People Who Find the 'Ahhh Here!' Junkies in Dublin a Problem Need to See This

MyLove4Satan

You'll never complain about O'Connell Street ever again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhvvxoIgNPg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhvvxoIgNPg

fryup

what a waste, better off dead? 😕

Wibbs

I'm so grateful that fate had me born and bred in a place like Ireland. For all its faults it's far better for most people than many, if not most places outside the EU and some places in the Far East.

Marty Bird

Absolutely mental, never ceases to amaze me the levels of wealth in the USA and you see scenes like that.

Cina

Crazy really. I remember watching The Wire years ago thinking the New Amsterdam story was a bit farfetched, turns out it wasn't farfetched enough!

Fandymo

This place is a shitshow, so don't worry about the shitshow where you live. Excellent logic.

Jimmy Bottlehead

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117837160#Comment_117837160

Same. We're extraordinarily lucky to be living here. I always contend that Ireland overall is probably one of the most desirable places to live in the world.

As for the video, it's viscerally shocking, but I've worked in homeless services and nothing there is unusual. Plenty of poverty, people without dignity or self worth, no hope. Its fairly crushing for them, and to a lesser extent, the staff who work with them.

Also plenty of people in the invisible chair :D

Strumms

see, what I’m going to do is... not worry about X street 3000 kilometers away, i genuinely couldn’t give a flying fûck wherever that is if they are eating their young or injecting Heinz tomato soup into their eyeballs...not my problem...

i live in Dublin, my concern is the condition and safety of my city, what’s going on here..

Wibbs

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117837174#Comment_117837174

The gap between the richest and the poorest in America is now greater than it was in their so called Gilded Age of the late 19th century and the late 19th century was a shítshow on that front. The average US wage hasn't gone up by much since the 80's and Reaganomics and their very wealthy have a myriad of ways to evade paying tax, while the middle get squeezed and the poor get poorer. The rich off shored labour to cheaper markets decimating manufacturing while feathering their own nests. If you search for living in your car on youtube the vast majority of vids are American. This says much.

Mad_maxx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117837193#Comment_117837193

That place makes the neighbourhoods in The Wire look posh

Jimmy Bottlehead

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117837279#Comment_117837279

Rich America has honed their craft. Its very impressive. They're continuing to win the game, while the middle slowly lose and the poor have already lost.

Should move to Bel Air

Trigger Happy

Those Kensington videos are a bit of an eye opener. Makes Hamsterdam look like Disneyland.

I dont really understand why that guy on youtube is recording them every day and uploading the videos to youtube.

fryup

the once iconic venice beach in LA is now a no-go zone

It’s very sad to see things get to that level of extreme. It’s also a bunch of profoundly failed political policies and socioeconomic ideologies that we need to avoid ever importing.

That kind of horror is basically the consequence of a society making choices to accept it and you can see elements of it creeping in here when you see those cold, hard and nasty attitudes to things like the housing crisis.

It’s very easy to pull the ladder up and forget that you’re part of a broader society.

It also worries me to see the U.K. under the current batch of a very extreme form of the Tories start to methodically pull away the social supports, the access to quality services, excellent educational opportunities etc that were, in reality, what built modern Britain. It used to be a better, fairer society than that.

When I see people buzzing like that in a dystopian hellscape it makes me think that doing heroin sat on my sofa would be pretty **** amazing tbh.

p to the e

Looks like great crack

Imagine the damage Nixon would have done if he'd served eight years.

His appointment of corporate lawyer, and free-market fundamentalist, Lewis Powell to the Supreme Court started the working American rot.

Ever since, the standard of living for the average American has been in a ceaseless downward spiral.

Here lies the result.

Trans Humanist

Parts of San Francisco are very similar

NIMAN

If ever there was an advert for "don't do drugs", this is it.

And those saying we aren't as bad here, well things that happen in the US or UK tend to happen here, it just takes a few decades, so get prepared. This is coming to us some day.

