• Bongo_Stryker
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    7 months ago

    What Tyler Durden doesn’t tell you is that 260 million dollars were allocated for treatment, housing and employment help, naloxone distribution and other services to help people escape addiction and what happened? Foot dragging happened, and little to no effort was put into actually assisting people in trouble. Very little of the allocated funds were used for their intended purpose, cops got no additional training (despite what pro-cop liars will tell you), aside from “write a ticket”.

    What a shocker that decriminalizing and doing nothing else didn’t work out well. The solution? Go back to the war on drugs as if that worked.

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        7 months ago

        “I don’t need to someone shooting up at the local gas station”

        Conservatives prefer shooting to happen in schools, not gas stations.

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        7 months ago

        It wasn’t democrats dragging their feet (or straight up obstructing) on treatment and social services for Americans in need.

        The problem with democrats is that they are dumb for continually trying to collaborate with republicans, who don’t want to cooperate on anything.

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                I would accuse you of playing dumb but I don’t think you are playing.

                You should understand that aside from the big cities, most of the state leans right. You should also be able to grasp that local officials have some influence over local political issues, like the implementation of various ballot measures. But you’re so hot to blame them dang ole democrats for ever bad thing, you want to act like you don’t know this?

                I wont argue against the fact that democrats are largely useless, but how is going back to the war on drugs a better solution?