• 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Read the book Sythentic Panics.

    Talks all about this with wave after wave of synthetic drug scares. LSD, ecstasy, GHB, etc. All follow basically an identical pattern starting with a moral panic by mainly religious shitheels and corporate media.

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      3 months ago

      Why be legislators and make progressive policies (ewww hard and so boringggg) when you can just tell stories about who is worthy of empathy and who isn’t?