Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

You want to ramp up the war on drugs again. I've been to wealthy silicon valley parties. If it were actually enforced equally, a lot of your friends would be utterly fucked.

Before I was around the wealthy, I thought they committed petty crimes less than the poor. Now I realize, they break the law all the damn time. They trespass and go urban exploring. They traffic, use and sell drugs with their friends.

I had to leave an apartment I'd lived in for a year because a home meth lab two doors down caught on fire. My next place was next to a drug dealer who had three young children who'd come over and get me to read to them on my smoke breaks. Whose friends? You're describing yours.

Ok, fair. Probably you are around different rich people who use less drugs than the ones I've met. If you really want to arrest the majority of the population of burners I guess you're at least consistent

I honestly don't know where people like you get off telling people like me who they are, who they know, or what they want. People like me can smell the privilege dripping off people like you.

Heh. I've been homeless and the city I grew up in had similar levels of out of control homelessness and drug abuse that SF has today. I've seen addiction up close and personal. I know how ugly it is.

Welp, I don't know what to tell you except that I think you're lying. I cannot imagine anyone seeing some of the situations I've seen and comparing it to Burning Man.

Believe what you want. The reason why drugs don't destroy the rich to the extent it destroys the poor is that the rich have access to mental healthcare and services that the poor don't have so that should they fall into addiction, they have the resources to get out of it.