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Skypie
Sep 28, 2008

FisheyStix posted:

Eat the loving war on drugs.

Wouldn't recommend it

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RedSpider
May 12, 2017

Boner Zone posted:

an earnest rant at the burger king drive through speaker can be risky, but sometimes you just might reach someone's soul on the other end of that warbling piece of poo poo

I live in the South too

You claim to be this great crusader against racism yet you mock a low-skilled industry with substantial numbers of black employees due to institutional racism. Kindly gently caress off

FisheyStix
Jul 2, 2008

This avatar was paid for by the Silent Majority.

Skypie posted:

Wouldn't recommend it

Too.... too late :catdrugs:

Punk da Bundo
Dec 29, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
lol end the war on drugs ? Jeff sessions who hates weed is the attorney general lol owned

a bone to pick
Sep 14, 2011

by FactsAreUseless

Boner Zone posted:

I'd hope so too, and yet this thread is all about how awesome the man is who appointed Jefferson Beauregard Sessions to AG.

I don't think that's what this thread is.

This thread is here because despite the constant negativity and apocalyptic news that you hear every day, Trump is fine, and so is our country.

Skypie
Sep 28, 2008

FisheyStix posted:

Too.... too late :catdrugs:

Ah man, you know what? I cannot give catnip to one of our cats. Our orange tabby turns into a little goofball on it and wants to play/cuddle with you.

But our gray manx goes into full murder-beast mode and becomes a whirling dervish of teeth and claws that will violently attack anything in his immediate vicinity.

Yug
Aug 6, 2016

by FactsAreUseless
The bad trump threads are freaking out about the latest fake russia thing.

Boner Zone
Jan 14, 2006

by Nyc_Tattoo

RedSpider posted:

I live in the South too

You claim to be this great crusader against racism yet you mock a low-skilled industry with substantial numbers of black employees due to institutional racism. Kindly gently caress off

lmfao think you're reaching just a fuckin bit there bud?

first I'm not some kind of crusader because I speak out about racism or the prevalence of white nationalist thought, and second I'm not mocking any profession by comparing my previous effort post to a pointless political rant at a drive thru window you humongous dipshit

Yug
Aug 6, 2016

by FactsAreUseless

Boner Zone posted:

lmfao think you're reaching just a fuckin bit there bud?

first I'm not some kind of crusader because I speak out about racism or the prevalence of white nationalist thought, and second I'm not mocking any profession by comparing my previous effort post to a pointless political rant at a drive thru window you humongous dipshit

Can you trump haters please stop these racist meltdowns?

FisheyStix
Jul 2, 2008

This avatar was paid for by the Silent Majority.

Skypie posted:

Ah man, you know what? I cannot give catnip to one of our cats. Our orange tabby turns into a little goofball on it and wants to play/cuddle with you.

But our gray manx goes into full murder-beast mode and becomes a whirling dervish of teeth and claws that will violently attack anything in his immediate vicinity.

Aw, a mean cat is a sad cat. If only nip was catweed and not catcrack. :(

e: Well, not necessarily a sad cat, he might be way too happy, as well. Cats are like that.

Boner Zone
Jan 14, 2006

by Nyc_Tattoo

Yug posted:

Can you trump haters please stop these racist meltdowns?

I'm the image folder of black crime stats spunky keeps on hand

RedSpider
May 12, 2017

Boner Zone posted:

lmfao think you're reaching just a fuckin bit there bud?

first I'm not some kind of crusader because I speak out about racism or the prevalence of white nationalist thought, and second I'm not mocking any profession by comparing my previous effort post to a pointless political rant at a drive thru window you humongous dipshit

It's clear that you don't think much of minimum wage employees in fast food jobs struggling to make ends meet, regardless. How about a little more self-awareness next time, you pompous oval office.

Boner Zone
Jan 14, 2006

by Nyc_Tattoo

RedSpider posted:

It's clear that you don't think much of minimum wage employees in fast food jobs struggling to make ends meet, regardless. How about a little more self-awareness next time, you pompous oval office.

