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Opioid pills discovered in US-backed food aid, Gaza authorities say (www.middleeasteye.net)
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The Gaza government media office on Friday condemned the discovery of oxycodone pills reportedly discovered in flour bags distributed by “American-Israeli” aid centres.

“We have so far documented four testimonies from citizens who found these pills inside the flour bags,” it said in a statement, warning of the “possibility that some of these narcotic substances were deliberately ground or dissolved in the flour itself”.

Oxycodone is an opioid meant to treat severe and long-term pain, often prescribed to cancer patients.

The drug is highly addictive and can have life-threatening effects, including breathing complications and hallucinations.

The media office’s statement comes after several social media posts shared images of pills purportedly discovered in flour bags in Gaza.

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[-] lupusblackfur@lemmy.world 96 points 3 days ago

FFS...

60yrs ago, I was proud and counted myself lucky to be both an American and a Texan... Now, I'm just embarrassed to be either one of these.

How far both have fallen. I'm just devastated, chastened, sorry, and personally hurt I've lived long enough to witness the complete demise of both entities.

🤡 🖕 💩 💩

[-] Seleni@lemmy.world 45 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim.

To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade, and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy—a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.

There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices, more shocking and bloody, than are the people of these United States, at this very hour.

-Frederick Douglas

We’ve never really been great, unless you were White and Male. But we have been good at selling the grift.

Good on you for seeing past the lie.

[-] Serinus@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

I'd argue that a nation which has slowly and tediously addressed those things is great.

I know this is Lemmy, and you can also only say good things about China and Russia, so don't feel obligated to find any good in the US.

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago

I know this is Lemmy, and you can also only say good things about China and Russia

That's just .ml and their alts.

[-] Seleni@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago

Goodness no, I hate the Russian and Chinese government. They can all go take a long walk off a short pier.

And the fact that we can address these things, and occasionally change them (unlike China and Russia), is I suppose a bit encouraging.

But that’s small encouragement next to the mass slavery, targeted attacks, and disenfranchisement throughout our history, and so much of it by regular everyday citizens cheerfully doing terrible things to other regular everyday citizens, no (or very little) government involvement required.

And it’s still going today. The majority of people in this country refused to vote, or voted for a felon who ran on a program of destroying the constitution, over a PoC woman. Because they liked Trump’s message more, or, even more damning, figured that since they probably wouldn’t be impacted, it didn’t matter.

[-] EldritchFeminity 1 points 2 days ago

Stop simping for Daddy Donald and fascism, he ain't gonna let you suck his toes.

America has never addressed those issues and we've still regressed so much since Reagan was in office. Fuck the US and fuck the Flavor-Aid about "American Exceptionalism" they pour down our throats from the moment we first enter a school. I found the pledge of undying loyalty weird when I was in elementary school, and I don't like it any more 30 years later with all the other things I now know they lied about or swept under the rug.

America has never been great and I have never been proud to be from this country.

[-] Maeve@midwest.social 1 points 3 days ago

Critical support is okay, but if we dismiss our wrongs to the point progress stalls and reverses because of complacency, that's something that needs addressing, along with failure to be disabused of cherished illusions and delusions.

[-] Ersatz86@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

Well done the both of you

[-] P00ptart@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago

Texas has always been America's skid marked undies tho. Always. Ever since Americans moved there to specifically steal it from Mexico. This is why Republicans call Mexican immigrants "invaders", because they're worried Mexico is doing the same thing we did to them.

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Oklahoma has Texas to thank for their panhandle. Ask them about it some time.

[-] P00ptart@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Oh I know why. I've seen that show "how the states got their shapes" lol

[-] iopq@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

The Spanish "moved" to Texas to steal it from the natives though

[-] Tinidril@midwest.social 4 points 3 days ago

The Natives "moved" to Texas to steal it from the previous group of natives.

[-] iopq@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

I mean, current Europeans descend from steppe herders who conquered the previous farming population

Even if you're a European in Europe your ancestors were a band of marauding nomads

[-] Tinidril@midwest.social 4 points 3 days ago

That's kind of my point. It's turtles all the way down.

[-] iopq@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Yes, so because some people replaced other people doesn't mean you can't have pride in where you're from. That's maybe the most ridiculous reason to hate Texans

[-] Poojabber@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

My steppe herder is stuck in the dryer... i have to go help.

[-] P00ptart@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Also true, but that's not the subject atm. Both can be true. The subject here is that Texas, and by extension, it's history, and Texas pride is bullshit, as are most of its people. Born into trash, continued trash, and proud of their trash existence. Fuck Texas.

