines simply to prove it is not only possible, but simple, and can be done much cheaper and more securely than any proprietary company could ever promise to.
you might disagree and believe in "security through obscurity" but we've mostly proven that to almost never work -- your better off with the code in the open and anyone allowed to point out and fix vulnerabilities. the chinese could have your near-incorruptible voting system for free fuck em they wont even use it, there is no special IP, its such simple code a first year novice could write it anyway and has no value to industry.
in fact the best path is to freely anti-free market it. what i mean is since its such a valueless, simple volunteer job, anyone can do it and simply give it away as a universal secure voting standard instead of trying to go monopolize on voting machines and cause the same problem over again by doing so -- intentionally or unintentionally simply by falling back into bad security practices with closed source code and monopoly.
a tally-vote application is NOT worth money. maybe about $100 tops for one dudes salary but he should just get donations really or grant money for research at best. Id say the same for the hardware design -- though that needs more security so may be worth a teensy investment of maybe $500 over hardware lol.
im basing these costs on actual labor-theory value, not capitalist marketing value. of COURSE you could make money, but inherently doing so violates the sanctity of the vote and puts you back in an insecure position.
im basing it not on what code is worth now in the market, but how difficult it would be to just sit down and do this as a school project or some shit. its not difficult, because most of the problems have been solved, and smarter people than I could easily compete and find the best possible solution.
people in this hobby literally do harder things for fun all the time. Id even go as far as to say, writing a tetris clone is harder than voting app aside from the security of a true election.
essentially im suggesting we do the same thing as AES, have a competition and create/establish an ISO universal voting standard for transparent and fair voting machines. from there you could ensure any election was fair as long as it could be certifiably proven to fully follow all standards by showing the circuit design and code openly as well as the machine storing and printing full transparency data in a tamper-proof manner.
If a specific district was tampered with the machine could destroy all data except the district, allowing for a new election to be held in that district until the data came up clean and untampered.
the voting software thing is a joke. we all tried to warn you about it for decades now. whether we had degrees or not, 100% of all people with expertise in computing that were not compromised were always pretty much screaming at you saying "in no way can this be trusted, it is a black box"
it may seem like something a luddite would say -- but this is coming from the most intelligent and skilled programming and IT experts. its not that you "cant trust a computer" but you cannot trust the people writing the code the computer is following.
the ONLY way to even possibly ascertain if the software is secure or not is through an audit of the source code as well as a full audit of the networking situation and all other vulnerabilities and angles of attack as well.
needless to say those machines are vulnerable in essentially every way possible. Id be willing to say, judging from the OS and general hardware there are at least 62,000 ways this could be compromised (I did just pull that number out my ass, its not scientific or real, but the true number is between dozens and thousands of potential vulnerabilities from different angles, including the code being initially compromised with features it shouldnt have to begin with)
well they did intentionally hire people that were too lazy to check signatures the first time.
they probably got paid pretty well to just pass anything through without checking the first time and didnt get yelled at lmao.
honestly though I feel like shows like that are actually pre programming though.
it specifically shows that situation in a non-ideal format that presents the male figure as lazy and incompetent and the female figure as better, even though the real message is both of them had their priorities on wrong and were fucking stupid.
its kind of married with children lite, in a sense. and I feel it only became a reality because it was presented as such and people subconsciously began to expect that kind of behavior out of themselves and others.
im really sick of the "mom is always right and dad is an incompetent lazy prick" narrative. especially in this modern age where people are contending with literally unfair factors as far as social mobility goes. The guy could be the nicest man on earth and a literal genius who's simply stuck in a life of mcdonalds or nothing to be real. the entire financial and social problems of the family could be fully unrelated to them. they probably are indeed tired, overworked and abused by work.
anything "good" that comes their way out of it isnt like the big-time office boss who sexually abused secretaries in the 50s, nah its someone trying to take their own job from them by framing them up for bad behavior lol. because 99% of us arent even important enough to actually take advantage of for drugs or money or positions of power lmao.
