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View submission: Thanks, Donald!
We’re from lacombe originally. Just full of crack head no lives
Comment by NoCardio_ at 03/02/2025 at 13:32 UTC
11 upvotes, 1 direct replies
That and Sal & Judy's.
Comment by Korps_de_Krieg at 03/02/2025 at 12:54 UTC
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Damn, a town with decades of generational poverty, completely absent infrastructure, and zero safety net has a drug problem? That's crazy.
I know a ton of hard working and good people from Lacombe. Generalizations like this are shit I've been hearing for decades, it's nothing new. I'll have to let my parents, grandparents, and sisters family know they are supposed to be crackheads and abandon aspiration though. Same with the people who gave me my first job, took me hunting and fishing, and let me stay by their houses when I was a kid. They are still there but aren't dope fiends so clearly they missed a memo. I'll let my old lady friends know they should be shooting up with more than insulin too.
When I was in high school we got pulled over more than once because the police found it suspicious "for white kids to be in that neighborhood" when that's where I had lived near my entire life. It's institutional level profiling at this point. I grew up off North Ponchartrain, I know there is bad shit going on in Lacombe. I also know it's not everybody and the generalization to justify lack of effort or care at any level in fixing it just keeps them down.