Fast food workers kick rear end and deserve $15 an hour and you can gently caress right off with this mess friend

Boner Zone
Jan 14, 2006

by Nyc_Tattoo
actually they deserve whatever a living wage is, I don't want to arbitrarily limit that at just $15

Skypie
Sep 28, 2008

FisheyStix posted:

Aw, a mean cat is a sad cat. If only nip was catweed and not catcrack. :(

e: Well, not necessarily a sad cat, he might be way too happy, as well. Cats are like that.

The manx is actually normally a super lovable critter. He loves to cuddle up with you, he's really friendly to EVERYONE, and you can pretty much do anything with him because we did a lot of work with him as a kitten.

But it's all out the window once he's on the nip

FisheyStix
Jul 2, 2008

This avatar was paid for by the Silent Majority.

Skypie posted:

The manx is actually normally a super lovable critter. He loves to cuddle up with you, he's really friendly to EVERYONE, and you can pretty much do anything with him because we did a lot of work with him as a kitten.

But it's all out the window once he's on the nip

A wicked nip. Beastnip. :catstare:

Skypie
Sep 28, 2008

FisheyStix posted:

A wicked nip. Beastnip. :catstare:

A shameful nip.

He used to play fetch, but now he's an rear end in a top hat about it because the tabby learned to play also

T.S. Smelliot
Apr 23, 2010

by FactsAreUseless

Big Beef City posted:

Why are you hanging out in your garage at 3am?

Because I'm American and can do what I goddamn well please? Next question.

T.S. Smelliot
Apr 23, 2010

by FactsAreUseless

FisheyStix posted:

We like to joke around here in the Trump's Fine thread, but if I can be serious for a second here, floridians are definitely another race. And by that, I mean that they are a race other than 'human'.

Science has proved this.

*swamp begins bubbling*

*water explodes, slithers through reeds*

HEY BUDDY you take that back!

FisheyStix
Jul 2, 2008

This avatar was paid for by the Silent Majority.

T.S. Smelliot posted:

*swamp begins bubbling*

*water explodes, slithers through reeds*

HEY BUDDY you take that back!

See how carefully it mimics human speech? It's a clever trick, but remember, they aren't sentient. They can't understand what you're saying, they just know the sounds that seem right in response- they're chinese rooms. Turing tests made flesh. Don't let your guard down among these... floridians.

Skypie
Sep 28, 2008

T.S. Smelliot posted:

*swamp begins bubbling*

*water explodes, slithers through reeds*

HEY BUDDY you take that back!

What are you, Killer Croc from Batman?

T.S. Smelliot
Apr 23, 2010

by FactsAreUseless

Wolfsheim posted:

I'm sure jeff sessions is right on track with that

And yet somehow it is the fault of liberals obv

I like how the liberal "opposition" to the drug war boils down to legalize it mannnnn :2bong:

T.S. Smelliot
Apr 23, 2010

by FactsAreUseless

Boner Zone posted:

lmao yeah black people were doing just great in America before the globalists got their grimy hands on them

seriously what the gently caress is this deranged poo poo lol

Yeah everyone knows black people are helpless! Lmao they need liberals to tell them what they have to do and who they want to vote for! Also hey can we get some slaves to work at my governors mansion thanks

E: "seriously what the gently caress is this deranged poo poo lol"

T.S. Smelliot
Apr 23, 2010

by FactsAreUseless

a bone to pick posted:

End the loving war on drugs.

Hey I know this is a cardinal sin and all but as a social worker for the last 9 years, can we please end the drug war it's extremely lovely and hosed up and is the cardinal tool oppressing our weakest

Sophy Wackles
Dec 17, 2000

> access main security grid
access: PERMISSION DENIED.





T.S. Smelliot posted:

I like how the liberal "opposition" to the drug war boils down to legalize it mannnnn :2bong:

I don't want to do a big effort post, but people interested in drug policy and the war on drugs should read up on Portugal. They decriminalized all drugs back in 2001 and didn't see any significant increase in use. And they saved a shitton of money on policing, courts, jails, etc. They could instead spend (less) money on prevention and education.