Ray Palmer

I have been to Philly and even the main parts of the city are very run down. It was about 10 years ago but friends there say nothing has changed. It reminded me of Dublin in the late 70s/early 80s. One person I know served time in the army and damaged her back in service. The treatment she gets in hospital is the cheapest and they won't pay for the back surgery she needs and she needs to raise $200k to get it done herself. She can't do it so lives in pain

Arthur Daley

About 4 miles from the Liberty Bell. Would Rocky pound those pavements today?

Lillyfae

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117837611#Comment_117837611

It's probably why Rocky was pounding the pavements!

God love them, they're knocking on heaven's door. Not bothering a soul to be fair though. Our own "ill people" don't tend to keep to themselves.

Del2005

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117837474#Comment_117837474

So where are all our crack houses? They were the 90s in the USA so after 3 decades we should have a massive crack cocaine problem for the last 10 years at least and we should be just kicking off on crystal meth about now as that hit the USA in 00s.

I'm not saying that we don't have crack or crystal meth here but what happens in the USA or UK doesn't always come here.

GetWithIt

There was not one scene in that video that I found shocking relative to what you might see in Dublin city centre. What I saw were a lot of very poor, sick and disadvantaged people going about their lives. There was no latent aggression. There was no-one going for a sh1t in a phone box. That's what you see any day in Dublin city centre.

corner of hells

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117837714#Comment_117837714

We don't really have many phone boxes in Dublin anymore , we do have open phone kiosks , I'm not sure how you'd manage a **** in them

Fandymo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117837666#Comment_117837666

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/crime/sex-demanded-for-drugs-as-over-100-crack-houses-identified-in-tallaght-area-40457719.html

Not too hard to find.

Jequ0n

I am surprised nobody snatched them off the streets to create a real life zombie killing game. Win win

GetWithIt

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117837747#Comment_117837747

There is / was one on the corner of Westmoreland Street and O'Connell Bridge. I've sat in a bus full of commuters at peak hour with hundreds of people milling about on that junction and seen someone drop their pants and use it as a toilet.

Dyr

All ahead of us lads, we've so much catching up to do on the diversity front.

corner of hells

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117837929#Comment_117837929

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.wearedublintown.ie/2015/08/removal-of-phone-boxes/&ved=2ahUKEwjGnNC0sODyAhU-QkEAHU1cBD8QFnoECAQQAQ&usg=AOvVaw07UCoN84eymg5Itd__Hl5S

removed in 2015.

Ray Palmer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117837929#Comment_117837929

How long ago are you talking? Pretty sure the phone box there is gone at least 10 years

MarkY91

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117837657#Comment_117837657

You see each person for 5 seconds max. How does that prove that they're harmless? WTF 🤣

JimmyVik

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117838083#Comment_117838083

That one was removed after an article in the paper with photos of a junkie shooting up in it.

I walked past that twice a day for 10 years and at least once a fortnight saw someone shooting up or burning it on foil as I was passing.

Surprised it took them that long to get rid of it.

Dublin city center is well on the way to being like those videos.

Cognitive neuroscience = the future.

No doubt in my mind, reinforced for me more and more as society acknowledges these issues more seriously (unlike McEntee, Carroll McNeill, Ryan, Martin, Donnelly and the man with plan Leo V., etc. currently).

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/crime/sex-demanded-for-drugs-as-over-100-crack-houses-identified-in-tallaght-area-40457719.html

From the formerly linked article.

"Mr O’Neill said dealers then target women who have been lured by the free samples, forcing them to have sex in order to pay off drug debts"

Sex is so closely linked to drug use also, which unfortunately also continues to be so poorly acknowledged.

It's funny I seem to consistently come across the best explanations of taboo subjects in scenes and presentations that were only intended to be satirical:

https://youtu.be/3GxfY_wah4E?t=125

RulesOfNature

The yanks spent over 2 trillion in the Afghan war, most of which went to government contracts with Raytheon, Boeing, Lockheed Martin etc. If you dont know how much two trillion is, for every day they spent in Afghanistan from 2001 to 2021 (7262 days) they spent 275,406,224 million dollars PER DAY.

