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Wow, Time Magazine are hardline Dengists (hexbear.net)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This is the best thing they've done since they named me person of the year 2006

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

Not gonna lie, the John Foster Dulles name-drop made me do a spit take. This author has gotta be one of those old as fuck Kissinger types. Let's check his Wikipedia:

In Patient Zero (2003) and Narcotic Culture (2004), Dikötter posits that the impact of the prohibition of opium on the Chinese people led to greater harm than the effects of the drug itself.

what-the-hell

[–] [email protected] 34 points 8 months ago

Every “China watcher” is a satanically racist imperialist

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago

What the fuck, lmao

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (2 children)

prohibition of drugs in the countries i'm familiar with has been worse than the drugs shrug-outta-hecks

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

And those prohibitions didn't even result in Britain invading, which can't have been good for anyone's health

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Invasion_(US_1964)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

to be fair to my mom's musical taste the war on drugs didn't ramp up until after that period

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

There's zero chance this guy applies the anti-prohobition argument to the imperial core