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(DIR) Post #AkhhPSg4AbqYl3EhCC by jon_alper@mastodon.online
2024-08-04T22:49:11Z
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The idea that, if we vote and successfully elect Harris we can never think of Trump again is as foolish as it is dangerous.Trump’s engine (Bannon, his donor base, Jones etc.), his kids, Ivanka will all continue and they will eventually rally around someone smarter, younger, more effectively closeted in their indiscretions and they’ll win if we can’t stop being self defeating idiots.
(DIR) Post #AkhhPTa4oMeLYlRQUy by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2024-08-06T22:18:16Z
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@jon_alper> they’ll win if we can’t stop being self defeating idiotsThe long term strategy probably involves reaching across the aisle and helping principled, grassroots Republicans take back the GoP from the Tea Party insurrectionists.
(DIR) Post #AkhhbpyLO1CmTqgcfg by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2024-08-06T22:20:11Z
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@jon_alper> they’ll win if we can’t stop being self defeating idiotsThe long term strategy probably involves reaching across the aisle and helping anti-authoritarian, grassroots Republicans take back the GoP from the Tea Party insurrectionists.https://theauthoritarians.org/comment-on-the-tea-party-movement/
(DIR) Post #AkhiWOMKivb9LWsHom by jon_alper@mastodon.online
2024-08-06T22:30:42Z
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@strypey It also has to include showing some respect for individual rights. Women’s reproductive freedom is the obvious correct position but the Dems always seem content to stop there. How about the right to euthanasia? Self defense? Privacy? Assembly? Ending Civil asset forfeiture, the implementation of protective orders without due process, ‘sin taxes’… The left tend to be very willing to compromise rights and protections based on flimsy rationalizations about ‘safety’.
(DIR) Post #AknwT7Sre5guO11TAO by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2024-08-09T22:35:19Z
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@jon_alper > It also has to include showing some respect for individual rightsFederal drug law reform to end the War on Some Drugs?
(DIR) Post #AkoCG4fYKGkPDcl81Q by jon_alper@mastodon.online
2024-08-10T01:32:09Z
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@strypey Sure but I only care about it from the perspective on the wildly inequitable incarceration of poor and brown people on petty drug charges. Most people pushing for marijuana legalization are politically naive at best rather than bringing any kind of larger context to the issue. At the extremes of this are some particular idiots I’ve met who want pot legal but tobacco banned.
(DIR) Post #AkuHIkh0ighKqoIT44 by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2024-08-12T23:57:00Z
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@jon_alper> I only care about it from the perspective on the wildly inequitable incarceration of poor and brown people on petty drug chargesThat seems... narrow. What about quality control? A way of reducing harm that's all but impossible in a black market. What about taxes from regulated commercial supply as a funding source for public healthcare and education? > pot legal but tobacco bannedYes, this is hypocritical, but to be fair, cannabis the less harmful of the 2 by a country mile.
(DIR) Post #AkvW80AUXDqm8GNVLc by jon_alper@mastodon.online
2024-08-13T14:17:39Z
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@strypey Aside medical uses, (M.D. supervision) I don’t care about quality control. I was anything but straight edge but drugs (alcohol included) are destructive. It’s not my tax $’s job to make it safe-ER. If gov. wants to get into purity/dosage guarantees for revenue? Business is business.Pot is only ‘less harmful’ (to lungs etc.) because you smoke less. It’s way more harmful cognitively & it creates more hazard to those around high people. (Driving etc.) Legalize because liberty. Period.
(DIR) Post #Al6uAwwXW6vKdaLlGi by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2024-08-19T02:09:04Z
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(1/?)@jon_alper> drugs (alcohol included) are destructiveThis depends entirely on what drug, in which form, at what purity, and so on. Alcohol, like opioids, can be highly destructive, but both have safe dosages.Cannabis, MDMA and psychedelics can be harmful if mis-used, but are relatively safe at standard doses. In a black market, lacking quality control, people seeking these are often sold highly dangerous drugs (eg synthetic cannabinoids, bath salts), creating prohition-related harm.
(DIR) Post #Al6uB1iBmtPpQWfs5w by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2024-08-19T02:09:04Z
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(2/?)@jon_alper> It’s not my tax $’s job to make it safe-ERAvoidable drug-related harm costs the public money in a number of ways. Even in countries unfortunate enough to lack a functioning public health system, it uses up police time, and so on.More importantly, applying quality control to all supply of drugs - regardless of use - reduces avoidable human suffering. For both the person using the drug(s) and anyone who cares about them.
(DIR) Post #Al6uB3sti3AaAJhS40 by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2024-08-19T02:09:05Z
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(3/3)@jon_alper> Pot is only ‘less harmful’ (to lungs etc.) because you smoke less. It’s way more harmful cognitively & it creates more hazard to those around high people. (Driving etc.)What century are you living in? This is all based on Nixon-era propaganda, and so full of factual errors I don't know where to start. Maybe here?https://www.drugscience.org.uk/
(DIR) Post #Al7hf9mJFyU2szbAEC by jon_alper@mastodon.online
2024-08-19T11:23:31Z
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@strypey titration is comprise. Enough to medically efficacious vessels an ‘acceptable’ level/frequency of side effects. W/ recreationnal drugs, it’s ’high enough’ vs.& side effects. Recreational drugs are intrinsically destructive. g‘high reduction’. People (adults) have an absolute right to both harm and defend themselves.Government’s power must bill go only as far as necessary to protect the exercise of those rights by one person from impinging on the rights of another.
(DIR) Post #AlLCrYEjlkyDqrlS88 by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2024-08-25T23:44:28Z
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@jon_alper> Recreational drugs are intrinsically destructiveCaffeine is a recreational drug. Sugar is recreational and intrinsically destructive. Is it a drug?
(DIR) Post #AlLV0ogzkrJIfZY87k by jon_alper@mastodon.online
2024-08-26T03:07:49Z
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@strypey Caffeine: it can be but, a matter of degree. Compared to pot? It’s poo qSugar?!? Fructose? Glucose? Dextrose? Sucrose? No