American eh? Nope, I don't recognize him. Do what you want with that one, it's fine by us.
Yeah, I understand. Look I'm as orange-man-bad as they come, but I'm tired of both sides trying to tie things to a president that they didn't actually have anything to do with. (And with project 2025 I know that Trump may actually decimate the EPA, the Chevron ruling already did incalculable damage to all of the agencies. And yet I STILL don't want to read about how "Biden's EPA" did something he probably wasn't even aware of.)
I mean, if Trump wins the election, it might literally be our last election. They have a plan to dismantle our government. So no, unfortunately, I think they're arguing in good faith, trying to use this tool the GOP has set up against them to save the country.
I mean...I guess you could parahrase it that way. I took it more as "Look, you probably aren't going to run into any weird answers.". Which seems like a valid thing for them to try to convey.
(That being said, fuck AI, fuck Google, fuck reddit.)
So you're anti-semantic?
I think most people misunderstand what they are trying to conserve, which is power.
Can't wait to die and find out God is real, and that she's a unicorn.
Down votes are because studies have shown that programs like DARE and the "war on drugs" didn't really make drugs go away, and that we need better solutions that address quality of life and mental health issues to keep people from turning to drugs in the first place. Also, saying we need to "combat" drugs is very adversarial, and reinforces the boogie man of "evil drug users", which helps the passage of overly powerful laws, and often make it easier to exploit minorities.
I also think the simplistic "[let's just] tackle the issue in a smart way" might rub people the wrong way, like "oh, well why didn't we think of that?"
EDIT: Your edit of "people don't agree with me, I guess that means they love drugs" is very assumptive, and close minded.
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I definitely agree that rent should be much more controlled and affordable. And yeah banks definitely don't need more money. But a majority of Americans have fixed mortgage rates under 4%, which makes a lot of them keep their old house when they move, and just rent it out. Which just makes it harder for people to break into the housing market. And houses are an investment that renters don't have access to, and that's just one of tons of things that keeps poor people poor.