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B B posted:The executive branch has pretty much zero control over enforcement of marijuana policy, so no. Isn't the scheduling of Marijuana being reevaluated by the DEA or something? if it goes to Schedule II then it would be easier to move it around.
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Shooting Blanks posted:Isn't banking (or lack thereof) one of the major challenges for any marijuana-related enterprise? Maybe it's been resolved by intrastate banks but I seem to remember a bunch of articles about how it was effectively a cash business since major banks wouldn't touch anyone involved due to federal regulations, and fear of scrutiny from the FDIC (or other banking regulators). Every dispensary has an ATM because you can't pay with cards.
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Push El Burrito posted:Every dispensary has an ATM because you can't pay with cards. I have been to a dispencery where you can pay with cards - but it needs to be rounded to the nearest dollar so it *looks* like it you used their ATM.
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Clarste posted:Baby Einstein is like a million times more likely to just end up in a low paying job anyway, with no time to think about physics. Bold of you to assume he won't get caught in a mass shooting or have an encounter with a law enforcement officer, before he gets trapped in a dead end job wishing he could have never existed.
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Everybody talks about all the baby Einsteins but what about all the baby Hitlers.
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Mellow Seas posted:I mentioned that in my post… Right, but you also said they're not trying to ban Democrats. Would you have preferred I just quote the bottom half in bold as well with a  ? You can say that they would just be doing Democrats a favor, but it doesn't change the fact that they're actively trying to do the thing you said they're not doing while using weasel wording to avoid saying specifically that they're targeting Democrats. Just like how they used a suspiciously specific year for abolishing the Reedy Creek district to try to stick it to Disney.
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WarpedLichen posted:Everybody talks about all the baby Einsteins but what about all the baby Hitlers. Ben Carson wouldn't abort baby Hitler. Neither would Ben Shapiro.
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Oxyclean posted:and yet these people get offended and think it's a woke conspiracy when AI won't say a slur to defuse a nuclear bomb in a theoretical scenario Well yeah, because the only people slurs hurt are subhuman. Baby Hitler is white!
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Shooting Blanks posted:Isn't banking (or lack thereof) one of the major challenges for any marijuana-related enterprise? Maybe it's been resolved by intrastate banks but I seem to remember a bunch of articles about how it was effectively a cash business since major banks wouldn't touch anyone involved due to federal regulations, and fear of scrutiny from the FDIC (or other banking regulators). Other financial service processors are also an issue, such as companies that handle payroll. There are generally options for such services, but very limited. The problem is much broader than the federal illegality of cannabis products; financial service providers are willing to take some degree of risk based on the long term viability of the market (since it seemed like a lot of money). However, that risk is based on the eventual legality of the specific industries and practices, and the extant cannabis industry is widely populated by the worst scumbags imaginable. Even under any regime where cannabis itself is legal, there's a problem if you're marketing it in forms that are obviously appealing to kids, or as a medical treatment, or it's actually a synthetic purified concentrate of one cannabinoid, or it's just a drug, or you're a cartel front, or you're bribing state officials, or you're just trying to hide income. All of which are rampant. It's not worth the cost for, say, an insurance company to try to check on whether you're doing all those things before they charge you for their service. Discendo Vox fucked around with this message at 03:43 on Apr 21, 2023 |
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Randalor posted:Right, but you also said they're not trying to ban Democrats. Would you have preferred I just quote the bottom half in bold as well with a If you want to say they’re roughly equivalent things, yeah okay, I can buy that, they both fall under the general heading of “targeted towards members of a party.” But that doesn’t change that different things appeal to each party’s pool of potential voters and passing “republicans are poopyheads” bills has absolutely zero upside for them. Why would anybody think that it’s smart to emulate Republicans? They have terrible, unpopular ideas. Mellow Seas fucked around with this message at 04:55 on Apr 21, 2023 |
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Cannabis banking is getting a little better. At least in Washington state there are banks actively advertising services for cannabis firms, and even the state government provides some options on their website.
