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[โ€“] [email protected] 34 points 3 days ago (6 children)

R.A.P.E

religion, abortion, politics and economics.

Avoid discussing rape too.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (5 children)

All drugs should be legal and regulated.

Is it worth it, drug warriors? All the unnecessary deaths at the hands of police/gangs/cartels and unregulated drugs of a unknown potency? Was it worth sacrificing all our civil liberties on the vain funeral pyre that is the United States of America?

When humanity is victorious in the drug war and all drugs are legalized, will drug users criminalize sobriety?

Will people high as fuck demand everyone to piss in a plastic cup to make sure they are high?

Will drug users ruin sober people's lives with felonies and time in prison with hardened criminals?

Will drug users dissolve civil liberties and prop up a bipartisan police state that gives cops a license to kill?

NO!

Who would want to do that to someone? To a fellow human for doing what they want with their own bodies? Prohibitionists... that's who. And we are not them

Nothing lasts forever drug warriors. Tick tock. We will be free one day, and you will wail and moan and your cries will fall on deaf ears.

Get fucked prohibitionists. Feel fortunate we want justice, not retribution.

Now playing The War on Drugs - Red Eyes

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

They've caused a lot of damage though restricting access would likely help with that. (Things like this usually get quite a few downvotes in my experience tbh so maybe it goes both ways)

My pretty spontaneous solution compromise would be to legalize more things but keep them well regulated to avoid addiction and transition to similar regulations for already legal drugs. This seems like a solution that more people would be happy with. Obviously there would need to be help for people already addicted at least for drugs with similar withdrawal symptoms as alcohol.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago

how meat is treated.

[โ€“] [email protected] 25 points 3 days ago (5 children)

People of color seem to perform amazing in athletics compared to other races in America (see: American football, basketball). Makes me think that Americans hyper-evolved their slaves by selective breeding. Unfortunate and extremely unethical, but maybe possible? Idk.

[โ€“] [email protected] 35 points 3 days ago

It's possible it's for other reasons, though. Black Americans are generally poorer than other Americans, and success in sports is a ticket out of poverty that is accessible to people in that position. It could also be a cultural thing; I doubt Finns are genetically predisposed to be exceptional drivers, but they are still wildly over-represented at the top level of motorsports for such a small population

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

I'd believe it if a good portion of black americans I've seen are tall and muscular, but I'd say their proportions are similar to their white american counterparts, i.e. a spectrum.

I think they just want it more, and its one of the few paths to success they have.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Communism & Palestine

[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

approaching literally any ideology from first principals

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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

Animal rights

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (3 children)

"I've asked ChatGPT about xyz" , and "how to use chatGPT for xyz" in my experience gets me downvotes fast.

People are quick to presume you have no ability to fact check anything and that you will be following its advice blindly, (which mind you - you were never asking for in the first place) instead of asking a human, ever ( for example about medical conditions but not limited to that topic). People presume you are trying to eliminate the human factor out of the equation completely and are quick to remind you of your sins, god forbid you ever use a chatbot to test ideas, ask for a summary on a topic so you can expand your research later or get creative with it in any way. If you do, most people don't like to know.

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