Half of us....Let's not other-ize them because I'm assuming you are also American, and like it or not they are our fucking peers.
One way or another they are our fucking problem to deal with unfortunately. I know you didn't really mean it like that most likely, but I think it is important to recognize that we have to accept the reality of the society we are living in no matter how much we fucking hate it.
Yeah, I'm wondering about that too...
Never heard about Tab Clear, but the Crystal Pepsi reference checks out ✔️
I also downvoted you both as a show of support for the consistent application of your principals, and because I also think Vaush is an annoying fuck.
I didn't even know about most of the rage-bait controversy shit from this thread. I just hated him because he's the living embodiment of the Well Ackshually meme....
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Dog Walk:
(verb)
When you’re beating someone’s ass and you’re dragging them as if you were walking a dog.
“Ima dog walk yo ass if you keep talkin shit!”
“He got dog walked in that ~~fight~~ DEBATE last night.”
You fail to take into account that basically 90% of the cannabis industry is owned by white people, many of whom are alt-right counterculturists, and more of them than you'd think are pro-Trump.
It turns out that an industry built around people with a tenuous appreciation for the law are often easily coopted by a demagogue who constantly threatens to overthrow the government.
They serve the same masters, and are on the same team. It doesn't matter what all of the 2025'ers think they are going to get. Trump is going to do what is good for him to remain in power, and removing other white people from positions of ownership in a sin-taxed industry that is coopted by the government isn't one of those things.
What you believe is irrelevant. I have seen the beast from the inside, and I can tell you for a fact that cannabis is staying legal as long as it is profitable for the white robber barons.
It is billions in taxes per year.
That is already happening. They don't need to make cannabis illegal again in order to monopolize the industry. All that takes is time, money, and effective lobbyists.
Also: actual fucking traitor.
The thing I believe you are missing in your assessment is that it took outside forces to overcome Nazism in Germany, and Fascism in Europe more broadly.
Nobody is coming to save us this time. We are the world's leading nuclear superpower. So, any attempt to change course is going to have to come from within unless we are talking about destroying civilization entirely.
I don't see a way that outside diplomacy is going to have any effect either. We must accept the reality we are in, and fight back by using grassroots methods to stop the radicalization of our peers.
I grant you that it feels like a hopeless battle at times, but so do all wars of attrition. I understand the anger and the fear. It is justified. However, we need to be clear eyed and sober minded about the reality we are living in. So, I think my original point still stands.