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Mooseontheloose posted:i know we've talked about this before but who votes for these dipshits. Who honestly believes that this is the most PRESSING thing in America? Like I kinda get the low tax people because at least it effects your paycheck in some way but who goes, YEP this is the thing that's going to make my life easier. Republican supporters, to whom oppression for minorities is the main concern and political goal. Someone knows a non-wealthy Republican? Related to one? Friends with one? The reason why they are a Republican is to specifically make the life of a minority or multiple minorities bit more of a living hell, and believing anything else is a coping mechanism. It is not about making their own life easier and really never has been. This is also a reason for most of the wealthy ones but they actually benefit on a personal level as well. TheDisreputableDog posted:I’m talking about morality, not legality - you said abortion is never wrong, but there’s real and demonstrable harm being caused by the way it’s being selectively applied, right? It is being selectively applied because of various other societal factors. The act of abortion itself remains morally meaningless. DarkCrawler fucked around with this message at 06:05 on Apr 21, 2023 |
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Does anyone have any good articles about why transgender athletes should be able to play in sports? I'm trans, my partner is trans, but she is mostly on the side of trans athletes have an advantage and shouldn't play, but has expressed openness to the alternative. I used to be in the same boat, but then I read some things and changed my mind, but I'm not knowledgeable enough to talk to her about it without potentially remembering incorrectly and I don't have any data to go along with it.
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Mellow Seas posted:I’m not sure why you’re taking a tone with me. I think it was just sloppy communication, no weasel, no weasel. The original post was suggesting taking away rights from republicans, “ban them from [doing] poo poo” whereas the Florida bill (which is stupid, and absolutely not becoming law) just kind of bans the word “democrat”. I wish I had your hopeful optimism that the bill that "just kind of bans the word "democrat"" won't be both immediately repeated in every other Republican-controlled state as soon as the one in Florida passes, and that they won't try to expand it out further from there. There's nothing stopping them from expanding it from "Party that has at any point supported slavery" to "A party who has executives who worked for a party supporting slavery" or "A party who's candidates ran for a party that supported slavery" (I don't know how many R elected officials were former Ds, but it wouldn't be the first time that Republicans brought forward bills that were immediately used against them). I'm also not entirely sure the exact process behind forming a new party in a given state, but you can bet that the Republicans would do all they can to drag out the process to reduce the amount of time the new party has before the next election or two. And the party would have to be fully dissolved and reformed, otherwise you know the Republicans would just hammer on the "They support slavery and are trying to decieve you by changing their name" button (well, okay, they'll still do that, but Dems have a tendency to follow the rules and ~decorum~ as much as possible). If anyone talks about emulating the Republicans here, it's mostly just wishing the Dems would be willing to fight dirty in the slightest way rather than constantly being clowned on by Rs and going "Ah, but we have our principles and decorum, look, we tried to work with them." It's why Joe actually standing firm on the clean debt bill is so surprising/refreshing.
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Mellow Seas posted:And if we're talking about stunt legislation from a single state legislator, well, Dems do that all the time: If they really wanted to craft a bill to target republican legislators and the car dealership owners funding them, they'd go after testosterone clinics.
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OneTwentySix posted:Does anyone have any good articles about why transgender athletes should be able to play in sports? I'm trans, my partner is trans, but she is mostly on the side of trans athletes have an advantage and shouldn't play, but has expressed openness to the alternative. I used to be in the same boat, but then I read some things and changed my mind, but I'm not knowledgeable enough to talk to her about it without potentially remembering incorrectly and I don't have any data to go along with it. I don't have any articles on hand but almost every article on the topic buries a very important detail. There haven't been any trans athletes blowing up their respective sports. It's all been a series of mediocre performance pre transition -> transition -> mediocre performance post transition. I'm sure one day we could have a Michael Phelps transition and dominate a scene for a bit but so far we've just had people with average high school/college level talent getting way more attention than they should because of bigotry. I remember when the MMA scene was going totally apeshit arguing about Fallon Fox... and then she just lost a bunch and the narrative of this big monster man beating up women kind of lost its steam.
