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Posted by Tabernacles E. Townsfolk (@billstrudel) on June 13, 2026, 1:46 a.m.
but my default response to every moral panic is to assume there’s a kernel of truth hyped up ad absurdum (remember rainbow fentanyl*?), because my mom bought into all of them Dungeons and Dragons. The Simpsons. Mortal Kombat. MTV. The list of things I wasn’t allowed to for stupid-ass reasons is astounding, and my default assumption is “eh, it’s probably a tempest in a teapot”. This has nothing to do with Andrew Tate.
- a specific cartel cook added cheap food coloring when pressing pills from powder fentanyl to distinguish dosages (1mg, orange, 2mg, Red 40, 3mg, blue, the like), which led to bags of brightly-colored fentanyl in I think a single drug bust, which the local police deduced were done so to appeal to children. A variant had people handing them out as candy for Halloween.