[-] iopq@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

But Californians should be proud to be Californians despite circumstances of the handover of California being largely similar?

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

Whataboutism is an extremely weak rhetorical device. Do better.

[-] iopq@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Name a country that didn't displace the original population to exist

Certainly not in the Americas, the Europeans colonized the shit out of it. Not even the UK where the English actively replaced the Irish in Northern Ireland.

Not France, the Romans pushed out the Gauls and colonized it and forced everyone to speak Latin.

Not even Lithuania, where the steppe nomads conquered the neolithic European farmers and took their women as wives

Not even Ukraine, where the early homo sapiens displaced the Neanderthals with only a small amount of mixing

[-] Maeve@midwest.social 1 points 3 days ago

People can't help where they're born, or genetic qualities, even if they're designer babies, because that's what their parents chose. Be proud of accomplishments you effected not off the backs of those who legitimately didn't have a choice.

[-] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 days ago

2025 – 60 = 1965

America and Texas were good back then? For who?

[-] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago

The US is working overtime at making the rest of the world hate them. Gotta justify those defense industry expenditures huh?

[-] 4am@lemmy.zip 66 points 3 days ago

We’re going to find out that some lunatic Christian dominionists in the CIA are the ones who actually laced all the recreational drugs with Fentanyl aren’t we

[-] TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 3 days ago

well 90% of the fentanyl that crosses the border is brought by a US citizen

[-] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago

Bad hombres

[-] Dorkyd68@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Oxycodone most certainly does not cause hallucinations. Severe and i mean severe withdrawal may cause hallucinations but the drug itself does no such thing. That's just false

[-] Witchfire@lemmy.world 55 points 3 days ago

Smallpox blankets all over again

[-] meco03211@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago

It's even better. With smallpox blankets they die and are freed of this mortal coil. With opioids they can get addicted and feed the machine until they are no longer useful. Capitalism baby!

[-] Witchfire@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago

I don't think they can really feed the machine. I think they just die an excruciating death

[-] Maeve@midwest.social 1 points 3 days ago

Just because they're not willingly suffering and dying to feed the profit complex doesn't mean they're not feeding the machine. See also: Soylent Green.

[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 33 points 3 days ago

You gotta be fucking kidding me with this. I’ve got room for like, 4 people, if any Palestinians can get out and need shelter. I wouldn’t want to come to this country, but it might be slightly better than Israel right now. Although that probably won’t last much longer.

[-] theneverfox@pawb.social 36 points 3 days ago

They cut off the Internet and cell service back when this all started unfortunately

[-] BigBenis@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Until they're deported to a ~~prison~~ death camp in El Salvador .. Assuming you're from America

[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

You assume correctly; hence the last two sentences I wrote. I probably should have specified the particular shithole country I live in.

[-] AmidFuror@fedia.io 27 points 3 days ago

Press X to doubt this wasn't just someone trying to smuggle drugs in to sell through aid shipments.

[-] bloup@lemmy.sdf.org 29 points 3 days ago

But how could you possibly make money by smuggling almost anything into Gaza especially right now? What are you going to sell it for, a ration of pita bread?

[-] iopq@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Just because there's a food shortage doesn't mean people don't have cash savings

[-] Maeve@midwest.social 1 points 3 days ago

Sure.

[-] MangioneDontMiss@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

they're pain killers.

the horror of sending pain killers to a war zone. /s

fucking morons.

edit: and another thing -- so many of you have been fooled by this vilification and politicization of pain killers that it has actually been successfully weaponized against you to such an extent that its hurt the patients that need them and corrupted your sound decision making during elections. this is the opposite of woke.

[-] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago

Of ALL the painkillers the US has at their disposal, they chose precisely the ones that cause crippling addition and deathly withdrawals? And hid them inside flour to... Keep them dry?

Yeah, no.

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 15 points 3 days ago

I've seen evil before, but what the actual fuck?

[-] SirSamuel@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

Opium Wars II, Electric Boogaloo

[-] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

Assuming they made it into food, would it be potent at all after being baked at 325 for 30 minutes?

[-] crumbguzzler5000@feddit.org 5 points 3 days ago

I'm sure on the outside of the bread most of it would be vaporised off or whatever but surely more in the middle of the fluffy bread it would still be an effective opiod.

This is the most evil act I've heard of yet and I thought that blowing up all of the hospitals was as bad as it could get.

[-] modifier@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

They’re like the microplastics of American society.

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