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Randalor posted:I wish I had your hopeful optimism that the bill that "just kind of bans the word "democrat"" won't be both immediately repeated in every other Republican-controlled state as soon as the one in Florida passes, Dude, it's not going to pass. It is not a serious legislative proposal, it's a dumb edgelord political stunt. There are a lot of reasons to be worried about our Democracy but "dumb weird bills banning political parties" are not one of them. Talahassee Democrat posted:[Ingoglia] tweeted "Fact check: TRUE" late Tuesday when a supporter suggested he had "single-handedly trolled an entire state political party."
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Gyges posted:I guess Texas has been feeling left out of the conversation about which state is the worst.
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Gyges posted:I guess Texas has been feeling left out of the conversation about which state is the worst. Anytime I hear about Oklahoma and the ten commandments, I'm reminded of the good work of the satanic temple(not to be confused with the church of Satan): https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/put-a-satanic-monument-at-ok-capitol#/ Followed by this: https://www.cnn.com/2015/07/02/politics/oklahoma-supreme-court-orders-removal/index.html Hopefully we'll see a similar response and soon images of Baphomet will grace the interior of every classroom in Oklahoma.
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Gyges posted:I guess Texas has been feeling left out of the conversation about which state is the worst. Just do what Oklahomans tried to do when the legislature put a Ten Commandments monument on its capitol grounds: erect a seven-foot tall statue to Baphomet to be put alongside it. Of course the Satan statue didn't go up because the SCOTUS ruled the Ten Commandments monument unconstitutional, but Texas is a big state and I bet you could find some Satanists willing to make up some Satanic literature to be distributed and displayed in school classrooms across the state free of charge. DarkCrawler posted:Republican supporters, to whom oppression for minorities is the main concern and political goal. Someone knows a non-wealthy Republican? Related to one? Friends with one? The reason why they are a Republican is to specifically make the life of a minority or multiple minorities bit more of a living hell, and believing anything else is a coping mechanism. It is not about making their own life easier and really never has been. This is also a reason for most of the wealthy ones but they actually benefit on a personal level as well. What data do you have to support this? Even personal anecdotes? How many Republicans do you, personally, know in real life?
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Gyges posted:I guess Texas has been feeling left out of the conversation about which state is the worst. Very excited for TST to sue to force children to pray to Satan every day
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Judd Legum seems to confirm what I was assuming yesterday: The GOP House Majority Leader in Tennessee was using the legislature's discretionary budget to move the sexual harassment victims of the House GOP Vice-Chair to a hotel for the rest of their internship to protect them from sexual harassment and to protect the GOP Vice-Chair from having any charges or complaints against him made public. Then, after it became too big to cover up (and because the intern declined to file any specific charges) they investigated him through the ethics committee because state law prevents employers from leaking details about sexual harassment victims to the public. This is apparently a semi-regular thing for the Tennessee legislature: quote:But, in a series of email exchanges, Ridley insisted that the legislature's policies prohibit her from providing any additional information, including information about the expenditure of state money to assist the victim. https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/1649166910703976449 Also, to the surprise of basically nobody (except for maybe one or two posters on this site and Twitter who said it would never happen) Biden is officially announcing his re-election campaign next week - delaying the panic about about a potential Kamala Harris presidential campaign for another 4 years. https://twitter.com/AP/status/1649171323157970944
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Judgy Fucker posted:What data do you have to support this? Even personal anecdotes? How many Republicans do you, personally, know in real life? This data to start with: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&threadid=4028078&pagenumber=23&perpage=40#post530950726
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OneTwentySix posted:Does anyone have any good articles about why transgender athletes should be able to play in sports? I'm trans, my partner is trans, but she is mostly on the side of trans athletes have an advantage and shouldn't play, but has expressed openness to the alternative. I used to be in the same boat, but then I read some things and changed my mind, but I'm not knowledgeable enough to talk to her about it without potentially remembering incorrectly and I don't have any data to go along with it. Try this one: https://academic.oup.com/jes/article/6/5/bvac035/6550171 Also a more readable interview with a doctor from NPR.
