this is a bad article—for one, CEOs of private services, cops, church reps, and condo owners are inappropriately the only sources—and when it veers into interpretation it leaves out important histories of exclusion & conflates a single opioid with wide-ranging social issues bsky.app/profile/theg... - ThreadSky

tsk.bsky.social • 8 days ago

this is a bad article—for one, CEOs of private services, cops, church reps, and condo owners are inappropriately the only
sources—and when it veers into interpretation it leaves out important histories of exclusion & conflates a single opioid with wide-ranging social issues
https://bsky.app/profile/theglobeandmail.com/post/3lpw423zd7y2k

Reposted from The Globe and Mail

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kwardvancouver.bsky.social•8 days ago

"what are the impacts of the poisoning massacre on nearby businesses and others who have made it worse?"

its this disgustingly sociopathic framing. "the dying people are ANNOYING and they made a MESS"

kwardvancouver.bsky.social•8 days ago

and check out jeebuz' buddy. "we're all out of trying. hostile architecture cathedral is closed."

tsk.bsky.social•8 days ago

^ nine years into the declared emergency, and a reporter gets resources to take it seriously. but they decide to keep chasing spectacle and theatre—we deserve better, instead we hear about how those who make it worse are upset the people dying won't disappear fast enough

kwardvancouver.bsky.social•8 days ago

I'm fucken furious dude

this file is a scandal and the media is "ten percent less death, is that good? can we lock the rest of them up"

meanwhile
https://bsky.app/profile/kwardvancouver.bsky.social/post/3lpwgjfo7i22a

tsk.bsky.social•8 days ago

spending more on interventions that make the supply more unpredictable and complex than the minute amount put into undercutting it — and hey, why not ignore all the other public health impacts of the supply aside from the singular metric of death

tsk.bsky.social•8 days ago

woke up like this

kwardvancouver.bsky.social•8 days ago

dangocurt.bsky.social•8 days ago

Read the article and it was about what I expected.

Though I’m surprised they waited so long before they mentioned involuntary forced treatment. Always demonizing the addict as a problem to be dealt with and not as a fellow human being.

These are your neighbors, co-workers or friends from school.

tsk.bsky.social•8 days ago

a reporter doing work on behalf the beneficiaries of the drug war to somehow blame systemic & material emergencies on behaviour. blaming people for their own death before they are even lost.

drugdatadecoded.ca•8 days ago

These articles manufacture consent by building a case first, then revealing forced treatment as the solution. Here, centring the impacts of mass poverty and exclusion on the wealthy, then turning testimonies of people who use drugs against them by highlighting their overdose-induced brain damage.

tsk.bsky.social•8 days ago

politicians really seem to think that by renaming what is legislatively labelled indefinite "detention," and internationally considered a suspension of human rights, as "secure care" they're pulling a fast one—we know they just don't care about the people they dehumanize
https://bsky.app/profile/davethompsonvic.bsky.social/post/3lpwkja3w4c2z

tsk.bsky.social•8 days ago

https://idpc.net/news/2024/10/canada-17-organisations-condemn-forced-detention-plans-in-bc

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