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Finland explained himself in the comic, but in 2010 Denmark started giving heroine to drug addicts for free and it was such a huge success that it has continued until today. Because of this Norway has started experimenting with it too.
It’s a lot cheaper for society because the addicts commit less crime, they don’t have to spend money on drugs so instead they spend it on things that are more healthy for them so they don’t end up on the hospital as often, they have to take the drugs in special clinics so there’s no chance of them taking an overdose or using dirty needles and spreading diseases among each other, there’s always staff ready to help them if they want to get off the drugs, and it’s a lot more effective way to help more people because addicts come into contact with professionals who want to help them before they even think about getting help themselves.
Nobody wants to be homeless or an addict. Though they often end up getting involved in criminality because of their situation, the act of being homeless or an addict is not a crime in itself and the people deserve help like anyone else.
It also gets money out of mafia/crime communities. Really hard to base your business on selling drugs people can get safer for free. Really hard to spend that drug money on weapons or other dangers if you never made it in the first place.
“Bokuto-san?” He asks, chopsticks still full of udon.
“Hmm?” Bokuto doesn’t look up from where he’s devouring his okonomiyaki.
“Is there a reason why you won’t let me touch your hair?”
“What do you mean?” Bokuto asks. To the untrained ear, it sounds nonchalant, but Akaashi knows better – there’s a hint of nervousness in Bokuto’s voice.
The dark-haired man holds eye contact, willing himself to be bold. “You don’t let me touch your hair. When we cuddle you hold my hand when I get too close and you insist on fixing your hair yourself,” he clarifies, trying to be direct without seeming too accusatory. “And when we fuck, it’s more like you touching me.”
“Half of all our economic activity – all the mines, all the factories, all the power stations, all the shipping, and all of the ecological impact that’s associated with these things – is done to make rich people richer.”
“The world’s superyacht fleet uses over thirty-two million gallons of oil and produces 627 million pounds of carbon dioxide emissions a year . The world’s superyachts consume and pollute more than entire nations.”
“The grim truth is that the rich are able to live as they do only because others are poor: there is neither the physical nor ecological space for everyone to pursue private luxury.”
“The people who are actively cranking up the global thermostat and threatening to drown 20 percent of the global population are the billionaires in the boardrooms.”
There no undivided, undifferentiated “humanity” that caused climate change. It is the fault of the ultra-rich, of capitalism, and of an economic system that prioritises growth over all else.
A better world is possible. It doesn’t include rich people.
I know no one’s really on here anymore but after years of fic writing I wanted to announce that I’m finally going to be a part of a zine! For the Haikyuu fans that follow me, I’m going to be in Promise: An Osaaka Webzine coming out on November 5th, 2021. Please look forward to it – the writers and artists are all super talented, so there will be plenty of amazing content to enjoy!
Humans are cool and good actually it’s just colonialism and capitalism that you’re mad at
We’re made to tell stories and braid each other’s hair and build things and fucking help people and we’re just as much part of the earth as all the other living organisms on this bitch y'all just made guns and money and decided the world is something to conquer welcome to my tedtalk
“We wouldn’t have to deal with the Delta variant if it weren’t for a bunch of uneducated people refusing to get their vaccine”
No, we would still have had to deal with the Delta variant, because neither Trump nor Biden showed any interest in distributing US vaccine stockpiles internationally during the early months when it could have had the greatest impact in dampening Delta’s spread throughout India. Public health experts explicitly warned policymakers at the time that this vaccine nationalism would enable the global spread of variants. But this explanation doesn’t let anyone in America feel superior to anyone else, so it won’t catch on
Pfizer and Moderna have quite literally raised their vaccine prices after learning their vaccines are more effective against variants and are set to make 41 billion dollars more than it costs to make the vaccine.
People not wearing masks is a problem. People not getting vaccinated is a problem. But the bigger problem remains white imperialist greed.