i get why its funny, dont get me wrong, I just dont like the fact that thats supposed to be a universally accepted truth on a subconscious level. because shits way more complicated than that and while some men are lazy and incompetent, not all are. not even all poor men are. there is no universal good/bad test that works anything like what is presented on TV as social norms. If you actually get to know people beyond their wealth and apparent pomp and circumstance, well you'd start realizing shits a LOT more complicated. people you thought were stupid were actually genius level, people you looked up to actually morons. whole thing starts looking like a farce actually, and it is -- which I think is what helps the commies to get their misguided sense of the social system -- because something IS VERY WRONG, its just not what they think its the opposite almost.
yes indeed. everything after ww2 and a lot during it was the beginning of the modern fraud era.
im serious. thats when they seriously cracked down on controlling the newspapers and the military industrial complex became an out of control monster. I mean stuff was already on the way there after the first war, and the great depression was an intentional market manipulation.
the reason JFK knew so much about the fraud is because his family was central to the true cause of the great depression. his father, a mob-boss at the time, was given inside information along with the industrialists on when to pull out of the fraudulent stock market for massive gains the day before the crash.
JFK knew because he was basically trying to rat on everyone from the inside. his family never experienced a "depression"
he was able to manipulate the levers of fraud and "get in" because he successfully camouflaged himself as one of them, with the correct family history and backing to actually BE one of them.
the worst part of the security state goes counter to logic.
they make people fear the police, and some are indeed bad (ive been abused by bad cops, but its not all cops bad apples are everywhere in life), and then have things regulated so they can monitor the police.
you see this might be good if you're worried about the cases of violence they care about. but what about the ones they DONT care about?
in the past cops could just walk back to the station, lie to their superior say "alls good on the streets sir" and there was no camera. Now, if the officer is told "enforce this unjust law. we are watching u"
they have no choice. they cant just say "oh there were no republicans there nobody to arrest sir"
they are on fucking camera whether like it or not.
this is what i used to try and explain as "life was actually better when people could rob banks and get away with it"
its not about robbing banks ok. its about the fact that sometimes the rules are wrong, and with excessive recording, recordkeeping, and data mining it becomes impossible to offer up any reasonable form of civil resistance without being immediately dealt with.
if you were there as an officer and said "this ain't right" you'd have been removed within minutes beyond your own will. they would hear you on microphone and see you on camera letting that republican go when the directive was "arrest now or else"
this is why unfortunately its also true that all cops ARE bad cops, even though its not their fault. you cant do justice while obeying the directives. only a vigilante would ever be "allowed" to do justice which goes counter to the directives.
basically what im saying is, in the 1500s if some king said "kill ur firstborn" many people probably would, but the reality of the security situation was the king couldnt send men to every home so you could just lie and get away with it on a massive scale. the problem with increased security tech is increased ability to actually enforce unjust law.
In other points in history, laws like that would NEVER get enforced and people would literally just live a massive lie saying "yes sire, we follow that law" gets home and proceeds to break law with everyone else
btw stuff like this did happen a lot in medieval times -- like basically divorce laws that were against the faith are a good example. lots of small towns had their own unofficial divorce ceremonies which the local township would recognize but not the church or federal government and they had hell trying to set up and enforce actual uniform laws that werent just "anarchistic town laws" like that in those times. it wasnt really the big laws I guess, just the stuff they practically couldnt really enforce or culturally change without technology.
honestly unjust enforcement of law was what killed jesus, not even my ancestors betrayal. even pontius pilate was like "why the fuck is this guy dying, he didnt do shit!" but he does it anyway, because its his job and everyone in the government is watching after commanding him to do it. the jews were out in force because THEIR government had incited them. think about it. if none of that occurred probably people wouldnt have gave near as much of a shit
if pontius was able to just not be watched and walk away, he really might have. You have 3 internal voices really, yourself, god, and the world/satan. you know your fucking up when the first two say no but the last demands YES and you do it anyway because you "have no choice", you actually ALWAYS do have a choice its just not always between good options.