Now imagine if they spent that money investing in their own country.

That video is what they deserve. The whole place needs to rot and collapse.

ShatterAlan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117839773#Comment_117839773

You need to work on your maths skills.

If they spent 2 trillion in 20 years then how does that equate to 275,406,224 million (275 trillion) each day?

ShatterAlan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058207004/people-who-find-the-ahhh-here-junkies-in-dublin-a-problem-need-to-see-this

The American Dream.

Riesen_Meal

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117839664#Comment_117839664

Are you trying to conflate the drug use in Dublin City centre with the Ballad of gay Tony in GTA IV?

Arthur Daley

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117839773#Comment_117839773

For the average working American it's a massive waste.

Mind you considering the relative size of country, the Irish Government has probably gone into debt by USD 10-15trillion ($250bn *60 times) in that time frame. And what do they have to show for it? A few motorways that the EU always get the credit for.

There's plenty of them at it.

RulesOfNature

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117839844#Comment_117839844

You deliberately ignored the entire discussion just to make a cheap one-up on syntax. They spent two hundred seventy five hundred million dollars per day in Afghanistan.

Just stop the pathetic crap man. You're not funny. No ones laughing.

Deregos.

That videos a bit of an eye opener alright, the demise of the American dream happening right before our eyes in 14 minutes. I'd also witnessed an obvious divide between the haves and the have nots in Miami a few years back . . . But nothing on this scale.

olestoepoke

I know every Junkie has their own story but watched a few documentaries on the opioid crisis in the US and some people were prescribed Oxycontin after serious accidents for pain and ended up strung out. Some of these pharmaceutical companies are ragbags.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117839869#Comment_117839869

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AmIRite?

Wibbs

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117839949#Comment_117839949

The whole system is the problem. On top of the opioid crisis driven by greed and a lack of government oversight until it was well under way*, you also have the US medical system itself. Many of those on such opioid were on them for conditions that could be treated by things like surgery but the patients couldn't afford it, or their insurance wouldn't cover it, but would cover the happy pills. Throw in a section of the medical profession that are essentially pimps for the drug business with nice kickbacks for them and it was the perfect storm. That over 60% of all bankruptcies in the US are medical bankruptcies and a million Americans file for such every year says it all. Something that is unheard of outside that nation.

*there's a very good documentary about it called Crime of the century A real eye opener and well worth watching. One crowd were directly bribing doctors to over perscribe their opioid for conditions it was clearly not meant for. Another lot lobbied the US FDA to allow use for these drugs outside of areas they were developed for. Another part that surprised me was that Tasmania supplies over 50% of opium on the planet to supply this market.

1874

This is the path neoliberals are dragging us down, when coveney and varadkar lie, this is what it is for us, for them its a job interview as the public face as a corporate shill/lobbyist.

nj27

They should have bought bitcoin instead of drugs, they'd be shooting up in a Ferrari Enzo now instead!

JupiterKid

Very sad to see but America has been going this way for many decades now.

The opioid and crystal meth etc. crises are just the symptom of a once great nation in (probable) terminal decline and as Wibbs opined, a deeply messed up and dysfunctional healthcare system.

Kaybaykwah

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117839913#Comment_117839913

Not to make fun of you but you did it again; I sincerely hope you meant 275 million dollars a day. There.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117838072#Comment_117838072

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what does diversity have to do with it?

it's not ahead of us at all, you can see these scenes, in a smaller level in Dublin any day of the week.

it's terribly sad

whisky_galore

Just like the States, it would be well within our capabilities to greatly reduce the numbers of "ah heres" on our streets if it wasn't for systematic failures and learned helplessness.

It's strange that despite all these competing private charities the situation doesnt appear to improve at all.