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.
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
Lol
You seem to have gotten lost, let me show you the way back home.
Wasted opportunity to hit them with https://hexbear.net/PPB
Can you explain this?
It’s a meme version of the horseshoe theory which is a broadly accepted political theory. Essentially as you get more extreme on either end of political spectrum, you converge towards wanting the same policies even if their reasoning is in opposition. Both oppose Israel, for different reasons. Both reject mass media, for different reason. Both are isolationist, for different reasons.
This version pokes fun at tankies specifically but you shouldn’t take it that seriously. It’s a meme and not an actually supported political theory. But the joke is that the original post was essentially saying “china good america bad”, the comment was essentially saying “careful, MAGA uses this exact reasoning as an attack on China”. The joke is both sides landed on the same core belief that “China is winning because Americans are on opiates” but for different reasons. One thinks it’s because America is just morally failing in some way leading to opiate use, the other thinks China is intentionally doing it TO America. Same conclusion, different reasoning.
But this meme hurt some tankies feelings so it’s getting down voted. Isn’t the first time, won’t be the last time.
Ah yes, the far right opposes Israel and is isolationist, which is why they’ve spent months bombing Iran, a country on the other side of the world that Israel hates
Horseshoe theory isn’t broadly accepted. The Wikipedia page for it is full of academics pointing out how terrible it is as a model for understanding the far left and the far right, and this summarizes it well:
The horseshoe theory is not widely supported within academic circles; peer-reviewed research by political scientists on the subject is scarce, and existing studies and comprehensive reviews have often contradicted its central premises, or found only limited support for the theory under certain conditions.
The “stethoscope theory” is even less supported. Where on Earth did you get the idea that any of this made any sense?
Bizarre place to put this, and a bizarre year now that you guys have ripped the mask off and decided that 2 milliion Palestinians need to die for your political goals
fentanyl helps keeps the ghosts away from weather balloons, it’s like martini salt
That is silly. I did not flip the chemtrails switch on THAT balloon.
I did on the balloon they have not found yet.
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?
It is the century of american humiliation
Someone should be charging admission
The colonizers relied on other nations to be rich. And the rich will flock again when the nation dies.
Oh, how the turn tables
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”
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
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.
Only if you read things into it that aren’t actually there.
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
You’re making stuff up.