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DarkCrawler posted:This data to start with: to those of us who actually have to live under republicans, grew up with republicans, grew up with literal klan kids sitting in the desk next to us at school- you really don't get what makes them tick no matter how many times you repeat your same hot take and we have enough problems trying to make this place ok without needing yet another loving foreigner telling us how everyone knows the truth except the people who live this poo poo every day, not forums days, the actual irl days of our lives you do not know or understand how these fascist fuckers work. nobody needs you to explain them. please stop. Edgar Allen Ho fucked around with this message at 14:17 on Apr 21, 2023 |
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Gyges posted:I guess Texas has been feeling left out of the conversation about which state is the worst. extremely laughing at the one guy they talked to who opposes the bill quote:In opposition to the bill, John Litzler, general counsel and director of public policy at the Texas Baptists Christian Life Commission, said at the committee hearing that the organization has concerns about taxpayer money being used to buy religious texts and that parents, not schools, should be having conversations about religion with their children. who can disagree?
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DarkCrawler posted:This data to start with: Your cited articles do not back up the claim "The reason why they are a Republican is to specifically make the life of a minority or multiple minorities bit more of a living hell...It is not about making their own life easier and really never has been." That is an egregiously spurious extrapolation of opinion polls of registered Republicans, and not "Republican supporters." I have a feeling based on your non-reply you know zero Republican voters in real life, and why would you? You live in Finland. If you actually knew the average person who votes R once every two or four years you'd know how full of poo poo you are. The vast, vast majority of people who vote in Congressional and Presidential elections don't know anything about politics. They don't know what the GOP or Democratic platforms are. They aren't thinking about how awesome it would be to keep People of Color or queer folk down. They vote based on tummyfeels or legacy bullshit like "I've voted R my whole life and I'm not about to change" or "Republicans are the business party." That's it. I've even met a person who has unironically told me they vote for the candidates who had the most yard signs they saw on the way to the polling place. You know nothing about this country and really just need to shut the gently caress up about it. Edgar Allen Ho posted:to those of us who actually have to live under republicans, grew up with republicans, grew up with literal klan kids sitting in the desk next to us at school- (I don't know of any Klan kids I sat next to but otherwise everything else is the same)
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:to those of us who actually have to live under republicans, grew up with republicans, grew up with literal klan kids sitting in the desk next to us at school- Your fascist fuckers are not special or unique, the same things motivate and drive them that have driven and drive fascists in other places. Unless you can actually demonstrate what it is that I have missed or don't understand beyond vaguely defined nativist appeals, I'll keep on describing Republicans with accuracy, thanks.
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DarkCrawler posted:Your fascist fuckers are not special or unique, the same things motivate and drive them that have driven and drive fascists in other places. Unless you can actually demonstrate what it is that I have missed or don't understand beyond vaguely defined nativist appeals, I'll keep on describing Republicans with accuracy, thanks. Yeah, you're wrong about what drives fascism everywhere else. You're a moralist and moralism doesn't say much about how the world actually works. Your entire philosophy is "evil people are evil and I know they're evil because they're the evil people with the evil people signifiers" and no one can actually do anything with that.
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DarkCrawler posted:Your fascist fuckers are not special or unique, the same things motivate and drive them that have driven and drive fascists in other places. Unless you can actually demonstrate what it is that I have missed or don't understand beyond vaguely defined nativist appeals, I'll keep on describing Republicans with accuracy, thanks. Are there a lot of white nationalists in Finland, a nation where by American standards your entire population is already white?
