re: Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan: Philly Streets

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I'm naturally an optimist, but shite like this makes it real hard to see a future for our species.

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The optimist way to look at is at least these people are alive to potentially break the cycle. In most of human history, these addicts would probably be killed on the spot.

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've been dabbling around with the idea that certain thoughts/arguments spread like wildfire and basically become diseases of thought. I

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Richard Dawkins already coined the term for this: memes

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Ideas that become dangerous because they dehumanize others and eventually break out in violence.

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This has always existed. It's just playing on in/out group dynamics.

If you want to see that meme play out historically, just follow the constant persecution of Jews since...Egypt?

I have the same issue with Channel 5 as I do Soft White Underbelly. They both want to help, want to get the word out on how hard some people have it, their stories...but they never ask the important questions...WHY THE frick ARE YOU LIVING LIKE THIS? It's never really that person's fault, or it's never framed that way...at all. It's a step below glorifying that lifestyle.

I forget which interview it was with Soft White Underbelly (gangbanger that constantly said "On Mama") that the guy had so many gruesome injuries and life threatening situations from this shitty lifestyle...and I was screaming at the screen "WHY AREN'T YOU ASKING HIM WHY HE LIVES LIKE THIS?" He wasn't an addict, all he knew was GOTTA SURVIVE.

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I have the same issue with Channel 5 as I do Soft White Underbelly. They both want to help, want to get the word out on how hard some people have it, their stories...but they never ask the important questions...WHY THE frick ARE YOU LIVING LIKE THIS? It's never really that person's fault, or it's never framed that way...at all. It's a step below glorifying that lifestyle.

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The two ladies he interviewed at the end laid out a pretty good depiction of why they are in they're current situation. Both of their stories are really sad.

Ma muva, ma muva

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i didnt watch but here i smy assumption.

They got hooked on the legal stuff, it's too expensive, went to street shite.


Oh don't forget your boosters.

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One got tricked out by her drug addict mom at the age of 9 and started doing drugs with her at 11. Watched her mom overdose and die in front of her at 16.

The other was a functional addict that got laid off during covid got behind on her bills, ended up living out of her car until it got repo ed.

It runs a bit deeper than junkies getting high on the street and the reporter does a good job of humanizing the homeless. This is a really eye opening video.

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It's liberal cities that pay people to sit around and do drugs. You cant move to where im at, a red parrish, and set up a tent and get paid and fed to smoke meth and fentanyl.

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I'm happy you live in a utopia. Around my parts, you are just as likely to find people in single-wides in the red rural counties sucking on Uncle Sam's tit while popping pills and railing crank as there are in the city. In fact, rural counties around here average 16% of people on SNAP, and my urban blue county is only 8%.

The war on drugs transcends party lines and borders.

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liberal cities that pay people to sit around and do drugs. You cant move to where im at, a red parrish, and set up a tent and get paid and fed to smoke meth and fentanyl

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I mean sure, but the people are still doing meth and fentanyl they are just doing it behind closed doors or in the woods in your “red parish”

Which is the point of this video if you watch it, either out in the open or behind closed doors nothing we are doing, red or blue is actually helping the problem.

His theory is they (police via politicians) forced these people out from underground where they used be to out in the open…but then are not enforcing anything now that they are in the open. Why? Because developers are buying everything in the area block by block, and the open air markets force businesses and people to close/move and the property is then acquired cheap to tear down and rebuild. They then move them down to the next few blocks and do it again. It’s actually a successful strategy in general