This article is a bit old, but:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/evaluating-drug-decriminalization-in-portugal-12-years-later-a-891060.html

Sophy Wackles fucked around with this message at 09:18 on Jul 1, 2017

T.S. Smelliot
Apr 23, 2010

by FactsAreUseless

Pawn 17 posted:

I don't want to do a big effort post, but people interested in drug policy and the war on drugs should read up on Portugal. They decriminalized all drugs back in 2001 and didn't see any significant increase in use. And they saved a shitton of money on policing, courts, jails, etc. They could instead spend (less) money on prevention and education.

This article is a bit old, but:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/evaluating-drug-decriminalization-in-portugal-12-years-later-a-891060.html

This ain't fuckin Portugal son, drugs and the war on them is big big business here

Harrower
Nov 30, 2002

T.S. Smelliot posted:

This ain't fuckin Portugal son, drugs and the war on them is big big business here

I'm the prison guard unions lobbying legislators to continue the drug war so that there are lots of people in jail for me to guard.

RedSpider
May 12, 2017

Pawn 17 posted:

I don't want to do a big effort post, but people interested in drug policy and the war on drugs should read up on Portugal. They decriminalized all drugs back in 2001 and didn't see any significant increase in use. And they saved a shitton of money on policing, courts, jails, etc. They could instead spend (less) money on prevention and education.

This article is a bit old, but:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/evaluating-drug-decriminalization-in-portugal-12-years-later-a-891060.html

more people are addicted to legal drugs than illegal ones by far though

Wolfsheim
Dec 23, 2003

"Ah," Ratz had said, at last, "the artiste."

Boner Zone posted:

Fast food workers kick rear end and deserve $15 an hour and you can gently caress right off with this mess friend

Your mistake is thinking that that guy is trying to engage you instead of looking for a way to say 'liberals bad'

Deliberately misunderstanding the fast food thing was just the fastest way to do that in this case

RedSpider
May 12, 2017

Wolfsheim posted:

Your mistake is thinking that that guy is trying to engage you instead of looking for a way to say 'liberals bad'

Deliberately misunderstanding the fast food thing was just the fastest way to do that in this case

Apparently you have the reading comprehension of a Trump supporter

T.S. Smelliot
Apr 23, 2010

by FactsAreUseless

Wolfsheim posted:

Your mistake is thinking that that guy is trying to engage you instead of looking for a way to say 'liberals bad'

Deliberately misunderstanding the fast food thing was just the fastest way to do that in this case

Oh no, this wasnt his biggest mistake

solar energy panel
Apr 30, 2007
What would happen in regards to the opiate epidemic in this country if Heroin was made legal?

AntifaSupersoldier
Jul 30, 2003

Reality is what you can get away with
Hell Gem
http://www.narconews.com/darkalliance/drugs/start.htm

quote:

America's 'crack' plague has roots in Nicaragua war
Colombia-San Francisco Bay Area drug pipeline helped finance CIA-backed Contras
Published: Aug. 18, 1996

BY GARY WEBB
Mercury News Staff Writer

FOR THE BETTER PART of a decade, a San Francisco Bay Area drug ring sold tons of cocaine to the Crips and Bloods street gangs of Los Angeles and funneled millions in drug profits to a Latin American guerrilla army run by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, a Mercury News investigation has found.

This drug network opened the first pipeline between Colombia's cocaine cartels and the black neighborhoods of Los Angeles, a city now known as the "crack'' capital of the world. The cocaine that flooded in helped spark a crack explosion in urban America � and provided the cash and connections needed for L.A.'s gangs to buy automatic weapons.

It is one of the most bizarre alliances in modern history: the union of a U.S.-backed army attempting to overthrow a revolutionary socialist government and the Uzi-toting "gangstas'' of Compton and South-Central Los Angeles.
Other stories

Testimony links U.S. to drugs-guns trade
Dealers got their 'own little arsenal'

The army's financiers -- who met with CIA agents both before and during the time they were selling the drugs in L.A. -- delivered cut-rate cocaine to the gangs through a young South-Central crack dealer named Ricky Donnell Ross.

Unaware of his suppliers' military and political connections, "Freeway Rick" -- a dope dealer of mythic proportions in the L.A. drug world -- turned the cocaine powder into crack and wholesaled it to gangs across the country.

