sorry I couldn’t hear you over all these Lenin-branded dextroamphetamine tablets could you stop vibrating for a sec and repeat that I’m in kind of a hurry too gotta storm the winter palace with the boys before it wears off

The “meth of the masses” analogy would mean that it still has the unhealthy, deceptive and deafening aspects of a drug addiction, but without the “soothing last refuge of peace” part

Then the analogy is spot on.

Guess if we want to do something about it we’ll need universal healthcare so we don’t have another war on drugs