A major West Coast city is in a state of emergency over fentanyl. Figuring out how to fight the ‘demons' is its own challenge. (CNN) : Portland

https://katu.com/news/local/cdc-data-shows-oregon-ranks-highest-in-fentanyl-overdose-increases-nationwide

lol, look at that denominator. You can make any increase look scary. I too can also link to stuff that supports my view!

https://drugabusestatistics.org/drug-overdose-deaths/#:~:text=Maryland%20sees%20the%20greatest%20overdose,out%20of%20every%20100%2C000%20residents).

I love this extremely good point about misleading statistics that is getting downvoted, just proving how much people buy into statistical propaganda

I had the same reaction. People like to upvote the base rate fallacy.

Fox News is having a field day about this too & its making my cynical side pretty certain that national GOP lobby has very much infiltrated this situation

I love Redditors, to disprove the 2024 data about the increase of overdoses in Oregon after M110 was enacted in 2021, this fricking r-slur posts a site with data that doesn't look at any years past 2021. Then other r-slurs come in clapping like seals acting like they're amazingly smart and just owned this idiot right wing chud.

Perhaps we should try something different to fix the problem

Aktually the problem is Amerikkka bad so we should just not try anything and make normal people suffer by not doing anything about the anti-social elements including not even bothering to stigmatize it.

The worst part is they probably felt like they came off as super smart and intellectual.

bullets, not even a large number of bullets, could solve this problem in under a week. but y'all ain't ready for that.

>Portland

>shitload of fentanyl

Where's the emergency here?

Ten years ago this November I made my then-girlfriend cry with a rant about how much of media is selling something through the commodification of identities and interests. She thought I was crazy and asked why I couldn't simply enjoy the pop music about consuming products and engaging in brand loyalty (Hennessy comes to mind). I told her I was not born--and indeed, no one was--to have these conditions thrust upon them and sold as joyful pursuits.

I suspect she started crying then, not tears of amazement toward my basedness, nor because of the idea that much of her interests might have been picked up because of capitalist exploitation and its expectations of her in the role of wealth extraction, but because she realized that we were effectively done and incompatible. We broke up shortly afterward. I was just too weird for her. In her defense I am a real Tyler Durden about shit like this.

That experience is a very important one for me. Some modern applications of Marxist theory, or really any anti-capitalist analysis of certain wealth extraction schemes, just sounds nuts to regular folks. I find a tongue-in-cheek, half sarcastic joke about "being had" is the most effective sugarcoating, if anyone is interested in discussing things such as this article's focus with the uninitiated. Otherwise you might as well begin with "In the world I see, you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center."

Snapshots:

https://old.reddit.com/r/Portland/comments/1b4tsqg/a_major_west_coast_city_is_in_a_state_of/?sort=controversial:

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