Agree. Unless you find the people who did it, you’ll never know what the motivations are.

That said, we have a lot of reporting that has shown smugglers have been looking for creative ways into gaza, and we have a lot of reporting that shows Israel’s blockade has turned hospitals into a hellscape without proper painkillers.

They didn’t say that there were actually narcotics ground up. That claim was an unsubstantiated “possibility”

possibility that some of these narcotic substances were deliberately ground or dissolved in the flour itself

People are jumping to conclusions without evidence, and are ignoring the fact that this is one of the few paths in for smugglers, and there is a massive demand for painkillers.

Occam’s razor.

There is a tremendously strong need to get painkillers into Gaza. And smuggler’s drones have been getting shot down. Aid is one of the few channels in. I would expect that someone is going to try to leverage that.

There are also addicts that are trying to have stuff smuggled in. Prime example of this is something as simple as cigarettes. There are quite a few articles about Israel stopping and intercepting people smuggling in cigarettes.

But poisoning or getting random people hooked on opioids? It was loose pills, and a more expensive opiate. If this was a scheme to poison or hook people, it’s a complex and dumb one. If you know anything about opiates, you know there are far better and cheaper to hook or kill people if that’s your goal.

If your mom’s dying from cancer or if Netanyahu blew off your brother’s leg, and the hospital can’t get you medical grade opioid painkillers, are you just going to do nothing? Or are you going to try to work with a smuggler to help them out?

Israel has created a meat grinder and isn’t letting medicine in to hospitals. Desperate people are trying to do whatever they can.

I imagine that other news outlets don’t agree with the allegations of this being to poison people in Gaza. If someone was trying to poison the food, uncrushed oxy pills in flour is a pretty dumb and expensive way to do it.

People are sick and dying and are desperate for painkillers.

Also, smugglers have been trying to find ways around the blockades.

Medical supply / drug smuggling happens in every war. Addicts, and people who are dying and suffering from mangled limbs, want drugs.

1000+ loads out of those balls.

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Greenland should say “we’re interested, but we’d need statehood and voting representatives in the house and Senate” - which would effectively end GOP control of the Senate for a generation.

On one hand, the government should be looking at OSS. On the other hand, screw Microsoft’s shitty office software. If missing out on massive government contracts forces them to improve it, I’m all for it.

I’m just playing to remind myself what America’s dumb right wingers will be mad about when the HBO show drops the new season.

Oh they’ll pay all sorts of crazy tariffs, just like the rest of us. They just won’t pay them for fentanyl.

He’s definitely got double downs syndrome

Mr. Warp, set a course for space.

How is every American’s fault? Especially those of use who have and still organize and volunteer with organizations fighting against MAGA fascism?

The confidence

Retirementgone

My big frustration with my local event, which was big, was that none of the speakers knew how to direct a crowd into taking focused and specific action.

Registration sizes are going to be way under crowd sizes. I went with a bunch of folks. None of us registered.

Because…

a) wellness conmen don’t stop the con

b) cognitive dissonance for people embedded into conservative social and media bubbles

c) MAGA politicians never admit that they intentionally or unintentionally gave people bad advice.

Conservative bitches are jealous that Marcy is hotter than all of them.