JUST STOP FUNDING THE ISRAEL CONFLICT.
I would like for all of us to sit down, just for a short while, together, take a deep breath, and figure out where we’re going.
Just imagine. We could be an interplanetary species by now. Instead of solving problems, we instead create them for short-term monetary gains.
Unfortunately 80% of the country wants us to continue our support of Israel or to do even more. I agree with you, but we are the minority.
80% of the country wants us to continue our support of Israel or to do even more
Source?
Perhaps they’re referring to this: https://news.gallup.com/poll/548084/americans-divided-involvement-middle-east.aspx
But I think the phrasing is a bit vague here.
Roughly four in 10 each say the U.S. is doing “about the right amount” (41%) or “not enough” (39%), while about two in 10 (19%) think the U.S. is doing “too much.”
It could be that those 39% think that US should be doing more to hinder Israel.
That’s the pill I was thinking of. I misquoted it
Anecdotally, I can say this. I live in red country. Everyone I talk to is unconditional about supporting Israel.
Still though, I think if Trump were to come out tomorrow and condemn Israel and back Palestine, they’d all shit themselves, go home and change their pants, and then still vote for Trump. Seriously,
Ok. Well I’m an American Jew who’s been to Israel twice, and have been taught my entire life that it’s the promised land, and I say they’re currently war criminals.
Another American Jew here. I have never been to Israel, I don’t want to go to Israel and I do not support Israel, its apartheid or its genocide.
Sadly seems like Christianity is the biggest culprit for getting on board with genocide
They need all the Jews to return to Israel to rebuild the Great Temple so Jesus will return. But they’re going to have to kill me because there’s no fucking way I’m going to Israel.
You may have also benefitted from an education that prioritized critical thinking and empathy
Which is a pretty unrelatable experience for most Americans
Literally just a lie lol
I mean we all know this. It’s a matter of historical fact. It’s like living with a parent who completely gaslit the whole family. Everyone knows it’s all bullshit, but everyone has too keep playing along.
Not even remotely true that the number is even close to that high
It’s not. And when Trump beats Biden, you can thank the DNC for sitting on their ass all year :)…
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Who controls the economy?
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Who really controls it?
Corporations
If Trump beats Biden things won’t improve for Muslims anywhere.
Anyway… tankie accelerationists are a very small minority of the electorate and probably wouldn’t vote even if Biden did everything they wanted.
Let’s be clear, if Trump beat Biden, SCotUS will make a path allowing Trump to exile Muslims & strip their citizenship.
It can & will happen here.
It’s really fucking sad the genocide apologists wouldn’t just vote w/ their gut…
Lmao you underestimate the religious people in this country. Sure we have Muslims but they are far outnumbered by Christians. Christianity is a bloodthirsty religion. Their whole religion involved taking from others outside of their group. Their rules applied only to others like themselves, it was totally fine to fuck over other people. The other people are people who equate anti Israel to antisemitism and dont want to be accused of such things.
I misquoted the poll I was thinking of. It’s about 40% who say the US involvement is enough or that we should do more. 20% say we should be doing less. My point that we are the minority still stands.
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Congress controls the purse.
I bet he is going against guns to make absolutely sure that Trump wins.
Which is exactly why the DEA won’t
Does he think we are falling for this shit again?
Yet we will…
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Okay, name the candidate who has a reasonable chance of beating both Trump and Biden.
They legalised cannibis in NY and now my 79 year old mother is getting high at parties. Thanks Obama.
Unfortunately, we can’t without breaking international treaties we are party to.
I’m sure Biden will get blamed for that too.
Please elaborate further
They can’t because it’s bullshit.
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That’s how we ended up with trump. Let’s focus on helping the adults take back control and then we can focus on getting alternatives into office.
If you are truly for 3rd party, you should be starting local. We need a national grassroots movement to get another party enough support to actually have a chance at getting to congress or the house of Representatives, then and only then do they have a chance at the big seat.
Tell me you don’t understand math or chaos theory without telling me you don’t understand math or chaos theory.
Tell me that you don’t understand math or chaos theory without telling me.
Oh they’re going to put this carrot in front of us again?
