No the one you replied to, but drugs is a decent parrel. It's a cultural and mental health issue. Criminalizing clesrly didn't work. The answer is beyond complex and honestly the only answer I have is a *long*, deeply assisted issue over the course of decades. There's been some sport stars that funneled a ton of money into their former/ current local communities with awful drug/ gang/ crime issues (mainly education, providing a light to a future, have a role model doing it, etc) that tends to have the best effect. Doesn't always work, but tends to be the best option. Notice a lot of times that drugs, violence, etc tend to come from those that have that have lost "hope". The hard part, is "hope" is very unique to an individual and needs more of that approach than a blanket fix. In a country as large as the US (i.e Texas is bigger than most nations), it's a tall order. Mainly getting at there's no "do x will fix it", and the governments approach via throwing money at *one thing* or criminalizing with an awful judicial system... that doesn't work. It's gotta be a small community at a time, and large cities, that's a really tough one. Let alone an entire state or federal. Education (especially public) has gone down the toilet, so that's probably the best place to start.. even that's complex as hell from a federal level. One community at time over many years is better than what were doing now, imo. Social media another? Idk how to begin to fix that one tho. Not trying to argue, just my 2cents to think about. That's all.

Yep. It was the JP sub that I'm in that got me banned, which is annoying because it removes all nuance. I like. JP for his early work about life, psychology, 12 steps, etc.. I don't care for the Twitter stuff. But yeah, Reddit being Reddit to assume first ~~ask questions later~~ never ask questions, just attack. Ironic given what they say about the right, as they lean people towards the right more than any of their "slippery slopes" people they hate will ever do.

I got banned from a sub I wasn't subbed to or ever used, that I had seen was a ban-spree for *being in another sub* they didn't like... hindsight, shouldn't have responded at all, but replied "yall are abusing your banning and it ought to be reported" Week later I got a warning to ban my entire account by actual reddit mods for my reply, stating I was "threatening their life" lol. Gross negligence of "power", and overall weak af.