I really suck at knowing when I’m being trolled. I’m not the one in the screenshot but I’m in the thread. This comment was just particularly egregious.
I really suck at knowing when I’m being trolled. I’m not the one in the screenshot but I’m in the thread. This comment was just particularly egregious.
Unfortunately this is something people actually believe. Drug users are the last marginalized group that it’s “OK” to openly genocidally hate.
I think it’s much more prevalent than people even realize. I was riding in a car with the owner of a restaurant I worked with, the city council had been discussing safe-injection sites and similar issues, my boss casually said “they should just overdose, I don’t see why they are arguing about this.” He was generally a nice enough guy, kind to people, it was pretty appalling to hear. And then not long after I heard Trump mention ‘in China they execute drug dealers, that’s why they don’t have a drug problem there.’ It turns out a lot of conservatives believe in the death penalty for selling drugs.
All of my closest friends—who are in fact the only “close friends” I’ve ever had—use hard drugs, and my de facto best friend started out as my dealer lol. The love of my life, the most deeply beautiful person I’ve ever met, has been on and off homeless and addicted to heroin since they were 18. So hearing shit like that really fucks with me.
Same, so many of my friends have been the exact people that he was talking about. My family was homeless when I was young, not related to drug-use or any sort of crime, and people like him would still want us to be condemned to that life. It motivates me to fight more than most attitudes. This guy was a business owner, not the 1% or anything, but that dehumanization is so prevalent among the wealthy.
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God, I can’t stand these fucking ghouls who want people to starve and die because they don’t want “their tax dollars” spent on that.
Malnutrition isn’t fun. It’s destroyed my life more than drugs alone would’ve, and in fact it’s possible that most of the bad effects associated with meth, etc., are more due to how often its use is comorbid with homelessness and pre-existing mental health issues (I know for a fact that “meth mouth” is because of poor dental hygiene and the mostly-sugar diet of most tweakers/junkies*).
* There’s actually a stereotype that junkies love candy. I watched a room full of heroin/fent users having a conversation about their favorite candy, and how this one kind of extra sour Warheads dissolve the roof of your mouth.
It’s classic social darwinism, these people would have agreed with Nazi propaganda about wasting funds on disabled people. I’ve heard that stereotype about candy, I wonder if there really is any difference versus the average. When having issues with emotional regulation I find myself consuming tons of sugar and wanting to smoke a ton of weed, I could see the drive for drug-use and candy consumption having similar causes.
People just cannot properly empathize with others in these states if they haven’t experienced them, like severe drug addiction or malnutrition. One of the big things they focus on during in-patient treatment for acute emotional or psychological distress is eating well. Even if people are getting enough calories, I wonder how their mental health is being affective by lack of certain nutrients that the brain uses. The majority of people in the US at least probably don’t have very balanced diets.
Most days I eat barely 1,000 calories. Once or twice a week maybe, I eat a decent meal, and this keeps me from dying/actually starving. Instead I live in this purgatory where I’m mentally fucked off, my skin and hair are gross and fucked off, etc. I don’t have interests anymore and I’m always stressed out and bitching and I’m shitty to be around.
Worse still, when you don’t eat, you don’t really get high.
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