they do want regulation.
the only real solution to effective regulation is to go counter to logic. you must deliver what is least wanted by the biggest entities, counter to all of history's tax and economic policy here.
what is needed is a multi-tiered plan of exemptions by which only specific entities qualify for specific exemptions.
basically google and amazon should get nothing or the absolute minimum protection possible to provide by law. small entities, independent websites, and basically people with no money or backing or standing should get 100% protection at all times, and entities in the middle should get some limited protections but only that.
facebook, google, amazon should lose almost everything except the bare minimums required to do business reasonably.
large corporations should mostly lose 230 unless they specifically manage their website counter to the personal interests of the owners and allow/maintain free speech as a public square -- personally id be happier if these services were forced to register as nonprofit or something for it, but compromise could be obtained for medium to large size enterprises given certain concessions made over control.
independent websites should see no change whatsoever allowing lightly hand-moderated discussion forums and such with no copyright liability assuming fair and reasonable moderation. these people have little to no money often, are not businesses even (its uncommon today in the reddit world but still), and are run as hobbies.
people who arent violating free speech shouldnt be unfairly regulated out of the markets and out of the public square in favor of those capable of meeting excessive and specific unilateral regulations.
this is NOT FAIR to big business and every lobbyist in history would be after you since it actually SOLVES the problem without granting them their monopoly status.
I know this seems to go counter to logic but the point is to maintain both the library/archival and the digital public square while only regulating the individuals specifically causing an issue without bias towards anyone's individual socio-economic goals.
My perspective here is we SHOULD be listening to the nobodies and totally the ignoring the somebodies. especially with tech where pretty much any good coder can do a lot of shit in different ways that isnt really copyright infringement despite the needless lawsuits (theres more than equation for most problems lol).
the problem here is much similar to copyright enforcement -- running say this website, thedonald.win, its very hard to stop every user from posting a potentially copyrighted image and its not the administrator's fault that it would happen. If you go out and say "you need the most advanced google bot to prevent all potential infringement" not only have you just CREATED a defacto monopoly by law, but also priced out just about any normal individual who wanted to run a website that probably never would have any infringing content anyway.
so what you need is multiple systems of standards -- not just one tier. it may seem unfair, but its the only fair way. if you have a single-tier of justice for this type of crime than it becomes unfair to one group to the excess of the other.
what you want is equal unfairness. the solution nobody is asking for really. a multi-tier system where certain individuals are exempt and others arent based on things like content, intent, company size, and there should be complaint forms that citizens can file for those who receive exemptions that can begin investigation for a hearing to remove said exemptions should they violate the terms and requirements to obtain them.
If im running my own site i should have way less liability than facebook in terms of everything especially if its not even a business. facebook should have to spend way extra money on moderation and copyright enforcement than I do. individuals who violate free speech should lose protections but not those who dont or otherwise have no stakes in doing so.
what should happen is enterprises over a certain size (all enterprises, with no disqualifying clause) as well as small enterprises that violate the principles of free speech while operating as public discussion platforms (only small enterprise have this clause, or nonprofit), should lose the protections.
at a certain size (google, amazon) you're making enough money you dont need the protections, and are in too much of a position to abuse them.
non-profits might be exempt, but only under the same restrictions as small-enterprises -- a violation of trust could constitute actual jail time + heavy fines for anyone acting in executive roles at the company or nonprofit.
this would make it so that if you or I open a discussion forum its still 230 protected, we arent responsible for some nutjob or something infringing some asshole posted given fair and equitable moderation on our part.
at the same time, large entities would not be able to do this.
