• @conditional_soup@lemm.ee
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    You know, this is the libertarian argument for drugs and hookers for me. This stuff is already legal in the US, but only if you’re rich enough. I just want it to be legal for everyone regardless of whether they’re billionaires.

    • @Charlxmagne@lemmy.world
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      Cannabis is the stupidest example imo, it’s criminalisation causes more harm than good, it’s the kingpins and people profiting off of prisoners, pushing and advocating for continued criminalisation.

      Private prisons are one of the worse outcomes of austerity, it encourages laws like this just to send as many poor people to prison as possible just so they can line their pockets, the most braindead one being the conjoined enterprise laws in the UK, which is a perfect case study as to why austerity which is musks entire strategy for economic prosperity, is a grift which is only ever capable of working for your government if there’s a scapegoat which you can blame your economic strategy failing on.

      The only real issue I have with smoking weed is the lung cancer bit, but cigs apparently are perfectly fine 🤷‍♂️

    • @rayyy@lemmy.world
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      This stuff is already legal in the US, but only if you’re rich enough

      YES! However, EVERYTHING is legal in the US, if you’re rich enough or have some sort of connection to the rich - see Jan 6 folks.

  • @kikutwo@lemmy.world
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    756 days ago

    Hey, can’t a guy dance around the room with a fucking chainsaw without people making allegations anymore?

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      To be fair we all love our drugs. Unless you like to be sober, that’s cool too.

      Edit: Musk is a piece of shit either way, no excuses there.

      • @phx@lemmy.ca
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        Yeah but there’s a difference between smoking a bowl in the comfort and safety of your home versus taking mind altering substances while making major economic and policy decisions for a country…

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          I agree. He’s a major problem, no question about it. Not only because of the drugs either, but in general. The damage he’s done to your country is measured in lives lost, not money, in my opinion. The money part is just the tip of the iceberg in his case.

        • @yungyeazy@lemm.ee
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          I’d like to see more decision makers be under the influence to be honest. Musk is just getting hate because he’s “on the wrong side” against the hippies who at one point loved the guy a few years back. Societal consensus is fickle muse and sheep jump on the latest fad of hating someone prominent.

      • @Charlxmagne@lemmy.world
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        I’m pretty sure the problem is they’re so quick to throw someone in prison for doing the same thing and regulate what poor people are allowed to take whilst taking it themselves.

    • @Hylactor@sopuli.xyz
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      Well. I would argue that drug use is all about hammering reality into a tolerable/enjoyable shape. Fascists by definition also transform through force. The key distinction seems to be a drug user themselves become transformed through chemical force, where as the fascist forces others to change using violence/threat of violence. In both cases though, there exists a certain egomaniacal reluctance to meet the terms of reality, and instead attempt to change the terms through force. There is a very consistent common bond between the hyper wealthy, the tyrannical, and the drug dependant, to be very stubborn and narcissistic. In all three, the ego is driving the bus, and there is some corruption with self esteem. In all three there is a fundamental inability to accurately assign value. A lot of money/power/release is never enough. The only acceptable amount is “more”. And the compulsion to find more: wealth, or power, or opportunity to use substances, becomes the whole point of waking life. Until it’s just you and the compulsion in the world alone, and every thing and every one else is just a puzzle you solve to get more like a rat in an experiment. Long story short, people at odds with reality tend to use similar and often overlapping tactics to get by. What do the tyrant, the drug addict, and the billionaire all have in common? A singular focus to fill an unfillable hole.

    • @yungyeazy@lemm.ee
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      Everyone loves drugs regardless of political leanings. Everyone is just hypocritical when it comes to the one they like, even you I bet :)

  • @MiyamotoKnows@lemmy.world
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    456 days ago

    Give all of them legal access to any drugs they want in copious quantities. Encourage them to take more. Let problems solve themselves.

  • @Pnut@lemm.ee
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    When people do stupid things you might ask them “are you on drugs?” Sarcastically. In this case it was a serious question. At the highest level.

    Has anyone else noticed that we don’t have many dystopian/apocalyptic movies but way more documentaries these days?

  • @k0e3@lemmy.ca
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    The sad thing is, I think his sentences are a little more complete and coherent than Trumps’ even in his drugged out state.

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          It’s actually pretty hard, unless you’re like Matthew Perry and you’ve got a doctor administering it to you in the bathtub (while on a cocktail of other substances). You’re going to become incapacitated long before you can administer enough to yourself to end your life… It will fuck up your bladder if you abuse it long term though (and apparently he’s having these issues).

          The LD50 for ketamine is very high, which is why it’s used as anesthesia for toddlers.

          The real move would be for his provider to just slip a tiny amount of fentanyl in there…

          • That Weird Vegan
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            The real move would be for his provider to just slip a tiny amount of fentanyl in there…

            We can hope.