I mean, this won Trudeau 3 elections, so I'd say it's a worth it campaigning point.
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Best way to get the young male vote to be honest. Isn't this part of what made Ron Paul popular?
Ron Paul wass popular becausue of his racist newsletter back in the 80's. Everything else was just whitewash.
Ron Paul wasn't popular because of a racist newsletter. He was popular because the libertarian ideals he espoused were appealing to internet dwellers that hadn't experienced real life yet.
Man, I'm happy someone else might remember that time on Reddit which I could only call "peak cringe". Everyone and their mother seemed to love Ron Paul on that site
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To me, a European, he was one of the very few, if any, candidates that made sense and seemed consistent in how he voted and spoke. And I consider myself to be quite libertarian.
I don't really understand your remark to be honest, other than shoehorning the "he made a racist remark" thing into the conversation. Perhaps you could elaborate.
The point is that Ron Paul was a true, modern, libertarian in that his "freedom" and "liberty" shtick was always about freedom to do segregation via "freedom of association" and other such nonsense. Ron Paul created the libertarian to fascist pipeline because libertarianism has mever been anything but veiled racism
Your entire theory hinges on a racist remark that he didn't even write and was possibly unaware of. Unless I'm missing something groundbreaking on page 2 and 3 of that article which I can't read because it's paywalled.
Is there anything Ron Paul did politically that would suggest fascist ideologies? The word is thrown around a lot these days.
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Been waiting a long time for this.
boy if i had rights and benefits for every right and benefit Joe Biden "said he backed"
Boy, if you had basic civics knowledge as to how a president in the executive branch cannot pass laws himself but requires the legislative branch (Congress) to pass said laws that he would back.
Say what you will about the Republicans, at least they get results on their absurd culture war bullshit. Best the Dems can do for the left is ignore us completely and give us Tim Walz as a VP like we should be soooo fucking grateful
I don't think Tim Walz was chosen to attract left-wing voters. He's not center left or far left.
I agree with you that the Democrats tend to ignore the left, and it's incredible annoying, but at the same time in my opinion Harris is a better candidate than Hillary was. It's a small improvement, but it's an improvement. (Obviously this depends on your views on various issues, so you could disagree reasonably enough.)
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Actually the power of executive orders are very broad, and as of 2024, are beyond any limits of law. Official acts of a sitting president cannot be criminalized. He can absolutely order the FDA to immediately remove Marijuana from schedule 1 status, but he won't. What carrot would Harris have to dangle in front of us at that point?
For context, yes, I'm a dem, and yes, I'm voting for Harris, but fuck me I'm tired of such transparent posturing.
Actually the power of executive orders are very broad
Only if the Supreme Court is on your side, otherwise they make up some bullshit about it needing to go through Congress like they did with student loan forgiveness.
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In before it gets legalized federally and then some republican states start spouting states rights and continue to arrest people that are following the law.
I love how it's a bit of a stretch to back legalising a substance which has become legal in a fair number of states without any issue (that I'm aware of).
How many elections before a candidate is praised for saying something like, "I, unlike the others, am prepared to accept that the populace generally believes that vegetables are part of a healthy diet?", because we live in a world where the vast majority of candidates are just saying any old stupid shit that is viral on social media.
Those states still have dispensaries and grow operations raided all the time, putting people who work at them at risk. There's also the fact that people like me, who need it for medical use, are breaking both state and federal law by going from Indiana to Illinois to buy it. It could potentially put me in federal prison (probably not, but that is the way things stand legally).
The only way I can explain such stupidity is by assuming malice, e.g.: "We must put endless fear into the poor people. Our decisions are moral, theirs are not."
And because of that possibility for malice, it needs to be federally legal.
Cops should not be given tools of oppression.
I fear that cops ARE tools of oppression.
So you don't give them ways to make it worse for people.
If there was a law allowing cops to drone bomb places where they decided criminal activity was occurring, I would assume you would want that law gone.
I think 40 states have medical and 25 have recreational. It's insane that it's even a question about federal legalization at this point.
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without any issue (that I'm aware of).
Not only that, but states and municipalities have made a killing on taxing it.
Good it needs to be done.
TBF, "Leave it up to the states" in the context of recreational use is appropriate here. Extending that concept would necessarily include having extremely limited federal regulation, if any at all.
Medical use, in my opinion, should be federally protected, such that you can acquire medical use cannabis for a uniform set of medical purposes in all states.
100% disagree. First because it puts people in prison for spurious reasons and secondly because it's a plant. You can literally just grow it in your back yard. And it will grow really easily. It doesn't even take work.
You know what will totally fuck you up but is totally legal to own and grow and use? Salvia divinorum. You know what else? San Pedro cactus.
Even with shrooms, it's legal to own the spores when you're talking about psilocybin and Amanita Muscaria is 100% legal. It can literally kill you.
We don't even need to go into tobacco.
How does any of that make sense?
You know what will totally fuck you up but is totally legal to own and grow and use? Salvia divinorum.
Salvia is fucking wild. I do not recommend it unless you want to lose your mind for ~10 minutes or so. Like, from sober to "holy shit I'm on the wheel of fortune right now" in an instant.
I only did it once. Apart from tasting absolutely horrible, the trip wasn't even fun. I was laying on the ground and suddenly I was standing upright and was a cowboy leaning against the porch post of a ranch house. And then I was me again. What was the point?
To become a cowboy, very momentarily, pardner
But I didn't want to be a cowboy. :(
Space cowboy? Spaced out cowboy?
Well... Some people call me the Space Cowboy...
Then again, some call me the gangster of love.
Some people call me Maurice and that's weird because it's just not my name.
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I mean I would appreciate it if it were federally legal. I live in a state where its legal but I'm employed by the federal government so I can't use it without putting my job at risk.
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