That number doesn't really tell us anything about the amount of post/content generation that was lost. One or two persons could change the general tone of a smaller sub easily, and often did so.
If only those two hypothetical posters left it could very well lead to a downward spiral into whatever bullshit is going on over there now.
Some of the smaller more specialised subs I frequented simply don't exist anymore due to what happened.
I'd probably be okay with over-the-counter availability of opiates in regulated doses, but otherwise I agree with you. Meth in particular afaik doesn't have any medical uses that other amphetamines wouldn't do better, so I'm with you there.
It's borderline impossible to cure someone from an addiction they're not ready to fight themselves. You can lock them in, but then it's simply prison with another name. Give someone a reason and the means to live a better life and they have a better chance of making it, in my opinion.
You can probably imagine how it was to live through that time with chronic pain. I live in northern Europe and even here doctors went from reasonable to outright hostile at the mere mention of opiates. I had one doctor write angry letters to another doctor because she had written me a 3 month prescription instead of the usual one month at a time.
It's taken them almost 15 years to trust me with a 6 month prescription at a time.
I've been on opiates for the past decade and a half due to two failed surgeries. I'm not saying my life is perfect by any means, but I can guarantee that I'd be a worse parent and a lot less social without said opiates.
I do take tolerance breaks and I'm (usually) somewhat strict with my dosage, but still, it doesn't necessarily "ruin your life" even if you don't do all that.
Not arguing that it can't be addictive, however. It absolutely can, but it is also possible to live with it.
It would also be a lot easier if it wasn't completely bound to the current doctor you have to go through. Since my second surgery I've had ~12 different doctors, all with their own ideas about how things should be treated, and almost none of them have paid any attention to the fact that changing medication or dosages arbitrarily messes up my daily life every goddamn time. If I could just take care of it myself it'd be way less of a hassle.
Punishing people because they try to avoid pain is such a bad idea in the first place, as we'll do almost anything if it's bad enough.
Sure, that isn't hard at all, unless you got your head stuck up your ass.
You question the need to have adequate nutrition, access to affordable (or preferably free, as it is here) childcare, affordable housing and transport and to top it off, you seem to have something against a wage you can actually live on, instead of barely getting by month-to-month.
So yes, you definitely dehumanize a vast majority of the human beings that try to survive on this planet, and you do it in a really ugly way, too.
You're not wrong, and he's obviously using it to full effect either way, but it just boggles my mind a bit that they probably knew full well this'd happen and they let it, smack middle in Moscow of all places.
It's not exactly a good look no matter how much that demented fuck tries to spin it.
Didn't take long for the right wing talking points to creep in after all.
We're allowed to make mistakes. He's an old man and most definitely grew up in another world. He's clearly changed his mind on a fair number of things later in his life, which is hard to do.
No matter what you say there's only one reason to post the shit you keep posting.
That was an interesting read, thank you.