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Re:The Opium Wars Still Shape China’s View of the West by fredley on Saturday February 03, 2018 @12:52PM (#16298595)
I wonder how many rich dudes are at the top of the opiate pyramid in the US at the moment, profiting from the current crisis.

It's not an attitude I've come across before—attributing these actions to individuals rather than nations. It's certainly an interesting one.

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Re:The Opium Wars Still Shape China’s View of the West by gregpilling on Saturday February 03, 2018 @01:28PM (#16298782)
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a12775932/sackler-famil...

This family is at the top of the opiate pyramid.

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Re:The Opium Wars Still Shape China’s View of the West by throwawayopium on Saturday February 03, 2018 @04:58PM (#16299912)
I dated a girl whose mother cleaned their house. They had wealth I'd never seen before. Their house was massive. Like the basement was larger than any home I'd ever been in.

I was told he was a hospital administrator. But actually he was just a drug pusher. Which makes so much more sense now looking back at the level of wealth.

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Re:The Opium Wars Still Shape China’s View of the West by yakitori on Saturday February 03, 2018 @06:57PM (#16300419)
It's amazing how these greedy people destroyed millions of lives and they get to live the life of luxury. Sell weed and you are a felon. Peddle addictive opiates to the masses and destroy countless families, you get to be a billionaire.
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Re:The Opium Wars Still Shape China’s View of the West by mmjaa on Monday February 05, 2018 @03:53AM (#16307532)
Drugs have been weaponised in the West. Both 'legal' and 'illegal' forms.

Drugs are one of the principle means of social control used by the power elite to keep society malleable and repressed - truly. Both illegal - and legal - drugs have their covert uses in this regard.

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Re:The Opium Wars Still Shape China’s View of the West by njarboe on Saturday February 03, 2018 @01:13PM (#16298707)
I certainly have heard many people blame the Iraq war on Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Powell. Seems to me that the thesis is basically correct.
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Re:The Opium Wars Still Shape China’s View of the West by radicaldreamer on Saturday February 03, 2018 @01:14PM (#16298708)
The attention economy is similar, with a small number of rich dudes at the top and vast addiction at the base.
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