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  • No SNAP == more crime"? 🤬 That’s some self-hate prop BS

    On the contrary. The vast majority of crime is the result of poverty and social desperation.

    “Criminals” aren’t a separate breed of contemptible human. They’re mostly regular people doing what they feel they have to in order to make it through the day/week/month/year/life.

    It stands to reason that crimes of desperation such as shoplifting groceries, petty enrichment crimes, and drug use will happen more often when people lose their lifelines to barely being able to feed themselves and their families.

    That’s not a “poor people are criminal scum” thing.

    It’s a “the vast majority of crime is a result of poverty and other social issues putting regular people into difficult situations where they’re more likely to have to/think they have to break the law to get by” thing.










  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoScience Memes@mander.xyzCuba Libre 🇨🇺
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    This is fucking medical science, not politics.

    Everything is politics. Especially when everything you try to do is hampered by stupid and/or abusive politics, such as the embargo.

    You’re right that coming up with the drug is in itself commendable, but you’re wrong in implying that coming up with it while under the embargo doesn’t make it even MORE impressive.