Its actually fair because it keeps internet discussion free, allows for business in a non-denominational manner, and prevents the conditions for making internet discussion non-free to occur again.
they need to be kept for evidence.
yes its a risk to keep the data but bad actors already have that backed up on the criminal market anyway.
we need to be able to investigate things thoroughly and on a level that would never be legally allowed as an invasion of privacy in a... shall we say non constitutional manner. as enemies of war, during a military tribunal, that kind of investigation would be considered acceptable as evidence. whether or not 'legally' obtained.
i honestly think what happened was that initially god set up a near-perfect system, however something happened in which the creation itself in some way betrayed its creator causing an imperfection.
god, being outside of time, would see the beginning, middle and end. and I think so long as the beginning nor end are altered, ultimately the system is still running in a way which achieves the initial result still at the very end.
im not sure that god doesnt care that the middle is fucked up -- but that it ultimately does not matter as long as the beginning and end arent. and thats why you could say "everything is still according to plan".
whatever influenced/fucked up the universe at the middle stage didnt fuck it up enough to actually throw off the results significantly, even if it may seem that way to us in the present time.
also god coming in to "fix" it now could result in even more unintended fuck-up consequences which DO in fact start changing the beginning or the end. I mean essentially thats what lucifer did by falling I guess and starting the initial fuck-up to begin with. start interfering with the system once it was already in place.
honestly the truth is, its because slowly people's control of their own lives and abilities to actual run free enterprises was stolen from them, and over many years they adapted to a socio-economic system in which they had a smaller and smaller place.
over time people willingly lost sight of what value freedom even had because they were simply worried about getting by in day to day life. a person who has already lost freedom may go on hunger strike to get it back -- however a person who already has it likely will not GO on hunger strike to keep it.
its like someone who has a job on CNN or FOX -- they arent just going to go on air live one day and say "fuck my boss hes a cuck and fuck this job" and then proceed to say banned shit until they get fired and blacklisted.
in fact, in today's culture its such a given that people with integrity dont even try to do anything because they know they cant even get in and even if they did they'd just have to be yes-men and lie anyway.
so why did people "forget" freedom? the same reason people of lower social class scalp toilet paper. its all some desperate bid to hold on to what little they have at any cost -- even if the cost is everything they have in the end ironically.
the people who have, refuse to give up so it can be changed. and the people who do not have, effectively have no power over their own destinies. all identity politics really is, in this paradigm, is people fighting over limited temporary exclusions which get a few people "on their side" to the top of the same corrupt system. this is only for the optics, the appearance of diversity and fairness.
honestly, true story. most of the drugs did come from china but...
the demand was homegrown and already existed. the opiate problem here started with US of A street heroin and actually before that -- USA pharma pills.
what actually, historically happened with the rise of heroin and fent was this.
when they cut down on old people selling their pills, and cut down on the pill market in general, people didnt stop being addicted and ABSOLTUELY NEEDED THE FIX to function in life period.
so immediately they just drove to the city when supply dried up and started importing back heroin.
this heavily increased the demand for heroin, replacing near 100% of pill users as heroin users.
also during this time cancer patients had been selling fent patches and shit already anyway, which also became more popular as heroin did since cancer scripts didnt slow down.
all of this, combined with the internet research chemical scene worldwide, had more advanced addicts looking for some kinda chem project to whip up a "legal" opioid -- which led them to finding what were, at the time, unregulated stuff like carfentanyl and others -- as well as even before that leading some labs to be setup for regular fent.
carfent and other analogues are like 100x more powerful than fent, so thats why you saw more and more people die as it got mixed in. one bag became like 100 with just one spec extra powder in it.
china was just the one with socio-political interest, as well as the funding, to do so first.
the cartels would have anyway, and gangs in eastern europe for sure. this is the same old game of analogue whack-a-mole that got the analogue act put in in the first place -- I believe that was when someone synthesized a heroin replacement that gave people parkinsons awhile back but i could be wrong on that one.
anyway really those chemicals were known to science, just unregulated because youd have to be fucking nuts to ingest literal elephant opiates or ones that were never expected to be made outside of like a test in a lab, or a textbook.