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Judgy Fucker posted:Your cited articles do not back up the claim "The reason why they are a Republican is to specifically make the life of a minority or multiple minorities bit more of a living hell...It is not about making their own life easier and really never has been." That is an egregiously spurious extrapolation of opinion polls of registered Republicans, and not "Republican supporters." It is not actually possible to know the average Republican personally, and I don't know why you think knowing a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of Republicans makes you or any other single individual an authority on the issue. That is why we determine the dominating currents through wide-ranging interviews, polls, studies, etc. And over literal decades we have a pretty clear picture of what it is that makes a fascist. I already posted why it is infantilizing and downright offensive to paint people whose conception of politics is different or less articulate from yours as "not knowing anything about politics" or not being political actors. Refer to that. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&threadid=4028078&pagenumber=21&perpage=40#post530923996 You seem to believe that a single statement about why someone votes is an accurate picture as to their political conception, without any other exploration of their political beliefs. If you would bother to do so, you might actually find that their conception of what the world is or ought to be matches very well with the Republican philosophy. Legacy voters are not political tabula rasas who pull the lever like automatons. Someone who votes based on yard signs is obviously not a Republican. I am not sure what your goal is with that anecdote. Nativism is not substitute of actual arguments and one sentence is not the entirety of someone as a political actor. Gumball Gumption posted:Yeah, you're wrong about what drives fascism everywhere else. You're a moralist and moralism doesn't say much about how the world actually works. Your entire philosophy is "evil people are evil and I know they're evil because they're the evil people with the evil people signifiers" and no one can actually do anything with that. That's not my philosophy, though. That is your lie about my philosophy that you are unable to support with actual evidence. CuddleCryptid posted:Are there a lot of white nationalists in Finland, a nation where by American standards your entire population is already white? 10-15% of the population. There are non-white people here, including myself. DarkCrawler fucked around with this message at 14:43 on Apr 21, 2023 |
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Mellow Seas posted:Dude, it's not going to pass. It is not a serious legislative proposal, it's a dumb edgelord political stunt. There are a lot of reasons to be worried about our Democracy but "dumb weird bills banning political parties" are not one of them. It's a "dumb edgelord political stunt" that's been introduced to the Florida Senate. Sure, it may not pass, but we are also in a reality where a Republican governor of a state is waging a political war against their biggest employer (and largest source of revenue, I think?), and just recently had a president who's entire method of operation was "dumb stunts".
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Judgy Fucker posted:Of course the Satan statue didn't go up because the SCOTUS ruled the Ten Commandments monument unconstitutional, but Texas is a big state and I bet you could find some Satanists willing to make up some Satanic literature to be distributed and displayed in school classrooms across the state free of charge.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Judd Legum seems to confirm what I was assuming yesterday: The GOP House Majority Leader in Tennessee was using the legislature's discretionary budget to move the sexual harassment victims of the House GOP Vice-Chair to a hotel for the rest of their internship to protect them from sexual harassment and to protect the GOP Vice-Chair from having any charges or complaints against him made public. Is there a particular reason that the announcement is being made via video, as other outlets are reporting? And is that the first time a campaign for presidency was launched with a video, as opposed to an appearance that maybe includes a video?
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Willa Rogers posted:And is that the first time a campaign for presidency was launched with a video, as opposed to an appearance that maybe includes a video? Apparently no: https://www.politico.com/story/2011/04/obama-launches-reelection-campaign-052457
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Willa Rogers posted:Is there a particular reason that the announcement is being made via video, as other outlets are reporting? I don't know if there is a particular reason or not. But, launching a campaign with a video that is followed by a speech a few days later is pretty common. Off the top of my head, Obama, Nikki Haley, Ron Paul, Mitt Romney, Hillary Clinton, and John McCain all did it.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:I don't know if there is a particular reason or not. But, launching a campaign with a video that is followed by a speech a few days later is pretty common. Off the top of my head, Obama, Nikki Haley, Ron Paul, Mitt Romney, Hillary Clinton, and John McCain all did it. It's basically a way to get cheap media hits. You say you are putting a video up its reported, the video is reported on, and then your announcement is talked about into a media cycle about the announcement.
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