The cash Ross paid for the cocaine, court records show, was then used to buy weapons and equipment for a guerrilla army named the Fuerza Democratica Nicaraguense (Nicaraguan Democratic Force) or FDN, the largest of several anti-communist commonly called the Contras.

Wikipedia posted:

Webb was found dead in his Carmichael home on December 10, 2004 with two gunshot wounds to the head. His death was ruled suicide by the Sacramento County coroner's office.[68] After a local paper reported that he had died from multiple gunshots, the coroner's office received so many calls asking about Webb's death that Sacramento County Coroner Robert Lyons issued a statement confirming Webb had committed suicide.[69] When asked by local reporters about the possibility of two gunshots being a suicide, Lyons replied: "It's unusual in a suicide case to have two shots, but it has been done in the past, and it is in fact a distinct possibility." News coverage noted that there were widespread rumors on the Internet at the time that Webb had been killed as retribution for his 'Dark Alliance' series, published eight years before, but Webb's ex-wife Susan Bell told reporters that she believed Webb had committed suicide.[69] "The way he was acting it would be hard for me to believe it was anything but suicide," she said. According to Bell, Webb had been unhappy for some time over his inability to get a job at another major newspaper. He had sold his house the week before his death because he was unable to afford the mortgage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lIqNjC1RKU

Spunky Psycho Ho
Jan 26, 2007

by zen death robot

solar energy panel posted:

What would happen in regards to the opiate epidemic in this country if Heroin was made legal?

Profit margins for pharma would nose dive

Toadvine
Mar 16, 2009
Please disregard my advice w/r/t history.

Boner Zone posted:

lmao yeah black people were doing just great in America before the globalists got their grimy hands on them

seriously what the gently caress is this deranged poo poo lol

This is one of those conspiracies that sound bonkers if you don't know anything about it but it's plainly true in this instance.

Spunky Psycho Ho
Jan 26, 2007

by zen death robot
I don't think it's particularly hard to get prescriptions for opiates anyway. You just need to go to a doctor who's loose with the scrips and say you're in pain

Like my Hispanic neighborhood dentist I used to go to. I got a cavity filled and after at the check out desk "Are you in pain? Do you need pain killer prescription?" My friend got a oxycontin prescription and a couple of refills like that

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

Spunky Psycho Ho posted:

Profit margins for pharma would nose dive

Pharma would make iodine illegal if they could if only to force people to buy their patented exclusive disinfect-o-gone ointment at $5000 a bottle.

solar energy panel
Apr 30, 2007
Yeah I guess that's why I'm wondering if straight up legalizing it would create more addicts. Don't they point to over prescribing of painkillers as being a cause of the current epidemic?

A friend of mine died last month from heroin and this epidemic has been on my mind a lot lately. I sure as poo poo don't have any good ideas on what the answers are though. Not even the slightest clue.

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

solar energy panel posted:

Yeah I guess that's why I'm wondering if straight up legalizing it would create more addicts. Don't they point to over prescribing of painkillers as being a cause of the current epidemic?

A friend of mine died last month from heroin and this epidemic has been on my mind a lot lately. I sure as poo poo don't have any good ideas on what the answers are though. Not even the slightest clue.

Well you start by getting rid of the DEA and treating addictions like an illness rather than a crime.

Rehab instead of prisons, etc. But that requires a good public health system and less corruption soooo

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Harrower
Nov 30, 2002

solar energy panel posted:

Yeah I guess that's why I'm wondering if straight up legalizing it would create more addicts. Don't they point to over prescribing of painkillers as being a cause of the current epidemic?

A friend of mine died last month from heroin and this epidemic has been on my mind a lot lately. I sure as poo poo don't have any good ideas on what the answers are though. Not even the slightest clue.

Aren't a lot of the ODs from people getting inconsistent doses because their source is a random guy in a parking lot rather than a rigorously regulated professional laboratory? I thought the whole problem was something like doctors over proscribe, people get addicted, they get their proscription cut because lol you don't need 3 months worth of oxy for a cavity fill. Then they end up getting stuck in the usual black market shenanigans of shady dealers and scam artists.

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