China subsidizing Fentanyl exports

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, but we are way ahead of the Chinese when it comes to correct pronouns and rooting out micro aggressions.

and women’s rights.

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Anonymous wrote:China Building New Outpost on U.S. Doorstep, Leaked Documents Reveal

By Didi Kirsten Tatlow On 04/19/24 at 5:00 AM EDT

On a Caribbean island just 220 miles from the shore of the U.S. Virgin Islands, a black-clad Chinese security guard swept an arm at more than a thousand acres of woodland and a glittering, aqua-green marine reserve beyond.

"It's like a small country," he said in Chinese.

This natural paradise on the island of Antigua, where officials will study the thoughts of Xi Jinping, is about to be razed for a Chinese-run special economic zone. According to documents reviewed by Newsweek it will have its own customs and immigration formalities, a shipping port and a dedicated airline and will be able to issue passports. It will establish businesses offering everything from logistics to cryptocurrencies, facial surgery to "virology."

China, its state-owned companies and aligned private businesses are expanding rapidly in the island nation of Antigua and Barbuda and in other Caribbean countries in this strategic region long known as "America's third border," according to a Newsweek investigation of government and corporate documents as well as interviews with Antiguan leaders.

China's growing regional presence is potentially the greatest external challenge to the United States in the Americas since the Soviet Union set up in Cuba in the 1960s—and the U.S. military is concerned.

More: https://www.newsweek.com/2024/05/03/china-caribbean-united-states-antigua-belt-road-diplomacy-debt-chinese-xi-jinping-rivalry-1891668.html

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Who cares. He looks like a maga.

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Why are Democrats still supporting their open border policies?

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Why are Democrats still supporting their open border policies?

Anyone?

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Why are Democrats still supporting their open border policies?

Anyone?

Because we are not xenophobic bigots.

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We are throwing taxpayer dollars at illegal aliens, but we can't take care of our own. This poor young man is on his own. No vocational training. No advanced education. Nobody to take him under their wing, except maybe to exploit him. Bless the gentleman who is talking to him. He sounds caring.

But we are throwing money at the illegal aliens.

You know what the problem is? Biden is not running the show. He's a figurehead for special interest groups with zero investment in America.

Don't get me wrong. Trump is worse.

And a fentanyl camp outside this shelter. Imagine that.

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Anonymous wrote:We are throwing taxpayer dollars at illegal aliens, but we can't take care of our own. This poor young man is on his own. No vocational training. No advanced education. Nobody to take him under their wing, except maybe to exploit him. Bless the gentleman who is talking to him. He sounds caring.

But we are throwing money at the illegal aliens.

You know what the problem is? Biden is not running the show. He's a figurehead for special interest groups with zero investment in America.

Don't get me wrong. Trump is worse.

And a fentanyl camp outside this shelter. Imagine that.

You know, we can serve both our own citizens and asylum seekers in this country. Maybe if Republicans weren’t standing in the way of Medicaid expansion or food stamps or housing or any number of social supports we’d have a way to help him. But we have decided to make it as difficult as possible so he feels compelled to pull himself up by his bootstraps. This is what treating “the least of ye” looks like, right wing Christians.

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Fentanyl poisoning will kill America.
Thanks, Open Border Democrats!

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Anonymous wrote:DCUM is awesome: two pages on how fentanyl is the product of Chinese evils. Nothing at all about how the economics of fentanyl, the cheap synthesis of cheap chemicals, is just market forces in action, the same forces that our ruling class has treated for decades as indistinguishable from virtue.

Beating the fentanyl epidemic will take challenging our assumptions, not dropping more anti-Chinese racism. Or at the very least, not fooling ourselves about our ability to micromanage things in China. Maybe we need to focus on better (micro)management domestically???

Agree! How can we join together within our own country to stop this? It’s been said already that our government is already struggling within itself, so it’s going to be up to us to do something and speak up. But what message do we send? How can we as citizens help manage up here at home? Can we advocate for more tariffs on Chinese produced goods until they stop producing fentanyl for exportation? Can we request more inspections on items coming into our country? These may or may not be good ideas but what ideas (if any) can we rally around to truly make a change in this area?

Legalize Heroin and provide a safe regulated supply. Fentanyl is a result of the black market and need to smuggle.

When did heroin come back?

People abuse Oxycodone and Fentanyl because Heroin is illegal and seen as a street drug.

No. Oxy in the early 2000s is what created such a massive market for opioids. Doctors were handing it out like candy. When finally it became more difficult to obtain, people turned to heroin bc it’s effectively the same thing. But heroin is difficult to grow and smuggle. It’s not easy getting product from Afghanistan to here at a cheap price. Fentanyl became the only opioid available now bc it’s synthetic and easy to produce and move.

You can’t find heroin anywhere now. It’s all fentanyl. And it’s stronger than heroin or OxyContin. So the level of addiction is deeper. People are definitely not choosing fentanyl bc it’s more classy than heroin.

And China is a big reason why it’s so readily available and ruining so many lives and families

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Somebody please tell me like I'm five why we're pretending China is not waging war against America. I think it would be incredibly, amazingly stupid to get into a shooting war with them. But two can play at this same game. We can start by bringing manufacturing back to America. Overall a win-win.

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Anonymous wrote:Somebody please tell me like I'm five why we're pretending China is not waging war against America. I think it would be incredibly, amazingly stupid to get into a shooting war with them. But two can play at this same game. We can start by bringing manufacturing back to America. Overall a win-win.

They own our politicians. No need to fight a hot war if you’ve already won. America is done.

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Anonymous wrote:Somebody please tell me like I'm five why we're pretending China is not waging war against America. I think it would be incredibly, amazingly stupid to get into a shooting war with them. But two can play at this same game. We can start by bringing manufacturing back to America. Overall a win-win.

Pandas.

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Anonymous wrote:Somebody please tell me like I'm five why we're pretending China is not waging war against America. I think it would be incredibly, amazingly stupid to get into a shooting war with them. But two can play at this same game. We can start by bringing manufacturing back to America. Overall a win-win.

Pandas.

You know about Panda Eyes, yes?