“Biden stands to gain approval if he does incredibly obvious thing that people approve of.”
So he’s not gonna do it then? Great.
Next he will promise to close gitmo and support unions!
If Biden ended the war on drugs it would nearly completely clench at least his party’s re-election, probably swing the congress on over too.
Maybe for weed, but I don’t think that would be so clear cut for other substances. Even here San Francisco, the public is only willing to go so far with decriminalizing.
I would wager that weed, and maybe certain hallucinations would be bump in the polls, but for narcotics and opioids, ending the war on that stuff would hurt him. But maybe I’m wrong.
Ending it would involve more than lel drugs are legal have fun. It would be a shift to focus on treatment, rehabilitation, and prevention by treating social deficits that tend to breed addiction, those are proven consistently effective treatments. If prohibition ever worked we wouldn’t have weed, alcohol, and coke would sell completely caffeine free beverages.
I can’t even fathom the rationalization process going on with you folks with the fent and other substances, it really looks like a dystopian Ridley Scott shot when you look at it from the other side of the Atlantic…
Edit: I mean, we’re feeling with you homie
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I’m not necessarily against legalizing other drugs, but I would need a lot of time to research it and understand what studies have been done. There’s some substances which are outright harmful and people shouldn’t take, and I don’t think criminalization is the solution. But, I also don’t know that complete legalization is.
Off the cuff, I think I’d support decriminalized possession, but the material is still confiscated. Manufacturing however should remain illegal (other than for weed) because it’s way too easy to make snake oil and impurities. I’d favor official govt meth versus making manufacturing it legal.
All you need to do is look at Portland Oregon. We decriminalized possession with Measure 110 and everyone rejoiced. Now most people are done with it. Used paraphernalia every where, homelessness everywhere. (Yeah I know housing prices is the major factor). Crime… Fuck me. The amount of people that have been “assisted” with their drug habits are dismal. In part due to government hindering the financial support. The major part is the lack of desire from users wanting to be saved. ( This is the alternative to jailing of persons) Decriminalization of possession of hard drugs was/is a major fail here. Just my anecdotal “research”.
I mean we know people will do it regardless, no matter the substance. Substances are being thoroughly tested, and finally seeing serious academic and clinical research on their therapeutic uses, so that is actually going pretty great and showing awesome results (yeyy drugs!!), and I will never get over the argument that prohibition only strengthens the mafia.
Yeah you really cut out the leg from cartels if you get rid of prohibition.
I think as long as we can positively ID a substance as coming from a safe manufacturer, it’s fine. Street products cooked up in a trailer are what need to go away. That probably means the government subsidizes drug companies to provide them at low cost.
Fuck it manufacture it in government labs, make it taxable. How could that possibly ever be worse than the street wars we have right now?
Agreed. For that to be politically viable though we need to first render Republicans impotent.
Look, we can’t be adjusting our ideas to take morons into account, one has to have a clear image before one’s eyes want one want to achieve, or it ain’t gonna get beyond the idea stage.
Is this what we want? Is this what I want? Fuck yes, so we can fight for that, it is well defined and without bullshit, that’s a platform easy to defend, you know what I mean? Don’t give a shit what some would think or say, wars are not won by appeasing the enemy.
you know all of those “illegal” drugs are legal if you have enough money? There isn’t a single “illegal” drug that you cant get as long as someone slaps like a Pfizer, Novo Nordisk, or Bayer label on it and signs their name to say you can have it. Prohibition doesn’t work, we have a lot of history to show that, we also have a lot of history to know that treatment, rehabilitation, and social safety nets go a really long way towards stopping addiction and substance abuse.
Yeah, I think I mostly agree. Don’t think material should be confiscated though, that could cause people to avoid official harm reduction resources. But, I wouldn’t want to see private business, like gas stations, liquor stores, or “dispensaries” making profit from selling and pushing fentanyl, tranq, krokodil and stuff like that. I do think more drugs with low addiction and harm potential should be legalized such as shrooms, LSD, and probably most psychedelics.
All that being said all legalization and decriminalization must coincide with massive investment in addiction treatment, harm reduction, and probably housing. Ideally, the root causes of the drug epidemic should be addressed, such as poverty, lack of adequate healthcare such as therapy, people generally feeling hopeless because of their material conditions, etc.
Completely agree on everything except confiscation – which I agree is tricky. I think you confiscate anything that’s “off brand” to keep them off the streets, but that’s it. I don’t want some shitty chemist making impure drugs that cause serious harm. Those need to go. We’d need a free certified container program.
You know that there’s government legal meth, right?
Its brand name is Desoxyn.
Do you know what the first legal government meth was?
Meth.
Desoxyn is literally a brand name for methamphetamine, so you’re not saying anything different.
Wow I just went down a rabbit hole… I feel (pray) so many things would have to fail for you to actually get that Rx filled tho
It’s a very effective medicine, though. For example, in small doses it’s more effective than adderall or Ritalin for ADHD. It’s less common than either of those drugs because there is a higher abuse potential, but there is nothing really wrong with it either.
The key here is small doses taken orally. Taking it in a medical context is a very different animal than recreational methamphetamine.
Hm? Widen your scope of semantic salience my friend, I do say something different, but that’s just academia, don’t take it too seriously it’s not a challenge.
Our air force crews are often given one of these during combat missions. I imagine other military units use them when necessary, too. They also prescribe it to people with severe narcolepsy.
Huh? Sorry, I fell asleep. Could you say that one more time?
would be bump in the polls
Yeah and Biden could really use a bump
But enough about Hunter
Not to mention it’s absolutely the correct decision.
Honestly, people being able to get tested known doses of various drugs of choice would save a lot of lives and create a lot of opportunity to intervene and help people recover. Making drugs illegal just causes miser and funds crime.
For politicians, the morality and ethics around policy are more of a consolation prize.
And lose the +Police demographic. Imagine how many other demographic groups that spans. Not to mention, the voters who would go for that are in most part disenfranchised and can’t vote due to prior convictions. Which is a human rights scandal in itself, but that is neither here nor there. Except it is there.
LEGALIZE IT DON’T CRITICIZE
Wow, good job geriatric Joe.
Yes–good job for making the nationwide legalization of marijuana a possibility 🥲
Those likely voters will get stoned forget to vote /s
Leave a trail of Cap’n Crunch to the polls
Chocolate Milk and Twizzlers was my go-to back in the day.
Funyuns.
I’m rescheduling my marijuana to 4:20 to fuel the rise of dank brandon.
How sad that of all the reasons to support the candidate who isn’t a raging fascist, this is the one people care about the most?
Like…yeah, marijuana is great, but holy shit there’s a lot more important things going on in the world.
Take your pick:
White man in his 80’s, likes folk dance, great conversationalist, hates gays.
White man also in his 80’s, champion of birth control, proponent of extraconstitutional presidential acts, and wants to enslave black people.
Make sure to fill in the X properly, else your vote may be void:
I don’t smoke weed, and probably wouldn’t even if legalized, but I fully support its legalization because of the absolutely MASSIVE negative effect the war on drugs has had on minority communities.
I don’t really care if people smoke it or not, I care about the people getting their lives destroyed for smoking it.
It’s not just about being able to smoke weed, it’s more about the disproportionate amount of minorities who get unjust prison sentences over a fucking flower. I’d say to POC it’s pretty important.
I thought AOC had the POC covered?
The ven diagram of people who are cool with fascism and people who are cool with cannabis must overlap.
There’s people in prison for cannabis, doing decades or even life sentences. To people effected by these laws this is an important subject. And I bet States could still keep it illegal and keep people in prison if they choose to. But I can see how it might not seem like a big deal if you think this only effects whether it can be bought it in a store or from a weed dealer.
This will only affect whether it can be bought in a store or not lol…
Could legal weed save America from becoming a fascist dystopia under Trump? Headline of the century.
How would it become a fascist dystopia exactly?
Perhaps our definition of dystopia differ, but any country led by an authoritarian Trump with Project 2025 underway, where the executive branch is dissolved to favor a Trump dictatorship, I’d call that a fascist dystopia.
Source?
Miniature American flags for others
